Sailor Presents EWUDC Debate Spree 2022 held

With a view to redefining the movement against social barriers and empowering the youth by ensuring active participation in discourse, East West University Debating Club (EWUDC) has successfully organised their flagship national tournament titled "Sailor Presents EWUDC Spree 2022" where Sailor with the motive of inspiring our next generations, was the title partner. 

Debaters from all over the country participated in this 18-day long tournament, starting from 13th October 2022 to 30th October 2022. The closing ceremony and prize giving are to be held on 30th October 2022.

For this flagship tournament, Sailor was East West University Debating Club's title partner. The event, "Sailor Presents EWUDC Spree 2022", was supported by Somoy TV as the media partner; Radio Today 89.6 FM as the radio partner; The Daily Star, The Business Standard, and Jugantor as the news partner; Nestle as the beverage partner; and WatchTag as the gift partner.

"Sailor Presents EWUDC Spree 2022" was run in three segments: School-College, Bangla IV, and English IV. The participant count was 288 (108 teams) and more than 100 adjudicators were involved. The debating festival was a fantastic opportunity for next-gen debating to brush up their skills on the national platform.

Ideal School and College (IDC 1), United International University (UIU - White), and University of Dhaka (GoD 03) took the championship home in their respective segments. IDC 1 consisting of Akkhor Das Aditya, Hasin Ishrak Dip, and Umayer Hossain Rahin was the champion of School-College segment and the runner-up in the mentioned segment was ASDC A (Adamjee High School) consisting of Muhaimin Bin Ashraf, Farabi Ahsan, Affan Ibne Anwar. Akkhor Das Aditya from IDC 1 was simultaneously the Debater of the Tournament (DoT) and Debater of the Final (DoF). In the open category of the English IV, team GoD 03 consisting of Meghmaller Bose and Sheikh Rafi Ahmed was crowned the champion. Sheikh Rafi Ahmed from the team GoD 03 was named the Debater of the Final (DoF) and Shah Adaan Uzzaman from the team IBA DU - AU was the Debater of the Tournament (DoT). The runner-up of the open category was BRAC University. The finalists were IBA DU - AU and EWUDC - Olive. In the novice category of English IV, East West University with two of their teams reached the finals which were EWUDC-Grey consisting of Faisal Ahmed Rudro, Maruf Hasan Prince & EWUDC-Maroon consisting of Rashedul Islam Papon, Nayemur Rahman. IUTDS 1 consisting Marjukur Rajjak Rahib and Ishmam Labib from Islamic University of Technology was the champion of novice category and the runner-up was North South University. In the Bangla IV segment, United International University (UIU) consisting of MM Tasnim, Abdullah Al Habib Badhon, and KM Ismail Safa took the championship from the runner-up, Jahangirnagar University (JU) consisting of SM Muwaz, Mir Hasibul Hasan Rishad, Yeasir Mohammad Amin. Abdullah Al Habib Badhon from UIU - was the Debater of the Final (DoF) while Nur Ahmed Bindu from JU became the Debater of the Tournament (DoT).

The chief guest of the event was Md Saeeduzzaman, Marketing Manager, Sailor.