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5 November 2009

HWS / IDEA Round Robin Qualifiers

The HWS/IDEA Round Robin will be held on April 2 & 3, 2009 in Geneva, New York. A total of 16 teams will be invited to compete, and there are 16 “automatic bids” (listed below). Those not earning an automatic bid are encouraged to apply for an “at-large bid”. (Applications are due January 31, 2010.)


AUTOMATIC BIDS go to the 2009 winners of:
Asian BP Championships
Asian Unity
Australs
CUSID BP Nationals
Europeans
Hart House IV
International Mace
Oxford IV
Pan-African BP Championship
Sydney Mini
US UDC
Yale IV
and, all 4 teams in the grand final round at Koc Worlds!

Posted by Eric Barnes (convenor of the HWS / IDEA RR) with thanks to our advisory committee for their ongoing help: Logan Balavijendran, Rory Gillis, Neill Harvey-Smith, Ian Lising, Helina Loor, Justice Motlhabani, and Naomi Oreb.



For more information, write to: barnes (at) hws (dot) edu


4 November 2009

Some Recent Results: Yale IV

On 23-24 October, Yale University hosted the Yale IV. There were 120 teams, representing 39 institutions in attendance.

Advancing to quarterfinals after 5 rounds were:
1. Alaska IK (15 points)
2. Hart House FL (13 points)
3. Carleton A
4. McGill SS (12 points)
5. MIT GM
6. Queens C
7. Stanford DK
8. Stanford A (11 points)
9. Brandeis A
10. UCC/NUS
11. Hart House TT
12. Swarthmore DW
13. Swarthmore CP
14. Brandeis D
15. Amherst LZ (10 points)
16. McGill MM

The semifinals included:
Alaska IK
Hart House FL
Carleton A
McGill SS

MIT GM
Queens C
Stanford DK
McGill MM

The champion debate team was Hart House (Richard Lizius & Ian Freeman).

The 3 finalists were:
Alaska (Michael Imeson & James Kilcup)
Carleton A (Adam Coombs & Andrew Lawrence)
McGill SS (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik)

The top 5 speakers after 5 preliminary rounds were:
1st Place: Richard Lizius of Hart House FL
2nd Place: Ian Freeman of Hart House FL

3rd Place: Michael Imeson of Alaska IK

4th Place: Adam Goldstein of MIT GM

5th Place: James Kilcup of Alaska IK



The motions at Yale were:
Rd 1: THBT the US and its NATO Allies should significantly reduce their presence in Afghanistan.
Rd 2: THBT Medicaid should cover all legal abortions.
Rd 3: THB in the right to self-determination.
Rd 4: THBT that the Nobel Peace Prize should only be awarded posthumously.
Rd 5: THBT legal aliens should have an unqualified right to vote.
1/4s: THBT all punitive damages in private lawsuits should be paid to the government.
Semis: THBT the US should impose sanctions on Israel if they do not withdraw all settlements from the West Bank.
Finals: THS races to the bottom.

Thanks to Shawn Briscoe for this info.

Some Recent Results: Hart House IV

There have been some big tournaments recently that I didn't post the results from:

On October 16-19, the University of Toronto hosted the Hart House IV. There were 84 teams, representing 26 institutions in attendance.


Advancing to quarterfinals were:
*Alaska A
Claremont A
Swathmore A
*UBC A

Dal C
*Queen’s D
McGill A
*UBC B

*McGill B
*Osgoode A
Queen’s B
Cornell C

Queen’s E
*McGill C
*Yale A
Dal A

The semifinals included:
Yale A
*McGill C
*Alaska A
UBC A

Queen’s D
Osgoode A
*UBC B
*McGill B

The champion debate team was UBC B on Closing Opp.
Alaska A (Opening Gov)
McGill C (Opening Opp)
McGill B (Closing Gov)

The top 5 speakers after 5 preliminary rounds were:
1st Place: Rudi Lof of Osgoode A
2nd Place (tie): Saro Setrakian of MGill B & Michael Imeson of Alaska A

4th Place: James Kilcup of Alaska A

5th Place: Sean Stefanik of McGill B


The motions at Hart House were:

Rd 1: THS Turkish membership in the EU.
Rd 2: THS the use of bounty hunters.
Rd 3: TH opposes the ahistorical inclusion of minorities in television and film.
Rd 4: THB China should forcibly reintegrate Taiwan.
Rd 5: Provided we have the technology, THW allow human cloning.
1/4s: THS a 100% death tax.
Semis: THB when states are unable to defend themselves by conventional means, targeting civilian populations are a legitimate act of war.
Finals: THW not contact undiscovered human populations.


Thanks to Shawn Briscoe for sending these to me.

3 November 2009

National Debate Series: Boston, Nov 10th‏

The National Debate Series: Boston is a FREE event taking place at BU's Morse Auditorium on November 10th from 7 to 10pm. It will bring together the debate teams from Harvard, MIT, BU, and BC, and special guest Steve Pagliuca, co-owner of the Boston Celtics and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, to debate four topics: the public health insurance option, "don't ask don't tell", sending more troops to Afghanistan, and nuclear energy. The event is hosted by Politalk – a Boston area political talk program - in partnership with Debatepedia, who is providing extensive pro/con materials on the above topics for audience members and the general public.


http://www.nationaldebateseries.com/

http://wiki.idebate.org/index.php/National_Debate_Series:_Boston

Sydney Win UTS IV

UTS IV was held over the weekend of October 24th - 25th. The tournament was won by Tim Mooney & Naomi Hart (University of Sydney) from Opening Government on the motion This House would end 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' . Runners up include Su-Min Lim & Ben Williams (University of New South Wales), Paul Karp & Daniel Swain (University of Sydney), and Ravi Dutta & Sam Greenland (Composite).

Best speaker of the tournament was Seamus Coleman (University of Melbourne).

1 November 2009

Koc Worlds 2010 | Institutional Team Cap Extension


Dear debating community,

We are writing with some good news for people who are still left out of Worlds and who want to come. After some late cancellations and non-payments, we have our final batch of teams available this week. We will also be confirming whether or not those judges who have applied to Can Okar or one of the DCAs will be invited to attend.

What is different this time is that we are allowing institutions to ask for more than one team up to a limit of four teams. This means that if you currently have three teams, you can apply for one additional team. If you have no teams, you can apply for up to four. We will not need additional judges at this stage so if you go from three to four teams, we will not require an additional judge.

Given the late stage at which we are, we will need those universities that want to send teams to contact BOTH Hasan Sadik Arik at h.s.arik@kocworlds2010.com and Fatih Mehmet Inal at f.inal@kocworlds2010.com by Wednesday 4 November 2009. We cannot entertain applications after this stage. If demand exceeds our supply, we will carry out a draw that evening (in the presence of a member of the Worlds Council Executive) and invite teams to pay us on Thursday. You will have no more than one week (up to 12 November 2009) to prove that you have paid into our account so we only invite those teams to apply that can actually pay. This is important: people keep on taking up our offers and then not paying – after this week, we will finalise the numbers with our hotel and no additional registration can be taken. If you apply now and don’t pay, please recognise that you will have stolen a place irretrievably from someone who could have come. We will indicate how you can prove you have paid in our mail to you on Thursday.

The cost of registration will be 490 EUR per person. There are many institutions who have already paid this who will be reimbursed as we noted in our previous mails about registration (i.e. they are now in the top 360 by virtue of drop-outs). We will contact them and reimburse them at Worlds.

I hope this is the very final phase of registration. It’s been an interesting journey and one that was time-consuming. We are relieved to be coming to the final stages so that we can concentrate on our next big challenges!

Regards,

Fatih Mehmet Inal

Co-Convenor, Worlds 2010