News from the Bangladesh Debating Council-BDC

News from the Bangladesh Debating Council-BDC

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"BDC-Bangladesh National Debating Rankings 2006"

Bangladesh National Debating Rankings has been Created and Published by Bangladesh Debating Council-BDC. BDC is the National Debating Organization for English debate In Bangladesh. For more please visit the official website of Bangladesh Debating Council-BDC official website at: http://debatebangladesh.tripod.com

University Debating Ranking - English
1. Independent University Bangladesh
2. Institute of Business Administration-IBA
3. East West University
4. Islamic University of Technology
5. North South University

University Debating Ranking - Bangla
1. University of Dhaka
2. East West University
3. Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
4. North South University
5. Islamic University of Technology

Best Championship Host - University
1. Institute of Business Administration-IBA
2. Asian University of Bangladesh
3. United International University
4. Agriculture University Dhaka
5. University of Dhaka

School and College Debating Ranking - English
1. Manarat International School
2. Mastermind Dhaka
3. Mapelife International School
4. Notre Dame College
5. Sunbeams International

Best Championship Host – School and College
1. International School Dhaka
2. Viqarunnisa Noon School and College
3. Notre Dame College
4. Agakhan International School
5. Mastermind Dhaka

The Juries for this National Debating Ranking were:
Rashedul Hasan Stalin, Mehedi Hassan Tamim, Mohammed Saddam Hossain, Azim Ahmed , Mahbub Manik , Nawrin Sultana, M M Ashiquar Rahmam, Tanbhir Ahmed Haroon, Nahid Nawaz, Alam Ishraq Chowdrury and Mabroor Wassey.


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"Bangladesh Debating Council -BDC's 4000 Free Debating Motions Bank"

Bangladesh Debating Council-BDC has opend the First debating website in Bangladesh for promoting Bangladesh English debate across the World. BDC now has one of the largest free debating motions bank for global debating challenges. This motions bank is collected and created by Rashedul Hasan Stalin.

1.1100 Subject Area Motions
2. 500 Factual Motions
3. 600 Off Beat Motions
4. 500 General Area Motions
5. 500 Philosophical Motions
6. 500 University Debating Motions
7. 300 Special Debating Motions for Schools

To get this free Debating Motions please visit:http://debatebangladesh.tripod.com/id37.html

Bangladesh Debating Council-BDC would like to invite all off you to share this big information bank which will enhance the debating knowledge in every levels of participation.

News Ends.


Regards,
Rashedul Hasan Stalin
Chair, Bangladesh Debating Council-BDC.

German language Debate

Dear Debaters!

Streitkultur e.V. is organising an international tournament for university students in Tübingen in May 2007. The event will consist of a mixture of debating, short lectures by university experts abouts topics related to the European Union and international politics and a number of social events and excursions. We want to add to the plurality of international debating and offer the oportunity to come together in a language other than english - or in other words: The tournament will be held in german language and we warmly invite students from all over the world who want to exercise or improve their german skills. You have to be neither an expert in debating nor in german to join us! The applied parliamentary debate style (OPD) will be introduced in a short workshop before the tournament and we will have a seperate final for students with german as a foreign language.

Please find all the details about the event in a pdf-document behind this link:
http://www.streitkultur.net/ISS/Einladung.pdf
Some aspects in brief:

- Tournaments / lectures / socials / excursions from May 24. - 28. 2007 with optional excursions 29. and 30.
- The registration FEE is ZERO for the first team of each country!
- Registration for international participants is OPEN from NOW on www.streitkultur.org !
- We expect to welcome between 100 and 150 international and german students
- There will be lots of socials, FREE DRINKS, events etc. apart from a FULL TOURNAMENT

Are you a uni-students, know some conversational german and feel like meeting lots of interesting people in one of the most beautiful german cities? Then join us for the INTERNATIONALES STREITKULTUR SYMPOSIUM 2007!

Please feel free to pass this mail around to people who you think might be interested in the event or other mailing lists!

Looking forward to seeing you in Tübingen

Michael


Michael Hoppmann
CA ISS 2007.

Update from UBC

On behalf of the UBC Worlds 2007 organizing committee I am happy to announce that we have now reached our cap for competing teams at the tournament. As a result, we are no longer accepting registration requests for teams at the tournament at this time. If you would like to compete at worlds and have not already registered, you may e-mail our finance director Kaylan Nelson at Nelson.Kaylan(at)gmail.com and she will add you to our waiting list. The following are some very important reminders for all those coming to worlds:

1) Registration FOR JUDGES AND OBSERVERS is still OPEN. There is no cap for adjudicators, so please sign up.

2) For those in violation of the N-1 RULE, you need to find judges to bring your institutions into compliance. We will be mailing out schools in violation of this policy individual reminders, but in the meantime if you can count the number of teams you have, and then count the number of adjudicators you have... if the difference in those numbers is greater than 1, you are in violation of the rule. If you can not find adjudicators to fill your required spots, e-mail me immediately at Adjudication(at)ubcworlds2007.com and I will see if I can put you in touch with an independent adjudicator who is looking to make a deal with a team for full or partial funding, or perhaps just for free beer.

3) For those who have NOT SUBMITTED FULL AND FINAL PAYMENT you are officially past the clearly marked deadlines on the registration page for submission of full and final payment. Those payments are now due. In accordance with the registration policies the deposits you have made are non-refundable at this point. We are giving you until the close of business on November 10th 2006 PST, to either submit full and final payment, or work out other arrangements with our registration and finance personnel, who can be reached at Registration@ubcworlds2007.com and at Nelson.Kaylan(at)gmail.com (Kaylan's worlds e-mail is experiencing difficulties at the moment and pending further testing, it is easier to reach her at her gmail account). If you do not submit full and final payment, or work out alternate arrangements by the deadline, your spots in the tournament will become available to people on the waiting lists and your deposits will not be refunded.

4) Information on participants is now due. Please submit to Maritza at Registration@UBCworlds2007.com an e-mail confirming the names and required personal information of your institutions attendee's if you have not already done so. Failure to do so in a timely fashion may compromise your roommate assignments at the hotel.

5) Please understand that Maritza is receiving an unbelievable volume of e-mail at this time and cannot possibly respond to every request instantaneously. If your payment has been sent and you want to see if it has been processed... the best place to check is with your bank. Please check with Maritza only if you have cause for concern. Rest assured that while there may be some routine errors in international transfers of funds, you will not be prejudiced for an error that is not your fault. If you sent us the money and have a receipt to that effect, we will have received it and if for any reason we did not, we will work with you to get to the bottom of the issue.

6) In the coming week, we will be publishing on the website a list of all institutions registered, with the number of teams, adjudicators, and observers that they have registered. Please check that list for your institution to make sure that it is accurate. If you notice any inconsistencies in that list, please e-mail Maritza immediately to have the changes made.

We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver,

Kevin Massie
Chief Adjudicator
UBC Worlds 2007.

Philippine Nationals Results

Champions:
University of the Philippines Diliman A (Nicolo Cabrera and Claudia Poon) CG

Grand Finalists:
Ateneo de Davao University A (Christopher Dicdiquin and Andrew Macufo) OG
University of the Philippines Manila F (Adrian Rabe and Robin Lucas) OO
Ateneo de Manila University A (Glenn Tuazon and Sharmila Parmanand) CO

Best Speaker of the Tournament (Tied):
Claudia Poon (UPD A) and Sharmila Parmanand (ADMU A)

Best Speaker of the Grand Finals:
Nicolo Cabrera (UPD A)

Motions:
Rd. 1: TH celebrates bigotry's place in mass media.
Rd. 2: THW ban First World dumping of hazardous materials in the Third World.
Rd. 3: TH regrets Jose Rizal's pride of place in the Filipino consciousness.
Rd. 4: TH regrets the role of bilateral aid agencies in Philippine development.
Rd. 5: THBT religiously-affiliated organizations should be covered by homosexual anti-discrimination laws.
Rd. 6: THW tie development aid to the establishment of microcredit programs.
Rd. 7: TH would mandate permanent peacekeeping forces for international humanitarian aid organizations which operate in conflict zones.
Octos: THW celebrate the wearing of Muslim veils by immigrants in Western societies.
Quarters: THBT international sporting bodies should sanction athletes who use official sporting events to make controversial political statements.
Semis: THBT sadomasochistic sex is a tool of patriarchy.
Finals: THBT lobbying the EU to sanction the Philippines for extra-judicial killings is in the best interest of Filipino activists.

Yale IV

Champions:
MIT A (Adam Groce and Michelle Zimmerman)

Finalists:
Harvard D (Cormac Early and Juliet Samuel)
Hart House A (Dash Veel and Nick Shkordoff)
McGill A (Leon Grek and Vinay Mysore)

Top Speaker: Alexander Schwab (Loyola A)

Top Speaker in the Final: Adam Groce (MIT A).

CUSID BP Nationals results

Champions:
Hybrid - Derek Lande and David Denton Finalists:
Yale EG - Ben Eidelson and Jed Glickstein
Queen's - Steve Dickie and Jeremy Opolsky
UBC - Teddy Harrison and Ashish Sinha

Semi- Finalists:
Carleton - Padraic Ryan and Garnett Genuis
Yale PW - Rosa Po and Matthew Wansley
Calgary - Brent Kettles and Mark Banikowski
Yale GN - Jeff Geels and Hayley Nix

Top Novice Team:
McGill - McMaster - Sophie MacIntyre and Sean Hayward

Top Speaker: Ben Eidelson
Top Novice Speaker: Sophie MacIntyre
Top Ten Teams
Team Name (Point total/Speaker Points Total )
Hybrid (14/406.5 )
Yale EG (13/408)
Queen's Team Shower (12/401)
UBC - Harrisinha (12/395)
Carleton Xerxes (11/397)
Yale PW (11/392.5)
Calgary That 70's University (11/390)
Yale GN (10/397)
Yale BG (10/396)
Western Imperialism (10/392.5)

Top Ten Speakers (three-way tie for tenth)
1 Yale EG Ben Eidelson 41
2 Hybrid 40.7
3 Hybrid Derek Lande 40.6
3 Yale EG Jed Glickstein 40.6
5 Queen's Steve Dickie 40.1
5 Queen's Jeremy Opolsky 40.1
7 Carleton Padraic Ryan 39.9
7 Yale BG Josh Bone 39.9
9 UBC Teddy Harrison 39.8
10 Yale RS Ashali Singham 39.7
10 Yale GN Hayley Nix 39.7
10 Yale GN Jeff Geels 39.7

Motions
Rd. 1: THW repatriate native artifacts in foreign museums to Canada
Rd. 2: THW seek a negotiated peace in Afghanistan
Rd. 3: THBT that developed nations should hold their corporations in the developing world to their environmental standards at home
Rd. 4: THW support the media outing closeted politicians
Rd. 5: THBT the American Psychiatric Association should bar its members from participating in military interrogations

Semi: THBT Israel should never offer Palestine more than it did in the Camp David accords.
Final: THW not allow public sector employees wear religious clothing or symbols in the workplace.
Make-up round one: THW eliminate double jeopardy
Make-up round two: THBT Canada should withdraw from Afghanistan

RHM.