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7 December 2007

Cork IV results

Winners: UCD L&H (Susan Connolly & Ross Kelly)
Novice Winners: St Andrews (Claire Murran & James Beadle)
Best Speaker on Tab: Will Jones
Best Speaker in the Final: Ross Kelly

Motions:
Round 1: TTHW not allow people to sue for those who attempt a “Good Samaritan” rescue
Round 2: TTHW Invade Zimababwe
Round 3: TTHW not punish domestic persons who bribe officials abroad
Round 4: TTHW conduct medical experiments on prisoners
Round 5: TTHW allow people to contract out of health and safety conditions

Novice Final: TTHW allow children to sue mothers for maltreatment during pregnancy
Semi: TTHBT the State should have no role in marriage
Final: TTHW allow judges to order the branding of criminals.
Final Option 1: TTHW allow torture to animals, no matter how cute, for entertainment.
Final Option 2: TTHBT rich countries should not give money to poor countries

More info plus the tab can be found here

The Great Debaters


For those of us not going to the World Debating Championships in Thailand this Christmas there is a film about debating out in our cinemas this month. "The Great Debaters" stars Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker.


The film is based on the true story of Melvin Tolson, a professor at Wiley College who in 1935 formed and coached an all African-American debate team that went on to defeat the University of Southern California in the national championships. I suppose in order to allow the audience engage more with the achievement of an all black team in 1935 the film replaces USC with the Ivy league Harvard University.


I haven't seen the film so I can't review it (but if any producers out there would like to send me an advance copy I would be happy to watch and review as I've seen the line up of Christmas shows and films on Irish TV and as a result I'm hoping for some good DVDs as presents). I have noticed that the Hollywood reporter is listing it as a potential oscar contender so make of that what you will.


The trailer and official website can be found here here

Irish championships update

The long sagas that are the unique way Ireland runs its two national championships are still progressing. The Irish Mace has completed it's first rounds and the Irish times are down to its semi finalists.

Motions and the draw for the next rounds should be announced in early January.

And if you think the Irish way of running a championship for a couple of hundred teams over 7 months and with up to 10 teams in a debate in the first round and then a mix of teams and individuals in the later rounds is complicated just remember next year you get to experience it for yourself at World Masters in Cork.

For more info please see here

Irish Mace Semi Finalists
UL Deb Union Oisin and Eamon
UL Deb Union Maurice and Adrian
UCD Law Eoin and Shane
UCD Law Áine and Ian
UCD Law Ross and Maguerite
UCD L&H James and Susan
UCD L&H Eamon and Mark
UCD L&H Conor and Michael
UCD L&H Dave and Michael
UCD L&H Ian and Stephen
UCC Philosoph Luke and Alanna
UCC Philosoph Derek and Tiernan
UCC Law Tadhg and Chris
UCC Law Ger and Marcus
TCD Phil Ruth and Ed
TCD Phil Alex and Dave
TCD Phil Emma and Sinead
TCD Phil Brian and Jonathan
TCD Phil Brendan and Joe
TCD Phil Ciara and Sheila
TCD Hist Daniel and Emma
TCD Hist Anne and Jamie
TCD Hist Joesephine and Shane
NUIG Lit&Deb Ronan and Nuala
NUIG Lit&Deb Dan and Julie
NUIG Lit&Deb Conor and Cornelia
NUIG Lit&Deb Zoe and Áine
King's Inns Elizabeth and Rory
King's Inns Barry and Seán
King's Inns Alison and Dave
King's Inns Luke and Brendan
DCU Deb Soc Ken and Greg

Irish Times Team Semi Finalists:
TCD Hist: Kissane & Kenny
UCD Law: Ó hUigínn & O'Connell
UCC Philosoph: Doyle & Ward
UCC Philosoph: Haverty & Frennet
TCD Hist: Fenlon & Breathnach
UCD L&H: Pigeon & McAndrew
TCD Law: O'Mahony & Thuillier
UCD Law: McGuire & Carter
TCD Phil: Gaffney & Lyden
King's Inns: Bruen & Thuillier
UCC Philosoph: Stanley & Sadlier
UCD Law: Cranley & Martin
TCD Hist: Gallagher & Mulligan
UCD L&H: Kinsella & Mountjoy
TCD Hist: Curry & Farragher
UCD Law: Hartigan & Hastings

Irish Times Individual Semifinalists
NUIG Lit & Deb: Dan Colley
UCD Law: Steven Byrne
NUIG Lit & Deb: James Hope
UCD L&H: Stephen Boyle
UCC Philosoph: Conor O'Brien
TCD Phil: Alex Grey
King's Inns: Luke Ryder
DCU: Greg Bowler
UCC Law: Aengus O'Corráin
TCD Hist: Niall Sherry
TCD Hist: Anne Byrne
King's Inns: Shaun Smith
UCD Law: Ciaran Ahern
TCD Phil: Jonathan Wyse
IPLS Belfast: Conor Houston
SADSI: Brian Harley
TCD Hist Niall Sherry
TCD Hist Anne Byrne
UCD Law Shaun Smith
UCD Law Ciaran Ahern
UCD Law Steven Byrne

6 December 2007

IDEA's Fizz For CIMB WUPID 2007

Contribute to PEACE on Debatepedia! The Debatepedia is the International Debate Education Association's (IDEA) wiki of debate and reasoning. It is a user-generated site with over 3,000 articles from contributers around the globe. At IDEA, we've partnered with WUPID and started a "Peace Tournament" category on Debatepedia so that the discussion of peace, tolerance and understanding can continue longer after you've left the tournament. Getting involved is simple: create a free account on Debatepedia, visit the CIMB WUPID page on Debatepedia (link below), and start contributing! If you are a debater or adjudicator and have ideas about peace or topics that you'd like to tell others about, create a Debatepedia page, and list it in the category "Peace Tournament" so your colleagues can see it and help improve it. If you are an NGO Peace Roundtable participant or a debater interested in creating statements or policy drafts to disseminate, simply create a new Debatepedia page (category: Peace Tournament), let your colleagues know the link, and you'll be ready to begin your activism even if your co-authors are on several different continents. IDEA is making the tools available to you and hopes that you find them useful, but the content is yours - so help continue the discussion started at WUPID!

Intro Page: http://wiki.idebate.org/index.php/CIMB_Group_World_Universities_Peace_Invitational_Debate

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AUDC 2008 Website


The 2008 AUDC at IIU have set up their website. It can be found at


IIU AUDC 2008 website address: http://www.iiuaudc.com/
Contact: ask@iiuaudc.com
Convener: yem@iiuaudc.com
Registration: rego@iiuaudc.com

5 December 2007

Transporation Services for WUDC 2008

Dear All,
The transportation team is only providing transportation services from December26th, 2007 till January 5th, 2008. If you are coming early or leaving late, youmust arrange your own transportation. Of course the team will always be here toassist. Please do not forget to fill in all your arrival and departure datesfrom Bangkok. If you do not put the information in the system, we will nothave airport pick up and drop off service for you.

Please email our transportation director at jim@assumptionworlds.com
Please contact him asap.

kind regards,
Tarique

Japan 13th JPDU Debate Championship 2007















Japan Parliamentary Debate Union-JPDU Debate Championships 2007

Team results:

1st Prize  ICU J
Tomohisa Ishikawa / Satomi Hemmi
2nd Prize  Tsuda A
Kana Sato / Hiroko Tachibana
3rd Prize  Titech A
Hiroyuki Hirano / Masayoshi Yoshikawa
3rd Prize  ICU B
Toshiaki Ikehara / Nami Maezaki

Quarter Finalists

ICU D
KDS A
ICU A
UK A

Motions:

Round 1: THBT nations engaging in human rights abuses should not host the Olympics.
Round 2: THW support affirmative action for women-only corporations.
Round 3: THW give citizens the right to vote against a candidate in an election.
Round 4: THW prosecute copyright infringers without formal complaints from copyright holders.
Round 5: THBT the WTO should allow the use of safeguards to prevent cruelty toward animals.
Oct Final: THBT permanent members of the UN Security Council should dismantle their nuclear arsenals.
Quarter Final: THW lagalize marijuana for pleasure.
Semi Final: THBT English should be the single official language in the United States.
Grand Final: THBT parents should have the right to choose the sex of their babies.

Source: http://www.jpdu.org/works/tournaments/13thjpdut2007.html

4 December 2007

AUDC invite-pack and website ready

Hi guys,

1. The website is ready. All the information should be there. If the website does not contain adequate info, please contact us and we will try to furnish such information. Website is http://www.iiuaudc.com/

2. The invitation package for the 4th International Islamic University Malaysia's Asian Universities Debating Championship 2008 (IIU AUDC'08) is ready. For institutions that wish to receive the invite-pack, please inform us by Dec 8th 2007 so we can snail mail it to you.

What's inside the package? Invitation letter, schedule, hotel info, letters for your VC's/Student affairs head, CD's of debates, etc.

Please email us the corresponding address, name of the person in charge (PIC), phone number (with IDD codes), and email of the PIC.

Our contact info:

Inquiries: ask@iiuaudc.com

Registration issues: rego@iiuaudc.com

General questions: iiu.audc@gmail.com

Website: http://www.iiuaudc.com/

Convener: yem@iiuaudc.com

Chief Adjudicator: latif@iiu.edu.my

Please categorize your queries and send them to the respective emails. That way, we can better monitor your response.

Truly,

Miss Asmaa' AlJuned & Miss Michelle Usman

Liaison Officers

IIU AUDC '08

See you then!

3 December 2007

Ben-Gurion Open Results

The Ben-Gurion Open was held on Saturday, and here are the results.

Winners:
IDC B – Lior Hadas & Era Segev

Finalists:
MIXED M&A – Michal Halbershtam & Avihu Tamir
IDC C – Gili Arazi Cohen & Uri Feldman
IDC E – Ruty Koren & Dalit Yakobovich

Best Speaker: Michal Halbershtam (MIXED M&A)

CA: Rinat Gershfeld

See Smooth Tournament for the full Tab (preliminaries) of this debating tournament.

Victoria win NZ BP Champs

Victoria University of Wellington have won the New Zealand British Parliamentary Debating Championships held in Wellington over the weekend, beating 31 other teams from around NZ and Australia.

Winners: Victoria University of Wellington A (Christopher Bishop & Gareth Richards)
Runners-up: Auckland University A (Jordan Ward and James Little), Monash/Melbourne (Victor Finkel and Nicole Lynch), Victoria University of Wellington C (Polly Higbee and Clodagh O'Connor-McKenna)

Semi finalists were Macquarie University, Sydney University, Victoria D and Victoria E.

Top five speakers:
1. Gareth Richards (Victoria)
2. Christopher Bishop (Victoria)
3. Nicole Lynch (Melbourne)
4. Victor Finkel (Monash)
5. Jordan Ward (Auckland)

Topics:
1. This House would force single parents receiving welfare to seek work
2. This House would use quotas to desegregrate Northern Ireland religious schools
3. This House believes the 1st World should prohibit the immigration of doctors and nurses from the Third World
4. This House would allow juries to decide on sentences
5. This House would build power stations in ex-Soviet states to reduce their dependence on Russia
6. This House would ban the broadcast and dissemination of terrorist videos
Semi: This House would immediately establish a Palestinian state in the Fatah-controlled West Bank
Final: This House believes Amnesty International should campaign for abortion rights

2 December 2007

Registration details at WUDC 2008


Dear All,
We are having a very difficult time finalizing our logistics because there are more than 300 people whom we do not have any details about at all. We do not know when they are coming, what is their dietary needs etc. We have around 500 people whose information is incomplete. We urge all of the participants to take this request very seriously. It is badly affecting our preparation for the event. We need all this information to ensure 100% that the event runs smoothly.We are providing excellent services for all participants such as airport pickups, variety of meals based on dietary needs, express visa service at the airport and accommodations.

We have made the system as easy as we could to use. Now I understand it is not perfect. Some may not have experience filling in a dynamic online form. If youneed any assistance please contact our communications director Mr. Rish , hisemail is rish@assumptionworlds.com. You can also contact our Internal CA Mr.Ravi at ravi@assumptionworlds.com for any matters relating to teams or adjudicators.

If by December 10 we do not have the complete details filled up. We apologize for any inconvenience you face during the tournament. If you want airport pickup, if you want food according to your dietary needs, if you want to go throughthe "fast track" immigration counter, if you want the right accommodation,please fill up all details.

kind regards,
Tarique

Visa express land at airport for WUDC 2008

Dear All,
We are pleased to announce that we have set up a visa fast track lane for all WUDC participants with the immigration department in Thailand. All WUDC participants must make sure to log on to our online system and put in their full names and passport details and all travel information asap. We must submit a list to the immigration department asap. If you do not provide us with this information you will not receive these excellent services. There is no cost for these services. It is to your benefit to give us all your travel details and personal details asap.

kind regards,
Tarique

Early and Late Accommodation at WORLDS 2008


Dear All,
If you wish to make any special accommodation arrangements for arriving early or late. Please contact our accommodation team at ken@assumptionworlds.com and please also contact Miss Luck. Her email phone number is 668-67773362 for any urgent matters. Miss Luck can help you with all your accommodation needs.

Please make sure you fill up all your accommodation details on our online registration system asap. If you do not do that, you will not have a bed to sleep on when you arrive. We must book all the rooms in advance based exactly on registered delegates. This is a very serious matter, we cannot help you if you do not complete your registration details now.

kind regards,
Tarique