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

WUDC 2011 Summary of results

Here is a summary of the results for the 2011 World Universities Debating Championships.  We are still waiting for a video of the final and for the full tab to be released. I'll post these as soon as they are available.

The 2011 World Debating champions are Monash A (Victor Finkel & Fiona Prowse)


World Debating Championships Finalists
Monash A (Victor Finkel & Fiona Prowse) (OG)
Oxford A (Ben Woolgar & Hugh Burns) (OO)
Sydney A (Tim Mooney & Bronwyn Cowell) (CG)
LSE A (Anser Aftab & John Ashbourne) (CO)

Best Speakers
1 Victor Finkel (Monash A)
2 Tim Mooney (Sydney A)
3 Fiona Prowse (Monash A)
=4 Ben Woolgar (Oxford A)
=4 Bronwyn Cowell (Sydney A)
6 Doug Cochran (Cambridge A)
7 Patrick Caldwell (Sydney B)
8 Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin (TCD Hist B)
9 Brent Kettles (Hart House A)
10 Stephanie Bell (Oxford C)

ESL
Winner of the English as a Second Language Competition: Champion: Haifa A

ESL Final
Ljubiljana A
UCTI A
Leiden B
Haifa A

ESL Best Speakers
1 Filip Dobranic (Ljublijana A)
2 Maya Cimmerman (Ljublijana A)
3 Rob Honig (Leiden B)
4 Michael Saliba (Stuttgart A)
5 Patrick Ehmann (Berlin A)

EFL
Winner of the English as a Foreign Language Competition: Tokyo B

EFL Final
Zagreb A
Belgrade B
Tokyo B
Venezuela A

ESL Best Speakers
1 Andreas Lazar (Stuttgart)
2 Simon Belak (Ljubljana C)
3 Riza Aryani (Universitas Indonesia)
4 Eldhianto Maulana Jusuf (Gadjah Mada)
5 Yunizar Adiputera (Gadjah Mada

Public Speaking
Winner of the Public Speaking competition: Crystal Thompson (Jamacia)
1st Runner up: Jack Gamble
2nd Runner up: Danny Blackman

Comedy
Winner of the Comedy Night: Wudi Wu (Queens)

Masters
Winner of the Masters competition: Scotland (Alex Just & UB McKaiser)

Masters Final
Ireland
USA
Scotland
England

Top 32 Teams
1 Monash A
2 Sydney A
3 Cambridge A
4 Oxford C
5 TCD Hist B
6 Oxford A
7 Hart House A
8 Cambridge B
9 Durham A
10 Monash C
11 Oxford D
12 Sydney D
13 Sydney C
14 Monash B
15 NUS A
16 Alaska D
17 Kings Inn A
18 ANU A
19 UCD Law A
20 Yale A
21 ANU B
22 Alaska B
23 Sydney B
24 LSE A
25 Oxford B
26 Melbourne A
27 UNSW A
28 Yale C
29 McGill A
30 Vermont B
31 Cambridge C
32 TCD Hist A

Motions:
Rd1: This house believes that national sporting teams should reflect the diversity of the national population
Rd2: This house believes that  all states have a right to nuclear weapons
Rd3: This house believes that governments should not provide benefits on the basis of marital status
Rd4: This house believes that central banks should set limits on government spending
Rd5: This wouse would prioritise asylum Seekers who have engaged in armed struggle against oppressive regimes
Rd6: This wouse would allow teachers unions the right to strike
Rd7: This wouse would require individuals to reveal their actual identity when communicating on the internet
Rd8: This house believes that the southern african development community (SADC) should pursue political union
Rd9: This house believes that social movements should use the courts rather than the legislature to advance social change
Octo: This wouse would buy countries votes in nternational organizations
Qtr: This house believes that courts should not enforce wills that discriminate on the basis of race
Semi: This house opposes organised religion
Final: This wouse would invade Zimbabwe
EFL Semi: This house supports a one state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
EFL Final: This wouse would give more votes to the poor
ESL Qtr: This house believes that domestic courts should try foreign nationals who commit war crimes abroad
ESL Semi: This wouse would prefer that the children of racial minorities be adopted by parents of that race
ESL Final: This house believes that the courts should break up consistently dominant political parties
Masters Rd1: This wouse would buy local
Masters Rd2: This house would buy blood diamonds
Masters Final: This house prefers a philosopher King to a tyrannical democracy

Worlds Council
The 2013 World Debating Championships were awarded to Berlin
Jens Fischer was elected as the new chair of council.
Steve Johnson was elected as Registrar
Simone Van Elk was elected as Secretary.

Next Manila WUDC 2012

So that's more or less it from Botswana for 2011 (yes I know other than tabs, videos of the finals and stuff but we'll get there in due course).

Next year it's De La Salle University in Manila.

Thanks to @stevellano @jozefthenu @philipjbarker @henrikmaedler and others for the twitter updates and to @idebate and @kuzevski for the livestream video.  A few glitches aside this was the year that Worlds entered the internet age of instant communication.  Well done guys.

Monash are World Debating Champions 2011

And the World Universities Debating Champions for 2011 are


Monash A (Victor Finkel and Fiona Prowse) by a unanimous decision

Congrats!


Source: @stevellano

Haifa win the ESL competition

Winners of the English as a Second Language at the 2011 World Universities Debating Championships are


Haifa A (Michael Shapira & Meir Yarom) on an 8-1 split decision


Source @stevellano on twitter

Tokyo win EFL

Winners of the English as a ForeignLanguage at the 2011 World Universities Debating Championships are


Tokyo B

Source @stevellano on twitter

Victor Finkel is the WUDC Best Speakers

The top 10 speakers at Worlds.  Missing full names but will fill them in later.

1 Victor Finkel (Monash A)
2 Tim Mooney (Sydney A)
3 Fiona Prowse (Monash A)
=4 Ben Woolgar (Oxford A)
=4 Bronwyn Cowell (Sydney A)
6 Doug Cochran(Cambridge A)
7 Patrick Caldwell (Sydney B)
8 Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin (TCD Hist B)
9 Brent Kettles (Hart House A)
10 Stephanie Bell (Oxford C)

Source @stevellano

ESL top speakers

Top ESL speakers ar Worlds

1 Filip Dobranic (Ljublijana A)
2 Maya Cimmerman (Ljublijana A)
3 Rob Honig? (Leiden B)
4 Michael Saliba (Stuttgart A)
5 Patrick Ehmann (Berlin A)

Source #WUDC on Twitter

EFL top speakers

1 Andreas Lazar (Stuttgart)
2 Simon Belak (Ljubljana C)
3 Riza Aryani (bating Society Universitas Indonesia)
4 Eldhianto Maulana Jusuf (Gadjah Mada)
5Yunizar Adiputera (Gadjah Mada)

Source @stevellano

Scotland win Masters

Scotland (Alex Just & UB McKaiser ) have won the World Masters

source @stevellano

Crystal Thompson wins Public Speaking Championships

The 2011 World Public Speaking Champion is Crystal Thompson from Jamacia
1st Runner up Jack Gamble
2nd Runner up Danny Blackman

Source @stevellano on twitter.

Comedy Result

The winner of the Comedy Night is

Wudi Wu

Source @stevellano

Results announcement has begun

The announcement of results has begun so hopefully it won't be long until we know the winners.

But then again in Cork this process took over an hour as they killed time waiting for the judges to come back so you never know.....

Update: Apparently they announced they are ready to reveal the results so they sent on another musical act to build tension.

Final is over

The World Championships final has ended in Botswana.

Will let you know when there is a decision.

World Debating Championships Final

Positions:
Monash A (Victor Finkel & Fiona Prowse) Opening Government
Oxford A (Ben Woolgar & Hugh Burns) Opening Opposition
Sydney A (Tim Mooney & Bronwyn Cowell) Closing Government
LSE A (Anser Aftab & John Ashbourne) Closing Opposition

Motion: This house would invade Zimbabwe

Best of luck to all

ESL Final

The motion for the ESL final is

This house believes that the courts should break up consistently dominant political parties

EFL Final motion and livestream update

The motion for the final of the EFL competition is:

This house would give more votes to the poor.

The final is being held at a military base (that's a first) with no internet access.  Therefore there won't be a live stream of the finals.  The idebate team are recording them and will upload as soon as possible after the finals.

World Debating Championships Finalists

The finalists in the 2011 WUDC are

Monash A (Victor Finkel & Fiona Prowse)
Sydney A (Tim Mooney & Bronwyn Cowell)
Oxford A (Ben Woolgar & Hugh Burns)
LSE A (Anser Aftab & John Ashbourne)

Congrats to all.  Thanks to various people on twitter for the teams and names.

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

WUDC 2011 semi final motion

The motion for the semi finals of the 2011 World Debating Championships is
This house opposes organised religion.

Live coverage of the rooms can be found at
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wudc Sydney A v Cambridge A v Sydney B v Oxford A
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wudc1  LSE A vs Sydney D & Monash A vs Yale C