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Saturday, 03 January 2009 13:49 |
The 2009 World Debating Championship Final will be contested by:
Oxford C
Harvard A
Oxford A
Monash B |
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Saturday, 03 January 2009 13:46 |
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I have posted the EFL final and main semis motions. The ESL motion is something along the lines of This House would have domestic quotas in football. I was judging the EFL final so missed the exact wording and positions. The finalists will be announced in a few minutes. I believe Jens is posting a script of each speaker if you want to check that out. Tuna has had a team of people recording the various debates. He has posted some of those on his blog and I"m sure he you keep an eye on the site over the next few days they will all appear. |
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Saturday, 03 January 2009 10:37 |
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The motion for the semi finals of the 2009 world debating championships final is: This house believes governments should subsidise private home ownership. The motion for the EFL final is This house would prohibit all private health care. |
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Saturday, 03 January 2009 07:01 |
The agenda for today (Jan 3rd) at Worlds in Cork is:
- Breakfast
- Semi-Finals
- EFL Final
- Lunch
- ESL Final
- Grand Final
- Championship Dinner
- Black-Tie Ball
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Friday, 02 January 2009 19:24 |
The Finalists in the English as a second language competition at the 2009 world debating championships are:
Leiden A
Bonapart B
BBU
Hertie |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 19:21 |
The Semi Finalists are:
Monash B
Manchester A
Oxford A
Oxford B Oxford C
Queensland A
Harvard A
Vic Wellington A |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 16:07 |
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The motion for the qtr finals of the 2009 world debating championships AND the ESL semi is: This house believes that the international criminal court should prosecute crimes against the democratic process. Qtr draw:
- Princeton A 1G
- TCD Phil B 1O
- Manchester A 2G
- Monash B 2O
Judges: Erin O"Brien, Doug Cochran, Samir Denger Senm Jason Roberts, Steve Johnson, Shamila Parmamail, Andrew Marshall - Oxford A 1G
- UCD L&H A 1O
- Nottingham A 2G
- Oxford B 2O
Judges: Rory Gillis, Chris Bishop, Elizabeth Ames, Colm Flynn, Anna Garcia, Tim Jeffrie, Sayqa Islam - Queensland A 1G
- Oxford C 1O
- MIT A 2G
- Hart House B 2O
Judges: Ivan Ah Sam, Sam Block, Ciaran Lawlor, Tony Murphy, Kirsty Russell, Tiernan Fitzgibbon, Chris Croke. - Loyola A 1 G
- Harvard A 1O
- Helsinki A 2G
- Vic Wellington A 2O
Judges: Bob Nimmo, Derek Lande, Gavin Illsey, Julia Bowes, Sutheren Thomas, Daniel Warrents ESL Semis: - Galatarasay A 1G
Bonapart B 1O Tallin A 2G Leiden A 2O
Judges: Ian Lising, Safia Shabab, Nicole Lynch, JEns Fischer, Beth Connor, Erin Fitzgerald, Ben Jasper.
- Haifa A 1G
- BBU 1O
- Hertie 2G
- Tel Aviv 2O
Judges: Neil Harvey-Smith, Isabelle Loewe, Daniel Tait, DAniel Wodak, Kathering Connolly, Coran O"Brien, Catherine Richardson. I have to go judge so will post the ESL semi positions and the list of judges later on. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 15:19 |
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Qtr-Finalists at the 2009 World Debating Championships, 16 Monash B
17 Manchester A
8 Princeton A
9 TCD Phil B 13 UCD L&H A
29 Nottingham A
5 Oxford A
12 Oxford B 14 Hart House B
19 MIT A
6 Oxford C
22 Queensland A 15 Harvard A
31 Loyola A
10 Helsinki A
23 Vic Wellington A All three Sydney teams are out. Cambridge is also out. |
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Friday, 02 January 2009 11:54 |
The Octo Final lineup:
16 Monash B 1st Gov
17 Manchester A 1st Opp
1 Sydney B 2nd Gov
32 Stanford A 2nd Opp
Judges: Jason Rodgers, Rory Gillis, Kirsty Russell, Tiernan Fitzgibbon, Ross MaGuire
24 Queens Uni A 1st Gov
8 Princeton A 1st Opp
25 Yale A 2nd Gov
9 TCD Phil B 2nd Opp
Judges: Anna Garcia, Ivan AhSam, Ian Lising, Morgan Shelly, Adriaan Andringa
20 Brandeis A 1st Gov
29 Nottingham A 1st Opp
4 Monash A 2nd Gov
13 UCD L&H A 2nd Opp
Judges: Steve Johnson, Gavin Illsey, Bernadette Angungio, Lweis Chisom Iwu, Willard Foxton
5 Oxford A 1st Gov
28 Yale B 1st Opp
12 Oxford B 2nd Gov
21 Swarthmore A 2nd Opp
Judges: Sayeqa Islam, Tim Jeffrie, Josh Martin, DAvid Middlemiss, Sani Ismail
3 Cambridge C 1st Gov
30 McGill A 1st Opp
19 MIT A 2nd Gov
14 Hart House B 2nd Opp
Judges: Julia Bowes, Derek Lande, Sasha Bodero-Smith, Yauhemi Akulich, Chris Bishop
27 Sydney C 1st Gov
22 Uni Queensland A 1st Opp
6 Oxford C 2nd Gov
11 Canterbury A 2nd Opp
Judges: Can Okar, Bob Nimmo, Shamila Parmamail, Michael Clark, Gregg O"Neill
2 Sydney A 1st Gov
15 Harvard A 1st Opp
31 Loyola A 1st Gov
18 Hart House A 2nd Opp
Judges: Samir Deger Sen, Erin O"Brien, Derek Doyle, Claire Lindsey, David Tait.
26 Auckland A 1st Gov
10 Helsinki A 1st Opp
7 Seattle A 2ng Gov
23 Vic Wellington A 2nd Opp
Judges: Sam Block, Elizabeth Ames, Steph Paton, Suthen Thomas, Neil Harvey-Smith. |
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 07:32 |
The tab from the recent WUPID can be found at http://mlysn.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/cimb-wupid-08-central-find-out-where-you-stand/
There is also a video of some highlights from the event. It looks to have been a fantastic event again this year. |
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Three Reasons Why Botswana should host Worlds 2011 |
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Monday, 22 December 2008 22:50 |
Dear Worlds Community,
There are many reasons why the University of Botswana should host the WorldUniversities Debating Championships in 2011, but here are the 3 mostimportant - Organization, Development & Excitement
*Organization*
This is our 3rd concurrent bid for worlds. We"ve been preparing for worldssince May 2006 and we believe this clearly exhibits our desire to host thetournament, our long term vision and our ability to sustain an organization.We have an experienced organizing team, with anywhere from 7-15 years debateand hosting experience.
We recently hosted the biggest tournament in Africa, the first Pan-AfricanUniversities Debating Championships involving 10 African countries, morethan 30 Universities from across the African continent and many debatetrainers.
We have actively participated in the South African Debating Championshipsfor the past 9 years and are regular breakers in the tournament. Since 1997we have competed in the World Universities Debating Championship twice inStellenbosch (1997, 2003), NTU Singapore (2004), MMU Malaysia (2005), UBCVancouver (2007) and in Bangkok Thailand last year.
We have organized the Botswana schools debating tournament for the past fouryears and the Botswana inter-college championships. We know that organizingtournaments can be logistically exhaustive, random and difficult to manage.We know because we"ve been part of, planned and executed similar tournamentsand events before and are thus ready for the challenge.
The University of Botswana has a long and impressive track record of hostinglarge regional events. The entire tournament will take place on theUniversity of Botswana campus, which is in the city centre of Gaborone.
We have more than 50 smart classrooms, which will make excellent debatevenues, lectures halls with more than 500 persons seating capacity andcomfortable dining halls. The infrastructure to host large internationalconferences is available.
In the last two years alone, UB hosted the BOLESWA games between BotswanaLesotho Swaziland (which includes debating), a pre CHOGM Symposium for allCommonwealth Universities, the NOMA awards for the best writer, author andpublisher n Africa, the first IASTED conference in Africa (InternationalAssociation for Science and technology Development) and many more eventsthat depended upon huge conference facilities, IT support, first world classaccommodation, safe environments and easy international access.
We have incredible amount of support from the government, private sector,and NGOs. With our improved organizational team and with LogandranBalavijendran and James Dray heading the Adjudication team, we honestlybelieve we can host not just the best Worlds in Africa, but the best Worldsever.
*Development*
From 1997 to 2009 only 1 Worlds has been hosted in Africa (4 in AustralAsia,5 in Europe, 2 in North America). Yet teams from the African Continent haveparticipated in every one of them. Occasionally some institutions will maketheir first appearance, but seldom come back, it is now time that Africa isgiven a chance
In the 30 years of WUDC history, it has visited the African continent twice(Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1997 and 2003). For 2 debate generations,debaters in Africa have not had Worlds on their continent. Representation ofAfrican teams at Worlds has withered. While debate continues to flourish inpockets, it does so alone and segregated from the Worlds community. It istime we changed this.
Hosting the World Universities Debating Championships in Botswana will allowdebate to grow in Africa, because it will give us a platform to promotedebate. Members of the organizing committee of Botswana Worlds 2011 havebeen promoting debate actively in Southern Africa, mainly by runningworkshops and debate tournaments in Swaziland and Lesotho. The response, tolearn and spread debate, has been amazing. With the support of otherdebating nations in Southern Africa, we will use WUDC 2011 to plant debatinginto as many of the 52 countries in Africa as possible.
By 2011 we pledge to bring 20 African countries to Worlds for the first timeever. In the first continental tournament we organized we were able to bring10 African countries together just in a space of under four months, nextyear we plan to double the size of the tournament and even have 150 teams.There are many many countries that have shown interest to participate andcould not come this year and we are working with IDEA/OSI on assisting themto be able to attend next year.
We are currently in the process of setting up an English Speaking Union inBotswana, because of the attention and awareness we generated through ourbid for Botswana Worlds 2010. When other corporations, universities andgovernments see how huge, important and colorful the WUDC and debate is,they will be more pliable to pleas of support from hundreds of debaters intheir countries. This helps build larger debate organizations, securesupport for regional debate events and obtain funding to attend futureWorlds.
*Excitement*
At the risk of sounding fantastic, the truth is Botswana has everything. Themost stable democratic country in Africa, with a solid economy and greatinfrastructure - boasts all the comforts and excitement of any developedcity. Great shopping, clubs, bars, food, casinos, backpacking adventure,resorts and food from around the world.
Integrated into Worlds will be visits to the Mokolodi Nature Reserve, (Gameviewing, leopard petting, elephant riding and general lounging in the sun),beers at St.Claire Lion"s Park, opportunities to visit the Central KalahariNature Reserve.
Botswana worlds will also be less than 6 months after the FIFA World Cupends just across the border in South Africa. This means more travelpromotions, which means more options at less cost for you!
If the WUDC is to take you somewhere you would never go or could never go onyour own, let it take you to Botswana, Africa. Let it take you to theSafari, the Okavango, the Kalahari; to the transparent, safe, democratic,pluralistic nation that is Africa"s best kept secret. Let it take you toBotswana.
Please visit our website, www.botswanaworlds.com, for more updatedinformation (organization team, logistics, schedules), videos and pictures.
I will see you at Cork, and hopefully, at Botswana Worlds 2011!
Cheers
Justice Motlhabani
ConvenorBotswana Worlds 2011 |
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Monday, 22 December 2008 20:10 |
From AUDC mailing list
Hi All,
The Singapore Debate Open 2008 was held over the past weekend. 44teams, from four countries competed in four preliminary rounds,quarters, semis and finals.
The results are:
Winners: Yes We Can (Joey Pang and Shrawan Saraogi)
Finalists: NTU 1 (Madhav Janakiraman and Anindya Dutta), SMU 1 (CarloCabrera and Anirban Gupta), NTU 2 (Lakshmi Balachandran and Parvathy Prem)
Semi-finalists: NUS LA (Alexander Yeo and Tan Li Feng), NUS The A-team(Ashok Rai and Amanda Lim), NYP 2 (Pirakash and Saqib), RGWG (Weige Wuand Renuka)
Top 10 Speakers:
1. Alexander Yeo (NUS LA)
2. Tan Li Feng (NUS LA)
3. Vikram Balasubramanian (Pinky and the Cripple)
3. Joey Pang (Yes We Can)
5. Madhav Janakiraman (NTU 1)
5. Lakshmi Balachandran (NTU 2)
5. Aditya Vijaya Kumar (Pinky and the Cripple)
5. Robin (Gongjiao)
5. Mark Lim (Gongjiao)
10. Anirban Gupta (SMU 1)
Motions:
Round 1: THW throw the book at Dubiya
Round 2: THW ban all anti-government protests
Round 3: THBT Iran should be engaged without preconditions
Round 4: THBT criminals should not be given the right to vote
Quarters: THBT Western economies should become more socialist
Semis: THW give its best for Gaza
Finals: THBT there are no universal human rights |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 19:13 |
The University of the Free State from South Africa has emerged as the winners of the Inaugural Pan-African Universities Debating Championship which was held in Gaborone Botswana.
The final comprised:
The University of the Free State--B -Opening Government
National University of Lesotho--A –Closing Government
University of Namibia-C—Opening Opposition
University of Namibia-A- Opening Opposition
The Best Adjudicator Trophy was awarded to Carl Persat of Namibia
The Best Speaker for the tournament was –Ruth Mulenga of Botswana
The lists of participating countries were:
Nigeria
Ghana
Uganda
Kenya
Botswana
Lesotho
Namibia
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Zambia
The tournament also comprised debate trainers from the US, Botswana, South Korea and South Africa who trained the many virgin debaters from across the African continent.
This week long tournament was hosted at the University of Botswana main campus with the award ceremony at Phakalane Golf Estates.
The African Universities Debating Board which will facilitate the dissemination of training materials, coordinate Pan-African debating events and organize training sessions and help spread debate across the African continent was established at this ground breaking event.
The Chief Adjudicator for the tournament was Logan of Malaysia and the tournament was convened by Justice Motlhabani of Botswana.
For more information visit www.botsdebating.com |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 14:59 |
In recent years I posted a series of "preparing for worlds" articles that were taken from a guide to Worlds style debating. I"m not going to repost them all again but in case anyone is interested here are the links to each post.
Firstly here is a link to my training and tips posts on the style at Worlds.
- http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/search/label/Training
Here are some posts I uploaded in advance of Worlds in 2006 and they are based on a training guide by Dan Neidle.
- http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/2005/12/preparing-for-worlds-3-first.html
- http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/2005/12/preparing-for-worlds-4-poi.html
- http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/2005/12/preparing-for-worlds-5-roles.html
- http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/2005/12/preparing-for-worlds-6-arguments.html
- http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/2005/12/preparing-for-worlds-7-rebuttal.html
- http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/2005/12/preparing-for-worlds-8-extensions.html
- http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/2005/12/preparing-for-worlds-9-good-bad.html
Finally here are some official guides to worlds for both debaters and judges:
The Briefing from Stellenbosch http://flynn.debating.net/stellbrief.ppt
MMU Adjudication guide http://flynn.debating.net/mmuguide.htm
A guide to Chairing and Adjudicating at Worlds http://flynn.debating.net/omarguide.htm
Key extracts from the official rules: http://flynn.debating.net/extracts.htm
Motions & Research
I"m also regularly asked for potential motions. Well now it"s too late to do much research if you are starting from scratch. If you are then I suggest you buy all versions of Time, Newsweek and the Economist you can get at the airport and read them on the flight to Ireland. The Economist World in 2009 special edition is a useful
If you have a little more time and access to the internet and a printer then some years ago I posted a list of potential topics. Many still hold true although some are out of date. I could update them but I am doing this in between changing, feeding and winding a new baby so I"m afraid you will just have to make do with the old list.
- http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/2005/12/preparing-for-worlds-2-topics.html
In terms of researching these subject areas a quick way to get a good overview is to search for that topic in the BBC website. They often have good topic outlines. Enough to get you into the debate if you wish to do some last minute research. Also www.debatabase.org is a good resource with printable talking points on many topics.
If you are looking to do some last minute padding of (or creation of) a case file then remember that the key is that you have to know the information is there. You won"t have time to read every thing between now and the start of the tournament. Create an index of the topics you have in the file. And it has to be paper based. Worlds rules prohibit the use of electronic equipment.
Finally it is important to understand that no matter how much research you do you will have to debate several topics which you have not prepared for. You can"t have covered everything. In a case like this don"t panic but go back to the "first principles" post in the training section. |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:49 |
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From WSDC Mailing list Dear All, I want to take this opportunity to reassure everyone that we have absolutely no concerns whatsoever about the safety and security of participants at the WSDC in February in the light of last week"s unrest. Firstly, there is no reason to believe that there will be any problems in February. Also, even if we had been holding the championships last week, we would not have been in any danger. We would have had to make some logistical rearrangements due to transport disruptions etc, but the Stanley Hotel is not in an area that suffered. I have received a number of concerned emails in the last week or so and without underestimating the seriousness of the demonstrations in any way or demeaning the significance of the tragic death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, I just want to reassure everyone who is coming to Athens that we are still excited about you all coming and that we are looking forward to a fun and safe tournament. See you in February On behalf of the Organizing Committee Effie Giannakouri Convener |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:01 |
Monash (Amit Golder & Victor Finkel) have won the 2008 WUPID.
Tim Mooney (Sydney) topped the speaker tab.
The final motion was "This house would use military force against Somali pirates".
From globaldebate |
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 15:37 |
From http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/
Grand Final:
Sydney A
Ateneo de Manila A
Monash C
Vermont A
Semi Finals
Motion: THBT South American countries should nationalize their natural resources.
Room 1
1st Govt Sydney A
2nd Govt Ateneo de Manila A
1st Opp Monash D
2nd Opp UT Mara B
Judges: O’Brien, Connor, Piyanart, Haft, Samnamngern
Room 2
1st Govt Queensland A
2nd Govt Monash C
1st Opp Harvard A
2nd Opp Vermont A
Judges: Harvey-Smith, Ivan Ah Sam, Berna, Chandran, Lillin
Quater Finals:
Motion: THW bomb terrorist bases in Pakistan.
Room 1
1st Govt UT Mara B
1st Opp NUS A
2nd Govt Monash B
2nd Opp Sydney A
Judges: Connor, Haft, Piyanart, O"Brien
Room 2
1st Govt Geopower-Ateneo de Manila A
1st Opp Ateneo de Manila A
2nd Govt Nanyang B
2nd Opp Monash D
Judges: Ivan Ah Sam, Hewson, Nelson, Lillin
Room 3
1st Govt Queensland A
1st Opp Nanyang C
2nd Govt NUS B
2nd Opp Monash C
Judges: Berna, Chandran, Campbell, Harvey-Smith
Room 4
1st Govt Ateneo de Manila B
1st Opp Vermont A
2nd Govt Monash A
2nd Opp Harvard A
Judges: Samnamngern, Salahuddin, Williams, Chong |
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 15:32 |
HWS and IDEA aim to bring together an elite and internationally diverse group of debaters and adjudicators each year for a weekend of debate at the highest level. The tournament will be held in the WUDC debate format, set up in a unique pre-paired round robin, ensuring that every team debates against every other team exactly once in the preliminary rounds. Our goal is to facilitate great debating and to recognize the skills and accomplishments of great debaters and adjudicators by treating them to a weekend of satisfying debate and superb hospitality.
You can now see many more details about our tournament and the surrounding events, including:
* Organizing committee
* Events and hospitality
* Provisional schedule
* Qualification criteria
* Registration information
* Tournament policies
* Prizes and awards
* Historical winners
* Links to previous final rounds (streaming video)
http://www.idebate.org/hwsroundrobin/
This year HWS & IDEA are working together to draw great teams and judges from around the globe. Applications for at-large invitations are due at the end of January. Contact Eric Barnes (Tournament Convenor) for more information. barnes (at) hws (dot) edu
All the Best,
Eric
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Prof. Eric Barnes
barnes (at) hws (dot) edu
Debate Coach
Public Policy Program Philosophy Department
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, New York |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 01:41 |
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Here is the WUPID break as announced by Alfred on the global debate blog. - Sydney A 14
- Monash C 13
- Harvard A 12
- Geopower-Ateneo de Manila A 11
- Ateneo de Manila A 11
- Ateneo de Manila B 11
- Queensland A 11
- NUS A 10
- Monash B 10
- NUS B 10
- Monash A 10
- Monash D 9
- Nanyang B 9
- Vermont A 9
- UT Mara B 9
- Nanyang C 9
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Thursday, 27 November 2008 07:33 |
Fellow debaters,
As promised, below is the list of candidates for the Deputy Chief Adjudicator positions for the Koc World Universities Debating Championships 2010. From now until December 12th 2008, I will be accepting feedback, to be kept confidential, on their candidacies. A decision will then be made in time for our ratification vote at Worlds Council on January 1st 2009.
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