Cork Tab now available

Cork have released the tab.

I can't get it onto blogger in a neat format so I have uploaded it to google-docs. You can find it here.

It has the

• Team Tab
• Speaker Tab
• ESL Team Tab
• ESL Speaker Tab
• EFL Team Tab
• EFL Speaker Tab

Let me know if you have any problems viewing the file.

Message from Koç

To The World Debating Community,

I would like to thank UCC and Art Ward as their convenor for providing us with such warm hospitality.You have set an example this year that we, at Koç, hope to follow. I personally look forward to working closely with this year's Organization Committee in order to ensure that we learn best practice and even improve, however difficult that might be.

Before officially inviting you to Turkey, I also want to thank Stephen Nolan for his excellent organization of our host night this year. He was simply amazing!

And so, it give me great pleasure to announce that Koç University and Turkey in general is at your service. We will do everything in our power to ensure that we live up to your expectations.

See you in Turkey,
Best Regards,
Fatih Mehmet İnal
Co-Convenor of Koç Worlds 2010

Monash Debating Review Sub Editors

Sub-Editor of the Monash Debating Review: Call for Applications

DEADLINE: February 28, 2009

The Monash Association of Debaters (MAD) is currently soliciting applicants for Sub-Editors of Monash Debating Review (MDR).

About the MDR
First published in 2002, the MDR is an annual publication that aims to both inform readers and provide a forum for discussion of issues as they relate to debating and adjudicating. The MDR draws on the opinions and experiences of some of the best debaters, adjudicators and coaches from around the world.

The MDR is the world’s only international debating journal. It is a scholarly, interdisciplinary journal that has featured articles from Australia, Russia, New Zealand and the United States, as well as interviews with prominent public intellectuals and policy-makers. For instance, previous editions have contained articles on British Parliamentary strategy, argumentation strategy, debating policy, global debating styles, the role of affirmative action in debating and backgrounders to contemporary debating topics.

Position Description
The Sub-Editors source and edit articles for the Monash Debating Review.

There are four Sub-Editor positions. This year, the MDR is expanding its worldwide appeal and is looking to appoint at least one Sub-Editor each from Europe, North America and the Australasia region. The Editor-in-Chief will be based in Melbourne, Australia (the home of Monash University).

A Sub-Editor will:
· Encourage the submission of manuscripts from the worldwide debating community
· Proofread and edit submitted articles
· Report regularly to the Editor-in-Chief
Selection Criteria
Applications will be judged based on the best combination of
· Previous editorial and/or publication experience
· Debating and/or adjudicating experience
· Vision for the MDR and an understanding of its importance
· A cover letter detailing reasons for wanting to serve

Compensation
The Sub-Editor role is a volunteer position.

Application ProcedureThe deadline for submitting applications is February 28, 2009. Applications should be emailed to Damien Bruckard, President, Monash Association of Debaters at monash.debaters.president@gmail.com

2009 Worlds Summary

The 2009 World Universities Debating Championship was jointly hosted by the UCC Law and Philosophical Societies. The Oxford University A team of James Dray and Will Jones won the championships. In doing so, they became the first partnership to simultaneously hold the World and European Universities debating titles, while Oxford became only the second institution to win back-to-back world championships (after Monash in 1999-2000). Dray and Jones have previously won the Masters title at the championships in 2008 and been Grand Finalists in 2007. The other finalists were Harvard A (Lewis Bollard and Cormac Early), Monash B (Ravi Dutta and Victor Finkel), and Oxford C (Jonathan Leader Maynard and Alex Worsnip). Babeş-Bolyai University won the English-as-a-Second-Language competition, and Vilnius University won the English-as-a-Foreign-Language competition. Naomi Oreb of Sydney topped the overall speaker tab, Leela Koenig of Leiden University topped the ESL tab, and Aiste Dumbryte from Vilnius topped the EFL tab. Patrick Bateman of Sydney claimed the Public Speaking title. In the Masters competition, Ross McGuire and Gregg O'Neill from Ireland claimed the team title while Irishman Barry Glynn took the individual title. Willard Foxton of Middle Temple won the stand-up comedy competition for the second time, becoming the first person to do so.

The University of Botswana were named as hosts for the 2011 championships after two unsuccessful bids to win the right to host in the previous two years.



2009 World Debating Champions:
Oxford A (James Dray & Will Jones)

Finalists:
Monash B (Ravi Dutta & Victor Finkel)
Oxford C (Jonathan Leader-Maynard & Alex Worsnip)
Harvard A (Cormac Early & Lewis Bollard)

English as a second language competition winners:
BBU A

English as a foreign language winners:
Vilnius A (Aiste Dumbryte & Eugenija Golubova)

Top Speaker
Naomi Oreb (Sydney B)

Top ESL Speaker:
Leela Koenig (Leiden A)

Top EFL Speaker:
Aistė Dumbrytė (Villinus A)

World Masters
Team: Ireland (Ross McGuire & Gregg O'Neill)
Individual: Barry Glynn (Ireland)

World Public Speaking Champion:
Patrick Bateman (Sydney)

World Comic Public Speaking Competition:
Willard Foxton

Top Team on the Tab:
Sydney B (Naomi Oreb & Steve Hind)

Worlds 2011 hosts: Botswana

Motions:
Final : That this house would allow abortion at all stages of pregnancy
Semi Final: This house believes governments should subsidise private home ownership.
Qtr Final: This house believes that the international criminal court should prosecute crimes against the democratic process.
Octo Final: This house would arm local militia to fight the taliban in Afghanistan.
ESL Final: This house would implement quotas for domestic players in national football leagues.
EFL Final: This house would prohibit all private health care.
Round 9: This house would ban the publication of political opinion polls.
Round 8: This house would apply a lower rate of income tax to women.
Round 7: This house believes that the west should recognise the independence of Abkhazia.
Round 6: This house would criminalise adultery.
Round 5: This house believes that China and India should bear the same obligations as the West in fighting climate change
Round 4: This house would force the religious desegregation of Northern Irish schools.
Round 3: This house would allow soldiers to sue their government for negligence.
Round 2: This house would fire the senior managements of all corporations which receive government bailouts.
Round 1: This house would ban all forms of gambling.
Womens Debate: This house would ban all forms of religious gender discrimination.
Adj Test: This house would allow insurance companies to view genetic test results in assessing potential customers.

Photos from Worlds

I have over 2000 photos at Worlds. That isn’t actually that many when you consider that my camera was set to rapid fire up to 15 photos in a couple of seconds. That allows me to avoid the worst effects of blinking, waving and gesturing that debaters tend to do right as you try to take a photo.

I have uploaded around 200 photos to picassa. You can find them in the photo section to the left hand side.

All done

Well I am home from the Worlds final. I am absolutely shattered after the week but happy I went. I got to judge the EFL final which means I have now judged every type of final at worlds and euros. Anal I know but its nice to have the complete set so thank you Derek.

Art Ward and whole org comm did a fantastic job and the week was a great success.

Anyway tomorrow I will in through the posts and try to fix and format and spelling problems.

2009 World Debating Champions

The 2009 World Debating Champions are:

On a 5 4 split in the final vote after over 2 hours

Oxford A (Will Jones and James Dray)

ESL Winners

The winners of the english as a second language competition at the 2009 world debating championships are:

BBU A

EFL winners

The winners of the English as a foreign language competition at the 2009 world debating championships are:

Villinus A

Best speaker at worlds

The overall top ranked speaker at the 2009 world debating championships

Naomi Oreb from Sydney

ESL top speaker

The top ranked ESL speaker at the 2009 world debating championships

1 Leela Koenig (Leiden A)

EFL best speaker

The top ranked EFL speaker at the 2009 world debating championships

Aistė Dumbrytė (Villinus A)

Here we go again

Judges are back.

There will be a slight delay.

The judges still are not back so we wait for further results.

As a side does anyone remember where "there will be a slight delay" came from......

World public speaking champion

The 2009 world public speaking champion at the 2009 world debating championships is:

Patrick Bateman (Sydney)

World masters winners

The winners of the Masters competition at the 2009 world debating championships are:

Team: Ireland (Ross McGuire & Greg ONeill)

Individual: Barry Glynn (Ireland)

Comedy Public Speaking Champion

The winner of the comic public speaking competition at the 2009 world debating championships is:

Willard Foxton

Final over

The Final is over. Now we are waiting for the adjudication.

Worlds Final and Motion

The draw for the final of the 2009 world universities debating championships is:

1st Gov - Monash B
1st Opp - Oxford A
2nd Gov - Harvard A
2nd Opp - Oxford C

The motion is:

This house would ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy.

World Championships Finalists

The 2009 World Debating Championship Final will be contested by:

Oxford C
Harvard A
Oxford A
Monash B

Update from final day

I have posted the EFL final and main semis motions. The ESL motion is something along the lines of This House would have domestic quotas in football. I was judging the EFL final so missed the exact wording and positions.

The finalists will be announced in a few minutes.

I believe Jens is posting a script of each speaker if you want to check that out.

Tuna has had a team of people recording the various debates. He has posted some of those on his blog and I'm sure he you keep an eye on the site over the next few days they will all appear.

Worlds Semi Final and Motion

The motion for the semi finals of the 2009 world debating championships final is:

This house believes governments should subsidise private home ownership.

The motion for the EFL final is

This house would prohibit all private health care.

Today at Worlds 09: Day 8

The agenda for today (Jan 3rd) at Worlds in Cork is:

• Breakfast
• Semi-Finals
• EFL Final
• Lunch
• ESL Final
• Grand Final
• Championship Dinner
• Black-Tie Ball

ESL final

The Finalists in the English as a second language competition at the 2009 world debating championships are:

Leiden A
Bonapart B
BBU
Hertie

Semi Finalists

The Semi Finalists are:

Monash B
Manchester A
Oxford A
Oxford B

Oxford C
Queensland A
Harvard A
Vic Wellington A

Worlds Quarter Final and Motion

The motion for the qtr finals of the 2009 world debating championships AND the ESL semi is:

This house believes that the international criminal court should prosecute crimes against the democratic process.

Qtr draw:

• Princeton A 1G
• TCD Phil B 1O
• Manchester A 2G
• Monash B 2O

Judges: Erin O'Brien, Doug Cochran, Samir Denger Senm Jason Roberts, Steve Johnson, Shamila Parmamail, Andrew Marshall

• Oxford A 1G
• UCD L&H A 1O
• Nottingham A 2G
• Oxford B 2O

Judges: Rory Gillis, Chris Bishop, Elizabeth Ames, Colm Flynn, Anna Garcia, Tim Jeffrie, Sayqa Islam

• Queensland A 1G
• Oxford C 1O
• MIT A 2G
• Hart House B 2O

Judges: Ivan Ah Sam, Sam Block, Ciaran Lawlor, Tony Murphy, Kirsty Russell, Tiernan Fitzgibbon, Chris Croke.

• Loyola A 1 G
• Harvard A 1O
• Helsinki A 2G
• Vic Wellington A 2O

Judges: Bob Nimmo, Derek Lande, Gavin Illsey, Julia Bowes, Sutheren Thomas, Daniel Warrents

ESL Semis:

• Galatarasay A 1G
• Bonapart B 1O
• Tallin A 2G
• Leiden A 2O

Judges: Ian Lising, Safia Shabab, Nicole Lynch, JEns Fischer, Beth Connor, Erin Fitzgerald, Ben Jasper.

• Haifa A 1G
• BBU 1O
• Hertie 2G
• Tel Aviv 2O

Judges: Neil Harvey-Smith, Isabelle Loewe, Daniel Tait, DAniel Wodak, Kathering Connolly, Coran O'Brien, Catherine Richardson.

I have to go judge so will post the ESL semi positions and the list of judges later on.

Qtr finalists

Qtr-Finalists at the 2009 World Debating Championships,

16 Monash B
17 Manchester A
8 Princeton A
9 TCD Phil B

13 UCD L&H A
29 Nottingham A
5 Oxford A
12 Oxford B

14 Hart House B
19 MIT A
6 Oxford C
22 Queensland A

15 Harvard A
31 Loyola A
10 Helsinki A
23 Vic Wellington A

All three Sydney teams are out. Cambridge is also out.

Octo Final Draw

The Octo Final lineup:

16 Monash B 1st Gov
17 Manchester A 1st Opp
1 Sydney B 2nd Gov
32 Stanford A 2nd Opp
Judges: Jason Rodgers, Rory Gillis, Kirsty Russell, Tiernan Fitzgibbon, Ross MaGuire

24 Queens Uni A 1st Gov
8 Princeton A 1st Opp
25 Yale A 2nd Gov
9 TCD Phil B 2nd Opp
Judges: Anna Garcia, Ivan AhSam, Ian Lising, Morgan Shelly, Adriaan Andringa


20 Brandeis A 1st Gov
29 Nottingham A 1st Opp
4 Monash A 2nd Gov
13 UCD L&H A 2nd Opp
Judges: Steve Johnson, Gavin Illsey, Bernadette Angungio, Lweis Chisom Iwu, Willard Foxton


5 Oxford A 1st Gov
28 Yale B 1st Opp
12 Oxford B 2nd Gov
21 Swarthmore A 2nd Opp
Judges: Sayeqa Islam, Tim Jeffrie, Josh Martin, DAvid Middlemiss, Sani Ismail

3 Cambridge C 1st Gov
30 McGill A 1st Opp
19 MIT A 2nd Gov
14 Hart House B 2nd Opp
Judges: Julia Bowes, Derek Lande, Sasha Bodero-Smith, Yauhemi Akulich, Chris Bishop

27 Sydney C 1st Gov
22 Uni Queensland A 1st Opp
6 Oxford C 2nd Gov
11 Canterbury A 2nd Opp
Judges: Can Okar, Bob Nimmo, Shamila Parmamail, Michael Clark, Gregg O'Neill

2 Sydney A 1st Gov
15 Harvard A 1st Opp
31 Loyola A 1st Gov
18 Hart House A 2nd Opp
Judges: Samir Deger Sen, Erin O'Brien, Derek Doyle, Claire Lindsey, David Tait.

26 Auckland A 1st Gov
10 Helsinki A 1st Opp
7 Seattle A 2ng Gov
23 Vic Wellington A 2nd Opp
Judges: Sam Block, Elizabeth Ames, Steph Paton, Suthen Thomas, Neil Harvey-Smith.

Octo final motion.

This house would arm local militia to fight the taliban in Afghanistan.

Draw to follow in a few minutes

Today at Worlds 09: Day 7

The agenda for today (Jan 2nd) at Worlds in Cork is:

• Breakfast
• Octo-Finals
• Lunch
• ESL Quarter-Finals
• Quarter-Finals
• EFL Semi-Finals
• ESL Semi-Finals
• Irish Night

Botswana to host worlds in 2011

I have just heard that Botswana have been awarded the right to host Worlds in 2011.

Congrats to Justice and his team. They lost out twice before but came back the following year to bid again and it turned out to be third time lucky. Having spoken to them this week I'm sure they will do a great job.

Today at Worlds 09: Day 6

The agenda for today (Jan 1st) at Worlds in Cork is:

• Breakfast
• Excursions
• Worlds Council
• Public Speaking Final
• Masters Final
• Social - Clubnight

Looking at the break

Sydney did well breaking the top two teams and 3 overall (Oxford also broke 3).

North America dominate with 14 teams. Australia/New Zealand have 9, Ireland/UK 8 and Europe 1. Earlier today some American coaches and judges were predicting the reverse and that Ireland/UK would break around 16.

The highest points were 22 with three teams on that. The cutoff was 18 points with ten teams breaking on that. No info on how many missed it on speaks

I'm waiting for the judge break. I got a telephone call to tell me I'm in but don't have many details beyond that.

Update: Jens has a list of the breaking judges but as he points out there are some missing and some misspelled. I've also spotted what I think is one sex change :-) I'll get the official (correctly spelled) list and post it but in the meantime check his blog for the almost correct list.

Well done to Jens on the quick updates. I'll be posting live from the break rounds and the finals so we'll have to have a little competition........

Main Break

The main break:

1 Sydney B
2 Sydney A
3 Cambridge C
4 Monash A
5 Oxford A
6 Oxford C
7 Seattle A
8 Princeton A
9 TCD Phil B
10 Helsinki A
11 Canterbury A
12 Oxford B
13 UCD L&H A
14 Hart House B
15 Harvard A
16 Monash B
17 Manchester A
18 Hart House A
19 MIT A
20 Brandeis A
21 Swarthmore A
22 Uni Queensland A
23 Vic Wellington A
24 Queens A
25 Yale A
26 Auckland A
27 Sydney C
28 Yale B
29 Nottingham A
30 McGill A
31 Loyola A
32 Stanford A

This should make the team draw:

source of teams: yourgermancorrespondant

Break announcement: ESL

The ESL Break:
1 Leiden A
2 Tel Aviv A
3 BBU A
4 Bonaparte B
5 Tallin A
6 HSG A
7 Haifa A
8 Galatasasay A

I believe that makes the semi-final lineup on the second:

1 Leiden A
4 Bonaparte B
5 Tallin A
8 Galatasasay A

2 Tel Aviv A
3 BBU A
6 HSG A
7 Haifa A

Source of teams: yourgermancorrespondent

Break Announcement: EFL

The EFL Finalists are:

• Vilnius A
• Zagreb A
• Bucharest A
• Zagreb B

The Final is on the 3rd January.

Source: yourgermancorresponent

Break announcement 1

The Finalists in the public Speaking competition are:

• Patrick Bateman
• James Akron
• Michael Emerson
• Sarah Ingelman
• Willard Foxton

The Final is tomorrow

Source: yourgermancorresponsant