Worlds Day 3

Agenda for today

• Breakfast


• Round 1


• Lunch


• Round 2


• Round 3


• Public Speaking Preliminary Rounds


• Comedy Night

Worlds Day 2

Agenda for today

• Breakfast
• Registration
• Common Briefing
• Adjudicator Briefing & Test
• Lunch
• Debater Briefing
• Pre-Council Meeting
• Grand Opening Dinner

Benazir Bhutto assassinated

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a suicide attack at an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi.

She was president of the Oxford Union Debating Society in 1977.

Updates from Worlds

It's that time of year again. Worlds are about to start in Thailand and my intention is to post updates to the site as I get them. However as I am not at Worlds I will have to gather info from a number of different blogs and websites.

Last year the best sources were blogs by Jens Fischer and Ciaran Lawlor. I don't know if they will be blogging again this year.

Alfred "Tuna" Snider will be in Thailand and we have a new blog from Lee Daly and Greg Bowler of DCU.

There is also a facebook group for those of us not at Worlds. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6407639217&ref=mf

Bids for Worlds 2010

Over the past few weeks the three bidders for Worlds 2010 have been busy sending promotional e-mails to the various e-mail lists.

I have not posted them here because in general they are saying the same things as the bid websites. Also I was busy at WUPID and my N95 was not as flexible as I would have hoped (or as Nokia would have people believe).

If you want to view the numerous e-mails then you can find them on boards such as

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EUDC/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/australs/messages
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AUDC/

Worlds Day 1

Not a lot happening today at Worlds. Just arrivals and rego.

Arrivals and Registration
Ice Breaking Pre-Welcome Party

Happy Christmas

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all visitors to this site a Happy Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous 2008. Even if this time of year bears no special significance for you I hope you'll accept my wish for happiness, peace and prosperity.

And in particular I would like to wish best of luck to all those traveling to Worlds in Thailand. I'm sure it will be a great tournament.

Colm

Cork Worlds Adjudication Team Announcements

Message from Derek Lande:

Hi,

I am delighted to announce that Cork Worlds has appointed the remaining members of its adjudication team. Erin O'Brien, Ivan Ah Sam and Rory Gillis have agreed to join the team as Deputy Chief Adjudicators. We have also decided to appoint Daniel Patrick McCarthy as an Assistant Chief Adjudicator for the team. Brief excerpts from the CV's of the new members of the team follow which I hope make it clear why these individuals will make an excellent contribution to the running of the competition.

I would like to take this opportunity to once again thank all of those who applied, it was a very tough decision to have to take.

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Thailand.

Regards,
Derek Lande
Chief Adjudicator Cork Worlds 2009

Erin O'Brien (DCA)
Finalist: UBC Worlds 2007
Winner: Cork Europeans 2005
Winner: St. Andrews, BPP, Lancaster IV's
DCA: Tallinn Euros 2008
DCA: Macquarie Easters 2008
GF Adjudicator: Berlin Euros 2006

Ivan Ah Sam (DCA)
Semi-Finalist & 6th Speaker: Dublin Worlds 2006
Winner & Best Speaker: Australasians 2005
Winner: Sydney Mini, Cork IV, UKM Pre-Worlds
Best Speaker: Sydney Mini, Melbourne Mini, UKM Pre-Worlds
CA: Sydney Easters 2007
DCA: Easters 2006

Rory Gillis (DCA)
Best Speaker & Semi-finalist: Dublin Worlds 2006
Finalist: Oxford, Cambridge & CUSID BP Nats
GF Adjudicator: Yale IV, Hart House IV
Best Speaker: Northams
Winner: Harvard, Princeton, Johns Hopkins
Tournament Director: Yale APDA Tournament

Daniel Patrick McCarthy (ACA)
Finalist: Koc Europeans 2007
Winner: Nottingham IV, Cork Invitational, Galway Invitational
Semi-Finalist: Cork IV, St. Andrews, UL, Irish Mace
Treasurer: UCC Philosophical Society

WUPID Results

Sydney A won the 2007 WUPID.
They defeated Cork Phil A, Cambridge A and Nangang A in the Final.

Best Speaker at the tournament was Julians Ensbey from Queensland.

The Final Adjudication Panel was Omar Salahuddin (MARA) Neill Harvey Smith (IND) Colm Flynn (LIMERICK) Piyanart Faktorngpan (CHULA) Alfred Tuna Snider (VERMONT) Chandran Somasundram (UNI MALAYA) Melissa Birch (MONASH)

I have sent the backup file to Klaas so the full speaker and team tab should be on the smoothtournament website soon.

WUPID Final

The Finalists are

NANYANG A
CORK A
SYDNEY A
CAMBRIDGE A

WUPID Semi Finals

Team Name Position
QUEENSLAND A Opening Gov
NANYANG A Opening Opp
MONASH B Closing Opp
CORK A Closing Gov


SYDNEY A Closing Gov
CAMBRIDGE A Opening Opp
ATENEO A Closing Opp
SYDNEY B Opening Gov

WUPID Qtr Final Draw

Ranking Team Name
QF1
1 QUEENSLAND A
8 QUEENS B
9 OXFORD A
16 NANYANG A

QF4
4 MONASH B
5 CORK A
12 QUEENS A
13 MONASH A

QF2
2 SYDNEY A
7 CAMBRIDGE A
10 MMU A
15 NUS B

QF3
3 ATENEO A
6 SYDNEY B
11 IIU A
14 NANYANG B

WUPID Break

Ranking Team Name Total Score


1 QUEENSLAND A 13


2 SYDNEY A 12


3 ATENEO A 12


4 MONASH B 11


5 CORK A 11


6 SYDNEY B 10


7 CAMBRIDGE A 10


8 QUEENS B 10


9 OXFORD A 10


10 MMU A 10


11 IIU A 9


12 QUEENS A 9


13 MONASH A 9


14 NANYANG B 8


15 NUS B 8


16 NANYANG A 8

WUPID Round 5

Motion: This house believes that the Bolivarian Revolution has failed

WUPID Round 4

Motion: THis house would give the Kurds a homeland

Worlds Trips

Dear Participants,
My name is Fern, I am the director of Excursion of Assumption Worlds. I am writing to you with regards to the program on the free days. Currently we have arranged a few tour packages on the 1st January, which is the free day. In order to secure enough slots for all, I would like to ask you to respond to the tentative arrangement we have on each program. Followings are the packages we would like to provide for you:

Bangkok
Wat Pra Keaw (Emerald Buddha Temple/Grand Palace)
TripWebsite: http://www.bangkoksite.com/temples/WatPrakaeo.htm
2,040 Baht = approximately $60

Ayudthaya Cruise
TripWebsite:http://www.grandpearlcruise.com/
2,890 Baht = app. $85

Ancient City Trip
Website:http://www.ancientcity.com/?q=/en/index
1,870 Baht = app. $55

Please let me know if would be interested in these packages. I thank you in-advance for your co-operation. I would also be delighted to receive any comment or suggestion by Dec. 20th 00:00 (GMT). Your feedback is important to us to perfect your free-day here in Thailand.

Yours sincerely,
Nantawadee P. (Fern)
Director of Excursion
28th WUDC(Assumption Worlds)

WUPID Day 2

As I sit here we are waiting for the computer with the tab to arrive. I went with the debaters on the monorail this morning and the computer went in a car. Unlike yesterday when the roadblocks were outside the city and therefore the city was very quite today there are checkpoints inside the city so while traffic is moving it is very slow.

We have only 2 debates to complete before 5:30 so we are planning to get them done as quickly as possible and then people can go shopping. The break night starts at 10pm tonight.

As you may have noticed I didn't post photos to the blog. I have them on my phone but when I got to the room last night I laid down for 10 minutes and woke up 4 hours later. I'll post them later today. I will also post the break details (after they are anounced).

Sydney are top of the tab with 9 points. Cork and another Sydney team are on 8.

WUPID Round 3

Motion:

THBT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF A PEACEFUL SOCIETY.

We are running about an hour behind schedule which isn't too bad given that we moved the briefings to today.

WUPID Round 2

Motion:
THBT THE STATE SHOULD ONLY PROVIDE EDUCATION IN THE MEDIUM OF THE FIRST LANGUAGE.

Update from WUPID: Round 1

As I type this Round 1 debates of the 2007 CIMB WUPID are underway.

As with most tournaments we had a couple of "slight delays". Problems in Bangkok Airport and delays in the arrival of some Malaysian Teams meant that we decided to postpone the Debaters and adjudicators briefing from yesterday to today. We had 1.5 hours for "event briefings" this morning so we decided that this was a better use of time (and allowed us go shopping yesterday).

This morning we had the normal delays getting people up and to breakfast. We also had a problem with the tab laptop being older than the printer in the tab room so we couldn't get drivers for it. Runners were swiftly dispatched to purchase a new printer. Even with all this we are running around an hour late so that's not too bad.

There are 40 teams and around 40 judges.

The Motion for round 1 is: THW PURSUE A POLICY OF CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH ROGUE STATES

I have taken photos which I intend to upload to the flikr account. There is wireless access in the hotel but with the effects of jet lag in full swing last night I couldn't face the prospect of uploading the photos when I got to bed at 3am after the championship Dinner, inputting the final data into the tab system and attending the end of one of the "room parties". Hopefully tonight I will get to upload the photos.

First tab sheet just arrived........