Australs 2012 DCAs - feedback welcomed on applicants

[On behalf of the Vic Australs Orgcomm]

Victoria University Australs 2012 had received 4 DCA applications.  The applications we have received are from:

Ely Zosa, Ateneo de Manila University;
Ravi Dutta, Monash University;
Seb Templeton, Victoria University of Wellington; and
Steph D'Souza, Sydney University

We have up to three slots remaining on the Adjudication Core.  It would be good if you can send any feedback about any of the applicants to Stephen Whittington (whittington.stephen@gmail.com) by Friday 4 May.  Please feel free to indicate whether you are supportive of having an adjudication core of 5 people, or would prefer 4.

Regards,

Steve Whittington
CA, Vic Australs 2012

Opening of applications for Australs 2012 DCAs

[On behalf of the Victoria University Debating Society]
Dear all

The Victoria University of Wellington Debating Society is pleased to open the selection process for up to three Deputy Chief Adjudicators (DCAs) for Australs 2012. The reason for the increase from two to three further additions to the Adjudication Team is because Steve Hind has unfortunately had to pull out.

Applications for DCA positions are now being accepted, and will be open until midnight on Sunday 15 April.

If you are interested in becoming a DCA, please complete an application form and email the CA, Stephen Whittington, at whittington.stephen@gmail.com. If there are any questions about the form, please get in touch with Steve.

The application form is available at: http://www.australs2012.com/dca_application_form.doc.

On Monday 16 April, a list of the applicants will be circulated via the Australs, All-Asians and AUDC mailing lists for feedback.

At this point people should feel free to email the CA with their feedback on any or all of the candidates. All communication will be treated in the strictest confidence, and all feedback provided by the Austral-Asian community will be considered. The successful applicant(s) will be announced on Friday 27 April.

Please note that we have no fixed views on whether two or three additional DCAs will be appointed.

Kind regards,
Johanna McDavitt
Co-convener

Vic Australs 2012

Official Registration Policy

The following outlines the formal registration policy that we will be using for Australs 2012. Please note the disclaimer and contact us if you have any questions. Read the whole document. There may be a quiz. As a final point of introduction: I will unashamedly use real institutions in my examples. Deal with that.

You may not request this document in either of the other two national languages of New Zealand: Te Reo Maori or New Zealand Sign Language.

Disclaimer

The registration team reserves the right to change any of the rules below at any stage. Changes will only be made if absolutely necessary, will be minimal, and will be posted on the Australs 2012 website.

Dates and deadlines

The dates for the different phases are:

Monday 5 March 8pm NZDT: registration opens

Friday 16 March 11:59pm NZDT: registration closes

Monday 2 April: ½ payment due

Tuesday 1 May: full payment due

Wednesday 2 May: individual registration opens

Friday 19 May: individual registration closes

Registration

Registration is to be done by an institution representative through a form on the Australs 2012 website. A mock copy of this form will be published in advance so that people know what information they will need to provide.

The team cap per institution during the registration phase (5 – 16 March) will be 2. Every institution who registers within that period is guaranteed up to 2 teams. We expect institutions to be definite by the registration phase on how many teams they initially register (0, 1 or 2).

Institutions will also be asked how many teams maximum they would like to send to Australs, in the event that there is space under the team cap once all institutions have been allocated their initial spots of up to 2. This maximum number may be changed later, and doesn’t oblige the institution to send that many extra teams. See more information on waitlist teams below.

Institutions must also follow the rules of the Australian Intervarsity Debating Association (AIDA) as set out in articles 22, 23, 24 of the AIDA Constitution. The Association will publish these for you. Be especially aware that your debaters must be enrolled to study at your institution and note the affirmative action requirements set out by AIDA.

Waitlist teams

The time of registration within the registration period will become a ranking for the order that institutions will be offered extra teams on the waitlist. Directly after the registration period closes the waitlist will be used to offer subsequent spots to institutions, as well as any time a team pulls out or misses a payment deadline.

The waitlist will be traversed top to bottom, offering one team to each institution that still has fewer than their nominated maximum number of desired teams. Once at the bottom of the list the first team will be next to be asked again. Institutions may change their desired maximum at any stage but will always have to wait for the next time they are reached on the waitlist. This means that an institution will always have a ranking, even where they have their maximum teams. Such an institution can increase their desired maximum and become active to be asked next time they are hit.

For example:

… Rank 12: Monash wants a maximum of 6, has 3 Rank 13: Sydney wants a maximum of 2, has 2 …

If Sydney get in touch and want to up their maximum to 6 then on a second run through the wailist Monash is offered a fourth team and Sydney are next offered a third team. Sydney didn’t get offered an extra team on the first run through as they had indicated that they were at their desired maximum.

There will be no preference given to institutions on the waiting list which don’t have two teams. For example if Auckland doesn’t register by 16 March and a week later asks me to be registered, they will be put at the end of the wait list ranking. They will be offered a first team after the last initially registered institution has been offered their third (assuming that last institution has a desired maximum of more than two teams).

Any institution offered a spot has one week to confirm whether they accept that team before it will be offered elsewhere. The offer will be sent by email to the institution representative who registered, and the week will count from the date of sending. It is up to the representative to check his/her emails. From one month before the tournament the registration team reserves the right to contact representatives by telephone and force faster acceptance of extra teams.

Institutions have two weeks from the day of acceptance to fully settle payments for their new team unless that would mean paying earlier than one of the original deadlines, in which case the original deadline is used. This will also include payment for one extra adjudicator to match their new n-1

requirement, except where an adjudicator moves into the contingent who was previously registered as an affiliated independent.

Adjudicators

Institutions must register exactly n-1 adjudicators, unless they send only one team in which case they may choose to bring one adjudicator. N-1 means one fewer adjudicator than the number of teams sent. Institutions wanting to send more adjudicators need to ask their adjudicators past n-1 to apply to attend independently. Such independent judges will still be affiliated to the institution. They will be announced as breaking from their institution and naturally will be conflicted from seeing them.

This means:

1 team = 0 or 1 adjudicator(s)

2 teams = 1 adjudicator

3 teams = 2 adjudicators

and so on. Any institution that registers for 0 teams and 0 adjudicators will be frowned upon. That is unlikely to be of consequence to them at the tournament.

Members of the adjudication core do not, and cannot, count as an adjudicator from any institution.

Independent adjudicators

Institutions with more than n-1 adjudicators wanting to attend Australs 2012 should have their extra adjudicators apply to attend independently. Independent adjudicators need not be from a particular institution, and may be from anywhere in the world (bump: Woolgar, Jones). There will be a separate registration form for independent adjudicators.

On the independent form adjudicators may choose to enter an institution to be affiliated with. Adjudicators who choose an institution will be known as ‘affiliated independent adjudicators’. These adjudicators will be identified as from an institution and expected to pay registration with that institution. However they will have no bearing on n-1 or affirmative action for that institution (see more detail under ‘Final adjudicator note’ and ‘Adjudicators, contingents and affirmative action’).

When filling out the independent adjudicator form, applicants will be required to prove their competency to adjudicate. The registration team reserves a right of complete discretion on who they accept, and may ask for more information or arrange to speak with an applicant. The standard is set by the registration team in consultation with the adjudication core. It will be applied fairly and equally to all applicants. Promise.

The status of independent adjudicator does not in any way promise funding. Nor does it promise that you will be seeing better debates or performing better on the adjudication test than other adjudicators.

Final adjudicator note

For the avoidance of doubt I will make things clear and put them very bluntly. Your n-1 adjudicators are not assessed (or your first adjudicator if sending only one team); all others are. There is a separate form for them to fill out. Every time you are offered a new team you must bring one more adjudicator but you also gain one more not assessed adjudicator spot. It is fine if you wish to move someone who was an affiliated independent into your n-1 spots to support n-1 for that new team.

An adjudicator may be denied as an independent adjudicator but still make up one of your n-1 spots. You may wish to think of these as ‘free’ or ‘non-assessed’ adjudicator spots. An adjudicator who has been denied independent status may even become part of a previously full squad when you are offered a new team and so need a new adjudicator.

Finally: having said all of this, do not let your adjudicators be daunted by the independent application process.

Adjudicators, contingents and affirmative action

The AIDA constitution provides (among other things, including more specific n-1 rules):

23.1 A third of all debating contingents must be female.

23.7 A debating contingent is to be comprised by debaters and only by as many adjudicators as required to satisfy the n minus one rule.

We will define your contingent as all teams plus the specific n-1 adjudicators. These n-1 adjudicators will not have applied for independent adjudicator status, or will have moved from independent status into n-1 at a later stage after waitlisted teams have been accepted.

For example:

 Victoria has three teams and six adjudicators

Two of those adjudicators are (and must be) n-1 adjudicators

The other four adjudicators are affiliated independent adjudicators

Victoria’s contingent is defined as the three teams and the specific two ‘n-1’ adjudicators. Victoria cannot use an affiliated independent to count as part of the contingent in place of one of the n-1 adjudicators for the purposes of meeting the affirmative action requirements.

If you are only sending one team but also the allowed one adjudicator (the exception to strict n-1 limits) then your adjudicator doesn’t count towards your affirmative action requirements. I.e. if you send one team it must have at least one female debater and if you send one judge their gender is irrelevant for affirmative action.

To clarify an AIDA rule: you cannot round up to having one third of your contingent as female. If your contingent ends up as five teams and therefore four n-1 adjudicators (19 people total) then you need at least seven female contingent members, not six. Note that you would also need to meet all other AIDA rules, including that one third of your top three teams need to be female debaters.

Observers

Campuses may send observers. They have no bearing on any AIDA requirements including affirmative action or n-1. Observers have a 33% higher registration fee. This is to compensate for the fact that many sponsors are only willing to sponsor participants in the tournament.

Payment

The payment dates above are not flexible and they are non-negotiable. Failure to pay on time will result in teams being offered to the waitlist. In cases of extreme emergency I will consider written explanations, preferably in advance, for why you cannot pay. Note though that teams from Christchurch and Japan succeeded in paying on time in 2011.

Remember that international transfers take time to clear. Pay before the payment deadline. If the money isn’t in our account on time but you can provide proof of transfer from the week before then you will be accepted as having met the deadline. There may be a prize for the institution that plays the currency markets the most skilfully.

It is the responsibility of attending institutions to take on fees for currency conversion and international transfers. We will count you as having paid the amount that enters the Australs 2012 bank account. The registration fee is $750 New Zealand Dollars per debater or adjudicator. The fee for observers is $1000 New Zealand Dollars. Details of the bank account to send registration to will be sent to the institution representatives after the registration phase closes. Those details will also be posted on the Australs 2012 website.

Teams who have underpaid or overpaid will have their accounts settled in New Zealand Dollars on the registration day of Australs 2012. All teams from an underpaying institution will be ineligible to compete in the main break or the ESL break until they have settled their debts. Being ineligible to compete in a break round does not advance a team to the next break round. Cheeky.

Payment is non-refundable. We use it to pay in advance for the tournament to be run. If you do not make it to the tournament you will not be refunded.

Contact

If you have any queries or need clarification please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sebastian Templeton

Registration Officer, Australs 2012 Vice-President (New Zealand), AIDA

registration@australs2012.com

Austral-Asians 2011 Tab

The tab has been released for the recently completed Korea Austral-Asians 2011.

You will find the official tab at http://www.koreaaustrals2011.com/sites/koreaaustrals2011.com/files/full_tab/post_tournament.html

For future reference I have posted the main parts here:

Rank    Name    Team Scores     Speaker Scores
1    MONASH 1    7     2,171
2    SYDNEY UNION 1    7     2,170
3    ATENEO 1    7     2,147
4    SYDNEY UNION 4    7     2,140
5    VICTORIA 1    6     2,161
6    SYDNEY UNION 2    6     2,159
7    NUS 1    6     2,156
8    AUCKLAND 1    6     2,151
9    SYDNEY UNION 5    6     2,139
10    SYDNEY UNION 3    6     2,133
11    UT MARA 2    6     2,132
12    MONASH 2    6     2,128
13    MACQUARIE 1    6     2,126
14    UT MARA 1    6     2,126
15    SYDNEY UNION 6    6     2,126
16    ATENEO 2    6     2,125
17    OTAGO 1    6     2,120
18    VICTORIA 2    5     2,136
19    MELBOURNE 1    5     2,130
20    UWA 1    5     2,130
21    AUCKLAND 2    5     2,126
22    MONASH 4    5     2,126
23    QUEENSLAND 1    5     2,124
24    MONASH 3    5     2,122
25    MELBOURNE 3    5     2,118
26    SYDNEY UNION 7    5     2,118
27    IIUM 1    5     2,118
28    QUEENSLAND 2    5     2,117
29    UNSW 1    5     2,117
30    VICTORIA 3    5     2,116
31    MONASH 5    5     2,114
32    ATENEO 3    5     2,112
33    SMU 1    5     2,112
34    MELBOURNE 4    5     2,110
35    CANTERBURY 1    5     2,110
36    MELBOURNE 2    5     2,107
37    UNSW 4    5     2,106
38    ANU 2    5     2,106
39    EDiS 1    5     2,105
40    DLSU 1    5     2,102
41    MMUM 1    5     2,097
42    MONASH 6    4     2,117
43    NTU 1    4     2,115
44    MALAYA 1    4     2,106
45    KOREA 2    4     2,105
46    NUS 2    4     2,105
47    UNSW 3    4     2,105
48    UTS 1    4     2,103
49    ANU 1    4     2,103
50    DLSU 2    4     2,103
51    BIPEDS 1    4     2,102
52    HONG KONG 1    4     2,101
53    UNSW 5    4     2,101
54    MACQUARIE 2    4     2,101
55    NUS 3    4     2,101
56    UNSW 2    4     2,099
57    NTU 3    4     2,097
58    OTAGO 2    4     2,096
59    KYUNG HEE 2    4     2,095
60    ICU 1    4     2,094
61    UI 1    4     2,093
62    EDiS 3    4     2,092
63    DLSU 3    4     2,091
64    NTU 2    4     2,089
65    DHAKA 1    4     2,088
66    MMUM 2    4     2,088
67    MELBOURNE 5    4     2,087
68    AUCKLAND 3    4     2,086
69    DAE 1    4     2,083
70    CUHK 1    4     2,082
71    SING POLY 1    4     2,080
72    UU 2    4     2,074
73    UU 3    4     2,048
74    IIUM 2    3     2,103
75    UT MARA 3    3     2,099
76    ICU 2    3     2,092
77    PUTRA 1    3     2,090
78    MMU 1    3     2,087
79    UU 1    3     2,086
80    CAU1    3     2,079
81    PEKING 1    3     2,079
82    UMAC 1    3     2,079
83    KYUNG HEE 1    3     2,078
84    MACAO POLY1    3     2,077
85    HELP 1    3     2,074
86    KOREA 3    3     2,069
87    MACQUARIE 4    3     2,069
88    HYDS1    3     2,066
89    MACQUARIE 3    3     2,065
90    SNU 1    3     2,063
91    ADS 1    3     2,063
92    UMAC 3    3     2,058
93    CAU2    3     2,058
94    KOREA 1    3     2,046
95    SOLBRIDGE 2    3     2,041
96    TERENGGANU 1    3     2,030
97    SWING 1    3     2,030
98    EDiS 2    2     2,094
99    SABAH 1    2     2,086
100    DAE 2    2     2,072
101    SOLBRIDGE 1    2     2,067
102    FUDAN 1    2     2,060
103    WASEDA 1    2     2,060
104    UMAC 2    2     2,059
105    BANDUNG 1    2     2,059
106    TOKYO METRO 1    2     2,058
107    DAE 3    2     2,041
108    THAMMASAT 2    2     2,037
109    YOKOHAMA 1    2     2,037
110    TWEDS 2    2     2,037
111    ICU 3    2     2,029
112    KYUNG HEE 3    1     2,038
113    THAMMASAT 1    1     2,007
114    TWEDS 1    0     2,001 


Speaker Tab
Rank    Name    Team    Total Speaker Scores
1    Eleanor Jones    SYDNEY UNION 1     626
2    Chris Bisset    MONASH 1     625
3    Sebastian Templeton    VICTORIA 1     621
4    Daniel Swain    SYDNEY UNION 1     621
5    Imran Rahim    NUS 1     621
6    Robert Chiarella    SYDNEY UNION 2     619
7    Gemma Buckley    MONASH 1     619
8    Madeline Schultz    MONASH 1     619
9    Stephanie Thompson    AUCKLAND 1     618
10    Robin Teo    NUS 1     618
11    Richard D'Ath    VICTORIA 1     617
12    Edward Miller    SYDNEY UNION 2     616
13    Dominic Bowes    SYDNEY UNION 2     616
14    Ely Zosa    ATENEO 1     616
15    Udayan Mukherjee    VICTORIA 1     616
16    Joseph Ware    SYDNEY UNION 5     615
17    Cecile Gotamco    ATENEO 1     615
18    Asher Emanuel    VICTORIA 2     615
19    Aria Newfield    AUCKLAND 1     615
20    Paul Karp    SYDNEY UNION 1     614
21    Joshua Baxter    AUCKLAND 1     614
22    Sadhana Rai    NUS 1     613
23    Maizura Mokhsein    UT MARA 2     613
24    Joanna Connolly    SYDNEY UNION 3     612
25    Eleanor Gordon-Smith    SYDNEY UNION 4     612
26    Michael Coutts    SYDNEY UNION 4     612
27    Amy Van de Ruit    MACQUARIE 1     612
28    Holly Jenkins    VICTORIA 2     611
29    Hugh Satterthwaite    SYDNEY UNION 3     611
30    Tim Blair    MELBOURNE 1     611
31    Jeremy Rich    UWA 1     611
32    Nina Ubaldi    SYDNEY UNION 4     611
33    Nupur Upadhyay    AUCKLAND 2     611
34    Antony Paul    SYDNEY UNION 5     611
35    Daniel John Golder    MELBOURNE 1     611
36    Shiveena Parmanand    ATENEO 1     610
37    Sam Molloy    SYDNEY UNION 6     610
38    Arinah Najwa Ahmad Said    IIUM 1     610
39    Ashleigh Feurtado    MONASH 4     610
40    Tom Williamson    SYDNEY UNION 5     609
41    Nicole Franklin    MONASH 2     609
42    Aina Syazwani Salleh    UT MARA 2     609
43    Allan Cabrera    ATENEO 2     609
44    Sasha Lytas    MONASH 2     609
45    Anthony Smith    QUEENSLAND 1     609
46    Hamish Saunders    AUCKLAND 2     608
47    Mohd Aerie Rashmond bin Rahman    UT MARA 2     608
48    Tom O'Brien    CANTERBURY 1     608
49    Allan Quanchi    MONASH 3     608
50    Callum Davidson    UWA 1     608
51    Shafiq Bazari    UT MARA 1     608
52    Bronte Lambourne    SYDNEY UNION 6     608
53    Rafiq Saladdin    UT MARA 1     608
54    Kieran Bunn    OTAGO 1     608
55    DL Laraya Isla    ATENEO 2     608
56    Rebecca Hibbard    MELBOURNE 3     608
57    Tariq Azfar Maketab    UT MARA 1     607
58    Bebe D'Souza    SYDNEY UNION 3     607
59    Peterson Poon    ATENEO 3     607
60    Lachlan Umbers    MACQUARIE 1     607
61    Ilona Quahe    UWA 1     607
62    David Ong    UNSW 1     607
63    rebecca ow phui san    MALAYA 1     607
64    Duncan Wallace    MONASH 3     607
65    Paul Smith    VICTORIA 2     607
66    Anjalika Singh    NTU 1     607
67    Seth Jeesoo Kang    KOREA 2     607
68    Timothy Whiting    MONASH 4     607
69    Christina White    SYDNEY UNION 7     607
70    James Beavis    MONASH 2     606
71    Cameron Price    VICTORIA 3     606
72    Hamish John Williamson    MELBOURNE 2     606
73    Patrick Begley    QUEENSLAND 1     606
74    Luke Daniel McGreevy    MONASH 4     606
75    Sam Whitney    MONASH 6     606
76    Stephen Moore    MONASH 5     606
77    Justin Kuok Wai Chan    UNSW 4     606
78    Ryan Gilbert-Wilson    UNSW 1     606
79    Jessica Storey    AUCKLAND 2     606
80    Joseph Benjamin B. de Leon    ATENEO 2     606
81    Laura Wilde    SYDNEY UNION 7     606
82    Paul Hunt    OTAGO 1     606
83    Rohit Gadre    NTU 1     605
84    Vihasini Gopakumar    NTU 3     605
85    Joshua Goodwill    MONASH 6     605
86    Finlay Gustus    MONASH 3     605
87    Jessica Rusten    QUEENSLAND 2     605
88    Wan Nor Sarah Binti Wan Shahriman    IIUM 1     605
89    Helena Obermair    QUEENSLAND 2     605
90    Kurt See    DLSU 1     605
91    Thana Lucas    MELBOURNE 3     605
92    Olivia Hall    VICTORIA 3     605
93    Paulina Blanca Guerta Robles    ATENEO 3     605
94    Sarah Esther Greenbaum    UNSW 3     605
95    John Goldie    ANU 1     605
96    Nicholas Andrew Chung    SYDNEY UNION 6     605
97    Vikramaditya Lakhotia    SMU 1     604
98    John Brinsley - Pirie    OTAGO 2     604
99    Chua Junting    NUS 3     604
100    Alexandra Sinclair    VICTORIA 3     604
101    Shyaam Raivadera    QUEENSLAND 2     604
102    Hyewon Lee    EDiS 1     604
103    Alexander Ngoo    QUEENSLAND 1     604
104    Sneha Gururaj    NTU 1     604
105    Richard Dean Keys    ANU 2     604
106    Urmila Mandapaka    SMU 1     604
107    Michael Koziol    SYDNEY UNION 7     604
108    Seoyoung Lee    EDiS 3     604
109    Christina Lee    MELBOURNE 3     603
110    Nisha Dutta    MONASH 5     603
111    Henry Vindin    UTS 1     603
112    Stephen Garofano    UNSW 1     603
113    James Gray    MELBOURNE 4     603
114    Kurt Purdon    OTAGO 1     603
115    Joe Rigodon    DLSU 2     603
116    Sheikhmuhammad Faizal Shah    IIUM 2     603
117    Seuad Hadrovic    IIUM 1     603
118    Ang Ziqing    SMU 1     603
119    Kenneth Kang    NUS 2     603
120    Sarah Emily Rodrigues    ANU 2     602
121    Nathan Adler    UNSW 2     602
122    Christian Leonardo Harlianto    BIPEDS 1     602
123    Hannah Jung    EDiS 1     602
124    Xiao Hongyu    NUS 3     602
125    Benjamin Roe    MACQUARIE 2     602
126    Bec Lew    MONASH 6     602
127    Rebecca Irvine    MONASH 5     602
128    Jeremy Bell-Connell    CANTERBURY 1     602
129    Hideto Sakurai    ICU 1     602
130    Daniel Dummer    MACQUARIE 1     602
131    Michael Ciesielski    MELBOURNE 1     602
132    Minyoung Kim    KOREA 2     602
133    Stephanie Sandford    MELBOURNE 4     602
134    Philip Hilton    MELBOURNE 4     602
135    Astrio Feligent    BIPEDS 1     602
136    Nurasilah Mohdnor    UT MARA 3     602
137    Amy Vierboom    UTS 1     602
138    Tharishni Arumugam    MALAYA 1     601
139    Sherilyn Ooi Su Ying    MMUM 2     601
140    FOO Jun Sheng (JS works just fine)    NUS 2     601
141    Bryan Chua    DLSU 2     601
142    Andrea Bernarte    ATENEO 3     601
143    Abel Lam    HONG KONG 1     601
144    Emma Dowsett    UNSW 3     601
145    Diane Maretele    MMUM 1     601
146    James Hutauruk    MELBOURNE 2     601
147    Julianne Lipman    UNSW 5     601
148    Mina Lee    EDiS 2     601
149    Jisook Kang    DAE 1     601
150    Tan Lee Jing    NUS 2     601
151    Emily Hanlon    UNSW 5     601
152    Khadijah Shamsul    IIUM 2     601
153    Ji Yoon Han    UU 1     601
154    Omoleye Segun Emmanuel    UMAC 1     601
155    Muriel Fang    DLSU 3     601
156    Chong Fok Ching Fiona    HONG KONG 1     600
157    Danielle Rebecca Duffield    OTAGO 2     600
158    Ming Kang Chen    MELBOURNE 2     600
159    Prashanth Jayaraman    NTU 2     600
160    Vincent Wang    UNSW 4     600
161    Md.Masudur Rahman Abir    IIUM 2     600
162    Dongyeop Lee    KYUNG HEE 2     600
163    Melissa-Ann Marie Gillies    UNSW 5     600
164    Luke Verduci    MACQUARIE 2     600
165    Connor Taylor    UNSW 2     600
166    Emmanuel S.    MMUM 1     600
167    Nor Emellia Mohd Shariff    UT MARA 3     600
168    Benjamin Yu Fai So    HONG KONG 1     600
169    Heejin An    EDiS 1     600
170    Dave ilhwan hwang    KYUNG HEE 2     599
171    Paulo Santiago    DLSU 1     599
172    Waka Ishikawa    ICU 2     599
173    Gideon Cordover    UNSW 4     599
174    Ji Yoon Son    EDiS 3     599
175    Hannah Faye Albarece    ANU 1     599
176    Vanessa duffy    UTS 1     599
177    Sarah Dagg    MACQUARIE 2     599
178    Keita Takayanagi    ICU 1     599
179    Riza Aryani    UI 1     599
180    Invi Atmanegara    BIPEDS 1     599
181    Taeyeong Kim    CAU1     599
182    FAN CHAOYI    MACAO POLY1     599
183    Andrew Kirk    ANU 1     599
184    Moon Young Park    EDiS 2     599
185    Yasmin Masri    ANU 2     599
186    Julian Bautista    DLSU 1     598
187    Jaeyong Shin    KOREA 2     598
188    Alireza Chitsaz    MMU 1     598
189    Sally Hayden    UNSW 3     598
190    Nur Sabrina Binti Mohamed Zaini    PUTRA 1     598
191    Daniel Mohan Jacob    PUTRA 1     598
192    Lachlan Michael Rule    MELBOURNE 5     598
193    Lottie Boardman    CANTERBURY 1     598
194    Kristyn Glanville    UNSW 2     598
195    Debra Moh Yinni    SABAH 1     598
196    Raiha Nawal    DHAKA 1     598
197    Kohki Sasaki    ICU 2     598
198    Crystal Francisco    DLSU 3     598
199    Kohei Arakawa    ICU 2     597
200    Alice Boer-Endacott    MELBOURNE 5     597
201    Lavania Jeevabala a/p Balasingam    MALAYA 1     597
202    Gilman Ahn    KOREA 3     597
203    Arisha Alexxx Arifin    MMU 1     597
204    Aziff bin Azuddin    UT MARA 3     597
205    Uyapo Machacha    MMUM 1     597
206    Yirey Suh    EDiS 2     597
207    Andrew Yuen    SING POLY 1     597
208    Muhammad Subarkah Syafruddin    UI 1     597
209    Dimas Hokka Pratama    UI 1     597
210    Alex Chi Kit Chiu    AUCKLAND 3     597
211    Elysse Lloyd    MACQUARIE 3     597
212    Refaya Rashmin    DHAKA 1     597
213    Doo Ri Hong    KYUNG HEE 2     597
214    Yan An    NTU 3     597
215    Jacob Mathan    SABAH 1     596
216    Dhruv Bindal    NTU 3     596
217    Wan Mohammad Shukri Wan Abdullah    PUTRA 1     596
218    Euiyun Kim    KYUNG HEE 1     596
219    Adeel Malik    AUCKLAND 3     596
220    Stacey David    SABAH 1     596
221    Lam Fong Tat James    CUHK 1     595
222    Colin James Ballantine    AUCKLAND 3     595
223    Wang Huanjiao    MACAO POLY1     595
224    Fang Zhou    PEKING 1     595
225    Suwon Han    UU 2     595
226    Adinda Ayu Savitri    SING POLY 1     595
227    JyaHyun Lee    KYUNG HEE 1     595
228    Teoh Gaik Ling Adelyn    HELP 1     595
229    Mark Chiu    DLSU 2     595
230    Gong Jingchao    PEKING 1     595
231    Chan Kai Yui Samuel    CUHK 1     595
232    Kim Hyo Cheon    DAE 1     595
233    Min Jae, Kim    SOLBRIDGE 1     595
234    Sarah Kwon    DAE 2     595
235    Seungjoon Alex Park    HYDS1     595
236    Soo Min Park    CAU2     595
237    Avia Nahreen    DHAKA 1     594
238    Karla Yu    DLSU 3     594
239    Jihye Park    EDiS 3     594
240    Danielle Goh    NUS 3     594
241    Sagesegaran Naidu    MMUM 2     594
242    Sarah Bootz Dickman    MMU 1     594
243    Daniel Tram    MELBOURNE 5     594
244    Chen Siyi    PEKING 1     594
245    Manik Jain    NTU 2     594
246    Madhura Satish Bhave    NTU 2     594
247    Bo Kyung Kim    UU 1     594
248    Shun Otsuzumi    TOKYO METRO 1     594
249    Kim Mikyong    KYUNG HEE 1     593
250    Yoonji Ko    UU 2     593
251    Gao Zhengkun    SING POLY 1     593
252    Dzulfadhli Bin Lamin    MMUM 2     593
253    Huang Ruijin    FUDAN 1     593
254    Eunjoo Jun    DAE 1     593
255    Bomi Kwag    ADS 1     593
256    Alex Lam    UMAC 3     593
257    Tse Pui Kei    CUHK 1     592
258    Miyuki Orito    ICU 1     592
259    Won Joon Lee    CAU1     592
260    Jeehye Yang    DAE 2     592
261    Kang, Seok Jun    KOREA 3     592
262    Yeeun Kim    CAU1     592
263    Alborz Yaloui    MACQUARIE 4     592
264    Yoko Tamamura    WASEDA 1     592
265    Giselle Soosay Nathan    HELP 1     591
266    Kang Hwan Kim    SNU 1     591
267    Sam Bradshaw    MACQUARIE 4     591
268    Eun Young Lee    ADS 1     591
269    Jewel Park    UU 2     591
270    Donghee Chae    KOREA 1     591
271    Nancy EL-Gamel    OTAGO 2     591
272    Wang Hu    UU 1     590
273    Mia Rebeca    UMAC 2     590
274    Aryani Atmosudirdjo    BANDUNG 1     590
275    James Lowrey    MACQUARIE 4     590
276    Michelle Chan Chzo Wa    UMAC 1     590
277    Ryan Thalari    MACQUARIE 3     590
278    Joosoo Kim    SNU 1     590
279    Kailaish Kumar A/L Karupiah    HELP 1     589
280    JuSeung Yi    SOLBRIDGE 1     589
281    Harah Jeon    SOLBRIDGE 1     589
282    Junsung Park    SNU 1     589
283    Pimnuch Panma    THAMMASAT 2     589
284    Shang Qian    FUDAN 1     589
285    See Kyeong Kim    HYDS1     589
286    Young Hee Kim    ADS 1     589
287    Shipping Shen    UMAC 1     589
288    Wang Yuhui    MACAO POLY1     588
289    Yesul Pae    UU 3     588
290    Hyunsoo Shim    DAE 2     588
291    Bill Gan    UMAC 2     588
292    Hirokazu Honda    WASEDA 1     588
293    Hiroaki Takahashi    TOKYO METRO 1     587
294    Diedra Putri Hapsari    BANDUNG 1     587
295    Gladys Brigita    BANDUNG 1     587
296    Jinsung Lee    HYDS1     587
297    Chisato Toki    WASEDA 1     587
298    River Yang    UMAC 2     587
299    Henry Chen    UMAC 3     587
300    Heyu Kim    DAE 3     586
301    Wang Biyu    FUDAN 1     585
302    Yunhee Koo    CAU2     585
303    Soan Jung    SOLBRIDGE 2     585
304    Sesik Han    CAU2     585
305    Chang Tsai Feng    TWEDS 2     585
306    Timothy Lou    MACQUARIE 3     585
307    Angelica Hilado    UMAC 3     585
308    Saori Fukunaga    YOKOHAMA 1     584
309    Hyewon Kang    KOREA 3     584
310    Minkee Yoon    KYUNG HEE 3     584
311    Kyung Woong Koh    UU 3     584
312    HUANG, CHING-CHIEN    TWEDS 2     584
313    Hong, Eun Jeong    DAE 3     583
314    Young Jin Cho    SOLBRIDGE 2     583
315    Hyoseon Lee    KYUNG HEE 3     583
316    Sei Takizawa    ICU 3     583
317    Sarah Yoo    KOREA 1     583
318    MUHAMMAD ASHRAF ABDUL RAHMAN    TERENGGANU 1     583
319    Seung Hun Lee    UU 3     583
320    Yurika Hirano    YOKOHAMA 1     582
321    Anna Ohtake    TOKYO METRO 1     582
322    Yeon Kyeong Park    KYUNG HEE 3     582
323    Yoko Hanaki    ICU 3     581
324    Hannah Noh    SWING 1     580
325    Jang Youjin    DAE 3     580
326    Seoyoon Lee    SOLBRIDGE 2     580
327    Park Yoo Hyun    SWING 1     580
328    Mika Matsuo    YOKOHAMA 1     580
329    Hee Su Park    SWING 1     579
330    DURGAHYENI A/P MOHGANA SELVAM    TERENGGANU 1     579
331    Thatee Diawpanich    THAMMASAT 2     578
332    Lee, An-Na    TWEDS 2     578
333    Haneul Lee    KOREA 1     578
334    Patsuda Wipanan    THAMMASAT 2     578
335    Chang Wei-che    TWEDS 1     577
336    Pluemkoon Bualuang    THAMMASAT 1     576
337    NUR FARAH HANIM MD NOR    TERENGGANU 1     576
338    Kyohei Naruse    ICU 3     575
339    Suthipat Chantrasawang    THAMMASAT 1     573
340    Hsieh, Wen-Yuan    TWEDS 1     571
341    Jananya Vanichanon    THAMMASAT 1     570
342    LEE, SHU-HUI    TWEDS 1     567

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

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

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

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

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

Austral-Asians 2011 Day 4 Schedule

Day Four at the 2011 Austral Asian Debating Championships (9th July, Saturday)


- Rounds 4 and 5
- Women's Forum and Women's Night at EWHA Womens' University

Australs Round 3 motion

Round 3 motions from the 2011 Austral-Asians

That military officers should be allowed to criticise government

That we should abolish parliamentary privilege as defence of defamation

That the US should directly elect supreme court judges


Ateneo 1 vs UNSW 1 is being streamed live by logan at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/debate2