National Pharmacy Debate Competition (NPDC) is an annual tournament which is involved by the pharmacy students in Malaysia from different universities. It will be conducted by different universities as the host every year. For this year, this 3rd tournament is held at Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences and conducted by CUCMS Pharmacy Student Society (CUPSS) from 5th until 6th November 2016. The scopes and themes of motions were released one month earlier and the style employed by NPDC is Asian Parliamentary (AP) debate style. 11 universities out of 21 accepted the challenge and their selected ‘Gladiators of the Intellect’ were send to the battlefield to win this competition.
The list of universities that joined this competition are:
- Natonal University of Malaysia (UKM) – Team A and B
- University of Malaya (UM)
- International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
- University of Science, Malaysia (USM)
- Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences (CUCMS) – Team A and B
- UniKL Royal College of Medicine Perak (RCMP)
- SEGi University Kota Damansara
- Lincoln University College (LUC)
- AIMST University
- MARA University of Technology (UiTM) – Team A and B
The tentative of this tournament is stated below:
Day 1
Friday (4 November 2016)
1500 Registration
1900 Maghrib prayer & Dinner
2000 Ice-breaking session for participants
2030 Briefing session for participants
2200 Dismiss
Day 2
Saturday (5 November 2016)
0700 Registration
0730 Breakfast
0800 Opening Ceremony
1000 Preliminary Round 1
1130 Rest
1200 Preliminary Round 2
1330 Lunch & Zuhur prayer
1430 Preliminary Round 3
1600 Free & Easy
1830 Depart to Gala Night venue *from accommodation*
2000 Gala Night & Dinner
2230 Dismiss NPDC 2016
Day 3
Sunday (6 November 2016)
0700 Registration
0730 Breakfast
0800 Announcement result of Preliminary Rounds
0830 Semi Final
1030 Break & refreshment
1100 Grand Final
1300 Closing Ceremony & Video Presentation
Photography session
1430 Lunch & Dismiss
These are the results for the competition:
Finally in the end, the champion of the battle goes to UKM team B and the 1st Runner up goes to CUCMS team A. Not to forget, the best debater is awarded to Vrosha Rau A/P Raja Rao from CUCMS (Team A). Congratulations to the winning GLADIATORS OF THE INTELLECT. Good job to the organizing team for the great effort conducting this annual tournament.
