Australs 2011 Results

The winners of the 2011 Australasian Intervarsity Debating Champs are Victoria University of Wellington 1 on a 7-2 split.

Runners-Up are: National University of Singapore 1

Top 10 Speakers:

1. Elle Jones (University of Sydney Union 1)
2. Chris Bisset (Monash University 1)
3 = Seb Templeton (Victoria University of Wellington 1)
3 = Daniel Swain (University of Sydney Union 1)
3 = Imran Rahim (National University of Singapore 1)
6 = Madeleine Schultz (Monash University 1)
6 = Gemma Buckley (Monash University 1)
6 = Robert Chiarella (University of Sydney Union 2)
9 = Stephanie Thompson (University of Auckland 1)
9 = Robin Teo (National University of Singapore 1)

Elle Jones wins the Martin Sorensen Cup for the Best Speaker of the Championships

Elle also wins the new award for the "best reply speaker" of the competition (apparently a new award)

Udayan Mukherjee from Victoria wins the Jock Faneslow Cup for the Best Speaker in the Grand Final

The ESL Champions in a 7-2 split decision are the University of Indonesia.

ESL Runners-Up are Hong Kong 1.

Austral Asians Final live on ustream

The final of the 2011 Austral-Asians between National University of Singapore and Victoria Wellington is being broadcast live on ustream by logan  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/debate2

The motion is: This house believes that nations should use bounty hunters to capture or kill enemies

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Australs 2011 Semi-Final Results

Here are the Australs 2011 semi-final results.

Semi 1 between Monash University 1 (affirming) and Victoria University of Wellington 1

Topic: That all artists should receive a percentage of the resale value of their work

Winners: Victoria University of Wellington 1 in a 5-2 decision

Semi 2 between Sydney University 1 and National University of Singapore 1

Topic: unknown

Winners: National University of Singapore 1 in a 4-3 split decision

Grand Final will be held later this afternoon/evening


The ESL finalists are Hong Kong Uni 1 vs University of Indonesia 1

DLSU Worlds 2012: Call for Independent Judges

Dear World Debating Community,

We are writing to open applications for independent adjudicator slots and subsidies to attend the World Universities Debating Championships 2012. These are welcomed from truly 'independent' (i.e. institution-less) judges, and any individuals who would like to attend as judges outside their institution's current allocation. We recommend institutions cascade this information to anyone potentially interested within their societies.

There are a total of 70 independent adjudicator slots, 60 of which will carry varying levels of subsidy. They are allocated primarily based on individual merit and need for funding in order to attend the tournament. You may download the guidelines in applying and the application form on the Worlds website www.dlsuworlds.com. We would like to headline a couple of details here, however:

·  This is the application process both for subsidy and for unsubsidised independent judge places.

·  We ask applicants to tell us how much funding they would need in order to be able to come, and will make offers according to this (i.e. we won't offer people amounts of funding they've said wouldn't be enough to enable them to come) - so please do state your needs as accurately as possible to avoid missing out on an offer of subsidy which may in fact have been useful to you.

·  Some of you may be hoping to attend as speakers, or hope to win institutional support as judges. If, absent success in either of these other avenues, you would be interested in attending as a judge, please apply to this process, including in the text of your application email the details of what else you are hoping to do. Providing you can, if successful as an independent adjudication applicant, book flights straight away, this will not disadvantage your application.

·  All successful applicants will be required to apply for any other funding, including institutional funding, for which they are eligible, in order to maximise the number and quality of judges we can fund.

Applications are now open and remain open until 1200 midday GMT on Saturday, the 30th of July. All applicants should return the attached application form, saved as '[Surname], [Firstname] Application' to sam.block@dlsuworlds.com by this time. No other members of the adjudication team should be copied in, as this would disrupt the anonymisation of CVs before they are sent to someone to evaluate. For the same reason, please direct all queries to this address, including those relating to any difficulties with the timescales in question, about which we are keen to hear.

Many thanks,

The Adjudication Team

DLSU Worlds 2012'

Austral-Asians 2011 Day 8 Schedule

Day Eight at the 2011 Austral Asian Debating Championships (13th July, Wednesday)


- Semifinals at 3-7-Stay hotel and National Assembly, ESL Finals at National Assembly
- Finals, Dinner and Closing Ceremony at 63 Building
- Farewell party

South African NUDC 2011

Of course while much of the focus in recent days has been on Austral-Asians in Korea we shouldn't forget that South African National University Debating Championships.  Up to the start of the PAUDC this was the largest tournament in Africa.

Motions so far:

THW create a market for rhino horn

TH regrets the partition of South Sudan

THW: Expropriate Land without compensation

THW: Prevent parents whose children have been taken into into protective society from raising future children

THBT: The AU should support NATO's intervention in Libya

THW: Force the abortion of foetus with the risk of a terminal condition

 

I'll post the break and results as soon as I get them.

 

You can follow coverage on twitter at  #NUDC2011,  @ZOLAtheSOUL or @PinkButterphly

 

 

 

 

Australs 2011 quarter-final results

Here are the Australs 2011 quarter-final results. Winners in bold.

Monash 1 (1) v Sydney 5 (8)
Sydney 1 (2) v Auckland 1 (7)
Ateneo 1 (3) v NUS 1 (6)
Victoria 1 (4) v Sydney 2 (5)

The draw for the semis is:

Monash 1 (1) v Victoria 1 (4)
Sydney 1 (2) v NUS 1 (6)

The semis are tomorrow morning, Korean time.

Australs 2011 Octo-final results

Here are the results of the octo-finals, just concluded in Korea. Every debate went with seed.

Monash 1 v Victoria 2 (1 v 16)
Sydney 1 v UWA 1 (2 v 18)
Ateneo 1 v Auckland 2 (3 v 19)
Victoria 1 v UT Mara 1 (4 v 13)
Sydney 2 v Queensland 1 (5 v 21)
NUS 1 v Monash 2 (6 v 11)
Auckland 1 v Melbourne 3 (7 v 23)
Sydney 5 v Sydney 3 (8 v 9)

Source: various twitter feeds

Here is the draw for the quarter-finals, expected to begin shortly.

Monash 1 (1) v Sydney 5 (8)
Sydney 1 (2) v Auckland 1 (7)
Ateneo 1 (3) v NUS 1 (6)
Victoria 1 (4) v Sydney 2 (5)

Motions and streaming from Australs Octos

Octo Final Motions:
1. This house believes that we should recognise the independence of Somaliland
2. This house believes that China should remove all restrictions on internal migration
3. This house believes that colonial states have a duty to intervene in failed postcolonial states

I can't find the double-Octo Final Motions but will post them when I find them.

One of the Octo-Finals (Victoria 2 and Monash 1) was broadcast by logan at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/debate2 so the archive of that should be up soon.  Also that's a good place to check for streams of the later rounds.

Australs 2011 Double-Octo Results

Winners of the double octos at Australs are below in bold.

Sydney 3 v IIUM 1 (9 v 24)
UT Mara 2 v Melbourne 3 (10 v 23)
Monash 2 v Monash 3 (11 v 22)
Macquarie 1 v Queensland 1 (12 v 21)
UT Mara 1 v Monash 4 (13 v 20)
Ateneo 2 v Auckland 2 (14 v 19)
Otago 1 v UWA 1 (15 v 18)
Victoria 2 v Melbourne 1 (16 v 17)

The octo-finals which will begin shortly are therefore:

Monash 1 v Victoria 2 (1 v 16)
Sydney 1 v UWA 1 (2 v 18)
Ateneo 1 v Auckland 2 (3 v 19)
Victoria 1 v UT Mara 1 (4 v 13)
Sydney 2 v Queensland 1 (5 v 21)
NUS 1 v Monash 2 (6 v 11)
Auckland 1 v Melbourne 3 (7 v 23)
Sydney 5 v Sydney 3 (8 v 9)

Austral-Asians 2011 Day 7 Schedule

Day Seven at the 2011 Austral Asian Debating Championships (12th July, Tuesday)


- Break Rounds at Chung Ang University

Updates from AIDA council

Some updates from the Austral Asians Council (AIDA):

Victoria University in New Zealand will host Austral-Asians in 2012.

Duncan Campbell re-elected AIDA President for 2012.

The break was expanded from 16 to 24 teams with Double Octo-finals introduced

There is a cap of no more than 4 teams from one institution making the break.  Sydney had 7 teams in the top 24  so three of their teams missed out.  But Sydney 4, who had broken 4th suddenly had to go home so then AIDA council voted to allow one of the "capped out" Sydney teams take their place.

This is all coming from twitter under #koreaaustrals2011

Australs 2011 Break

The Australs 2011 Main Break is below.

Note the AIDA Council this year decided to expand the break from 16 to 24 teams and hold double octo-finals for the teams in positions 9-24. The winners will face the teams in positions 1-8 in the break. The rationale for this decision was that with a 114 team tournament (the largest ever), teams on 6-2 would not break.

Main Break
1 (1). Monash 1 (7 wins)
2 (2.) Sydney 1 (7 wins)
3 (3.) Ateneo 1 (7 wins)
X (4.) Sydney 4 (7 wins) - pulled out as speaker had to go home
4 (5.) Victoria 1 (6 wins)
5 (6.) Sydney 2 (6 wins)
6 (7.) NUS 1 (6 wins)
7 (8.) Auckland 1 (6 wins)
8 (9.) Sydney 5 (6 wins)
9 (10.) Sydney 3 (6 wins)
10 (11.) UT Mara 2 (6 wins)
11 (12.) Monash 2 (6 wins)
12 (13.) Macquarie 1 (6 wins)
13 (14.) UT Mara 1 (6 wins)
X (15.) Sydney 6 (6 wins) - capped out
14 (16.) Ateneo 2 (6 wins)
15 (17.) Otago 1 (6 wins)
16 (18.) Victoria 2 (5 wins)
17 (19.) Melbourne 1 (5 wins)
18 (20.) UWA 1 (5 wins)
19 (21.) Auckland 2 (5 wins)
20 (22.) Monash 4 (5 wins)
21 (23.) Queensland 1 (5 wins)
22 (24.) Monash 3 (5 wins)
23 (25.) Melbourne 3 (5 wins)
X (26.) Sydney 7 (5 wins) - capped out
24 (27.) IIUM 1 (5 wins)

The draw for the double octos is therefore:

Sydney 3 v IIUM 1
UT Mara 2 v Melbourne 3
Monash 2 v Monash 3
Macquare 1 v Queensland 1
UT Mara 1 v Monash 4
Ateneo 2 v Auckland 2
Otago 1 v UWA 1
Victoria 2 v Melbourne 1

The draw for the actual octo-finals will be:

Monash 1 v winner of Victoria 2 and Melbourne 1 (1 versus 16)
Sydney 1 v winner of Otago 1 v UWA 1 (2 vs 15)
Ateneo 1 v winner of Ateneo 2 v Auckland 2 (3 vs 14)
Victoria 1 v winner of UT Mara 1 v Monash 4 (4 v 13)
Sydney 2 v winner of Macquarie 1 v Queensland 1 (5 v 12)
NUS 1 v winner of Monash 2 v Monash 3 (6 v 11)
Auckland 1 v winner of UT Mara 2 v Melbourne 3 (7 v 10)
Sydney 5 v winner of Sydney 3 v IIUM 1 (8 v 9)

EFL Break
1 (41) MMUM 1 (5 Wins)
2 (44) MALAYA 1 (4 Wins)
3 (51) BIPEDS 1 (4 Wins)
4 (52) HONG KONG 1 (4 Wins)
5 (59) KYUNG HEE 2 (4 Wins)
6 (60) ICU 1 (4 Wins)
7 (61) UI 1 (4 Wins)
8 (62) EDiS 3 (4 Wins)

Therefore the Draw for the Qtr Finals is:
MMUM 1 vs EDiS 3
MALAYA 1 vs UI 1
BIPEDS 1 vs ICU 1
HONG KONG 1 vs KYUNG HEE 2


Breaking Judges

Ahyoung
Amit
Atiqa (Mara)
Ben M (Auckland)
Ben W (Oxord)
Christopher Antonini (UNSW)
Daniel Wilson (Vic)
Dohee (EDiS)
Dom Eberl (Maq)
Duncan
Hafiedz (Mara)
Henry (Melb)
Hyewon (KU)
Ignes (UI)
Irzal (IIU)
JB (NUS)
Katie Heading
Logan (MMU/CAU)
Loke Wing Fat (IND)
Lucian (SYD)
Lucinda (DLSU)
Mabroor (Bang)
Neeharika (Auck)
Pam Chan (ADMU)
Sandeep (HKU)
Sharms
Shuvam (SMU)
Steph Stoj (SYD)
Stephen W
Steve H (syd)
Tasneem (IIUM)
Tate (MMU)
TJ (Chula)
Toshi (ICU)
Will (Oxford)
ZB 

Austral-Asians 2011 Day 6 Schedule

Day Six at the 2011 Austral Asian Debating Championships (11th July, Monday)


- Free day
- Council Meeting
- Test Debate on the Han River Cruise

Adjudicator subsidy policy for NEAO 2011.

Greetings!

It's a great pleasure for us to announce the adjudicator subsidy policy for NEAO 2011. Please refer to the following details.

●        Submission period

     During June 27th to August 3rd, please send your debate CV to neao2011adjcore@gmail.com, with its subject titled as “application for adjudicator subsidy,” and its content stating your full name, country, and contact information.

     Any submission made later than August 3rd will not be accepted.

     Subsidy applicants will also need to register for their slots during the registration periods.

●        Quota on recipients

     We will have a total of 15 adjudicators to receive full registration waiver, of which 10 will also receive an additional travel subsidy of NTD 8000.

●        Release Date

     The result will be published on August 7th. The organizing team will subsequently send a letter of confirmation to the chosen candidates to ascertain their attendance.

We look forward to hearing from you!

-NEAO committee mail address

taiwan.neao2011@gmail.com

-NEAO 2011 official website

http://neao2011.wtuc.edu.tw/

-Follow us on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/taiwan.neao?sk=wall

Australs Round 5 motions

Round 5 motions
This house believes that Greece should return to the Drachma.
This house would prohibit price gouging after natural disasters.
This house would recognize necessity of sweatshop.

I have only been able to find motions for Rounds 1, 2, 3 and 5 on line (mainly @Loganimal).  Can anyone fill in the blanks?

Austral-Asians 2011 Day 5 Schedule

Day Five at the 2011 Austral Asian Debating Championships (10th July, Sunday)


- Rounds 6, 7 and 8
- Break night on the top floor of Lexington Hotel