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13 March 2010

Updating Template

I'm playing with some new templates for this blog.  I don't have one that I have ready to just slot in. Therefore I'm experimenting with it a little as I go.  Therefore if you see some strange things over the next couple of days that's probably me messing with the settings.

If you have any suggestions of stuff to add (or take out) let me know.

Haifa wins the Israeli ASA Debating Competition

The Israeli ASA (Academic Sport Association) Debating Competition was held in the southern tourist city of Eilat for 2 days.


Winners: Shiri Noyman and Edo Rosenblum (Haifa Green)

Teams in the final:
Amit Shuchnazky and Hadas Nevenzal (BIU Purple)
Mor Yamin and Netanel Yakov-Chay (BIU Red)
Yelena Kozlov and Ofir Tzuman (Open Brown)

Best Speakers:
Shiri Noyman - Haifa University
Amit Shuchnazky - Bar Ilan University
Best Junior Speaker: Edo Rosenblum - Haifa University

The motions:
R1. THW place condoms vending machines in schools
R2. THW forbid the Supreme Court to annul legislative laws
R3. THE forbid advertisers to use women body for the marketing of products which aren’t related directly to women’s body.
R4. THW not assassinate terrorists in foreign countries
Final: THBT the Israeli anthem should represent all of the segments of society

Full tab can be found here

Source: http://israelidebate.blogspot.com/

10 March 2010

IIUM win Malaysian Open

International Islamic University (Meor, Khalidah, & Tasneem) have won the 2nd Malaysia Debate Open. They beat DITI (Prabha, Rafiq & Dr. Omar) in the grand final.


The best speaker on the tab was Tasneem from IIUM and the Grand Final Best Speaker was Prabha (DITI)

The full list of the motions and tabs are available on www.malaysiadebateopen.com/past_records.html

8 March 2010

Welsh Mace Champions

The Welsh leg of the ESU John Smith Memorial Mace, organised by the Wales Debating Federation, took place yesterday in Cardiff.


The teams that reached the final were
1st prop from Cardiff – Tom Hannant & Sarah Ingram
1st opp from Cardiff – Matthew Clarke & Craig Sutherland
2nd prop from Cardiff – Kirsty Logan & James Selvey
2nd opp from Glamorgan – Solomon Judd and Adam Jivraj

The motion for the final was THW force all top flight European sports teams to transfer their ownership to supporters’ trusts.

The winning team was Solomon Judd and Adam Jivraj, congratulations to them and all the finalists.

There were two joint top speakers on the tab, Kirsty Logan & Adam Jivraj

The winners of the Welsh Mace will go onto face the other national champions at the International Mace final in Wales later this year.

7 March 2010

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.