Cork Worlds 2009 - Applications Reminder

Dear All,
I hope everyone is having an enjoyable Summer!

Just a brief reminder for all those who wish to make an application under our N-1 Waiver Programme as well for those who wish to come to Cork Worlds 2009 as independent adjudicators and for institutions who wish to send adjudicators over the N-1 requirement. The closing date for applications is this coming Friday, July 18th, at 6pm BST. We will then be reviewing all applications and will be getting back in contact with all those who have applied shortly.

The Cork Worlds 2009 team is continuing to work hard to make sure that the Championships are the best yet and are thoroughly enjoyable for everyone! As always full information can be found on our website http://www.corkworlds2009.com/. If anyone has anyone has any further questions please do not hesitate to get in contact with us and we will do everything we can to be of assistance.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Mark Collins

Director of Registration & Communications,
29th World University Debating Championships.
Cork 2009.

Qatar bid for World Schools 2010

Dear Friends,
QatarDebate, the national debating organisation for Qatar and a member of Qatar Foundation, is delighted to announce its intention to bid in Washington D.C for the 2010 World Schools Debating Championships.

Below is an outline of how far debating has come in Qatar in recent years, what we think we can offer as hosts and the benefits WSDC 2010 could have for debate across the Arab World.

Qatar: A vibrant debating community
• Debating in Qatar is thriving, with QatarDebate training over 1500 students and teachers from over 30 high-schools and universities.
• The inaugural Qatari National Championships was attended by over 400 students.
• WSDC 2010 would be Co-Convened by Dr Hayat Maarafi (Executive Director of QatarDebate) and Alex Just (Program Manager of QatarDebate)

Qatar 2010: A tournament like no other
• Free registration for all national teams (this includes all accommodation, transport, food and activities for an 8 member national delegation)
• Subsidized flights for all new entrant countries (we hope to welcome Jordan, Bahrain, the U.A.E, Morocco, and many others into the WSDC community)
• Accommodation in the Marriott Doha – a hotel that has experience of hosting large international student conferences with students from the USA, China, Israel and Belize among others.

Beyond 2010: Developing debate in the Arab World
• WSDC 2010 would be the first time World Schools has been hosted in the Arabian Gulf or in a Muslim country.
• The debates at WSDC 2010 will be seen by over 2000 Qatari school children and will attract significant interest in the regional English and Arabic language press.
• Just as Southern African debating benefited from Johannesburg hosting WSDC in 2001 we are confident that hosting the tournament in Doha in 2010 will provide a superb boost to debate in the Gulf region and the wider Middle East.

We look forward to seeing you all in Washington in a few weeks time. If you have any questions please have a look at our website – http://www.qatardebate.org/ - or send an email to doha2010@qatardebate.org

Best wishes,
Dr Hayat Maarafi, Alex Just and Andrew Goodman
QatarDebate WSDC 2010 Bid Committee

Australs 2008 Full Tab

The full tab for Australs 2008 (including round by round results) can be found at:

http://australs08.nuttynet.com

Thanks to Logan for hosting.

Northeast Asian Open 2008

To the international debating community,

Registration for Northeast Asian Open 2008 starts in two weeks!
Details about registration can be found at:
http://neao2008.googlepages.com/registration.html

Tournament details
Date: November 7-9, 2008
Host: Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Cost: registration fee with no hotel: 8,000 yen
registration fee with 3 night stay at hotel (single): 37,000 yen
registration fee with 3 night stay at hotel (double): 30,000 yen
registration fee with 3 night stay at hotel (triple): 25,000 yen

Questions?
e-mail: neao2008@gmail.com
Website: http://neao2008.googlepages.com/

Source: Allasians list

Sydney win Australs

Sydney (Julia Bowes, Naomi Oreb, Steve Hind) won Australs defeating Monash on a 6-1 split and Naomi Oreb (Sydney) was best speaker on the tab and in the final.

Top 10 speakers:
1, Naomi Oreb (Sydney 1)
2. Julia Bowes (Sydney 1)
3. Charisse Borromeo (Ateneo 1)
4. Sharmila Parmanand (Ateneo 1)
5 = Lauren Humphrey (Uni Queensland 1) & Jack Wright (Sydney 2)
7. Tim Mooney (Sydney 2)
8 = Lucia Pietropaoli (Melbourne 1) & Christopher Bishop (Victoria Wellington 1)
10. Stephen Whittington (Victoria Wellington 1)

International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) won the ESL defeating Universitas Indonesia (UI) in the final.

ESL top speakers:

1st - Miranda Anwar (UI)
2nd - Yvonne Ngai (UHK)
3rd - Freida Siregar (UI)

Final: Weapons
That international institutions should use force to restrict the sale of small arms to African nations
That gun ownership should be restricted to law enforcement agencies
That we should rely on mutual assured destruction rather than on nuclear non-proliferation

Semis: Pedophilia
That we would abolish the crime of statutory rape
That police officers should be banned from posing as children on the internet to catch pedophiles
That capital punishment should be allowed in cases of child rape

Quarters: US Racial Politics
That we should vote for Barack Obama on the basis of his race
That low-income ethnic neighborhoods should be protected from gentrification
That Latinos should have the right to be taught in Spanish

Octos: Health
That hymen reconstruction surgeries should be banned
That IVF clinics should be stopped from implanting embryos known to have disabilities
That all restrictions on the advertising of prescription drugs should be removed

ESL Final: Energy
That the price of petrol should be determined entirely by the market
That we would drill for oil in the arctic circle
That the production of non-hybrid cars should be stopped

ESL Semis: Immigration
That industrialized nations should be forced to accept climate change refugees
That states should remove all restrictions against the immigration of HIV-infected people
That medical workers from developing countries should not be allowed to migrate to the developed world

Round 1: Conflict Zones
That the UN should hire mercenaries for military operations
That African states should recognize Tsvangirai as the rightful leader of Zimbabwe
That we would respect China's right to prosecute foreign athletes who protest at the Beijing Olympics

Round 2: Sin
That we would ban groups that glorify obesity
That governments should not take any action to discourage individuals from smoking
That problem gamblers should have their welfare payments suspended

Round 3: Philippines
That we should end US involvement in fighting terrorism in Southern Mindanao
That we have had enough People Power revolutions
That the Philippines should adopt Chavez-style land reforms

Round 4: Business and Trade
That corporate regulators should have veto power over executive bonuses
That we would protect nationally important companies from ownership by foreign government entities
That the WTO should abandon consensus voting as the basis for decision-making

Round 5: Sustainable Development
That areas of high ecological value should be returned to indigenous peoples for management
That arable lands should not be used for growing crops for bio-fuels
That individuals should be given carbon quotas

Round 6: Bois and Grrrls
That we would create separate units for gays in the military
That governments should ban groups that seek to 'straighten out' gay men and women
That we would allow minors to have sex change operations

Round 7: Science and Tech
That all state-funded projects should be open source
That genetic research that attributes negative traits to particular races should not be pubilshed
That nations should be able to charge licensing fees for the use of genetic information from their native plants and animals

Round 8: Democracy
That candidates should be disallowed from using their own money to finance their campaigns
That the West should cease pressuring transitioning democracies to hold elections
That we would abolish political parties

Women's debate:
That pre and post opt transsexuals should be allowed into women-only organizations

Australs Final

Sydney-1 (Julia Bowes, Naomi Oreb, Steve Hind)

and

Monash-1 (Victor Finkel, Sashi Balaraman, Kiran Iyer)

will contest the 2008 grand final of the Australasian Debating Championships.