Oxford wins HWS / IDEA Round Robin

Results from the HWS / IDEA Round Robin:

 

Breaking directly to finals were:

      1)  Loyola Marymount (Kiley/Schwab) – on a perfect 15 points

      2)  Oxford (Maynard/Worsnip) – on 14 points

      3)  Middle Temple (Cochran/Warents) – on 11 points

      4)  Hart House (Freeman/Lizius) – on 10 points

In the final round (on the motion “THW eliminate executive pardons”), the team winning the $1000 prize was Oxford, with Hart House claiming the $500 second place prize.

The Full Tab is available at:
      http://people.hws.edu/barnes/debate/2009RR-FullTab.pdf

The video of the final round will be available for viewing after it has been processed and posted on-line. 

The other teams on the top half of the tab all ended on 8 points:

      5)  Witwatersrand (Roussos/Williams) – 792 speaks

      6)  York (Kettles/Lof) – 787 speaks

      7)  Cambridge (Koh/Nugent) – 783 speaks

      8)  MIT (Goldstein/Magnuson) – 782 speaks

 

Other invited teams (listed alphabetically):

      Columbia   (Lo/Yin)

      Cornell   (Solloway/Stiteler)

      Hart House   (Ferris/Veel)

      Harvard   (Bean/Samburg)

      Loyola Marymount   (Aguilera/Molison)

      National Law School of India   (Gharpure/Verma)

      Tel Aviv   (Marhav/Nevo)

      Yale   (Geels/Nix)

 

The top speaker at the tournament was Jonathan Leader Maynard.

The top half of the speaker tab was as follows:

1) Jonathan Maynard (Oxford) - 418                                   

2) Alex Worsnip (Oxford) - 415                                   

3) Douglas Cochran (Middle Temple) - 408                                   

4) Kevin Kiley (Loyola Marymount) - 407                                   

5) Alexander Schwab (Loyola Marymount) - 406                                   

6) Daniel Warents (Middle Temple) - 402                                   

7) Joe Roussos (Witwatersrand) - 401                                   

8) Dash Veel (Hart House) - 399                                   

9) Brent Kettles (York) - 398                                   

10) Jeff Geels (Yale) - 397                                   

11) Hayley Nix (Yale) - 396                                   

12) Adam Goldstein (MIT) - 396                                   

13) Richard Lizius (Hart House) - 395                                   

14) Mary Nugent (Cambridge) - 395                                   

15) Monica Ferris (Hart House) - 393                                   

16) Mark Samburg (Harvard) -393

The prelim motions were:

Round 1:  THW require all citizens to perform a period of national service.
Round 2:  THW punish North Korea for weapons testing.
Round 3:  THW make teachers’ pay dependent on students’ achievement.
Round 4:  THW ban for-profit fortune tellers who claim supernatural insight.
Round 5:  THW limit expert testimony to those who are impartially selected by the court.