2012 Hart House North American Debating Championship Invitation

On behalf of the Hart House Debates Committee, it is our pleasure to formally invite you to the 2012 North American Debate Championships, taking place on January 27-January 29, 2012 at the University of Toronto.

Debating

We will have 6 rounds of preliminary debate (2 on Friday, 4 on Saturday), according to the CUSID/APDA MoU. We will break to octofinals, but this is contingent on our tournament reaching its cap. Our initial team cap will be 80 teams. As per the CUSID-APDA MoU, all members in good standing are eligible to send two teams to the tournament. If there are sufficient numbers, there will be a novice final.

Awards will be given to the top 8 teams, top 10 speakers, top novice team, and top novice speaker.

Adjudication

Richard Lizius has agreed to served as the CA for Hart House Norams. In addition as serving as North American DCA for 2010-2011 Botswana Worlds, Richard’s accomplishments include: Koç WUDC 2nd speaker and quarter-finalist, Cork WUDC 9th speaker and octo-finalist, North American Top Speaker, 2 time CUSID national champion and top speaker, and 2009 Yale IV champion and top speaker. Richard has an extensive knowledge of both the Canadian and American judging pools, and has served as CA for the Hart House IV three times.

Steven Penner will serve as Assistant Chief Adjudicator. Steve is a CUSID British Parliamentary National Champion, a two-time winner of the Seagram Invitational, HWS/IDEA Round Robin Finalist, and has broken at numerous CUSID tournaments. He has served as Chief-Adjudicator of the Hart House IV.

APDA will appoint a DCA shortly.

We intend on securing funding to subsidize as many qualified American and out-of-region adjudicators as possible. However, Hart House’s own legendary internal and Alumni judging pool will, on its own, provide international quality judging panels in every room. Toronto is home to multiple World, National, and North American debating champions, and a staggering number who have broken as judges or adjudicators at previous Worlds and North Ams.

We have a strong enough internal judging pool that we will not be imposing a significant n-judging requirement. The judging requirement will be n/3, rounded down.

Food and Socials

Debaters and judges will be provided with a dinner on Friday evening and breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday. Our traditional formal banquet will be happening on Saturday evening. If you require special dietary requirements (veggie, vegan, halal, kosher, allergies), we can make arrangements for you if we are notified by the Stage II registration deadline, December 15.

There will be socials on both Friday and Saturday night, as well as an informal social for those arriving on Thursday.

Accommodation

We will be negotiating three hotel deals and these will be finalized very soon. Details to follow.

For those who wish to billet, billeting is allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Registration

Registration is $160 per team, and $80 per adjudicator, all prices in Canadian dollars.

Stage I of Registration begins on November 15 at 10am EST and will take place through < http://www.harthouse.ca/student-engagement/nadc_registration>

PLEASE NOTE: We will not consider registration attempts before the above time.

You'll receive a confirmation email within 48 hours of registering. If you don't, please contact us.

Full payment will be due by December 15. Credit card is our preferred form of payment, and due to policy constraints, is unfortunately the only form of payment that we can accept from American participants. Details of stage II registration will follow shortly.

Hope to see lots of you there!

Sam Greene & Jake Brockman,

Tournament Directors, NorAms 2012

jakelbrockman@gmail.com

sam.greene@utoronto.ca

Cornell win the 2011 Hart House IV

This weekend's Hart House IV was won by Cornell B (Alex Bores & Ryan Yeh).  In the final they defeated

Royal Military College A (Hotson & Reid), McGill A (Bricker & Slepneva) and Carleton D (Maoine & Cameron).

 

Semifinalists were:

Dalhousie B (Macaulay/McGarry)

McGill C (Duncan/Abdulla)

HWS A (Klinger/McConnel)

Hybrid DZCFCWCRG AWLTDOSGT (Mysore/Balcom)

 

Quarterfinalists were:

Colgate A (Thoma/Steele)

Alberta B (Burch/Elhatton-Lake)

Alaska B (Carpenter/Stanley)

Alaska C (Haughey/Cason)

 

You can find a copy of the tab at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqoSeqCc_1vQdE9DRTBhOWlLNy1wZk52VG5CcURyZ3c&hl=en_US#gid=0

 

Hart House IV Registration

On behalf of the Hart House Debates Committee, it is my pleasure to formally invite youto the Hart House IV, taking place on October 14th – 16th.

Debating

All debates will be in standard British Parliamentary format, using Worlds speaking times (7 minutes per speech). All resolutions will be tight-link, with our very capable CAs ensuring a wide variety of topics are debated. There will be a hard cap of 80 teams.

There will be five preliminary rounds, with rounds 1-3 being open adjudication. If there are 80 registered teams, then we will break to quarter-finals. Otherwise, the top 8 teams will break to semis.

Awards will be given to the top 8 teams, top 10 speakers, top novice team, and top novice speaker.

Adjudication

The Chief Adjudicators of this year’s tournament are Steven Penner and Sam Greene. In the past year alone, Steven was the CUSID National Champion and British Parliamentary Champion. Steve has twice won the Seagram Cup, and has been a Chancellors semi finalist and Winter Carnival quarter finalist. Sam’s accomplishments include CUSID British Parliamentary Champion, Central Canadian (Leger Cup) Champion, Nationals Semifinalist, National, North American and Central Novice champion, Guindon and Chancellors semifinalist.

In addition to our highly qualified Chief Adjudicators, Hart House has access to an incredibly deep judging pool. Between the Hart House debating club, Hart House alumni and other debaters in Toronto, we have multiple National and North American debating champions, as well as numerous members who have broken as judges or adjudicators at previous worlds. We're confident that we can provide quality judging in every room.

The judging requirement will be n/3, rounded down. If a team is unable to fulfill their judging requirement then this can be waived at the discretion of the Chief Adjudicators. We strongly encourage those teams who feel like they need a waiver to contact us, rather than sending an adjudicator who may be uncomfortable judging.

Equity and Accessibility

The equity officer for this year's tournament is Gemma Stanton-Hagan. An equity policy will be posted by October 1st.

Food and Socials

Debaters and judges will be provided with a bag dinner on Friday evening, breakfast and lunch on Saturday, and brunch on Sunday. Our traditional formal banquet will be happening on Saturday evening. If you require special dietary requirements (veggie, vegan, halal, kosher, allergies) then we can make arrangements for you if we're notified by October 9th.

There willbe socials on both Friday and Saturday night, as well as an informal social for those arriving on Thursday. Every effort will be made to make the socials novice friendly.

Accommodation

We will benegotiating a hotel deal in the next few weeks. Details to follow.

For those who wish to billet, billeting is allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Registration

Registrationis $150 per team, and $70 per adjudicator, all prices in Canadian dollars. Registration begins September 1st, and ends October 5th. All schools must have paid in full by October 7th.

Registration and payment will be done online. 

 

Beginning September 1st, each school can register up to six teams by emailing harthousedebate@gmail.com with the following information:

- school name

- number of teams

- number of judges

- billeting requirements (number and sex of those requiring billeting)

- payment type (cheque or credit card)

Credit card is our preferred form of payment, and due to policy constraints is the only type of payment we can accept from American and international participants.

More detailed information and payment will be collected through an online form at a later date as the second step of registration. Details to follow.

 

Teams who must travel a significant distance (ie. those outside of North America, or those with abnormally high travel costs) can request that their registration be waived. We will consider these requests on a case-by-case basis. Please make this request during registration.

There is an initial school cap of 6 teams, which will be lifted on October 1st.

Hope to see lots of you there! If you have any questions, please contact the Tournament Directors, Deirdre Casey and Allie Allison, at harthousedebate@gmail.com.

Hart House IV Invitation

On behalf of the Hart House Debates Committee, it is my pleasure to formally invite you to the Hart House IV, taking place on October 14th – 16th.

Debating
All debates will be in standard British Parliamentary format, using Worlds speaking times (7 minutes per speech). All resolutions will be tight-link, with our very capable CAs ensuring a wide variety of topics are debated. There will be a hard cap of 80 teams.

There will be five preliminary rounds, with rounds 1-3 being open adjudication. If there are 80 registered teams, then we will break to quarter-finals. Otherwise, the top 8 teams will break to semis.

Awards will be given to the top 8 teams, top 10 speakers, top novice team, and top novice speaker.


Adjudication
The Chief Adjudicators of this year’s tournament are Steven Penner and Sam Greene. In the past year alone, Steven was the CUSID National Champion and British Parliamentary Champion. Steve has twice won the Seagram Cup, and has been a Chancellors semifinalist and Winter Carnival quarterfinalist. Sam’s accomplishments include CUSID British Parliamentary Champion, Central Canadian (Leger Cup) Champion, Nationals Semifinalist, National, North American and Central Novice champion, Guindon and Chancellors semifinalist.


In addition to our highly qualified Chief Adjudicators, Hart House has access to an incredibly deep judging pool. Between the Hart House debating club, Hart House alumni and other debaters in Toronto, we have multiple National and North American debating champions, as well as numerous members who have broken as judges or adjudicators at previous worlds. We're confident that we can provide quality judging in every room.


The judging requirement will be n/3, rounded down. If a team is unable to fulfill their judging requirement then this can be waived at the discretion of the Chief Adjudicators. We strongly encourage those teams who feel like they need a waiver to contact us, rather than sending an adjudicator who may be uncomfortable judging.


Equity and Accessibility
The equity officer for this year's tournament is Gemma Stanton-Hagan. An equity policy will be posted by October 1st.


Food and Socials
Debaters and judges will be provided with a bag dinner on Friday evening, breakfast and lunch on Saturday, and brunch on Sunday. Our traditional formal banquet will be happening on Saturday evening. If you require special dietary requirements (veggie, vegan, halal, kosher, allergies) then we can make arrangements for you if we're notified by October 9th.

There will be socials on both Friday and Saturday night, as well as an informal social for those arriving on Thursday. Every effort will be made to make the socials novice friendly.


Accommodation
We will be negotiating a hotel deal in the next few weeks. Details to follow.

For those who wish to billet, billeting is allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis.


Registration
Registration is $150 per team, and $70 per adjudicator, all prices in Canadian dollars. Registration begins September 1st, and ends October 5th. All schools must have paid in full by October 7th.

Registration and payment will be done online. Details to follow in late August.

Teams who must travel a significant distance (ie. those outside of North America, or those with abnormally high travel costs) can request that their registration be waived. We will consider these requests on a case-by-case basis. Please make this request during registration.

There is an initial school cap of 6 teams, which will be lifted on October 1st.

Hope to see lots of you there! If you have any questions, please contact the Tournament Directors, Deirdre Casey and Allie Allison, at harthousedebate@gmail.com.

CUSID National Championships

Should have published this last week but only came across it this morning.  For more info check http://www.cusid.ca/.

From March 18th – 20th the Canadian National Debate Championship was hosted by the University of Western Ontario Debate Society.


Hart House (U of T): (Steven Penner & George Trotter) won the championships defeating University of Alberta (Iain Ireland & Robert Lees-Miller) in the final

Semifinalists were
Dalhousie University (Auyon Siddiq & Ali Cherri)
Hart House (U of T) (Sam Greene & Deirdre Casey)

Quarterfinalists were:
McGill University (Alex Amar & Sean Husband)
Hart House (U of T) (Anisah Hassan & Louis Tsilivis)
Hart House (U of T) (Veenu Goswami & Aidan Fishman)
University of Alberta (Kathleen Elhatton-Lake & Ian Burch)

The novice champions were Dalhousie University (Vinayak Mishra & Casper Macauley) who defeated Hart House (U of T) (Veenu Goswami & Aidan Fishman) in the Novice Final

The Top Speakers were:
1. George Trotter
2. Anisah Hassan
3. Robert Lees-Miller
4. Steven Penner
5. Wudi Wu
6. Sean Husband
7. Ian Burch
8. Alex Amar
9. Kathleen Elhatton-Lake
10. Ali Cherri

The top Novice Speakers were:
1. Veenu Goswami
2. Louis Tsilivis
3. Sarah Balakrishnan

The Top Public Speakers were:
Champion: Husein Panju
2. Alex Amar and Sean Husband
3. Gretchen McCulloch

McGill's Winter Carnival Results 2011

The 61st McGill annual Winter Carnival North American Invitational was held this weekend.  It was won by a Hybrid team of Brent Kettles & Joshua Seely-Harrington.

Champion: Hybrid (Brent Kettles/Joshua Sealy-Harrington)
Finalist: Hybrid (Monica Ferris/Stephen Boyle)
Semifinalist: Hybrid (Jake Liang/Sohpie Macintyre)
Semifinalist: Hart House (Sam Greene/Deirdre Casey)

Quarterfinalist: Alberta (Iain Ireland/Robert Lees-Miller)
Quarterfinalist: Hybrid (Andrew Monkhouse/Andrew Choat)
Quarterfinalist: Hybrid (Steve Penner/Romeo Maione)
Quarterfinalist: Hart House (Josh Stark/Louis Tsivilis)

Top Speaker: Stephen Boyle
Top Novice Speaker: Louis Tsivilis
Public Speech Champion: Nisha Patel

Update: Initially the post had the results of the final the wrong way around.  I've now fixed that.

UBC IV Results‏

Here are results for the UBC IV on November 5th-6th, in Vancouver.


Forty teams competed in 5 preliminary rounds. Breaking to semifinals were:
1st (13 points) – Alaska: Akis Gialopsos & Amie Stanley
2nd (12 points) – UBC/Indepent Hybrid: Emily Cooley & Michael Imeson
3rd (12 points) – Alaska: Colin Haughey & Michaela Hernandez
4th (11 points) – Alaska: Drew Cason & Sarah Carpenter
5th (11 points) – UBC: Dan Westlake & Rebecca Tan
6th (10 points) – UBC/Calgary Hybrid: Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Kaja Marinic
7th (10 points) – AlbertaAshvin Singh & Robert Lees-Miller
8th (10 points) – Alaska: Amy Parrent & Brett Frazer


The final round pairings included:
Opening Gov – Alaska (Gialopsos & Stanley)
Opening Opp – UBC/Calgary (Sealy-Harrington & Marinic)
Closing Gov – UBC/Independent (Imeson & Cooley)
Closing Opp – Alaska (Parrent & Frazer)

The 7 member adjudication panel eventually named the UBC/Calgary team of Sealy-Harrington & Marinic champions.

The top 10 speakers were:
9th (tie) – Emily Cooley (UBC)
9th (tie) – Robert Lees-Miller (Alberta)
8th – Brett Frazer (Alaska)
7th – Ashvin Singh (Alberta)
6th – Colin Haughey Alaska)
5th – Amie Stanley (Alaska)
4th – Michaela Hernandez (Alaska)
3rd – Joshua Sealy-Harrington (UBC)
2nd – Michael Imeson (Independent)
1st – Akis Gialopsos (Alaska)

The top novice team was Catherine Helle & Brittany Bennett (Alaska)

The top novice speaker was Sarah Gordan (UBC)


Evan Choate from UBC was the CA.


The Tournament was themed around sex and gender issues:

Rd 1: THW make technique a mandatory part of the sex ed curriculum
Rd 2: THW remove all barriers to sex reassignment surgery.
Rd 3: THW never extradite people to countries where their sexuality is illegal.
Rd 4: THW convict those who lie about their social identity in order to have sex with someone of rape.
Rd 5: THW make surrogates responsible for the child when the biological parents request an abortion due to unforeseen medical defects.
Semi: THW allow sexual research on children.
Final: Assuming laser surgery is invented that allows perfect, cheap and safe alteration of primary and secondary sex characteristics in five minutes, THW require all politicians to switch sex while serving office.

Mc Gill Win Hart House 2010

McGill have won the 2010 Hart House IV.


Final:
This House prefers an equal society to a rich one.

Alaska GS
McGill SS
Carleton MC
UBC CT
Semi-Finals:
This House supports positive discrimination in favor of male educators.

Carleton MC
RMC
UBC
Dal-Carleon
McGill
Alaska
Queens EW
Queens HU

Qtr Finals:
This House supports a constitutional role in government for the Pakistani military.

McGill SS
McGill SH
Alaska GS
Alberta BI

Carleton MC
RMC RH
Vermont AN
Vermont GL

UBC CH
UBC CJ
Dal-Carleton hybrid
Cornell BY

Queens EW
Western TR
Queens HV
McGill BD

Source Progymnasmata

Updates from Hart House IV

Steve at Progymnasmata is blogging from the Hard House IV.  If you want to follow events visit http://progymna.blogspot.com/



Breaking Teams:
McGill SS (14)

Carleton MC (13)
UBC CH (12)
Queens EW (12)
Western TR (12)
UBC CJ (11)
RMC H R (11)
McGill HS (11)
Alaska GS (11)
Vermont AN (10)
Dalhousie/Carleton MR (10)
Queens HB (10)
McGill BV (10)
Cornell BY (10)
Vermont GL (10)
Alberta BI (10)
Motions:
1. Thw would never conscript its citizens

2. This House opposes Valentines Day.

3. This House opposes Valentines Day.

4. This House supports a united Ireland.
5. This House supports shorter jail sentences for aboriginal offenders

Update from the Hart House Invitational 2010

We’re extremely excited for the upcoming HHIV, October 15-17.


With registration opening soon (September 1), we thought it would be pertinent to send out the final registration details.

Here is how registration will take place for the 2010 HHIV:

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STEP 1: Beginning on September 1, all schools are eligible to register up to 6 teams by emailing harthousedebate@gmail.com with the following information:

School Name, number of teams, number of judges, billeting requirements, and payment type (cheque or credit card)
-Teams who must travel a significant and unusual distance (ie. those outside of North America, or similarly onerous distances) can request that their registration be waived. We will consider these requests on a case-by-case basis. Please indicate your request in your registration email.
-Credit card is our preferred form of payment, and due to policy constraints, is unfortunately the only form of payment that we can accept from American and other international participants.

STEP 2: You will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours of emailing. If you don't, please try contacting us again, just to make sure we have all of your information.

STEP 3: If paying by cheque, please make your cheques payable to the Hart House Debates Committee and put HHIV 2010 in the subject line. Cheques can be sent to:

Hart House Debates Committee
7 Hart House Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H3

For credit card payments, we have switched to an online system and you will be contacted by Hart House within one week with password information for our secure online system.

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Once again, the cost for the HHIV will be $150 per team and $70 per judge.

IMPORTANT NOTE: We are also now making 100% of the payment due by October 8. If payment is not received by this date, all registered teams will be dropped and we will turn to the waiting list.

UPDATE ON HOTEL & ACCOMODATIONS
The Bloor-Yorkville Holiday Inn has set aside 20 rooms with two beds for October 15 and 16 $129.99 per room based on two adults in the room (a extra person charges are $10 each up to a maximum of four persons in a room).

The booking code for the group is HHD and the name is Hart House Debate Committee. Guests may choose to make reservations online at www.holidayinn.com/torontomidtown  or directly with hotel reservations at 416-968-0010 or via email at cn312res@whg.com .

You have until September 20, 2010 to make a reservation; we cannot guarantee that guests who choose to make a reservation after this date will have the same rate or room options.

Note: For those who wish to billet, billeting is allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis. International teams are given guaranteed billeting.

ON ADJUDICATION
Our adjudication team, led by our Chief Adjudicator Richard Lizius (DCA Botswana WUDC 2010, Koç 2nd speaker), will be releasing a style guide in the coming weeks consistent with previous HHIV judging standards. Once again, the format is standard BP.

HHIV is known for its exceptionally deep judging pool. We won’t list every extreme overqualified, internationally renowned adjudicator that we’ve had in the past, because that list would go on for far too long. Suffice to say that our finals panel last year included 3 past World Champions and a Worlds Top Speaker (not to mention the winners of some of the world’s other most prestigious IVs and regional events).

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To see the original invitation, you can check the thread on CUSIDnet:

http://www.cusid.ca/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20718

Take care and please feel free to contact us with any questions.

All the best,

Jake Brockman and Sam Greene
Tournament Directors, HHIV 2010
harthousedebate@gmail.com

Hart House IV Invitation

On behalf of the Hart House Debates Committee, it is my pleasure to formally invite you to the Hart House IV, taking place on October 15th – 17th, 2010 at the University of Toronto.
Debating
All debates will be in standard British Parliamentary format, using Worlds speaking times (7 minutes per speech). All resolutions will be tight-link, with our very capable CA ensuring a wide variety of topics are debated. There will be a hard cap of 80 teams.

There will be five preliminary rounds, with rounds 1-3 being open adjudication. If there are 80 registered teams, then we will break to quarter-finals. Otherwise, the top 8 teams will break to semis.

Awards will be given to the top 8 teams, top 10 speakers, top novice team, and top novice speaker.
Adjudication
The Chief Adjudicator of this year’s tournament is Richard Lizius. In addition to being selected as the North American DCA for 2010-2011 Botswana Worlds, Richard’s accomplishments include: Koç WUDC 2nd speaker and quarter-finalist, Cork WUDC 9th speaker and octo-finalist, North American Top Speaker, 2 time CUSID national champion and top speaker, and 2009 Yale IV champion and top speaker. Our Assistant Chief Adjudicator will be Steven Penner.

In addition to Richard and Steve, Hart House has access to an incredibly deep judging pool. Between the Hart House debating club, Hart House alumni and other debaters in Toronto, we have multiple National and North American debating champions, as well as numerous members who have broken as judges or adjudicators at previous worlds. We're confident of the quality of judging in every room.

The judging requirement will be n/3, rounded down. If a team is unable to fulfill their judging requirement then this can be waived at the discretion of the Chief Adjudicator. We strongly encourage those teams who feel like they need a waiver to contact us, rather than sending an adjudicator who may be uncomfortable judging.

Equity and Accessibility
The equity officers for this year's tournament are Sima Atri and Ryan Andrade. An equity policy will be posted by October 1st.

Food and Socials
Debaters and judges will be provided with a bag dinner on Friday evening, breakfast and lunch on Saturday, and brunch on Sunday. Our traditional formal banquet will be happening on Saturday evening. If you require special dietary requirements (veggie, vegan, halal, kosher, allergies) then we can make arrangements for you if we're notified by October 9th.

There will be socials on both Friday and Saturday night, as well as an informal social for those arriving on Thursday. Every effort will be made to make the socials underager-friendly.

Accommodation
We will be negotiating a hotel deal in the next week. Details to follow.

For those who wish to billet, billeting is allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis. International teams are given guaranteed billeting.

Registration
Registration is $150 per team, and $70 per adjudicator, all prices in Canadian dollars. Registration begins September 1st, and ends October 5th. All schools must submit their non-refundable deposit by October 8th. The deposit is 50% of the total fees for the school.

You'll receive a confirmation email within 24 hours of emailing. If you don't, please try contacting us again, just to make sure we have all of your information.

Teams who must travel a significant and unusual distance (ie. those outside of North America, or similarly onerous distances) can request that their registration be waived. We will consider these requests on a case-by-case basis. Please indicate your request in your registration email.

Credit card is our preferred form of payment, and due to policy constraints, is unfortunately the only form of payment that we can accept from American and other international participants. The credit card form will be sent out with the confirmation of registration.

We have a receipt book and will issue receipts.

There is an initial school cap of 6 teams, which will be lifted on October 1st.

For Canadian Schools, Cheques should be made out to:
Hart House Debates Committee
7 Hart House Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H3

Please send the following info:
School Name, number of teams, number of judges, names of team members, names of judges, dietary requirements (veggie, vegan, halal, kosher, allergies, etc.) and billeting requirements to harthousedebate@gmail.com

Hope to see lots of you there! And any questions, please send to harthousedebate@gmail.com as well.

McGill Win Cusid Nationals 2010

The 2010 CUSID (Canada) National Results were held in University of Alberta.
Champion: MCG Goldenrod (Sophie MacIntyre & Vinay K Mysore)

Finalist: MCG Unmellow Yellow (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik)

Semifinalists:
MCG Laser Lemon (Jake Liang & Bryce Balcolm)
YU Shocking Pink (Rudi Lof & Brent Kettles)

Quarterfinalists:
HH Cerulean (John Ashbourne & George Trotter)
UBC Robin's Egg Blue (Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Evan Choate)
MCG Sunglow (Joe Bricker & Cal Rosemond)
DAL Spring Green (Ali Cherri & Max Rau)

Top Speakers
1. Sean Stefanik (McGill)
2. John Ashbourne (Hart House)
3. Brent Kettles (Osgoode)
4. Saro Setrakian (McGill)
5. Jake Liang (McGill)
6. George Trotter (Hart House)
7. Andrew McCoomb (Dalhousie)
8. Sophie MacIntyre (McGill)
9. Bryce Balcolm (McGill)
10. Mark Rubenstein (Queen's)

Top Novice Team: HH Inchworm (Deirdre Casey & Sam Greene)
1st Novice Speaker: Tim Abdulla (McGill)
2nd Novice Speaker: Sam Greene (Hart House)
3rd Novice Speaker: tie between Deirdre Casey & Howard Cohen

Public speaking results
Champion: Christopher McMillan (Calgary)
2nd: Keith Lehwald (Dalhousie)
3rd: Meritt Koçdağ (Saskatchewan)

Team Break:
1st: HH Cerulean (John Ashbourne & George Trotter), on 6 points
2nd: MCG Unmellow Yellow (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik), on 5 points
3rd: MCG Laser Lemon (Jake Liang & Bryce Balcom), on 5 points
4th: YU Shocking Pink (Rudi Lof & Brent Kettles), on 5 points
5th: UBC Robin's Egg Blue (Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Evan Choate), on 5 points
6th: MCG Sunglow (Joe Bricker & Cal Rosemond), on 5 points
7th: DAL Spring Green (Ali Cherri & Max Rau), on 5 points
8th: MCG Goldenrod (Sophie MacIntyre & Vinay K Mysore), on 4 points

Novice Break:
1st: McGill Green Yellow (Tim Abdulla & John Clarke), on 4 points
2nd: Hart House Inchworm (Deirdre Casey & Sam Greene), on 4 points

Public Speaking:
1st: Keith Lehwald (Dalhousie University)
2nd: Jordan Rederburg (University of Saskatchewan)
3rd: Sean Husband (McGill University)
4th: Chris McMillan (University of Calgary)
5th: Meritt (University of Saskatchewan)
6th: Garrett Richards (University of Saskatchewan)

Judges Break:
Alan Cliff (UADS)
Erin Reddekop (SFU)
Gavin Charles (DAL)
Jason Rogers (HH)
Richard Lizius (HH)
Monica Ferris (HH)
Guillaume LaRoche (MCG)
Ian Freeman (HH)
Margherita Wisdom Devine (MCG)
James Crossman (UADS)
Patrick Meehan (UBC)
Roman Kotovych (UADS)
Neil Frazer (HH)
Andrew Baker (USDS)
Angela Jansen (USDS)
Ian Burch (UADS)
Iain Ireland (UADS)
Emily Cliff (UADS)
Wallis Rudnick (UADS)
Sean Lee (UADS)
Nick Tam (UADS)
Siobhan Kirkland (UCDS)
Michael Hsaio (UBC)
Miriam Gough (MCG)
Anno Laarman (UADS)
Krum Dochev (DAL)
Janna Robblee (UCDS)

McGill win Canadian Nationals

From: http://www.cusid.ca/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20092


The CUSID (Canada) National Results were held in University of Alberta. The results are:

Champion: MCG Goldenrod (Sophie MacIntyre & Vinay K Mysore)

Finalist: MCG Unmellow Yellow (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik)

Semifinalists:
MCG Laser Lemon (Jake Liang & Bryce Balcolm)
YU Shocking Pink (Rudi Lof & Brent Kettles)

Quarterfinalists:
HH Cerulean (John Ashbourne & George Trotter)
UBC Robin's Egg Blue (Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Evan Choate)
MCG Sunglow (Joe Bricker & Cal Rosemond)
DAL Spring Green (Ali Cherri & Max Rau)
Top Speakers
1. Sean Stefanik (McGill)
2. John Ashbourne (Hart House)
3. Brent Kettles (Osgoode)
4. Saro Setrakian (McGill)
5. Jake Liang (McGill)
6. George Trotter (Hart House)
7. Andrew McCoomb (Dalhousie)
8. Sophie MacIntyre (McGill)
9. Bryce Balcolm (McGill)
10. Mark Rubenstein (Queen's)


Top Novice Team: HH Inchworm (Deirdre Casey & Sam Greene)

1st Novice Speaker: Tim Abdulla (McGill)
2nd Novice Speaker: Sam Greene (Hart House)
3rd Novice Speaker: tie between Deirdre Casey & Howard Cohen

Public speaking results
Champion: Christopher McMillan (Calgary)
2nd: Keith Lehwald (Dalhousie)
3rd: Meritt Koçdağ (Saskatchewan)

Alberta Nationals 2010 - Break Announcement

Team Break:
1st: HH Cerulean (John Ashbourne & George Trotter), on 6 points
2nd: MCG Unmellow Yellow (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik), on 5 points
3rd: MCG Laser Lemon (Jake Liang & Bryce Balcom), on 5 points
4th: YU Shocking Pink (Rudi Lof & Brent Kettles), on 5 points
5th: UBC Robin's Egg Blue (Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Evan Choate), on 5 points
6th: MCG Sunglow (Joe Bricker & Cal Rosemond), on 5 points
7th: DAL Spring Green (Ali Cherri & Max Rau), on 5 points
8th: MCG Goldenrod (Sophie MacIntyre & Vinay K Mysore), on 4 points

Novice Break:
1st: McGill Green Yellow (Tim Abdulla & John Clarke), on 4 points
2nd: Hart House Inchworm (Deirdre Casey & Sam Greene), on 4 points

Public Speaking Break:
1st: Keith Lehwald (Dalhousie University)
2nd: Jordan Rederburg (University of Saskatchewan)
3rd: Sean Husband (McGill University)
4th: Chris McMillan (University of Calgary)
5th: Meritt (University of Saskatchewan)
6th: Garrett Richards (University of Saskatchewan)

Judges Break:
In no particular order (and hopefully this list is accurate):
Alan Cliff (UADS)
Erin Reddekop (SFU)
Gavin Charles (DAL)
Jason Rogers (HH)
Richard Lizius (HH)
Monica Ferris (HH)
Guillaume LaRoche (MCG)
Ian Freeman (HH)
Margherita Wisdom Devine (MCG)
James Crossman (UADS)
Patrick Meehan (UBC)
Roman Kotovych (UADS)
Neil Frazer (HH)
Andrew Baker (USDS)
Angela Jansen (USDS)
Ian Burch (UADS)
Iain Ireland (UADS)
Emily Cliff (UADS)
Wallis Rudnick (UADS)
Sean Lee (UADS)
Nick Tam (UADS)
Siobhan Kirkland (UCDS)
Michael Hsaio (UBC)
Miriam Gough (MCG)
Anno Laarman (UADS)
Krum Dochev (DAL)
Janna Robblee (UCDS)

Results from the McGill Women's Tournament

Champions:
Queen's University - Megan Vanden Hof & Christine Wadsworth

Finalists:
McGill University - Riva Gold & Natalya Slepneva
Queen's University - Shaughnessy Hawkins & Kaya Ellis
McGill University - Sophie MacIntyre & Hannah Pavalow

Semi-Finalists:
York University - Sarah Sahagian & Anna Koppelman
Carleton University/Dalhousie University - Emma Robillard-Cole & Jacqueline Byers
McGill University - Karen Geukers & Annike Flomen
University of Ottawa English Debating Society - Devon Black & Dayna Prest

Best Speaker:
McGill University - Riva Gold

Best Public Speaker:
Carleton University - Emma Robillard-Cole

Motions:
1 - THBT it is a legitimate tool of foreign policy to send political dissidents back to their countries of origin even if they meet the standards for refugee status.
2 - THW ban defendents in criminal trials from defending themselves.
3 - THS non-territorial sovereignty for aboriginals.
4 - THW Impose strict caps on university spending on varsity sports.
5 - THS the public HIV test mandatory for all South African MPs.
Semi - THS Europe's hostility to multiculturalism.
Final - THBT the courts should have stayed out of the abortion debate.

CUSID BP Championships‏

The CUSID BP Championships were hosted by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver on 20-22 November. There were 52 teams, representing 20 institutions at the championships.


Advancing to semifinals after 5 rounds were:
1. Alaska A (14 points)
2. Hart House A (12 points)
3. McGill A
4. McGoode A [McGill/Osgoode] (11 points)
5. Carleton A
6. McGill B
7. York A
8. Queens A (10 points)

Semifinal 1 included:
McGoode A (1st Gov)
*Alaska A (1st Opp)
*Queens A (2nd Gov)
Carleton A (2nd Opp)

Semifinal 2 included:
*Hart House A (1st Gov)
*York A (1st Opp)
McGill A (2nd Gov)
McGill B (2nd Opp)

The champion debate team on a 5-2 decision was Hart House (Richard Lizius & Ian Freeman).

The 3 finalists were:
*Receiving the 2 dissenting votes: Alaska (Michael Imeson & James Kilcup)
Queens (Christina Wadsworth & Sheldon McCormick)
York (Sarah Sahagian & Emmett Soldati)

The top 10 speakers after 5 preliminary rounds were:
10th Place: Ian Freeman of Hart House A
9th Place: Adam Coombs of Carleton A
8th Place: Andrew Lawrence of Carleton A
7th Place: Joshua Sealy-Harrington of UBC A
6th Place: Christina Wadsworth of Queens A
5th Place: Saro Setrakian of McGill [McGoode A]
4th Place: Brent Kettles of Osgoode [McGoode A]
3rd Place: Richard Lizius of Hart House A
2nd Place: James Kilcup of Alaska A
1st Place: Michael Imeson of Alaska A

The motions for CUSID BP Championships were:
Rd 1: THBT aboriginal lands belong to individuals rather than the band.
Rd 2: THS a common EU army.
Rd 3: THW outlaw arranged marriage.
Rd 4: THBT the United States should support China granting aid to African states.
Rd 5: THW legalize euthanasia.
Semis: THBT the new Kenyan Constitution should not include Islamic Family Courts.
Finals: THBT the government should be able to prosecute cases of sexual assault without the victim’s continuing consent.

Public Speaking Finals
1st Place: Ian Ireland (Albeds)
2nd Place: Sean Husband (McGill)
3rd Place: Trenton Millar (McGill)
Finalist – Akis Gialopsos (Alaska)
Finalist – Charlie Sprague (Claremont)
Finalist – Ian Hruday (Alberta)
Finalist – Robbie Less-Miller (Alberta)
Finalist – Mike Renaud (UVic)

Source: Shawn F. Briscoe

Some recent results: Hugill Cup '09

On 6-8 November, 32 teams attended the Hugill Cup in Edmonton, Canada.

Advancing to the Semifinals were:
Alaska IK*
Alaska GS*
Alaska CH
Calgary WS

Alberta CI*
Alberta BL*
UBC CP
U of Saskatechewan HR

The champions were Alaska GS (Akis Gialopsos & Amie Stanley)
The other finalists were:
Alaska IK (Michael Imeson & James Kilcup)
Alberta CI (Emily Cliff & Iain Ireland)
Alberta BL (Ian Burch & Robert Lees-Miller)

The top 5 speakers were:
5th Place – Garrett Richards (Saskatchewan)
4th Place – Colin Haughey (Alaska)
3rd Place – Dylan Hardy (Saskatchewan)
2nd Place – James Kilcup (Alaska)
1st Place – Michael Imeson (Alaska)

The following motions were debated:
Rd 1: THBT custody hearings should not take a child’s biological parentage into account.
Rd 2: THW allow evidence obtained from entrapment to be admissible in court.
Rd 3: THW deny communion to politicians that support abortion.
Rd 4: THBT Britain UK should withdraw from the EU.
Rd 5: THW condition the award of major international sporting events upon the legalization of prostitution for the duration of the events.
Semis: THBT Saudi Arabia should cancel the Hajj in light of the swine flu.
Finals: THBT, in the future, clones should not be awarded the same rights as humans

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.

Hart House win CUSID nationals

Richard Lizius and Paul-Erik Dash Veel of Hart House, Univeristy of Toronto won the 2009 CUSID (Canadian) national championships. In the final they defeated Sophie MacIntyre & Jake Liang of McGill University.

Richard Lizius was also the overall top speaker.

Mary MacPhail and Robert Lees-Miller from the University of Alberta won the novice event.

Dan Powell of RMC Won the Public Speaking.

Vinay Kumar Mysore of McGill University was elected to be the 2009-2010 CUSID President.

Meant to post this last week but it slipped off the front page of my inbox and out of mind. Apologies to those who sent it to me last week..... and again this week after I published the results of the later US BP Nationals.

HWS / IDEA Round Robin website launched

HWS and IDEA aim to bring together an elite and internationally diverse group of debaters and adjudicators each year for a weekend of debate at the highest level. The tournament will be held in the WUDC debate format, set up in a unique pre-paired round robin, ensuring that every team debates against every other team exactly once in the preliminary rounds. Our goal is to facilitate great debating and to recognize the skills and accomplishments of great debaters and adjudicators by treating them to a weekend of satisfying debate and superb hospitality.

You can now see many more details about our tournament and the surrounding events, including:
* Organizing committee
* Events and hospitality
* Provisional schedule
* Qualification criteria
* Registration information
* Tournament policies
* Prizes and awards
* Historical winners
* Links to previous final rounds (streaming video)

http://www.idebate.org/hwsroundrobin/

This year HWS & IDEA are working together to draw great teams and judges from around the globe. Applications for at-large invitations are due at the end of January. Contact Eric Barnes (Tournament Convenor) for more information. barnes (at) hws (dot) edu

All the Best,
Eric
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Prof. Eric Barnes
barnes (at) hws (dot) edu
Debate Coach
Public Policy Program Philosophy Department
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, New York

CUSID British Parliamentary Nationals results

Here are the results from the Canadian British Parliamentary National tournament, held this past weekend at Queen's University. Former World Champion Michael Kotrly was the Chief Adjudicator, and Peter Milliken, speaker of the House of Commons, chaired the grand final.

Champions:
Ian Freeman & Richard Lizius, Hart House (closing opposition)

Best Speaker: Richard Lizius, Hart House

Best Novice Speaker: Sean Husband, McGill

Best Public Speaker: Sean Hayward & Sean Stefanik, McGill

Finalists:
Rudi M. Lof & Brent Kettles, Osgoode Hall (opening government)
Monica Ferris & Lisa Jorgensen, Hart House (opening opposition)
Vinay Kumar Mysore & Sophie MacIntyre, McGill (closing opposition)

Semi-Finalists:
Nick Shkordoff & Paul-Erik Dash Veel, Hart House
Joshua J. Magnus Stark & Jake Liang, McGill
Kasha Chang & Evan Choate, University of British Columbia
Hannah Pavalow & Sean Husband, McGill

Motions:
TH believes in a constitutional right to a minimum standard of living
TH supports a ban on the use of runway models below a healthy BMI
TH would legalize insider trading
TH would let dying languages die
TH believes that NATO should have a seat at negotiations with the Taliban, should they occur.

Semifinals: TH would impose a total publication ban on news of high-profile kidnappings.
Final: TH would regret the indictment of Omar al-Bashir.

A recording of the final will soon be posted on www.parlidebate.com, graciously hosted by APDA.