On a 5 4 split in the final vote after over 2 hours
Oxford A (Will Jones and James Dray)
Oxford A (Will Jones and James Dray)
BBU A
Villinus A
Naomi Oreb from Sydney
1 Leela Koenig (Leiden A)
AistÄ— DumbrytÄ— (Villinus A)
Patrick Bateman (Sydney)
Team: Ireland (Ross McGuire & Greg ONeill)
Individual: Barry Glynn (Ireland)
Willard Foxton
1st Gov - Monash B
1st Opp - Oxford A
2nd Gov - Harvard A
2nd Opp - Oxford C
The motion is:
This house would ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy.
The finalists will be announced in a few minutes.
I believe Jens is posting a script of each speaker if you want to check that out.
Tuna has had a team of people recording the various debates. He has posted some of those on his blog and I'm sure he you keep an eye on the site over the next few days they will all appear.
This house believes governments should subsidise private home ownership.
The motion for the EFL final is
This house would prohibit all private health care.
Oxford C
Queensland A
Harvard A
Vic Wellington A
This house believes that the international criminal court should prosecute crimes against the democratic process.
Qtr draw:
Judges: Erin O'Brien, Doug Cochran, Samir Denger Senm Jason Roberts, Steve Johnson, Shamila Parmamail, Andrew Marshall
Judges: Rory Gillis, Chris Bishop, Elizabeth Ames, Colm Flynn, Anna Garcia, Tim Jeffrie, Sayqa Islam
Judges: Ivan Ah Sam, Sam Block, Ciaran Lawlor, Tony Murphy, Kirsty Russell, Tiernan Fitzgibbon, Chris Croke.
Judges: Bob Nimmo, Derek Lande, Gavin Illsey, Julia Bowes, Sutheren Thomas, Daniel Warrents
ESL Semis:
Judges: Ian Lising, Safia Shabab, Nicole Lynch, JEns Fischer, Beth Connor, Erin Fitzgerald, Ben Jasper.
Judges: Neil Harvey-Smith, Isabelle Loewe, Daniel Tait, DAniel Wodak, Kathering Connolly, Coran O'Brien, Catherine Richardson.
I have to go judge so will post the ESL semi positions and the list of judges later on.
16 Monash B
17 Manchester A
8 Princeton A
9 TCD Phil B
13 UCD L&H A
29 Nottingham A
5 Oxford A
12 Oxford B
14 Hart House B
19 MIT A
6 Oxford C
22 Queensland A
15 Harvard A
31 Loyola A
10 Helsinki A
23 Vic Wellington A
All three Sydney teams are out. Cambridge is also out.
Draw to follow in a few minutes
Congrats to Justice and his team. They lost out twice before but came back the following year to bid again and it turned out to be third time lucky. Having spoken to them this week I'm sure they will do a great job.
The EFL Finalists are:
The Final is on the 3rd January.
Source: yourgermancorresponent
The Finalists in the public Speaking competition are:
The Final is tomorrow
Source: yourgermancorresponsant
This house would ban the publication of political opinion polls.
This house would apply a lower rate of income tax to women.
This house believes that the west should recognise the independence of Abkhazia.
Note that today all rounds are closed adjudication so no results will
be announced until the break announcement just after midnight Irish
time.
This house believes that the west should recognise the independence of Abkhazia.
Note that today all rounds are closed adjudication so no results will
be announced until the break announcement just after midnight Irish
time.
This house would criminalise adultery.
This house believes that China and India should bear the same obligations as the West in fighting climate change.
Will Jones from Oxford
Julia Bowes from Sydney
Sutern Tate Thomas from MMU
Josh Bone from Yale
They still have to be confirmed at council on New Years day.
DLSU are going to bid for 2012
Moment of the tournament so fas has to be Derek standing up to explain the motion in the adjudicators only to have a committee member burst through doors to the side of the stage, sprint to the podium and grab the mic which was transmitting Derek's "definition" to the debaters in the other rooms.
I have discovered that there is an official blog from the org comm. Corkworlds.blogspot.com. You should add this to your list of sites to check.
Also I'm posting from my phone so the line and paragraph breaks are a little off. I'll tidy them up when I get home.
This house would force the religious desegregation of Northern Irish schools.
This house would allow soldiers to sue their government for negligence.
I had a very good debate. I would not be surprised to see 3 of the teams in the break. It was very tight and the panel all had slightly different results but after discussion we came to agreement which is why we have more than one judge per panel. Tabbie really shafted the
teams with that draw but thats the dangers of 3 point rooms at round 2 at worlds.
This house would fire the senior managements of all corporations which receive government bailouts.
Round 1 motion was announced at 10:30 which was apparently just 20 minutes behind schedule so well done Cork. I've been at worlds in the past where we were still waiting for round 1 at lunch time.
Speaking of lunch there were no queue when i got there. Walked straight up and got a roll and an orange. 30 seconds tops so they seem to have solved the queue problem from yesterday. Also people tend to be a bit more staggered in arriving from the oral adjudications (some are longer than others) so that helps.
My round 1 was not the best debate and was fairly easy to call.
And they have just asked people to take their seats for the round 2 announcement so we must still be close to the schedule.
This house would ban all forms of gambling
This house would ban all forms of gambling
The only time I heard grumbles were at lunch. There were long queues for food but it wouldnt be worlds without queues for food and impatient people complaining as they wait. It is just that too many people arrive out of debates or briefings and want to be fed at the same time. But the queues moved at a reasonable pace.
The adjudication test was interesting. Lets just be kind and say one of the teams wasnt exactly balanced (which made calculating the speaker points, to avoid "low point wins", fun). From the laughter in the crowd i think people enjoyed the bad speech while they also got to judge some really good speeches.
Tomorrow the real business starts.
There was a mini exam then form on experience.
Now a live debate is about to start on the motion
TH would allow insurance companies to view genetic test results in assessing potential customers.
The motion for the womens debate in a couple of days has been announced:
TTHW ban all forms of religious gender discrimination.
The tradition is to hold the masters competition in the local debate
format. This is Irish Times format. It has a mix of teams and
individuals in the same debate. For more guidance check out my
tutorial section.
The largest section of the first tournament briefing was on social
events. Welcome to Ireland :-)