EDiS KNC 2018

Please tag yourself & your friends! 😃
Thank you:)

Please tag yourself & your friends! 😃
Thank you:)

Please tag yourself & your friends! 😃
Thank you:)

[Results of 2018 EDiS KNC]

Congratulations to SDS 1 (Jaedong Jeong, Leomar Doctolero), HYDS 5 (Anirudh Nair, Dona Mobeen), and HDS 1 (Seokjin Yun, Yoonsung Kong) for winning the Open, Rookie, and EFL categories of 2018 EDiS KNC. Also congratulations to Jun Tae Park (KDS 1), Zhanessa Bryon (IDS 2), and Yingwa (Silvia) Sun (SDS 2) for topping the speaker tab in Open, Rookie, and EFL categories, and to Sooyoung Park (YUU) for topping the adjudicator tab.

The summary of the results of 2018 EDiS KNC can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dg6y3efi6YXs1rIgzVz09eyLlOP_HRCZ/view?usp=sharing

The tabulation of 2018 EDiS KNC can be found here: https://edisknc2018bp.herokuapp.com/edisknc2018/

We’d like to once again thank our tabulation team (Sung Hyun Moon, Dayoung Leem, Jungbin Lim) for a fantastic job :)

Best Regards,

The Adjudication Core of 2018 EDiS KNC.

EDIS KNC 2018 | Welcome to EDIS KNC 2018 BP The tab for EDIS KNC 2018 runs on Tabbycat, an open-source tab system for a variety of parliamentary debating formats

[EFL Best Speaker Correction]

In finalizing the Tab release process we have realized that SDS 2 Silvia Sun was left out of the EFL Best Speaker group. Silvia accrued total speaker points of 388 and was tied for 10th, which we separated using standard deviation. In that process, as Open Best Speaker award proceeds EFL, the EFL rankings were done with her excluded. After we have broken the ties, Silvia should have taken place as EFL Best Speaker but unfortunately, that change was not reflected.
However, regardless of our mistakes, we feel that the individuals who deserve recognition should receive due credit. At the same time, we also feel that recognizing someone as one of the top speakers and taking it away due to our mistake was also unjust. Therefore, we will also expand the EFL Best Speaker Awards by 1 place as well.

With this in mind, this would be the revised EFL Best Speaker Awards list:

1. Yingwa (Silvia) Sun SDS 2 388 pts
2. Eunkyu Lim CUDS 1 386 pts
3. HyeJoon Jung YUU3 384 pts
4. Yoon Jeong Lim EDiS 1 383 pts (0.49std)
5. Jungyun Oh SNUDA 2 383 pts (1.02 std)
6. Dongha Kim SNUDA 2 382 pts

We sincerely apologize to each EFL Best Speaker recipient, their societies, and to the community. We will make sure the correct awards will find its way to them during KCM meetings or otherwise and we hope that these individuals still receive compliments and recognition from the societies.
We will also address and further inquiries in this matter; please do reach out if any problems or questions arise.

Thank you

CAP & Tab of EDiS KNC 2018

Nono~

Lost and Found from the breaknight venue!
And everywhere else

[Breaknight Venue]
The venue for breaknight is
신촌 예체능!

This is the link for the current team standings! Please check it and tell us if something is wrong:)

https://edisknc2018bp.herokuapp.com/edisknc2018/tab/current-standings/

EDIS KNC 2018 | Current Team Standings The tab for EDIS KNC 2018 runs on Tabbycat, an open-source tab system for a variety of parliamentary debating formats

This is the ppt that we used during the Equity Briefing yesterday:) Please read through it carefully and be aware of the equity rules during the tournament!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bg_n93KiAYcKgth3ew4adcOy2CzvbJjk/view

2018 Fall EDiS KNC Equity Briefing.pdf

[Ewha Campus Complex (ECC) Map]

Even after spending two years in Ewha, a lot of us get lost. This is a floor guide/map that would hopefully! assist you well throughout the tournament. Lets all save it, and save ourselves from ending up lost😂

[Organizing Committee Introduction]

Our beloved Orgcomm members! :)

[Tab Director Introduction]
Introducing our amazing Tab Master!

Sung Hyun is nice. He is smart. He is funny. He can also count and add and subtract stuff without using his fingers and knows how to fix a software crash without crying. That’s probably why we as a community have begged him to stay on as tab master since forever and for years to come. Sung Hyun has tabbed a total of five Sogang Rookie Tournaments, three KIDA Opens and two Korea Debate Opens and he tells me that this KNC will *really* be his last time tabbing. Big words, Sung Hyun, big words.

Aside from being your friendly polar bear and engineering hyung/obba who can tab, he has Co-CAed the recent nationals, broke at Asian BP as an adjudicator and was last year’s Northeast Asian best speaker. He probably has done a lot more but he was too lazy to tell me details and I was too lazy to dig in, so there you go. He’s done all that. And more. I think.

But really. A good tab master is defined by his professionalism: efficient with ballots and match-ups, open in communication with the organizing committee and adjudication core, and calm and cool in times of panic, chaos and frustration, which all good tournaments have their fair share of. As someone who’s worked with Sung Hyun when he first started in the debating scene (yes, he too was a bright-eyed young person sometime ago, oh how time flies…) I can confidently say he possesses all the aforementioned qualities and more. Although I would strongly urge you to use a calculator and not make any mistakes on the ballot because I can’t really speak for his patience with idiots or the mathematically challenged. This KNC will be even more amazing with him on tab!

-Write Up by Roh

[Announcement of Equity Officers]

Hello,

We would like to thank each and every one who has submitted community feedback for our Equity Officer applicants.

We had a total of 13 feedbacks written for both candidates, 10 for Naeun Baek and 3 for Sueyeon Oh.

We are proud to announce that the Equity Officers for 2018 EDiS KNC are:

• Naeun Baek (EDiS)
• Sueyeon Oh (SNUDA)

Feedback for both applicants was overwhelmingly positive. Congratulations to the individuals that have been selected!

Best Regards,

CAP

[2018 EDiS KNC Debater Information Confirmation]

Please check the following:
1. Team names, Correct speakers and name spellings
2. EFL/Rookie status of TEAM
3. EFL/Rookie status of each INDIVIDUAL

If any correction is necessary, please contact Convener Eugene Oh (010-4183-8641)
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Hello all! 2018 EDiS KNC is finally a day away! This year’s fall KNC will be hosted in Ewha Campus Complex(ECC) for all 3 days. The building is located right in front of the main gate within 5 minutes of walking distance.

Building: Ewha Campus Complex (이화캠퍼스복합단지)
Main Venue: B146

Venue Address: 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Bukahyeon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul
장소 주소: 서울특별시 서대문구 이화여대길 52

How to get here via subway:
- Get off the subway at Ewha Womans University station (line 2) and come out of exit 2 or 3.
- Walk straight downhill until you reach the main gate.
- walk straight past the welcome center, and cross the one-way road until you see a huge glass building.
- walk downhill between the glass walls until you see gate 4 on your right
- enter gate 4, turn to your left and walk straight until you see the elevators next to Starbucks.
- go to floor B1, and on your right is the main venue B146

How to get here via bus from the back gate:
- get off the bus station, and walk up the back gate
- turn right at the 3-way intersection and walk straight until you see the main hall(대강당)
- turn right and go down the long flight of stairs. You will see a huge glass building in front of you.
- walk downhill between the glass walls until you see gate 4 on your right
- enter gate 4, turn to your left and walk straight until you see the elevators next to Starbucks
- go to floor B1, and on your right is the main venue B146

All the debating chambers will also be in the same building(ECC), so you don’t have to worry about running around to find your debate chambers :)

Results for the last judge test are out! If there are societies that wish to register for more slots, we will be accepting registrations that have been submitted AFTER 9:20 PM. Also please make sure to complete payment as soon as possible!

[Registration form Link]
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ik12Nv9bMD6MNlsJriquQbv8eug_CT7pJHLAd_GK12k

2018 EDiS KNC 3rd Registration - 2018 EDiS Fall KNC : 11/16(FRI) - 18(SUN) , EWHA - 3rd registration period: 11/05(MON) ~ 11/06(TUES) 11:55 p.m. - Registration that is submitted before and after this period will NOT be accepted - Team cap: 60 teams - There is no limit for the number of slots each society can register for this...

[CAP Introduction]
Introducing our CA, Ye Bin!

◇◆Achievements◆◇
2015 High On adjudicator
2015 Sogang Open Breaking Adjudicator
2015 EDiS Fall KNC Breaking Adjudicator
2016 CUDS Open 2nd Best Adjudicator
2016 ICUT 11th Best Adjudicator
2016 HDS Spring KNC 6th Best Adjudicator
2016 9th YUU Monthly DCA
2016 Osan Korean Debate Competition DCA
2016 Gwangju English Debate Tournament DCA
2016 Hyds-Yuu Invited Adjudicator
2016 Korea Women’s Debate Open DCA
2016 Sogang Rookie Tournament DCA
2016 YUU KNC 10th Best Adjudicator
2017 Pro-Am Invited Adjudicator
2017 KDS Fall KNC DCA
2017 SNUDA Fall KNC 6th Best Adjudicator
2018 CUDS Open Invited Adjudicator
2018 Sogang Open DCA
2018 HYDS KNC 7th Best Adjudicator
2018 EDiS KNC Chief Adjudicator

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Ye Bin Jeon, before anything else, is a highly decorated debate adjudicator that has been in the judging world for more than three years. Throughout these years, Ye Bin has been recognized as one of the best KIDA has to offer in debate judging, and has participated in 7 CAPs prior to this KNC. She is by far whom I consider the most capable and qualified to be Chief Adjudicator in the Nationals based on her experience and her credentials, in my humble opinion. Ye Bin is also well versed in numerous areas such as anthropology, law, human rights, philosophy, and so on.

But moreover, I also know from personal experience that it isn’t just individual capacity that makes a good leader and CA. Ye Bin has the personal character that makes her an amazing person and a great fit for a position of responsibility. I had my fair share of failures as being CAP when I let my hubris and ego get the better of me, caused unnecessary complications and created conflicts in processes that looking back hurt the ultimate purpose of being CA; the goal of creating an enjoyable festival for debaters. Tournaments are, before anything else, a celebration and gathering where various people come to share ideas and have fun. Not all people that are “good debaters” or “recognizable judges” automatically become competent CAs. To be a good CA, one also needs to be a facilitator and listen to the various concerns at play; to have an open ear and an open mind to create an environment where all people feel welcome and comfortable. Ye Bin is that person. Because Ye Bin is, before anything else, a kind and open person. She concerns herself on the comfort of others, she cares about the opinions of people, and she really cares. She goes beyond herself to communicate with all those who raise concerns; nobody is irrelevant or unimportant in her work. My trust in our CA this KNC isn’t just coming from an abstract place; it comes from seeing for myself successful and not-so-successful past cases where I was also directly involved in. Ye Bin has the qualities that made previous great CAs great, and is absent of the traits that made some CAPs fail to give to the community what could have been better.

I have heard, directly and indirectly, that there were many obstacles and complications in this year’s KNC preparation that were less than ideal. For many (including myself), this would have been more than enough to frustrate and discourage a person from being able to do a good job in preparing and running such a large-scale project such as the KIDA nationals. But Ye Bin is not like many others, she is graceful yet strong enough to make it work. I have no doubt that this KNC will be a wonderful experience for all participants, and I know that a large part of that is due to the great work and sacrifices the people behind the event put into the process. And a large part of that will be because Ye Bin will do what is necessary on her part to ensure that everyone can have the best experience circumstances allow.

Ye Bin’s experience, Ye Bin’s capabilities, and most importantly Ye Bin’s character and strength makes her a wonderful person to be your CA in this year’s KNC. And if anything else, Ye Bin is also a extremely fun person to be next to (due to, though definitely not only because, of her amazing drinking abilities and sun-shine personality) and I hope that everyone can have the pleasure of getting to know her this KNC.

♣Write-up by 강지수 (Seth Jeesoo Kang)

[Community Feedback for Equity Officer Applicants]

Hello KIDA,

We would now like to introduce the Equity Officer applicants for the upcoming KNC and open the floor for community feedback.

The applicants are,
(in the order of application)

- Naeun Baek (EDiS)
- Sueyeon Oh (SNUDA)

The link for community feedback is below:
https://goo.gl/forms/HT1w8S0Rm4FvmtxM2

Feedback Form will close today, 20:59 pm, and the Equity Officers will be announced shortly after.

If any inquiries, please contact through [email protected]

Best regards,

CAP

2018 EDiS KNC Equity Officer Community Feedback

Hello,

We post the Debate Explanation for the 3rd Judge Test
Please follow the link below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qaB1e54s0HaLHTXyDw17_Z2BmkgsT4kURouy-szCiCI/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you for your patience.

Best regards,

CAP

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[2018 EDiS KNC Participant Information Submission]

The submission deadline is November 15th(Thurs) 10:59 PM. Please make sure that each team and adjudicator submit the form on time, so that we can finalize each participants’ information. When entering the debate team & debater status(Open/Rookie/EFL), please refer to our tournament policy.

Please make sure that you submit only ONE form per one debate team, and ONE form for each adjudicator.

Our final registration form after the additional judge quiz is going to be uploaded on November 15th, 9:00 PM. All debaters and adjudicators who register during that period, please be punctual :)

Article 8: EFL & Rookie (Non-Open Break)
8.1 The EFL Criteria of KNC stands as such:
- No more than one year of living in an English-speaking country after the age of seven; and/orone school year experience of primary/secondary level that has English as the main language of instruction ina non-English speaking country; and/orno more than two school years of experience studying in a department of college/university that has English as the main language of instruction in a non-English speaking country
- Sending EFL teams is up to the discretion of the President of the society, but must also note that the EFL is an honorary position.
- The KIDA council shall nominate a language officer in charge of addressing any questions regarding a person’s or teams’ EFL status.

8.2 To be considered as a Rookie,a debater should have no experience in any intervarsity OR secondary level competitive debate.

Debater Information link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1v7BQoGgU_wgb8_SxIR7ug38BpKZARE6nC4eg7tdmOZc

Adjudicator Information link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tM2AanQZvZd-W_1VG8iOz6jzlH9aNFePWpJdFfXEfkg

If you have any questions regarding the participant information or the submission process, feel free to message us through Facebook message or contact the convener!

Sincerely,

Eugene & Da Young

EDiS KNC 2018 Debater Information *With regards to the rookie/EFL speakers, please refer to the tournament policy which is posted on our fb page When: November 16-18th, 2018 Where: Ewha Campus Complex, Ewha Womans University Contact: [email protected]

[Open-call for Equity Officers]

Hello,

As stated on our tournament policy, we will now open application for Equity Officers..

In the link below, you can find the application form for the Equity Officers. The procedure will be the same as DCA applications: Application (~11. 14, 23:59) -> Community Feedback (~11. 15, 20:59) -> Final Announcement. (11. 15).

You must be available for ALL three days and additionally prepare for the Equity Briefing during the Opening Ceremony. Application is only open for adjudicators.

- E.O. Application: https://goo.gl/forms/VKc47iBC1YOwYvUR2

Best Regards,

CAP

Equity Officer Application When: November 16-18th, 2018 Where: Ewha Campus Complex, Ewha Womans University Contact: [email protected]

Hello,

We post the answers for the 3rd Judge Test(Quiz).

The average score for the quiz was 3.36/5.

Debate explanation for the test will be uploaded very soon. Thank you for your patience.

Regards,

CAP

[Update of Current Registration Process]

The following are the details of the current registration process.
Secured Team slots: 59
Remaining slots: 5

The total team cap will be confirmed to 64.


- The additional registration form will be uploaded on November 15th at 23:00 sharp.
- Registration will be a First-Come-First-Serve process until all slots are filled.
- The order of the registration will be determined by the time the "REGISTRATION FORMS" were submitted. The payment should also be done before 23:59

Again, should there be any questions regarding registration, please contact Eugene Oh (010-4183-8641)

Yours truly,
Eugene & Da Young

Dear all,

Through an exchange of conversations, there were several things that were worth taking note of. First, societies expressed grievances that they would feel bad about announcing participation to their novices on the day of the tournament. Second, with a lack of measure to offer participation for novices other than pulling top tear teams off, the CAP felt that such heartfelt care for each society members is something we could recognize and make sacrifices to pull last minute changes.

After a long full day of trying to find venues and allocate time to make yet another judge quiz, the CAP is writing this post to confirm that we have successfully found a date and location to cater to society’s needs.

Although it is sad that societies could not respond to the past additional tests, we hope to assist their internal difficulties. We abide by our principles regarding judge quality and growth, therefore will proceed with conducting an additional test which all societies understood as valid an option in the emails and post.

Registrations would have to end after all judge test results are out, so the Convening team has also inputted effort to extend the registration to November 15th, 24:00.

So the schedule for the test is as follows:

Date: November 15th(Thursday), 2018
Location: Ewha Womans University, International Building, Room 702
Time: Quiz will begin at 6:35pm sharp and end at 7:00pm.
*You may take the quiz later than 6:35pm if you arrive late, but they will be taken away at 7:00pm.

The results of the last judge test will be announced around 8:00pm on Thursday.

Those who can participate in the last test are past examinees of any of the previous 3 judge tests that received a trainee status and hope to receive a panel status. Your quiz score will be added to your past OA score and if you meet the standards for panel, you will be bumped up to panel 🙂

Society heads who hope to participate, please email the CAP via [email protected] with by tomorrow 12pm.
1) A Title (Society / Number of participants)
2) Information (Participant’s Name / Email Address / Contact Number)
3) Additional Contact Number (Society Head’s Katalk ID)

Lastly, there seems to be discrepancy between societies that wish for an additional test, so for better collective understanding, the CAP will reach out to the respective societies tomorrow.

Warm regards,

CAP.

[EDiS KNC Individual Judge registration form]

This is a form for *additional* judge registrations. If your society has already registered the total number of judges you are sending through previous registration phases, you do not have to submit this form. However, if you have already registered a certain number of judges, and are willing to register more, please submit this form.

*Note that this is NOT the Exempt judge registration. The form for exempt judges can be found on our fb page

Additional Judge registration will be open until
November 11th 23:55

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-hkW1f0uEegtA1SLiqJhOqwczcg27cI5Ba6aYxU6oHUg7jw/viewform?usp=sf_link

EDiS KNC Individual Judge Registration This is a form for *additional* judge registrations. If your society has already registered the total number of judges you are sending through previous registration phases, you do not have to submit this form. However, if you have already registered a certain number of judges, but are willing to reg...

The initial deadline for the registration was 11/7 23:55, but we will extend the judge period until the final confirmation of specifics regarding the additional judge test!
So along with the announcement about the date and venue, details regarding the final registration will also be announced.
-Convener

Having listened to societies' concerns, we've decided to change the venue and date for the additional test. Specifics will be announced soon.

Best regards,

CAP

Hello,

After the third judge test results were announced, several societies have asked for support regarding the judge standards. Most of these societies were lacking 1 to 2 panels, in the verge of cutting teams due to their lack of judges.

We, the CAP, feel that it is a problem when societies are eager to register to send a number of teams without consideration to how many qualified adjudicators they are able to send. We also think that it is unreasonable to demand the CAP for a compromise in judges for the sake of allowing more teams to participate in the tournament. We do not wish to condone a culture of compromising the judge pool for the sake of more debater teams, and we are not willing to set a precedence of doing so in this KNC.

With all that being said, the CAP would like to grant a favor for those who have respectively approached us for help by offering an additional opportunity for societies to meet their total judge slots in accordance to the N=1 rule.

In order to maintain fairness and quality judging while providing additional opportunities, the CAP will be providing a final judge quiz on the first day of the tournament. This quiz will be available to the judges that have received a trainee status on any of the past three judge tests.

If the judges receive a quiz score that adds up to a panel status with their previous OA score, they will be promoted to panel status (ex: If an examinee who had an OA average score of 3 and a quiz score of 1 newly receives a quiz score of 3, he/she will be considered a panel).

This also means that any judges that fail to pass the quiz will be counted as a trainee, which does not count as a part of “n” and may impact the participating debate teams. On that note, society heads, please make sure to encourage your judges to study for the quiz so that both your debaters and judges get to fully participate in this KNC.

The specifics of the quiz will be announced soon.

For those who hope to take the last quiz, please contact the CAP via [email protected] by November14th. Please address your emails by:
Society/Number of Examinees (as the title)
Name of Examinee, Contact Number (in the email)

Best regards,

CAP