Worlds Team Tab

The UBC World Debating Championships 2007 Team tab can be found here

Worlds Speaker Tab

The UBC World Debating Championships 2007 Speaker tab can be found here

Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Debate Tournament

The Princeton Debate Panel would like to invite the International debate community to attend the 2007 Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Debate Tournament, to be held March 30th and 31st at Princeton University. In an effort to get our biggest international contingent yet, we will be offering significantly reduced registration fees for all non-APDA schools.

Please contact debate@princeton.edu for more information.

Irish Times Semi finals

For anyone who is interested the Draw for the Irish Times Semi Finals can be found here

More details about the competition can be found at www.ireland.com/education/debate.

Still going through my inbox to catch up on e-mails I should have posted while I was focused on Worlds.

World Schools Blog

Following the success of Blogs for the World Universities Championships a new blog has been set up for World Schools. You can find it at http://www.schoolsdebate.com/blog

If there are any other Debate blogs out there please post a comment or send me an e-mail with details and I'll post a link (colm_flynn@hotmail.com).

Thanks

This post is to thank the people who provided me with info as it came out of UBC. Some of this info came in on e-mail, comments and instant messages. To all of you I say thanks on behalf of myself and all visitors to my site.

Special credit and thanks has to go to Ciaran Lawlor and Jens Fischer. They both had blogs running and I got a lot of information from them. While I sometimes felt a little guilty that they were doing all the work I always made sure I credited them and linkd to their blogs and hope they don't resent me combining the info from their blogs with the other sources I had. Also my site was reflected in the official UBC site so I needed to keep posting in order to keep the official UBC site up to date. Without the two guys the information would have been a lot slower and more patchy.

I hope Ciaran and Jens blogs set the trend for future worlds. When I first started the site 10 years ago (yes 10 years) it often took days for info to come out of Worlds. Last year we had it down to around an hour (sometimes less when posting from mobile phones worked). Thanks to the efforts of Ciaran and Jens it took seconds for the latest information to get posted on bulletin boards and websites.

Well done guys. I owe you both a pint or two next time I meet you.

Sydney are World Champions

The World Debating Champions for 2007 are:

Sydney G (Julia Bowes & Anna Garsia. Break position 20th) by a unanimous decision.

source Blogs by Jens Fischer & Ciaran Lawlor

Jess Prince is worlds best speaker

The top speaker at the 2007 2007 World Debating Championships was
Jess Prince (Oxford A)

The top 10 speakers were:

1 Jess Prince, Oxford A
2 Sam Block, Cambridge B
3 Joshua Bone, Yale B
4 Patrick Meagher, Sydney A
5 Adam Bott, Cambridge B
5 Will Jones, Oxford D
7 Adam Chilton, Yale A
8 David Denton, Yale A
9 Alex Campbell, Oxford
10 Christopher Croke, Sydney
10 Jack Wright, Sydney

source Blogs by Jens Fischer & Ciaran Lawlor

2007 ESL Results

The ESL Champions at the World Debating Championships are

IIU Malaysia A

The Top 5 EFL speakers were
1) Suhaib Hassan
2) Elchanan Miller
3) Parat Sayta
4) Tasneem Elias
5) V Naranjan

source Blogs by Jens Fischer & Ciaran Lawlor

2007 EFL Results

The English as a Foreign Language Champions at the 2007 World Debating Championships are

Tsinghua A

The EFL Best Speaker was

Masako Suzuki

source Blogs by Jens Fischer & Ciaran Lawlor

2007 Masters Champions

The Masters Champions at the 2007 World Debating Championships are

Quebec (Matthew Sinclair and Ali Dewji)

source Blogs by Jens Fischer & Ciaran Lawlor

Public Speaking Champion 2007

The Public speaking champion at the 2007 World Debating Championships is:

Michael Imeson (Seattle)

source Blogs by Jens Fischer & Ciaran Lawlor

Stand Up Comedy Champion

The 2007 Stand Up Comedy Champion at the World Debating Championships is

Willard Foxton (Middle Temple, England)

source Blogs by Jens Fischer & Ciaran Lawlor

The final is over

The debating is over. At least the public debating is over. Now the adjudication panel will retire to make their decision. How long will that take? It’s hard to predict. In Toronto it apparently took less than 10 minutes. But when I was on the panel in Stellenbosch it took over 2 hours. Now we wait…..

In case you missed it a summary of the final speeches can be found at http://yourgermancorrespondent.blogspot.com/

Grand Final Draw & Motion

The Draw for the grand final is:

1st Gov: Cambridge C
1st Opp: Queensland A
2nd Gov: Oxford D
2nd Opp: Sydney G

The motion is
This house believes that economic growth is the solution to climate change

Again Jens Fischer will be posting a summary of each speech as the debate goes on. http://yourgermancorrespondent.blogspot.com/

ESL Final Draw & Motion

The draw for the ESL final is:

1st Gov: NLSIU A (National Law School of India University, Bangalore)
1st Opp: IIU Malaysia (International Islamic University Malaysia)
2nd Gov: SSE Riga A
2nd Opp: Hebrew University B

The motion is
This house believes that politicians have a right to a private life.

Jens Fischer is posting summaries of each speech on http://yourgermancorrespondent.blogspot.com/

source: yourgermancorrespondent

The Final: England vs Australia

From Semi 1
Oxford D on a 4:3 split (Will Jones & James Dray. Break position 1st)
Sydney G unanimous decision (Julia Bowes & Anna Garsia. Break position 20th)

From Semi 2
Queensland A unanimous decision (Erin O'Brien & Evan Goldman. Break position 19th)
Cambridge C on a 4:3 split (Ranald Clouston & Bob Nimmo. Break Position 10th)

source: yourgermancorrespondent

Semi Final Motion

The motion for the Semi final is

TTHW ban websites that glorify eating disorders

Source: 1stpropinthefinal

Worlds Day 8: Finals

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 Final Day
8:30-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-11:00 Semi-Finals Sheraton
12:00 Busses leave Sheraton
12:30-1:30 Lunch SUB Caf
2:00-3:00 ESL Final Chan
3:00-3:30 Break Chan
3:30-4:30 Grand Final Chan
5:00 Busses leave UBC
6:30-7:30 Closing Ceremonies & Awards Grand Ballroom
8:00-late End of the Worlds Party Plush.

Semi Finals

Important Update:
This is the correct draw and is as per Jens and I originally had it.

The semi finals are:

Semi 1
St. Andrews A (Connie Grieve & Doug Cochran)
Oxford D (Will Jones & James Dray)
Oxford C (Samir Deger-Sen & Alex Blenkinsopp)
Sydney G (Julia Bowes & Anna Garsia)

Semi 2
Queensland A (Erin O'Brien & Evan Goldman)
Alaska A (Tom Lassen & Chris Kolerok)
Sydney D (Sam Greenland & Tom Robertson)
Cambridge C (Ranald Clouston & Bob Nimmo)

source: yourgermancorrespondent & 1stpropinthefinal

ESL Finalists

The following teams are through to the ESL final

NLSIU A
Hebrew B
IIU Malaysia A
SSE Riga A

Source: yourgermancorrespondent

Masters Final Motion

The motion for the Masters final is

This House supports a 35 hour working week

source: yourgermancorrespondent

ESL Semi motion

The motion for the ESL semi finals is:

This House believes all serious crimes should be tried by Jury.

source: yourgermancorrespondent

ESL Semi Final Draw

The English as a Second Language (ESL) Semi-Final pairings

ESL Semi 1
1st Gov: USM A (University of Science Malaysia)
1st Opp: NLSIU A (National Law School of India University, Bangalore)
2nd Gov: Bonaparte A
2nd Opp: Hebrew B

Judges: Ian Lising (Chair), Greg Allen, Jeremy Brier, Jess Harvey-Smith, Steve Johnson

ESL Semi 2
1st Gov: Tilburg
1st Opp: IIU Malaysia A
2nd Gov: Bonn A
2nd Opp: SSE Riga A

Judges: Peter Nielson (Chair), Jenny Harrison, Rob Leeds, Claire Lindsey, David Kenny

source: yourgermancorrespondent

Jens now posting in English

Jens Fischer's blog is now in English
http://yourgermancorrespondent.blogspot.com/

This forms a good combination with Ciaran Lawlor's blog (http://1stpropinthefinal.blogspot.com/) for a flavour of events in UBC.

Qtr Final Motion

The Motion for the Qtr Finals is

This house believes that people sentenced to life imprisonment should be allowed to choose the death penalty instead

source: 1stpropinthefinal & yourgermancorrespondent

Qtr Final Draw

Qtr Final 1
1st Gov Oxford D
1st Opp St. Andrews A
2nd Gov UCD L&H A
2nd Opp Queensland B

Qtr Final 2
1st Gov Sydney A
1st Opp Oxford C
2nd Gov Sydney G
2nd Opp Sydney E

Qtr Final 3
1st Gov Queensland A
1st Opp Alaska A
2nd Gov Cambridge A
2nd Opp KCL A

Qtr Final 4
1st Gov Sydney D
1st Opp Cambridge C
2nd Gov George Washington A
2nd Opp Stanford A

source: 1stpropinthefinal & yourgermancorrespondent

Octo Final Motion

The motion for the Octo Final is

This house believes that developing nation should nationalize their energy resources

source: 1stpropinthefinal & yourgermancorrespondent

Previous motions
EFL Final: This House would lift sanctions on Iran
Round 9: This house would grant citizenship in exchange for military service
Round 8: This house would Ban Cosmetic Surgery
Round 7: This house would support regime change in Myanmar/Burma
Round 6: This house would abolish all taxes on inherited wealth
Round 5: This house Supports Independence for Quebec
Round 4: This house would criminalise the payment of Ransom
Round 3: That this house Supports Accelerated Land Redistribution in South Africa
Round 2: This house believes that the UK should abolish it's Nuclear Arsenal
Round 1: This house would Ban Government Funding of Religious Schools.
Masters Round 1: This house would designate one city to permanently host the Olympics
Masters Round 2: This house believes that governments should provide heroin addicts with safe injection facilities.

EFL Final

The Motion for the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) final (moved to this morning when council overran last night) is

This House would lift (the) sanctions on Iran

The draw is
1st Prop: Tsuda A
1st Opp: Seikei A
2nd Prop: Tsinghua A
2nd Opp: ICU B

Judges : Tim Sonnreich (Chair), Loke Wing Fatt, Rose Helens Hart, Haley Nix, Tom Shinner

source: yourgermancorrespondent

German Blog

Jens Fischer has a blog of Worlds. It can be found at http://yourgermancorrespondent.blogspot.com/. However it's in German so you'll need to either speak German or use a tool like http://babelfish.altavista.com/.

Ian Lising re-elected as chair of Council

Ian Lising has been re-elected as chair of the World Debating Council.

source: yourgermancorrespondent.blogspot.com

EFL Break

The English as a Foreign Language (EFL) break teams are:

Tsuda C
Seikei A
Tsinghua A
ICU (International Christian University) B

Source: Matthias Winkelmann & http://yourgermancorrespondent.blogspot.com/

note the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) competition is a new one this year to add to the Main overall competition which everyone can enter and the English as a Second Language (ESL) competition. Council was due to work on the definitions and entry criteria for these so we should see some document coming through in the next few weeks.

Worlds Day 7 Knockout Rounds

Worlds Day 7 Knockout rounds
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:00 ESL Quarter-Finals Sheraton
10:30-12:00 Octo-Finals Sheraton
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Quarter-Finals Sheraton
15:00-16:30 ESL Semi-Finals Sheraton
20:00-21:00 Dinner
21:00-late Masters & Public Speech Finals, Comedy Night Grand Ballroom

Cork to host Worlds in 2009

By a 44-26 split the 2009 World Debating Championships will be hosted by University College Cork in Ireland.

Derek Lande will be the Chief Adjudicator and Art Ward the Convenor.

2009 Hosts

For those waiting to hear who will be hosting in 2009 the latest word is that the votes are being counted but Council has moved onto another topic so it may be some time before the result is announced.

Thailand confirmed as 2008 hosts

Council have ratified Thailand as hosts of the World Championships in 2008

Earlier they passed the reports from UBC 07 and UCD 06.

Now Cork and Botswana are bidding for Worlds in 2009.

Worlds Day 6: Council

Monday, January 1st, 2007 Free Day
10:30-13:00 Council I Junior Ballroom
13:00-14:00 Council Lunch
14:00-19:00 Council II Junior Ballroom
19:30-21:00 EFL Finals Grand Ballroom
21:00-late Thai Night The Cellar

Council Agenda 01.01.2007

Roll Call
o Delegate Names
o Voting status

Worlds 2006 Minutes
o Vote to accept minutes

UCD (Worlds 2006) Report & Accounts
o UCD Rep to report on Tournament
o UCD Rep to present final accounts

UBC (Worlds 2007) Report & Accounts
o UBC Rep to report on Tournament
o UBC Rep to present initial accounts

Assumption (Worlds 2008) Bid Defense
o Bid Defense Presentation
o Questions from council members
o Vote to Confirm Assumption as 2008 hosts

Bids for Worlds 2009
o Cork & Botswana present bids (order to be determined by coin toss)
o Questions from Council Members
o Vote on hosts for Worlds 2009

Lunch Break

Discussion on English as a Foreign Language Championship

Committee Reports
o Chair
o Registrar
o Secretary
o Women’s Officer
o Equity Officer
o Regional Reports

Constitution Review
o English as a Foreign Language Championship

Other Business

2008 World Executive Committee Elections

END

Octo Final Draw

Based on the break positions the draw for the Octo-finals should be:
(UPDATED: Corrected Alberta A to Alaska A)

Analysis of the break

Assuming the break info is correct (and it is subject to confirmation by UBC) then here is some analysis of the break:

It appears the big surprise is the first Finnish breaking team Helsinkis A on 18 points. Congratulations

Sydney and Oxford both had 5 teams in the break both equaling their best ever performances.

As well as Helsinki there are first time breaks for Alaska, SMU, George Washington and KCL. The top team had 23 points. The lowest since 2003. As predicted 18 points and speaker points was the cutoff.

Assuming KCL is Kings College London and SMU is Singapore Management Uni then:

England have 14 teams in the break. Their best performance on record.

Canada on home soil only got 1 team in the break their worst performance for 8 years (although Oxford E is made up of two Canadians)

The Break

UPDATE 22 Alberta A 19pts was actually 22 Alaska A 19pts.
According to Ciaran Lawlor's blog the main break at 2007 Worlds is:

1) Oxford D 23pts
2) Cambridge B 22pts
3) Oxford E 22pts
4) Sydney A 21pts
5) Sydney E 21pts
6) McGill A 21pts
7) Sydney D 20pts
8) Sydney B 20pts
9) UCD L&H A 20pts
10) Cambridge C 20pts
11) Cambridge A 20pts
12) Oxford C 20pts
13) UCC Phil A 20pts
14) Yale B 19pts
15) Stanford A 19pts
16) Oxford B 19pts
17) Oxford A 19pts
18) Durham A 19pts
19) Queensland A 19pts
20) Sydney G 19pts
21) SMU B 19pts
22) Alaska A 19pts
23) Birmingham A 19pts
24) Durham B 19pts
25) Queensland B 18pts
26) Helsinki A 18pts
27) Melbourne A 18pts
28) Manchester A 18pts
29) Middle Temple 18pts
30) KCL A 18pts
31) George Washington A 18pts
32) St. Andrews A 18pts

source: 1stpropinthefinal

ESL Break

According to Ciaran Lawlor's blog the ESL break is

1) Hebrew B
2) Bonn A
3) IIU A
4) MSIU A
5) Bonaparte A
6) SSE A
7) Tilburg A
8) Sains Malay A

source: 1stpropinthefinal

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all visitors to this site.

Round 9 Motion

The motion for round 9 is

"This house would grant citizenship in exchange for military service"

source: 1stpropinthefinal.

Round 8 Motion

The motion for round 8 is

This house would Ban Cosmetic Surgery

Source: 1stpropinthefinal

Round 7 Motion

The motion for round 7 is:

This house would support regime change in Myanmar/Burma

source: 1stpropinthefinal

Results clarification

Just to clarify a few things. The below results are only partial results. There are around 339 teams at Worlds and I never had standings for more than 75 of these. I post all results I recieve on e-mail or find on sites such as CUSID or 1stpropinthefinal. If you see your teams are missing then apologies. If you can add to the standings then e-mail me at colm_flynn@hotmail.com

Also the list of results after round 6 are not the complete list of teams in contention. The break should be 18 points and speaks. That means any team not on 9 points after round 6 will not make the main knockout stages (although EFL and ESL teams will break to the knockout stages of these competitions on less than 18pts). In Dublin there were 324 teams and after round 6 186 of these were on 9 points or more.

Dublin Points distribution after 6 rounds:
17pts 1 Team
16pts 1 Team
15pts 5 Teams
14pts 9 Teams
13pts 18 Teams
12pts 25 Teams
11pts 37 Teams
10pts 43 Teams
9pts 47 Teams
8pts 40 Teams
7pts 36 Teams
6pts 28 Teams
5pts 16 Teams
4pts 10 Teams
3pts 6 Teams
2pts 1 Team
1pts 1 Team.

Worlds Draw format

Worlds doesn’t have oral adjudication for rounds 7-9. I'll post the motions as I get them but the next results announcement will be the actual break. So how does this work?

In each debate teams gets 3 points for a win, 2pts for second, 1pt for third and 0pts for forth. With 300+ teams the cut off 32nd team will probably be on 18 points. However so will the 33rd team and a number of teams above and below the break. Therefore the final positions in the knock out rounds will be determined by speaker points. Anyone not currently on at least 9 points are not going to make the knockout stages.

Once the Top 32 are determined these will be announced just after midnight tonight. After this the draw goes into Octo-Finals with teams grouped based on their rankings. There will also be smaller breaks for ESL (English as a second language) and EFL (English as a foreign language).

Website problems FIXED

As you may have noticed my website is having problems this morning. The site appears to be down but debating.net is working and I can ftp into my site so I'm not sure what the problem is. I may have exceeded download limits. I've e-mailed the technical people but it's New Year's eve so it could be really bad timing. I'll continue to update the blog and hopefully things will be fixed soon. If you ever can't access the main site the blog can be accessed at http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/. It may be worth bookmarking that address.

Update: It appears to be fixed now. Thanks to the debating.net team.

Worlds Day 5: 3rd Debate Day

Sunday, December 31st, 2006 Debate Day 3
7:00-8:00 Loading Busses
8:00 Last Busses Leave Sheraton
8:30-9:15 Breakfast SUB Caf
9:15-9:30 Check-In SRC
9:30-11:30 Round VII UBC
11:30-13:00 Lunch SUB Caf
13:00-15:00 Round VIII UBC
15:00-16:00 Public Speech III UBC
16:00-18:00 Round IX UBC
18:30 Busses Leave UBC
20:00-Late Banquet Grand Ballroom

Some Standings after round 6

Here are some of the standings after round 6. It only has 37 of the 300+ teams. Day 3 is closed adjudication so there won't be any results announced until midnight in UBC.

UPDATED. Now contains 80 teams


Oxford E 17
Oxford D 16
Cambridge B 15
Sydney B 15
Sydney D 15
Sydney E 15
Manchester 15
Cambridge A 14
Bates A 14
Bates B 14
Queensland B 14
SMU 14
Glasgow B 14
Oxford A 14
Oxford B 14
Sydney A 14
Yale A 14
Yale B 14
George Washington 13
John Hopp A 13
UNSW 13
Alberta A 13
Hart House C 13
Cambridge C 13
Cambridge D 13
Galway A 13
UCD L&H A 13
UCD L&H B 13
LaVerne A 13
St. Andrew's C 13
UCD Law C 13
Yale E 13
McGill A 12
Ottawa A 12
Carleton A 12
Calgary A 12
Cambridge E 12
UCD L&H C 12
Oxford F 12
Queensland A 12
St. Andrew's A 12
Stanford A 12
Sydney F 12
TCD Hist B 12
UCC Philosoph A 12
McGill B 11
Carleton B 11
Western B 11
McGill B 11
Hart House A 11
Hart House B 11
Hart House D 11
Hart House E 11
Queen's B 11
McMaster 11
KCL 11
Oxford C 11
Sydney C 11
Sydney H 11
TCD Hist A 11
TCD Phil A 11
TCD Phil B 11
UCD Law B 11
Berlin 10
Glasgow A 10
UCD Law A 10
Yale C 10
Yale D 10
Queen's A 10
York 10
Calgary C 10
Ottawa B 9
Western A 9
Saskatchewan B 9
Aberdeen 9
Bonn A 9
Bremen A 9
St. Andrew's B 9
Carleton C 8
Bonn B 6

source: 1stpropinthefinal, email, cusid.

Signing off for the night

Now that the sixth motion has been announced I’m signing off for the night. I’ll go through the blogs, e-mails and websites in the morning and summarise together any results from round 6 I find. In the meantime for those who are looking for updates through the night, and a flavour of events at the championships, I’ll direct you to Ciaran Lawlor’s world’s blog. http://1stpropinthefinal.blogspot.com/ (Never let it be said I didn’t recommend a rival site especially when it’s doing an excellent job).

Round 6 Motion

The motion for round 6 is:

This house would abolish all taxes on inherited wealth

source: e-mail

Round 5 Standings: Oxford and Yale at the top.

Here are some (55 out of 300+) of the points after 5 rounds. As before this comes from a combination of sources including e-mails, Ciaran Lawlor's blog and CUSID. An interesting point to note is that now no team has won all of their debates. Oxford E and Yael B have both won 4 debates and come second in another. As the break is likely to be 18 points this means no team will have "broken" to the knockout stages by the end of Day 2.

Oxford E 14
Yale B 14
Cambridge A 13
UCD L&H B 13
Oxford D 13
Sydney E 13
Yale A 13
Cambridge B 12
Cambridge C 12
McGill A 12
Oxford A 12
Yale E 12
Cambridge D 11
Galway A 11
Hart House A 11
Ottawa A 11
Oxford B 11
Oxford F 11
Queensland A 11
Queensland B 11
SMU B 11
St. Andrew's A 11
TCD Phil B 11
UCC Philosoph A 11
UCD Law B 11
Carleton A 10
Hart House C 10
Hart House E 10
UCD L&H A 10
UCD L&H C 10
LSE C 10
Manchester 10
Oxford C 10
Queen's A 10
Stanford A 10
TCD Hist B 10
UCD Law C 10
Yale C 10
Hart House B 9
Hart House D 9
McGill B 9
Western A 9
Calgary A 9
Harvard A 9
LSE A 9
Melbourne A 9
TCD Hist A 9
Yale D 9
Berlin 8
Monash B 8
TCD Phil A 8
UCC Law A 7
UCD Law A 7
Bonn A 6
Galway B 6