Debate Twitter list

Having noticed that my twitter account was getting a bit swamped I spent some time over the weekend putting together a "List" of debate related Twitter accounts.  It is mainly debating societies and competitions but I'm hoping that I can use lists to better isolate the news segment I am interested in following (e.g. debating news  from friends news from Irish news etc).

The list is public so if anyone is interested in seeing who is on it and following some or all of it go to https://twitter.com/#!/colmflynn/debate

If you want to add to the list e-mail me or put a comment below.

Launching Debating Mate Worldwide‏

Debate Mate, a charity that works in the poorest parts of the UK teaching debating and this year we're all set to take this to the world. We send top university debaters into schools around the world to teach debating. Check out the promo video for more information:



We have secured funding for a number of places globally and want to continue to branch out the new places in Africa, America, The Middle East, and Asia and we therefore really need the support of the debating community to act as mentors around the world. We were recently in Israel and Palestine and we were overwhelmed with how supportive the Debaters of Israel were!

Debate Mate empowers young people and creates the leaders of tomorrow. We send top university debaters into areas of high child-poverty, to run after-school debating clubs, through which children improve their verbal intelligence and higher-order thinking skills.

Our core programme has been running in the UK for four years and reaches over 2,000 young people a week across four cities. Farther afield, we have successfully taught our programme to disadvantaged schoolchildren in Nepal, Palestine/Israel, and Boston.

This year we are expanding our international work in a big way, with a concerted launch of Debate Mate Worldwide. In addition to those countries already mentioned, we expect to be running summer schemes in India, the UAE, Kenya, Uganda, Jamaica, South Africa and Rwanda. We are looking for motivated 'world-changers' to help us reach even more young people and change even more lives. This is open to ALL debaters Worldwide.


Sign up at debatemate.com/worldwide. This is open to ALL debaters world wide. If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact seun@debatemate.com

Moving to the new idebate.org among other things

Preview of New iDebate.org Website from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Happy New Year 2012

I would like to take this chance to wish all visitors to this site a very happy, peaceful and prosperous 2012.

Happy Christmas

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all visitors to this site a happy Christmas. Of course if you celebrate a different festival at this time or even if this time of year is of no special significance for you I hope you will still accept my wish for happiness, peace and prosperity at this time and into 2012.

And in particular I would like to wish best of luck to all those travelling to worlds in Manila. I'm sure it will be a great tournament and be sure to come back here for regular updates over the next few days.

Nollaig shona dhaoibh.

Colm And here is a little Christmas humour from Ireland to get you in the mood.

Updates delayed

I know a few people have e-mailed me updates to post to the site. I am in an area with very patchy wifi access at the moment. It may be a few days before I get to post them but rest assured they will be posted.
 
sent from my e-mail

World Debate Forum Updates : 15 Presentations and Two Weeks Left to Register!‏

Greetings!

We are happy to announce that we have 15 confirmed presentations at this point. Presenters at WDF 2012 will share debate ideas from Germany, Malaysia, Estonia, China, Philippines, Mindanao, Iraq, Francophone Africa (with a focus on Cameroon), South East Asia, Burma, South Korea and the USA.

Presenters will be evaluating the success of at least 3 institutional debate programs, analyzing the impact of debate in 2 less-than-peaceful areas, 2 cases of debate & political progress, looking at debate & technology and much much more. There will also be open forums on the topic areas and space for you to contribute during the WDF. More information about the presentations are available on our website! http://worlddebateforum.org/node/18

Two weeks remain before registration closes and only 30 open spaces remain. For those of you who register after the 10th of November, we cannot guarantee the same registration fee, as the negotiated rate with the hotel and other costs may increase - so register now at www.worlddebateforum.org to get 3 nights hotel accommodation, 6 full meals and a ton of debate goodness for only 75USD a person!

Cheers
Logan

Looking for some tabs.

Hi All,
Does anyone have the tab from the Yale IV at the weekend and the UCL Presidents Cup a few weeks ago.  e-mail me at colm_flynn@hotmail.com if you can help.

Thanks & Regards,
Colm

Looking for KOC 2011 Results

Hi All,
I'm looking for the results of the KOC 2011 debating IV. It happened in September 2010 so I'm presuming it happened again this year in 2011. Does anyone have the results (especially the tab). If so please e-mail me at colm_flynn@hotmail.com

UPDATE: Thanks to Michael and Manos I now have this tab.

Thanks,
Colm

New & Improved

New & Improved World Rankings.

New & Improved Blog

New & Improved Features

New & Improved Future

New & Improved Home


The World Debating Blog will be New and Improved Soon!

Exciting News.

New Developments.
New Partnerships.
New Capabilities.
New Resources.

Coming soon

New Debate podcast

Tuna over at Global debate has started a podcast.  He plans to publish it several times a week and each one will be 2-3 minutes covering debate news from his blog. 

If you are interested you can subscribe to the podcast at http://globaldebateboo.posterous.com/

Change is coming

And its going to be GOOD!

Coming soon !

Still looking for some tabs

I'm still looking for some tabs of recent competitions.  Specifically, based on events I've blogged about but never got the tabs for I'm looking for the below.  If you can add any large ones to this list they are also welcome. e-mail me at colm_flynn@hotmail.com if you can help.  Thanks!

UK & Ireland
Oxford
Cambridge
Cork IV
Glasgow Ancients
English Mace
UCD IV


Europe
Belgrade IV
Israel
Koc
German Nationals

Asia
Austral Asians
WUPID
PIDC
Dorthy Chung
Hong Kong Debate open
Malasian Debate Open
SMU Hammers
UADC Macau

Australia/NZ
Austral Asians
Sydney Mini
Melbourne Mini
Vic Wellington IV
Easters
ANU Spring

North America
APDA BP
APDA Nationals
CUSID BP
CUSID Nationals
USU
US BP/WUDC circuit
North Americans

Africa
Pan African
South African Nationals
Stellenbosch IV

South America
Spanish Language Worlds (Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español – CMUDE) www.ucv.ve/cmude

Worlds
Worlds

Looking for some tabs

Hi all,
After being a little lax in maintaining results on this site I'm looking for some tabs from competitions I have mentioned in the last year but not published the full results.  Can anyone give me tabs from the following competitions? If so e-mail me at colm_flynn@hotmail.com

UK & Ireland

Oxford
Cambridge
Cork IV
Glasgow Ancients

Europe
Belgrade IV
Israeli Nationals

Asia
Austral Asians
UADC
WUPID
PIDC
Hong Kong Open

Australia/NZ
Sydney Mini
Melbourne Mini
Vic Wellington IV
Easters
ANU Spring

North America
USU
CUSID BP
APDA BP
Cusid Nationals
APDA Nationals

Africa
South African Nationals
Stellenbosch IV

South America
Spanish Language Worlds

Thanks & Regards,
Colm

Congrats to Anat and Michael

Congrats to Anat Gelber (DCA at Worlds last year) and Michael Shapira (current Worlds ESL Champion) on their marraige.  Many people will know them from Worlds, Euros and several other tournaments in recent years.

Mazel tov! May they have many many happy years together.

Happy New Year 2011

I would like to take this chance to wish all visitors to this site a very happy, peaceful and prosperous 2011.
Check back here tonight for live coverage of the break announcement.

A little christmas humour from Ireland.

Happy Christmas

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all visitors to this site a happy Christmas. Of course if you celebrate a different festival at this time or even if this time of year is of no special significance for you I hope you will still accept my wish for happiness, peace and prosperity at this time and into 2011.

And in particular I would like to wish best of luck to all those travelling to worlds in Botswana. I'm sure it will be a great tournament and be sure to come back here for regular updates over the next few days.

Nollaig shona dhaoibh.

Colm

Haiti Appeal

As regular visitors to this blog will know I generally don't post about non-debating related issues.  So when I do you can be fairly sure it's for an exceptional circumstance.

I'm sure most of you will be aware of the devastation in Haiti after the recent earthquake.  Relief is trickling through but by all reports demand is far out stripping supply and the country is fast descending into anarchy around the survivors.

The chances are if you are reading this then you are in a better position than the inhabitants of Port-au-Prince.  Given the multinational nature of visitors to this site I'm not going to recommend any one relief organisation but if there is one in your country currently appealing for donations to help their work in Haiti then I urge you to contribute what you can.

Thanks in advance,
Colm