Draw for Quater Finals of the Irish Mace

The draw for the Quarter Finals of the Irish Mace:

Quarter Final 1:
Sunday 5th March, UCC, 2pm
Motion: 'THBT the NAACP should publicly condemn Chris Brown'
1st Prop: UCC Philosoph (Becky West & Davy Jones)
1st Opp: TCD Hist (John Doody & Liam O’Neill)
2nd Prop: UL DebU (Stephen Egan & David Hartery)

Quarter Final 2:
Monday 12th March, Dublin (place TBC), 7pm
Motion: THW ban “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding”
1st Prop: TCD Hist (John Engle & Adam Noonan)
1st Opp: TCD Hist (Lorcan Cullen & Chris Rooke)
2nd Prop: TCD Phil (Ricky McCormack & Fletch Williams)
2nd Opp: UCD L&H (Sarah Taaffe-Maguire & Cormac Duffy)

Quarter Final 3:
Monday 12th March, Dublin (place TBC), 7pm
Motion: TTHW abolish the two categories for Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress at the Academy Awards and award only gender neutral Oscars for Best Acting and Best Supporting Acting
1st Prop: UCD L&H (Ciaran Garrett & Michael O’Dwyer)
1st Opp: TCD Hist (Ciaran Parkin & Kate Oliver)
2nd Prop: UL Deb U (Lorna Bogue & Michelle Coyle)
2nd Opp: NUIG (Shane Gavin & Ruth Cormican)

Quarter Final 4:
Tuesday 13th March, Dublin (place TBC), 7pm
Motion: TTHBT notable LGB figures should not describe their sexuality as a choice
1st Prop: TCD Phil (Derwin Brennan & Orflaith Sheehy)
1st Opp: Kings Inns (Aine Hartigan & Liam O’Connell)
2nd Prop: UCD L&H (Christine Simpson & Mark Haughton)
2nd Opp:DCU (Ceile Varley & David Gormley)

Highlights of the Irish Times Final 2012

Here is a YouTube video of the "highlights" of the Irish Times Final 2012. It's not very long and even then there is a bit too much filler material and not enough footage from the debate but it features some of the speeches by the winners.

#WUDC on the internet

IDEA have prepared an infographic with statistics from the Twitter and live streaming activity surrounding worlds in Manila last December/January.

How many people watched the debates? How many people were talking about Worlds every day? The graphic shows who the top tweeters (is that the word) were and how activity peaked in the run up to the final.  It also shows how many people were watching the live debates on line and where they were from.

Pan-American Universities Debating Championship

The Lawrence Debate Union of the University of Vermont will be hosting the Pan-American Universities Debating Championship on March 23^rd and 24^th. This tournament will be the first of 2012 to be conducted in Spanish. The format of this tournament is the British Parliamentary style of debate. An excellent and experienced adjudication team will set the topics. 

We are currently attempting to bring more institutions into the fold and provide access to a debate tournament for students who are either native Spanish speakers, or the students who are particularly advanced speakers. If you could forward this email to students within your department who you think may be interested in this type of event, it would be greatly appreciated.

If you (or any others) have questions they should feel free to contact me at john.sadek@uvm.edu

For more information, please see:

http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/PanAmericano/Hola.html

or

http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/PanAmerican/Welcome.html for the English version.

Best Regards,

John Sadek

Manila Intervarsity Results

The Manila Intervarsity hosted by UPManila concluded on Sunday with the following result:

Champion: Ateneo xxxxxxx
Runner-up: UPDiliman B

Best Speaker: Leloy Claudio (Ateneo Awkward)
Best Speaker of the Final: Glenn Tuazon (Ateneo xxxxxxx)
Best Novice Speaker: Edbert Ragadio (Ateneo Awkward)

Tab isn't out yet. We'll post it when it is.

RCSI and UCD Med Soc win Irish Times 2012

Eoin Kelleher and Elizabeth Ahern-Flynn from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have won the 2012 Irish Times Debating Competition (the Irish national Championships).  Michael Conroy of the UCD Medical Society won the individual prize. The motion for the final was “That This House Would Abolish Prisons”,

Runners-up in the team category were Mark Haughton and Christine Simpson of UCD’s Literary and Historical Society, and Liam Brophy of the College Historical Society, TCD, in the individual category

The other finalists were Ian Curran and Adam Noonan of the TCD Historical Society, and Ruth Keating and Rebecca Keating of the TCD Philosophical Society.  In the individual category the finalists were Hannah Lucey of the UCD Literary and Historical society, and Rían Derrig of the TCD Historical Society.