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2 January 2010

WUDC ESL Finalists

The ESL Finalists are:
IIU Malaysia A
Leiden A
Tel Aviv A
Haifa A

The Final is on tomorrow.

WUDC EFL Final

The English as a Foreign Language at the 2010 World Universities Debating Chapmionships is

OG Zagreb Law A

OO Stuttgart B
CG Zagreb A
CO Moscow State Institute of International Relations


Motion: This House believes that democratic states should own their own broadcasting corporations.

WUDC 2010 Semi Finalists

The Semi Finalists in the 2010 World Debating Championships are
Sydney A, Cambridge A, LSE A, Stanford A Monash A, UQ D, Harvard A and Oxford A


WUDC Qtr Final motion.

Motion: This house would ban all procedures to alter one's racial appearance.


WUDC ESL Semi Finalists:

The ESL Semifinalists

IIU Malaysia B,
Erasmus A,
Bonaparte A,

Lieden A


Tel Aviv A,
LUMS A,
Greifswald A,
Haifa A,

Motion: This house would allow prisoners to raise their babies behind bars.

Sam Greenland is the new WUDC Chair

achteminute on Twitter is reporting that Sam Greenland from Australia is the new Chair of World's Council.

Congrats to Sam and best of luck in his work for the coming year.  I'm sure he will do a great job.

WUDC EFL Semifinal Draw

Semi 1
OG Stuttgart B
OO Zagreb A
CG Moscow State Institute for International Relations B
CO Beijing Foreign Studies University A

Semi 2
OG Moscow State Institute for International Relations A
OO Zagreb Law A
CG Splitt A
CO BIU A

Motion: This House would use faith based rehabilitation in prison

Source: Alfred Snider at Global Debate

WUDC ESL Qtr Finals

ESL QF motion: This House would ban any scheme intended to cure homosexuality

QF1

OG LJUBLJANA A
OO IIU MALAYSIA B
CG GALATASARAY A
CO ERASMUS A

QF2
CG TEL AVIV A
OO LAHORE LUMS C
CG ATHENS A
CO LAHORE LUMS A

QF3
OG LJUBLJANA C
OO GREIFSWALD A
CG HAIFA A
CO CHULALONGKORN A

QF 4
OG ASDV BONAPARTE A
OO MUNICH A
CG LEIDEN A
CO BELGRADE A

WUDC Octo Final Results

The Qtr Finalists from Twitter:

OXFORD A
QUEENSLAND A
SYDNEY D
MONASH A
LSE A
STANFORD A
SYDNEY C
PRINCETON A
SYDNEY A
MCGILL A
ANU A
CAMBRIDGE A
HARVARD A
HART HOUSE A
MONASH B
QUEENSLAND D






From twitter
arwon: Also advancing from Australia - Sydney A, C, D, Monash A and B, UQ A and D and ANU A. Melb B and USyd B also knocked out. #wudc

debating: Octo-final: Hart House A (OG, QUALIFY), Harvard A (OO, QUALIFY), Sydney B (CG), CAMBRIDGE B (CO). #wudc

melissa_claire_: RT @arwon: UNSW A knocked out in the octos, Monash A and USyd D advance. #wudc

melissa_claire_: RT @arwon: Also advancing from Australia - Sydney A, C, D, Monash A and B, UQ A and D and ANU A. Melb B and USyd B also knocked out. #wudc

debating: Incredibly close calls in the octo-finals meant a sad exit for Cambridge B and Cambridge C, but Cambridge A are in the quarter-final. #wudc

arwon: Non-Australian QF teams - Oxford A, Harvard A, Hart House A, McGill A, LSE A, Stanford A, Princeton A, Cambridge A #wudc

WUDC 2010 Octo Final Draw and Motion

Motion for the Octo Finals of the 2010 Koc World Debating Championships: This house believes the West should recognise the Dali Lama


WUDC: Day 7 Schedule

Day 7 January 2nd at Koc 2010 World Universities Debating Championships:
  • Octo Finals
  • Quater-Finals
  • ESL Quater-Finals
  • EFL Semi-Finals
  • ESL Semi-FInals

 

1 January 2010

DLSU Manila to host WUDC 2012

De La Salle University in Manila beat Hart House Toronto by 72 votes to 28‏ votes in the race to host the 2012 World Universities Debating Championships.

For De La Salle:

Singapore
Croatia
Japan
Philippines
Korea
Malaysia
Hong Kong
Bangladesh
China
Scotland
New Zealand
Netherlands
Thailand
India
Indonesia
Germany
Turkey
Russia
Jamaica
Switzerland
Wales
Ukraine
Macau
Peru
Greece
Serbia
Slovenia
Barbados
Botswana
Latvia
Finland
France

For Hart House:
USA
England
Canada
Ireland
Israel
Australia
South Africa
Romania

WUDC Break Complete list of teams

OK here is the break from the Tab Director Engin Ural (see comments here)
The biggest changes from last night's unofficial reports is that Princeton A broke and not one of the Queensland teams. Also the positions of ANU and Ateneo were reversed.

MAIN BREAK

OXFORD UNION A
HARVARD A
SYDNEY A
LSE A
SYDNEY C
ANU A
MONASH B
SYDNEY D
MONASH A
MIT A
CAMBRIDGE UNION A
OXFORD UNION C
KINGS INN A
MCGILL A
HART HOUSE A
QUEENSLAND A
OXFORD UNION B
CAMBRIDGE UNION B
CAMBRIDGE UNION C
STANFORD A
YALE A
ATENEO A
MELBOURNE B
UBC A
UNSW A
QUEENSLAND D
QUEENS A
PRINCETON A
WELLINGTON A
YALE C
SYDNEY B
AUCKLAND A

ESL BREAK
LJUBLJANA A
ATHENS A
HAIFA A
ASDV BONAPARTE A
LEIDEN A
GREIFSWALD A
TEL AVIV A
IIU MALAYSIA B
ERASMUS A
LUMS C
LJUBLJANA C
MUNICH A
BELGRADE A
CHULALONGKORN A
LUMS A
GALATASARAY A

EFL BREAK
BELGRADE A (Also an ESL break)
STUTTGART B
MGIMO A
ZAGREB LAW A
ZAGREB A
BEIJING FSU C
BIU A
SPLIT C
MGIMO B

Breaking Judges
1.Adam Goldenberg

2.Adiba Shareen
3.Ah Young Kim
4.Alex Just
5.Anat Gelber
6.Andrea Soriano
7.Anna Garsia
8.Arjun Shenoy
9.Benjamin James Paul Williams
10.Can Okar
11.Christopher Bishop
12.Ciaran Lawlor
13.Conrad Banasik
14.Daniel Warents
15.Deirdre Milner
16.Derek Lande
17.Dino De Leon
18.Dominic Bowes
19.Duncan Campbell
20.Edward Miller
21.Eleanor Jones
22.Eoin Kilkenny
23.Erin Fitzgerald
24.Ewan Macdonald
25.Fiona Simpson
26.Fred Cowell
27.Gareth Richards
28.Gavin Illsley
29.Handan Orel
30.Hugh Burns
31.Ian Hutcheon
32.Ian Lising
33.Isa Loewe
34.James Dray
35.Jason Rogers
36.Jen Coyne
37.Jens Fischer
38.Jesse Wilson
39.Jessica Harvey-Smith
40.Joanna Nairn
41.Joe Roussos
42.Jonathan Orpin
43.Josh Martin
44.Joshua James Bone
45.Julia Bowes
46.Kallina Marina Basli
47.Kenneth Cochran
48.Kerem Celikboya
49.Kiran Iyer
50.Kirsty Russell
51.Lars Duursma
52.Leela Koenig
53.Lewis Iwu
54.Li Xi
55.Logan Balavijendran
56.Marguerite Carter
57.Mark Rubenstein
58.Masako Suzuki Takahashi
59.Meng Jia Yang
60.Meredith Prior
61.Mhairi Murdoch
62.Michael Baer
63.Michael Kotrly
64.Michael Shih
65.Muhammad Abdul Latif
66.Nate Blevins
67.Nick Derrington
68.Nick Long
69.Nina Ubaldi
70.Nishita Vasan
71.Oisin Collins
72.Pamela Cohn
73.Pamela Lauren A. Chan
74.Rebecca Mann
75.Rhydian Morgan
76.Rhys Campbell
77.Rosie Unwin
78.Ross Mcguire
79.Sam Block
80.Sayeqa Islam
81.Sharmila Parmanand
82.Shaughnessy Hawkins
83.Simone Van Elk
84.Sriram Srikumar
85.Stacey Mcevoy
86.Steph D'Souza
87.Stephen Boyle
88.Steve Nolan
89.Steven Johnson
90.Susan Elizabeth Connolly
91.Suthen Tate Thomas
92.Sze Ying Goh
93.Tarit Mukherjee
94.Thepparith (TJ) Senamngern
95.Tom Ashby
96.Will Jones
97.Willard Foxton
98.Woon Lee
99.Zheng Bo
100.Zid Mancenido

WUDC: Day 6 Schedule

Day 6 January 1st at Koc 2010 World Universities Debating Championships:
  • Excursions
  • World Debating Council
  • Public Speaking Final
  • Masters Final
  • Turkish Night

31 December 2009

WUDC 2010 Break details

Some details of the break at Koc World Universities Debating Championships are coming in on Twitter and various websites

According to Tuna at Global debate the break is (with some corrections):

MAIN BREAK
Oxford A 24pts
Harvard A 23pts
Sydney A 22pts
LSE A 21pts
Sydney C 21pts
AIMU A 21pts (should that be ADMU Ateneo De Manila University A)
Monash B 21pts
Sydney D 20pts
Monash A 20pts
MIT A 20pts
Cambridge A 20pts
Oxford C 20pts
Kings Inn A 20pts
McGill A 20pts
Hart House A 19pts
Queensland A 19pts
Oxford B 19pts
Cambridge B 19pts
Cambridge C 19pts
Stanford A 19pts
Yale A 19pts
AMU A 19pts (should that be ANU A)
Melborne B 19pts
UBC A 19pts
UNSW A 19pts
Queensland D 19pts
Queens A 19pts
Queensland B 18pts
????? A 18pts (looks line Victoria Wellington A)
Yale C 18pts
Sydney B 18pts
???? A 18pts (looks like Auckland A)

I'm going to stick my neck out and correct AMU A to ANU A and AIMU to Ateneo ADMU.  I've heard else where ANU broke and Ateneo were looking odds on to break after round 6. Also I have never heard of AMU or AIDM so lets go with that.

I'm told by Eric Barnes that Yale C broke and not Yale B.  I've corrected that on the list

According to Jenna at http://www.raeburnapple.blogspot.com/ The two missing teams are Victoria Wellington A in 30th on 18 points and Auckland A in 32nd also on 18 points.  That means the info on Princeton A might be wrong and that Yale C might be 29th rather than 30th (people I trust, i.e. Eric, seem certain that Yale C broke)

ESL BREAK
Ljubljana A 17pts
Athens A 16pts
Haifa A 16pts
Bonaparte A 16pts
Rijeka A ????? 16pts
Griston A ???? 16pts
Tel Aviv A 15pts
AIUM B 15pts
Erasmus A 15pts
LUMS B 15pts
Ljubljana C 15pts
????? A 15pts
Belgrade A 14pts
???? A 14pts
LUMS A 14pts
???? Turkey??? 14pts

EFL Break
Stuttgart A 14pts
Marino??? B 13pts
Zagreb Law A 13pts
Zagreb A 13pts
BFGSU A 13pts
BIU ??? A 13pts
SPLIT C 13pts
MCKEE B ???? 13pts


There was some confusion early on on the break but I think we have the main break fairly complete now.  Apparently someone was trying to spread misinformation about the break and an early list contained teams who did not break. Apologies for any confusion.  I have learned not to trust Twitter.  Next year I'll either be there myself or have someone there reporting back.

I have e-mailed Can for an official copy of the break.  Hopefully we'll have that in the morning.

That's all for tonight.  Hope you enjoyed the coverage as it flowed in.  Thanks to all those who commented, e-mailed. twittered and blogged especially Tuna who beat me to publishing the tab this year after I beat him for the past couple of years.  Good healthy rivalry on New Years Eve ;-)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2010

I would like to take this chance to wish all visitors to this site a very happy, peaceful and prosperous 2010.

WUDC Motion for round 9.

Motion for round 9 of the 2010 world debating championships:
This house would ban all pornography.

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Sent from my mobile device

WUDC round 8 motion

This house would partition Sudan.

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Sent from my mobile device

WUDC 2010 some results after Rd 6

I have looked through various blogs, twitter, websites, boards, facebook etc and pulled together some results after Round 6.  Lots of teams are missing.  If you can add to this list or correct any of the results please add a comment.  No results will be released for Rounds 7-9 until after the break announcement.

Oxford A 18
LSE A 16
Victoria Wellington B 15
Harvard A 15
Monash B 15
Sydney A 15
Sydney D 15
Ateneo A 15
Sydney C 14
Oxford B 14
Oxford C 14
Monash A 14
Cambridge A 14
Oxford D 14
Stanford A 14
Kings Inns A 13
TCD Hist A 12
UNSW A 13
NUS A 13
Victoria Wellington A 13
Auckland A 13
Brandeis A 13
Cornell A 13
Hart House A 13
MIT A 13
Yale A 13
Victoria Wellington C 12
IIU A 12
Harvard B 12
Fordham A 12
Princeton A 12
Alberta C 12
Alaska A 12
Galway A 12
UCD L&H A 12
TCD 12
Alberta B 11
Amsterdam A 11
Erasmus A 11
Groningen A 11
Vermont A 11
Vermont B 11
HWS A 11
Athens 11
Alaska C 11
Alaska D 11
UNSW B 11
Glasgow A 10
Bristol A 10
UNSW C 10
UNSW D 10
Alaska B 10
Bates A 10
Bates B 10
Ljubljana A 10
Cambridge D 9
HWS B 9
Bates C 9
St Johns B 9
Vermont C 9
Cornell B 9
Colgate A 9
Stuttgart A 9
St Johns A 8
Cornell C 8
Colgate B 8
Colgate C 8
Venezuela A 8
Venezuela B 8
München A 8
Stuttgart B 8
Ljubljana B 7
Halle A 6
St. Gallen A 6
Rochester A 6
Rochester B 6
Potsdam A 5
Ljubljana C 4

WUDC Round 7 motion

The motion for round 7 of the 2010 World Debating Championships:

This house would grant those diagnosed with terminal illnesses the right to access treatments that have not completed clinical testing.

WUDC: Day 5 Schedule

Day 5 December 31st at Koc 2010 World Universities Debating Championships:

(All results today are closed until the break announcement)
  • Round 7
  • Round 8
  • Round 9
  • Equity Forum
  • New Year's Eve Party
  • BREAK ANNOUNCEMENT

30 December 2009

Proposal to expand WUDC break to 64 teams

Here is a guest post from Andy Hume on expanding the break at Worlds from 32 to 64 teams.  This is an issue that is likely to come up at council in the near future and we welcome your comments and opinions:

A few months ago I was writing an article for the Monash Debating Review. In the course of showing it to others for their thoughts, the lead author of the 1996 WUDC rules, Ray D'Cruz, suggested to me that the time had come to expand the break at Worlds from 32 to [at least] 64. His reasoning was as follows:


Adjudicators at Worlds are scared to break orthodoxy because they know that one poor result for a highly fancied team could see that team miss the break. Expand the break [in fact, Ray suggests 128, not 64!] and let everyone breathe. I remember when the break was fought out between 120 / 150 teams. Even then it was very competitive. I also think this is why debaters are very orthodox in their approach (method-driven). They don't want to put a foot out of place - debaters and adjudicators. Everything is terribly risk-averse.

Whether Ray's analysis of the change in the behaviour of debaters and adjudicators is correct or not, I am entirely persuaded of the merits of an expanded Worlds break of 64 (though 128 may be pushing it for the time being). Some of the arguments in favour of such a proposal:

Maths: the break of 32 was designed for an era when there were 150-250 teams at Worlds. As such the chances of breaking were somewhere between 1 in 5 and 1 in 8. With over 400 teams now routinely attending WUDC (and those numbers limited only by hosts' capacity), fewer than 1 in 12 teams now break.

As a former CA at Worlds and indeed a former winner of the competition, I need no reminding that the "elite status" of making the Worlds break is valuable in itself. However, it has now, in my view, become far too difficult to get there. Is there any other major competition in the world that has such a low proportion of teams in its main break? If you had 48 teams at your intervarsity, would you break directly to the final? Expanding the Worlds break to 64 would merely be restoring the status quo ante.

Creativity: expanding the break makes room for those teams of talented but perhaps less orthodox debaters. It allows the possibility of a couple of wildcards in the break. Anyone well versed in sporting analogy will see the similarity with the World Cup - the more open the break is, the better the chance of a Cameroon, a Korea or even an Ireland finding themselves in the quarter-finals and enlivening a dull, predictable draw. The break should be a test of the best teams in the world, sure, but we have knock-out rounds as well, precisely to keep alive the possibility of upsets.

Judges: far more independent adjudicators travel to Worlds than was the case 10 years ago. The judging pool in Asia and Europe is exponentially stronger than 20 years ago. In many cases CAs are now spoilt for choice and find themselves excluding many qualified judges due to sheer pressure of numbers. There may also be a tendency, regrettable but understandable, to "play safe" by picking a well-known name for the break rather than a younger and lesser-known judge. Expanding the break would be more inclusive for the adjudication pool, too - but not necessarily require many more judges if strength in depth proved to be shallower in any given year.

Inclusiveness: it is now about 20 years since Worlds stopped being an Anglosphere-only club and the era of mass participation of non English-speaking nations really began. Yet despite a massive improvement in the infrastructure and mean standard of debating in "ESL countries", it is not uncommon for a main break to feature no ESL teams whatever. Expanding the break would bring this target back within the range of more of the best ESL teams, as it was 10 years ago.

Logistics: the time pressure in Worlds schedules revolves overwhelmingly around the three days of main competition. Adding a double octo-final would not be a problem. Indeed, when WUDC was held in Princeton in 1995, it was held in North American parliamentary style, and double octos were held. If there were concerns about the dilution of the break, a provision could be included giving the organisers the option to drop the double-octos for that year if the number of registered teams proved to be below a certain level, say, 300.

There are other potential reasons, but these are the ones that spring to mind. In any case, this proposal to bring in a 64-team break may make it to the agenda at Worlds Council on 1st January. Any thoughts, comments or other arguments I have not thought of - or criticisms - might prove valuable in the discussion which is, I believe, well overdue.

Andy Hume
CA, WUDC 2001
DCA, WUDC 2000

Edit: I have changed the posting date to keep this discussion higher up the front page of the blog.

WUDC Round 6 motion

That this house would prosecute communities for complicity in honour killings.

WUDC on Twitter use #WUDC

Anyone wishing to follow proceedings at Worlds via Twitter should check out the hashtag #WUDC

I'll do my best to keep you up to date with proceedings as they develop but twitter will give you a more personal account as a large number of participants are using this.

There are also a number of blogs being updated from WUDC.  Tuna is updating Global Debate from the event.  Cambridge debaters will be writing blog entries from WUDC at http://cambridgedebating.blogspot.com/.  You can find news on New Zealand teams at http://www.raeburnapple.blogspot.com/.

IDEA's DebatingNews (www.twitter.com/debatingnews) twitter account is collecting debate news from around the Globe and tweet about them.  DebatingNews will be focused on WUDC and will try to collect any news from there and tweet it to the rest of the world.

If I come across any others I'll post them.
 
Unfortunately I'm not at Worlds.  Debating is only my passtime not my profession so I couldn't get the time off to attend.  However I will gather together all the various reports across blogs, twitter, facebook etc and post them here.

If there is anyone in Koc who would like to act as a roving reporter for this site then e-mail me (colm_flynn@hotmail.com) and we can discuss how it will work.

Thanks & Regards,
Colm

WUDC RD 5 Motion

Motion for Round 5 of the 2010 World Debating Championships:

This House would abolish the taxes on alcohol and cigarettes that go beyond normal sales taxes

WUDC Rd 4 Motion

The motion for Round 4 of the 2010 World Debating Championships is:

 This houe would prohibit high ranking members of the Sri Lankan military & the Tamil Tigers from participating in elections

WUDC: Day 4 Schedule

Day 4 December 30th at Koc 2010 World Universities Debating Championships:
  • Round 4
  • Round 5
  • Round 6
  • Women's Forum
  • Public Speaking ROund 2
  • Women's Debate
  • Women's Night

29 December 2009

Adjudicator Briefings at KOC Worlds

Alfred "Tuna" Snider has posted some videos of the adjudicator briefing at Koc Worlds.

You can find them here.

WUDC 2010 Rd3 Motion

Motion for round 3 of the 2010 world debating championships:

That this house would financially incentivize both inter-faith and
inter-ethnic marriages.

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Sent from my mobile device (which had predictive text switched on hence "anti" instead of "both" in the original posting. Now that would have been a tough motion)

WUDC 2010 RD 2 Motion

Motion for round 2 of the 2010 World Universities Debating Championships:

That this house believes developing nations should pay for the full tuition of female university students.

WUDC 2010 Masters motions

From ekilko on Twitter

Round 1: This house would require those with plastic surgery to disclose it before having children
Round 2: This house believes robots are winning.

WUDC 2010 Rd1 Motion

Motion for Round 1 of the 2010 World Universities Debating Championships:

That this house would ban labour unions.

WUDC: Day 3 Schedule

Day 3 December 29th at Koc 2010 World Universities Debating Championships:
  • Round 1
  • Round 2
  • Round 3
  • Public Speaking Round 1
  • Comic Public Speaking
  • Botswana 2011 Host Night
  • Global Village

28 December 2009

EUDC to keep first come first served registration

The European Universities Debating Championships will keep its first come, first serve registration system. Amsterdam EUDC 2009 did propose an alternative registration system with guaranteed spots based on previous presence at EUDC, but decided to withdraw its proposal after many objections from Council members. Although delegates appreciated the efforts of the Amsterdam organizing committee to raise the issue and to come up with a proposal, general consensus was that the proposed solution was not necessarily fair to new institutions and this is not the best moment for making fundamental changes to the registration system. The registration system will be on the agenda at the next EUDC Council meeting.


Source: Lars Duursma

WUDC: Day 2 Schedule

Day 2 December 28th at Koc 2010 World Universities Debating Championships:
  • Novice Briefing
  • General Briefing
  • Masters Round 1
  • Masters Round 2
  • Pre-Council Meeting
  • Opening Ceremony 
  • Welcome Party

27 December 2009

WUDC: Day 1 Schedule

Day 1 December 27th at Koc 2010 World Universities Debating Championships:
  • Registration
  • Hotel Transfers
  • Chill out Night