Worlds Summary
Written by Colm Flynn   
Monday, 05 January 2009 07:54
Summary of all the recent posts and key info from the 2009 World Debating Championships:

2009 World Debating Champions:
Oxford A (James Dray & Will Jones)
Finalists:
Monash B (Ravi Dutta & Victor Finkel)
Oxford C (Jonathan Leader-Maynard & Alex Worsnip)
Harvard A (Cormac Early & Lewis Bollard)

English as a second language competition winners:
BBU A

English as a foreign language winners:
Vilnius A (Aiste Dumbryte & Eugenija Golubova)

Top Speaker
Naomi Oreb (Sydney B)

Top ESL Speaker:
Leela Koenig (Leiden A)

Top EFL Speaker:
Aistė Dumbrytė (Villinus A)

World Masters
Team: Ireland (Ross McGuire & Gregg O"Neill)
Individual: Barry Glynn (Ireland)

World Public Speaking Champion:
Patrick Bateman (Sydney)

World Comic Public Speaking Competition:
Willard Foxton

Top Team on the Tab:
Sydney B (Naomi Oreb & Steve Hind)

Worlds 2011 hosts: Botswana

Motions:
Final : That this house would allow abortion at all stages of pregnancy
Semi Final: This house believes governments should subsidise private home ownership.
Qtr Final: This house believes that the international criminal court should prosecute crimes against the democratic process.
Octo Final: This house would arm local militia to fight the taliban in Afghanistan.
ESL Final: This house would implement quotas for domestic players in national football leagues.
EFL Final: This house would prohibit all private health care.
Round 9: This house would ban the publication of political opinion polls.
Round 8: This house would apply a lower rate of income tax to women.
Round 7: This house believes that the west should recognise the independence of Abkhazia.
Round 6: This house would criminalise adultery.
Round 5: This house believes that China and India should bear the same obligations as the West in fighting climate change
Round 4: This house would force the religious desegregation of Northern Irish schools.
Round 3: This house would allow soldiers to sue their government for negligence.
Round 2: This house would fire the senior managements of all corporations which receive government bailouts.
Round 1: This house would ban all forms of gambling.
Womens Debate: This house would ban all forms of religious gender discrimination.
Adj Test: This house would allow insurance companies to view genetic test results in assessing potential customers.