EUDC tab etc

I am currently on a short break with limited Internet access (emailing
this from my phone). I believe the full Euros tab has been sent to me
(cant open the full mail). I will try to find a PC with internet
access to update it. In the meantime check Tuna's Global Debate for it
(link on the list to the left).

Update: I see Rob already posted the link to the tab in a post below. Thanks Rob.

EUDC Full Tab

Can be found here.

RCM

EUDC partial team and speaker tabs

I'm sure the full team and speaker tab from Newcastle EUDC will be available shortly.  Once they becomes available I'll publish them. 

In the meantime Achte Minute has published scanned images from the front two pages of the tab.

Achte Minute was a new blog on the scene for this year's Euros but were the best source of updates from Newcastle.  I've added them to my Google Reader and hopefully they will continue to blog about debating competitions they attend.

Euros Results

Again from Achte Minute:

The winners are:

Main:
Oxford A

ESL:
Leiden A

Congratulations to all - am sure someone will fill in the gaps!

RCM

Euros ESL Final

According to Achteminute (via Twitter), Leiden won the ESL Final at Euros in Newcastle.

RCM

3 Oxford teams in EUDC final

The traditional Oxford domination of Euros is back.  They have three teams in the final.  Attempting to stop them winning another championships will be Tel Aviv A.  Congrats to all four teams.

The finalists in the 2009 European debating championships are:

Tel Aviv A
Oxford A
Oxford C
Oxford E

The ESL Final will be between:
Galatasaray C
Haifa A
Ljubljana A
Leiden A

Source: Achte Minute

EUDC Semi Finals

Source: Yourgermancorresondant

European University Debating Championships Semi-Finals:

SF 1:

OG Oxford B
OO Tel Aviv A
CG UCD L&H A
CO Oxford A

SF 2:
OG Nottingham B
OO Oxford E
CG Cambridge B
CO Oxford C

Motion: This House believes that desecration of religious sites is a legitimate tactic of warfare.


ESL Semi -Finals
ESL-SF 1

Tel Aviv A
Haifa A
Ljubljana A
Groningen A

ESL-SF 2
Leiden A
Galatasaray C
Tel Aviv B
Leiden C

EUDC QF and ESL QF motions

From yourgermancorrespondant

Qtr-Final Motion: THW allow political parties to designate certain pre-election claims as binding, and whose breach would prompt re-elections.

ESL QF Motion: THW allow the Police to physically discipline children below the age of criminal responsibility.

EUDC day 2 and Break

Here are details of the EUDC break and motions from Day 2

Main Break
1 Oxford A 20pts
2 Oxford C 18pts
3 Oxford E 17pts
4 UCD L&H A 16pts
5 Nottingham A 16pts
6 Durham B 16pts
7 Cambridge B 15pts
8 Oxford B 15pts
9 UCC Phil A 15pts
10 Cambridge E 15pts
11 Cambridge D 15pts
12 Tel Aviv A 15pts
13 UCD L&H B 15pts
14 Nottingham B 15pts
15 St. Andrews A 15pts
16 UCD Law A 15pts

ESL Break
1 Tel Aviv A
2 Leiden A
3 Tel Aviv B
4 Berlin A
5 Ljubljana B
6 Erasmus A
7 SSE Riga A
8 Haifa A
9 IDC Herzliya A
10 Galatasaray A
11 Leiden C
12 Groningen A
13 Bilkent A
14 Tilbury House Cologne B
15 Haifa C
16 Ljubljana A

Day 2 Motions
R4: THB the gay rights movement should oppose gay marriages.
R5: THB western liberal countries have a moral duty to spread democracy across the world using force where necessary.
R6: THB custody hearings should not take a child's biological parentage into account.
R7: THW allow doctors to actively lie to their patients in order to create or augment a placebo effect.
Sources: Twitter, yourgermancorrespondant & Global Debate
And a new one Achte Minute

Euros Day 1

The European Debating Championships are currently in progress in Newcastle. 

The Motions so far:
R1 THW allow police officers to use entrapment.
R2 THW use the education system to instill moral norms in children beyond mere obedience to the law
R3 THW grant citizenship to illegal immigrants that report workplace abuse.

Apparently they are cancelling thr 8th Round because of registration/tab/organisational problems.  It's a bit sketchy as to what the actual problem is (and emotions seem to be running high) so I won't speculate but as more firm details come available I'll post them.

Source: Twitter, yourgermancorrespondant & Global Debate

Yeditepe pull out of bid for EUDC

Yeditepe University in Istanbul have pulled out of the competition to host the 2010 European Universities Debating Championships.  This leaves Amsterdam as the only currently declared bidder.

Dear Debaters of Europe,

As you may know, we had previously announced that we would be bidding to host the EUDC 2010. We promised to offer everyone "the greatest Euros ever". We made many preparations until now for to this end; we organized 2 successful BP tournaments this year to add to our experience, we signed several sponsorship agreements and attended big competitions to see how things were run. However after discussion with our CA team and organization comittee during Istanbul Yeditepe Open 2009 we have decided to postpone our bid for this year, as we don't think we're ready to fulfill our promise and make everyone as happy as we would want them to be. For this reason we will be withdrawing our candidacy for EUDC 2010.


We wish great luck and success for the lovely people in Amsterdam for EUDC 2010.


Hope to see you very soon,
Yavuz Yiğit
Yeditepe University

Training lectures/videos

Alfred "Tuna" Snider has been busy over the past few days uploading videos from a recent debate summer camps in Serbia and Slovenia.  They cover a wide range of topics on both World Universities and World Schools Format.

FOr more info visit: http://debatevideoblog.blogspot.com/

Preliminary round of WODC commences!

From idebate

Debatewise and IDEA are pleased to announce that the preliminary round of the inaugural World Online Debating Championships (WODC) has started. This is to decide which debating teams from the United States of America, Israel and China will go on to represent their country in the Championships on August 10th.


These teams will compete in a straight knockout tournament lasting just over a month. This is a joint initiative between the International Debate Education Association, Debatewise, and the World Universities Debating Council (some of whose members are acting as Adjudicators, with Neill Harvey Smith being the Chief Adjudicator).

The championships are taking place in a time of great international economic, political and social turmoil, and domestic discontent across many countries. We believe strongly that never before has the need for debate by individuals of whatever race, age, gender, creed, physical or neurological condition from the quiet or noisy corners of the globe has been greater than now.

Currently we have strong representation from across Asia with teams hailing from Bangladesh to the Republic of Korea, a variety of the ex Soviet countries in Eastern Europe as well as teams from the major debating powers Australia the USA and the UK. We also hope to have some teams representing regions as well.

The winners of the World Online Debating Championships will be revealed on September the 21st and will receive a suitable reward for their commitment, intelligence and passion over the past month. Regardless of who wins or loses, we hope that bringing people together from different countries will strengthen global discourse.

Cambridge IV 2009 Details

Hosted by the Cambridge Union Society

Cambridge IV 2009

20th and 21st November

**This year with CLOSED motions**

** CA: Naomi Oreb (Best Speaker, Australs 08 & Worlds 09)**
DCA: Harish Natarajan (10th Best Speaker, Worlds 09)
Tab Master: Bob Nimmo

* 5 preliminary rounds,  7 minute speeches, break to quarter finals & ESL break

* 100 teams, 3 team institution cap, n-1 judges for IONA teams

* £75 registration fee: our famous black tie social, crash, breakfast, dinner both evenings, beer, whisky, cocktails...

* International package, free to non-IONA teams: debate workshops, entry to the Thursday night Cambridge Union debate, extra crash Thursday night


Register now at http://tinyurl.com/cambridgeiv

* For more information contact Aliyah Akram and Sean Koh at iv@cus.org or see www.cus.org/iv_tournament

Amsterdam EUDC 2010 Bid website

Dear debaters of Europe,

The Free University of Amsterdam and ASDV Bonaparte are proud to present the Amsterdam bid to host Euros 2010. With the countdown to Newcastle EUDC and, thus, Euros Council, a matter of days rather than weeks now, our website should give you some information about our bid: http://www.amsterdameudc.org/

Should you have any more questions after visiting the site, please contact us at amsterdameudc@gmail.com

With kind regards,
Anne Valkering
prospective convenor of Amsterdam EUDC 2010

What we offer:
- Participation of 200 teams and a reg fee of 250 euros.
- Motions set by an experienced CA team: Leela Koenig, Jonathan Leader Maynard, Doug Cochran and Ross Reid McGuire
- A large and very capable pool of local judges in addition to which we will fly in judges to increase the quality of our judging pool
- Preliminary rounds at the VU Free University of Amsterdam, outrounds in Amsterdam's unique city centre with its canals, multicultural atmosphere and liberal policies.
- A variety of food until you can't eat any more, with special regard for all who want or need a special diet.
- Parties that cater to all tastes: experience Dutch club culture with its world-famous DJs, enjoy our bar culture in one of the many neighbourhood pubs and see the canals by night.
- An experienced and large organisation that can deal with any requests and problems and will do its utmost best to make this the best tournament you've been to in a long while.

If you need to find out anything more, please check out: http://www.amsterdameudc.org/

Cambridge IV 2009

Cambridge IV 2009

20th & 21st November 2009

Details coming soon........

Amsterdam Open motions analysis

Dear all,
After a while of radio silence, we are proud to present the statistical analysis of the Amsterdam Open (AO) 2009. This is an initiative from last year's AO CA-team and we are happy to continue it as we believe it increases transparency of judging results and hopefully helps fighting the good fight against the infamous motion-bias.

We are happy to inform you that there was no significant bias in this year's Amsterdam Open as a whole, although some motions showed an inclination to bias. The full analysis can be found here in a google doc. We hope you'll enjoy reading it.

With kind regards,
The Amsterdam Open 2009 CA team
Leela Koenig, Jonathan Leader Maynard, Kirsty Russel, Ross Reid McGuire and Anne Valkering

Iraq Debate Appeal for Funding

Iraq Debate wishes to continue spreading debate in Iraq as a positive initiative in this country during a transition period of instability.

We are starting from the north and our destination is the farthest South of Iraq but the nature of our situation is currently somewhat difficult. There is a lack of understanding of the role debate can play in creating and stabilizing a complex and multi-ethnic society. In a time of many challenges it is difficult for people to accept the need for training Iraqi youth for a better tomorrow -- a time when disagreement can be used constructively to solve problems and not just to divide people.

Now, we are facing a problem of a lack of funding as the income of students in Iraq is very low. We are seeking funds to partially cover our trip to Turkey for the World Universities Debating Championship. Each student who can attend the World Universities Debating Championships can return as an ambassador for debating and have a huge impact training and sharing with others.

Iraq Debate has several teams now registered to attend the World Universities Debating Championships to be held in December-January in Antalya, Turkey. We have teams and enthusiasm and some financial support, but we are just a bit short and the time draws near to pay up or drop out.

Please help us improve Iraqi Society through making people familiar with tolerance and understand the power of diversity, love of free speech, and appreciate the value of fair dialogue and informed decision-making procedures.

Help us improve the lives of Iraqi citizens by supporting our efforts to instill passion for learning in the hearts of Iraqi students. Students will go further in life with the ability to think logically, the ability to present complex ideas clearly, a keen ear to listen well to the words of others, a wide but deep knowledge of the Iraqi society, a proactive desire to solve both Iraqi and world problems, and confidence to do all that, and keep on moving ahead. Students of debate find new reasons to make the most of their education and strive to become better, more informed people in an imperfect world.

Please help us to replace conflict with constructive debate. The lives of debaters, the people in their lives and the future of Iraqi leadership and of Iraqi society will only benefit from any financial help you can give now .

If you could help Iraq Debate students debaters it would be greatly appreciated.

For donation please visit this page www.iraqdebate.org/donate.htm

Thank you for your cooperation.

Muhammad Duhoki

Director, Iraq Debate

Note: please send an email to donate@iraqdebate.org when you are donating to save your name in our database and keep it.

JoziSpeak 2009 results

Results from JoziSpeak 2009 (South African Universities Champs), hosted by Wits University last week, from Richard Stupart's blog:

Winners of the EFL (English First Language) category:
Chris McConnachie and Michael Anderson from Rhodes University
Winners of the ESL (English Second Language) category:
Ayanda Siyuyu and Bonga Malewa from the University of Cape Town
Best EFL Speaker:
Daniel de Kadt from the UNiversity of KwaZulu Natal
Best ESL Speaker:
Albert Titus from the University of Namibia
Best New EFL Speaker:
Michael Anderson from Rhodes University. Incorrectly announced originally as Razina Thokan from Wits University, as the committee – in great excitement – never thought to consider that the winning team might have a first-year debater in it.
Best New ESL Speaker:
Mhlanganisi Madlongolwai from the University of the Free State
Best Public Speaker:
Leon Jamaine Mithi from Wits University
Best New Adjudicator:
Nezi Ndamasa from the University of the Free State
Best Adjudicator:
Deborah Nixon from The University of Pretoria