Live Debate from the Cambridge Union

Have you ever wanted to attend a debate at the Cambridge Union?  Well now you can avail of the next best thing.  A live stream from their debate tonight. 

The motion: Is classical music still important? You can watch it live on their revamped website http://www.cus.org/ from 7pm.  Hopefully in the coming months there will be many more livestreams from Cambridge and other major debating societies.

Live stream from "Easters"

Monash Debaters have a live stream of the Easters Tournament in Australia

Visit http://www.ustream.tv/channel/monash-debaters for the live debates or for videos of previous debates in the competition.


Streaming Video by Ustream.TV

Live Debates this weekend: HWS / IDEA Round Robin

If you want to watch some live debates on line this weekend IDEA are livestreaming the HWS / IDEA Round Robin championships from New York

Go to http://www.idebate.org/streaming/hwsrr2011/ to watch the action.

Live debates this weekend: North American Spainish Championships

If you are interested in watching some debates this weekend IDEA are live streaming from the Campeonato Norte Americano de Debate in New York.  The debates are in Spanish.


To watch the debates visit http://www.idebate.org/streaming/cnad2011/

Live debates this week: US Championships

If you want to watch some debates this weekend IDEA are streaming live rounds from the Unites States University Debating Championships in Vermont.

http://www.idebate.org/streaming/usu2011/

The schedule for the debates is as follows (all times East Coast US and subject to running late as many tournaments do)

Friday 1 April
Round One 4pm
Round Two 6pm

Saturday 2 April
Round Three 9am
Round Four 11:30am
Round Five 2:30pm
Round Six 5pm

Sunday 3 April
Octofinals 9am
Quarterfinals 11:30am
Semifinals 2pm
Final 4:30pm

IDEA Debate Live-Streaming

As part of a continuing effort to bring debate to as wide of an audience as possible, the media team at IDEA will be live-streaming three debate tournaments this April in the United States.

Each of these tournaments will be streamed in real time, and the video archives will be available for subsequent viewing. Our Twitter feeds will include live updates as the events unravel. All of this is free of charge, so we hope you enjoy the opportunity to watch high-quality debates without having to travel!

As for the schedule...

*United States Universities Debate Championship 2011*
Burlington, Vermont
April 1st - 3rd
http://www.idebate.org/streaming/usu2011/

*HWS / IDEA Round Robin*
Geneva, New York
April 8th - 9th
http://www.idebate.org/streaming/hwsrr2011/

*Campeonato Norte Americano de Debate (debates in Spanish)*
Ithaca, New York
April 7th - 10th
http://www.idebate.org/streaming/cnad2011/

We will email more updates as they become necessary.

Thanks,

Alex Dukalskis
Executive Director
International Debate Education Association (IDEA), United States
http://www.idebate.org/
http://idebate.blogspot.com/

Live debates from Vienna IV

If you want to watch some live debates (or recordings of debates) today there is live video coverage of the Vienna IV on Ustream

Visit http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vienna-iv-2011 or http://viv11.debattierklubwien.at/ to follow the debates.

Belgrade Open Final Video

Following on from their work livestreaming rounds from the recent World Debating Championships in Botswana, IDEA were at the Belgrade Open broadcasting a live stream of selected debates.  They have now posted a recording of the final.

Motion: This house believes that post-conflict governments should share power between both parties who were involved in the conflict
You can view the final below or click here to see the IDEA video archive.

Live debates from Belgrade Open

If you want to watch some live debates today IDEA have a live stream set up for the Belgrade Open.  It's similar to the setup from Worlds in Botswana but this time all the streams are in one place and there is an integrated twitter fees.

You can access the site at http://www.idebate.org/bgopen/ and it will go live during rounds.

Video of WUDC final

Alfred "Tuna" Snider wins the race among those at the final to post a video of the debate online.  I know the team at idebate are also working on copies of the final plus the ESL and EFL finals and I'll post details of these once available.


Debate - WUDC - Invade Zimbabwe - WUDC 2012 Finals from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

OG: Monash A
OO: Oxford A
CG: Sydney A
CO: London School of Economics A

Motion: This house would invade Zimbabwe

Semi Final Videos

While we wait for the announcment of the finalists Mite Kuzevski and the team at idebate have uploaded the videos from the semis. They have broadcast throughout the tournament and have provided a super service. Well done guys.


Semi Final 1 LSE A vs Sydney D & Monash A vs Yale C





Semi Final 2 Sydney A v Cambridge A v Sydney B v Oxford A

Video Archive from WUDC 2011

There are a number of recorded debates already online from idebate..  I'll add to this list as the debates are posted.  Only 4 of the 100 odd rooms in use have recording facilities so if you don't see your team listed it is unlikely that they were recorded.

Round 1 This house believes that national sporting teams should reflect the diversity of the national population
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11700099
Room 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11700373
Room 3  http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11700057

Round 2 This house believes that all countries should have the right to possess nuclear weapons
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11702783  NTU B v NUSC C v Macaupoly A v Duke C
Room 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11702772  Munich A v Monash B v Middle Temple A v Bristol B
Room 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11702812  Jersey A v Queens B v Sophia A v UTMara A

Round 3 This house believes that governments should not provide benefits on the basis of marital status
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11705376  UCD B v Sydney F v Koc A v NTU A
Room 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11705397  ANU B v Vermont D v Binus A v Yale B

Round 4 This house believes that independent central banks should set limits on government spending
Room 1http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11717813 Hong Kong Poly C v Waseda A v Paris A Diktia A
Room 2 Not yet available BFSU B v Galway B v Botswana A v Manitoba A
Room 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11717819 Queens B v SMU A v IIUM B v Yale C

Round 5 This house believes prioritise asylum seekers who have engaged in armed struggle against oppressive regimes
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11720423 Namibia A v Hawaii A v Cornell E v IIUM A
Room 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11720437  Lesotho A v DLSU A v Namibia B v Inner Temple A
Room 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11720441 Tel Aviv A v UMac B v NTU C v Princeton C

Round 6 This house would deny Teachers Unions the right to strike
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11723501Wikfrid B v Standford C v Colgate A v Aberystwyth A
Room 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11723496 TMU A v UT Marat C v Jersey A v CNA QATAR A
Room 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11723498 UQ B v Grovecity B v McGill B v Melbourne E

Round 7 This house would require individual to reveal their actual identity when communicating on the internet
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11736504 Alberta C v Trinity B v UCD L&H A v ADMU A
Room 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11736691 Hart House C v UCD L&H B v Aberystwyth A v LSE C
Room 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11736615 LONDON A, SYDNEY B and Queensland A, ALASKA A

Round 8 This house believes that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Should Pursue Political Union
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11740162 Fordham B v Yale C v Melbourne D v Yale A
Room 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11740260 Bandung A v Bath A v CMU Qatar B v Lahore B
Room 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11740164 ChungAng A v Makerere A v HKPoly C v Resid B


Round 9 This house believes that social movements should use the courts rather than the legislature to advance social change
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11745900  Sydney D v Sydney C v Cambridge A v Oxford
Room 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11745934 Cornell B v UCD L&H A v Pennsylvania A v Alberta A
Room 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11745886 Monash E v Leiden B v UCCPhil v UBC A

Octo Finals:
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11777837
Room 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11777782 Alaska D Oxford D Oxford A UNSW A


Qtr Finals:
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11780480 Oxford C v Sydney D v McGill A v Yale C
Room 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11780448 Monash B v UNSW A v Oxford A v Cambridge A
Room 3 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11780471 Sydney A v Sydney B v NUS A v Melbourne A


ESL Semi Final
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11782547 and http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11781735 Stuttgart A v Leiden B v Ljubljana A v Ljubljana C
Room 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11782097 Utmara B v Haifa A v Lahore A v UCTI A


EFL Semi Final
Room 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11781692 Dikti A v Venezuela B v Zagreb A v Venezuela A

Semi-Finals

Semi 1 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11797382 LSE A vs Sydney D & Monash A vs Yale C
Semi 2 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11797401 Sydney A v Cambridge A v Sydney B v Oxford A



You can find more details at http://idebate.blogspot.com/.  The team at idebate are providing a great service in this and hopefully they are setting a benchmark for future tournaments.

Video of Vermont IV final

Steve Liano at Progymnasmata has posted a video of the final from last weekend's Vermont Final.  To view it click on http://progymna.blogspot.com/2010/11/university-of-vermont-final-round-video.html

European Debating Championships Final Video

A video of the final of the 2010 European Debating Championships has now been uploaded to Debatierclub Potsdam.


To view it visit http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BC5B5A9F9F2368D9

EUDC finals broadcast on line

The Final of the European debating championships will be broadcast on line by IDEA from 12:30pm (Dutch time I presume). As the final isn't due to start until 3:30pm I also presume the final of the ESL competition will be on first.

To watch the debate go to http://bambuser.com/channel/iDebate/broadcast

Source achteminute on twitter

EUDC Qtr Finals live on the web

The EUDC organisers are broadcasting all four Qtr-Finals live from Euros.

They are on
Room 1: http://www.livestream.com/eudc
Room 2: http://www.livestream.com/eudc1
Room 3: http://bambuser.com/channel/iDebate/broadcast/890278
Room 4: http://www.livestream.com/eudc2

Videos from UADC

Logan has posted a number of videos from the recent UADC in Bangkok.


Demonstration Debate / Adjudication Test
THBT terminally ill patients should have access to drugs that have not beenclinically tested
GOV (Steph, Wen-U, Dai Oba)
OPP (Manaav, Neha, Tian Yian)
http://blip.tv/file/3646484

Round 1
THBT religious organizations should pay taxes on donations received and assets owned
Ateneo 2 vs BRAC 2
http://blip.tv/file/3646409

Round 2
THW Ban treatments that claim to cure homosexuality
NUS 2 vs DU 1
http://blip.tv/file/3646437

Round 3
THW confiscate property of those who cooperated with oppressive regimes after the fall of the regime
BIPEDS vs TWEDS
http://blip.tv/file/3646468

Round 4
THW place a prohibitive tax on car ownership
UST vs EDiS
http://blip.tv/file/3646465

Round 5
THBT the willingness to participate in formal public election debates should be a pre-requisite for candidates running for national office
IITB vs MUIC
http://blip.tv/file/3646485

Round 6
THBT that important characters in movies should be portrayed by actors ofthe same ethnicity
NLS vs FOLC
http://blip.tv/file/3647077

Round 7
THBT it’s time the US recognize Hamas as a legitimate representative of Palestine
SMU 1 vs IIUM 1
http://blip.tv/file/3647097

Round 8
THW compel children to care for their parents
NUS vs FOLC
http://blip.tv/file/3647113

Pre-Octofinals
THBT the WTO should hold all countries to uniform labour standards
RVCE 1 vs DLSU 3
http://blip.tv/file/3646524

Octofinals
THW make environmental protection a legitimate defense in the prosecution of destruction of property
Ateneo 3 vs UPD 1
http://blip.tv/file/3646554

Quarterfinals
THBT ASEAN nations should accept Burmese refugees
NLS 1 vs MUIC 1
http://blip.tv/file/3646553

Semifinals
THBT gay parades do more harm than good to the gay community
NTU 1 vs Ateneo 1
http://blip.tv/file/3647112

Finals
THW Abolish parties based on ethnicity
NTU 1 vs Ateneo 2
http://blip.tv/file/3647146

Flashpoint celebrates 400 episodes.

For the past 18 years the Lawrence Debate Union of the University of Vermont has had a series of videos where Debaters and coaches from the LDU pick a topic and research it intensively and then discuss it on the show. 

This series reached it's 400th episode over the weekend.  Congrats to Alfred and all the people involved in the show over the last 18 years. 

You can view the videos at http://flashpointtv.blogspot.com/ or http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/

Videos from Belgrade Open

From Manos Moschopoulos


We have the recorded streams of the semi-final and the final available online. The teams and their affiliations are:

Semifinal #2
OG: Anna England-Kerr, Anja Juvancic (Ljubljana - Slovenia)
OO: Vilko Kos, Borna Sor (Zagreb - Croatia)
CG: Vassilis Boukas, Arthur Khotenovskiy (Independent - Greece)
CO: Milan Krstanovic, Tijana Mijalkovic (Belgrade - Serbia)
URL: http://bit.ly/bgo10semi

Final
OG: Jo Farmer, Tom Hosking (Oxford - England)
OO: Laura Horvat, Lea Tafra (Zagreb - Croatia)
CG: Vassilis Boukas, Arthur Khotenovskiy (Independent - Greece)
CO: Borna Sor, Vilko Kos (Zagreb - Croatia)
URL: http://bit.ly/bgo10final

Also, we have 300 new great photos on the Facebook group, courtesy of Igor Stanojevic. We will be posting more tonight; however, we invite everyone that has posted photos of the Belgrade Open on Facebook to share their pictures on the group; click through tohttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=photos&gid=215054743577 and select "Add group photos" - you will be asked if you want to add them from one of your albums.

Videos from Koc Worlds 2010‏

Greetings
First off, a hearty congratulations and a big thank you to Koc for running
what was one the best Worlds I have ever been to! Great organization, great
fun and great topics and adjudication. You guys have made our job at
Botswana next year much harder!

I'm sending this email to
a) share videos I took during the tournament. I have 13 videos, available for viewing at http://loganimal.blip.tv
b) contact the individuals in the videos. I lost the notebook I used to keep their contact information and I promised them I would send them copies of the videos. If anyone wants their videos please email me. If anyone also wants me to remove their videos from the website, please let me know and I'll do it immediately.

Cheers
Logan
Chief Adjudicator - Botswana Worlds