Worlds Council Minutes 1989

Here are the World's council minutes from the meeting held in Princeton in 1989

Princeton WUDC 1989 More advance info

Princeton 89 Official tab

Here is the offiial tab Princeton distributed after the tournament.

Princeton WUDC 1989 Advance info

Here is some advance info sent out about the 1989 World Debating Championships held in Princeton.

Princeton WUDC 1989 Results

XV Annual World Universities Debating Championships


Top Teams
Finalists
New South Wales A Hooke & Philips
Oxford Union A Black & Clayton

Semi-Finalists
Harvard Law A Cruz & Panton
Oxford Graduate Debating Society A Angstreich & Kalir

Quarter-Finalists
Bristol A Duncan & Wilkins
Middle Temple A Halkerston & Savage
Queensland B Harrison & Murray
York A Rabie & Ciufo

Octo-Finalists
Cambridge A Sheldon & Pitel
Concordia A Bielby & Giles
Fordham A Carolan & Dunnigan
Glasgow A Harper & McGrath
Guelph A Scala & Guirguis
New South Wales B Richardson & Kalowski
Amos J. Peaslee Debating Society A Mallory & Potischman
Yale A Marcus & Harrington

Double Octo-Finalists
Australian National University A Cummins & Darke
Australian National University B Hughes & Kelly
Glasgow B MacLean & Hume
Hart House A Cass & Clark
Hart House B Cesario & D'Abramo
Middle Temple B Davey & Tolaney
McGill A Butts & Price
Monash A Richards & Dunlop
Nanyang B Jenardhanan & Bin
New York University A Levitan & Kenny
Oxford Union C Meldal-Johnsen & Willimanson
University of Technology, Sydney A Metcalfe & Grenier
Western Australia A Porter & Wiltshire
Western Ontario A Orr & Batner
Western Ontario B Ghosemajumder & Halladay
York B Balasabrumanian & Musso

 
ESL FINALISTS


In the final round between Deree College Nanyang Technological College of Greece of Singapore

The winners on a 3 – 2 decision were
Nanyang B  Chitra Jenardharan  and Teo Kwee Bin

Sydney WUDC 1988

Winners: Oxford


Finalists : Victoria University Wellington
Best Speaker : Francis Greenslade (Adelaide)


At the Worlds in Sydney in 1988, had 90 teams. Oxford brought the first place trophy home to England having defeated Victoria Wellington in the final. Francis Greenslade (Adelaide) was best speaker.

Competition and judging conventions differed from one Worlds to the next, and part of the idea is to do things according to the customs of the host school. Some competitors, used to making frivolous definitions, were disconcerted with a certain Australian rule aimed at banning such frivolity. If a resolution lent itself to economics, for example, you had to debate economics. This led to at least on unfortunately literal debate about whether it really was better to live on your knees than die on your feet.


This History of the World Debating Championships comes in 3 parts. From 1976 to 1990 it is taken almost word for word from the 1991 Toronto WUDC Tournament booklet. Who wrote it isn't known but it was provided by Randal Horobik. At the start of the section on Worlds in 1981 is an extract from an e-mail by Clark McGinn, Convenor of Debates, GU Union 1980 -81 and 1981 and Convenor of the First World Debating Competition, 1981. The history since 1991 has been compiled initially by Colm Flynn and edited by many contributors to Wikipedia. Unfortunately Wikipedia deleted the history due to copyright concerns so we are back here. Hopefully anyone who contributed to the Wiki article before it was deleted will be happy to see their work preserved here.

Sydney WUDC 1988 Tab

Here is the tab from the 1988 World University Debating Championships held at Sydney University

Sydney WUDC 1988 Council info

Here is some info from the 1988 World Debating Council meeting held at Sydney University

UC Dublin WUDC 1987

Winners: Glasgow (Sneader & Lally)
Finalists : Hart House Toronto (Oli & MacGregor), Swarthmore (Davis & Neureiter), ???

In 1987, University College, Dublin hosted the worlds in Ireland. It must have felt like the world showed up, too. The local newspaper reported that 220 teams were there. Even if that turned out to be 220 people, it was a sizeable invasion. Glasgow (Kevin Sneader & Austin Lally) were the World champion that year.

New Year’s Eve was a study in contrasts as the debaters who gathered in evening attire for a cold buffet in the Lord Mayor’s Hall found themselves ringing in the new year next door to a heavy metal rock concert, complete with “a bunch of guys in leather jackets and girls in red lipstick cracking gum.” The importance of understanding local cuxtoms was amply demonstrated to all who had not found out ahead of time that Dublin offers no public transportation on new Year’s Eve. The evening ended with what is variously described as a rainy two, three or four mile walk in formal wear.

This History of the World Debating Championships comes in 3 parts. From 1976 to 1990 it is taken almost word for word from the 1991 Toronto WUDC Tournament booklet. Who wrote it isn't known but it was provided by Randal Horobik. At the start of the section on Worlds in 1981 is an extract from an e-mail by Clark McGinn, Convenor of Debates, GU Union 1980 -81 and 1981 and Convenor of the First World Debating Competition, 1981. The history since 1991 has been compiled initially by Colm Flynn and edited by many contributors to Wikipedia. Unfortunately Wikipedia deleted the history due to copyright concerns so we are back here. Hopefully anyone who contributed to the Wiki article before it was deleted will be happy to see their work preserved here.

Dublin WUDC 1987 more advance info

Here is some more advance info sent out by Dublin WUDC 1987

Original WUDC Constitution

Here is the original World Debating Council Constitution drafted in 1986 and accepted by council in 1987.

And here is a copy of an eary draft with some hand written edits (not known whose copy this was)

Dublin WUDC 1987 Bid

Here is the bid info Dublin Worlds 1987 sent out

Advance info on Dublin WUDC 1987

Here is some info sent out by Dublin WUDC 1987 in advance of the tournament.