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26 January 2012

Scotland win 2012 World Schools Debate

Scotland (Alfie Hinchliffe, Charlie Thomas, Ruth Cameron) have won the 2012 World Schools Debating Championships defeating Wales (Amy Jones, David Wigley, Piers Digby)  8-1 in the final in Capetown.

The final motion was "This House regrets South Africa's decision to use the Truth and Reconciliation Commission rather the prosecuting the perpetrators of crimes committed under Apartheid


Live webcasting of the North American Debating Championships

The CUSID-APDA North American Championships is coming up this weekend, January 27 – 29, 2012. We will be live streaming the final round of the tournament on Sunday, January 29th starting at 2:30pm. The link and information are below.

The URL for the webcast is:
http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20120129-HHDC/index.htm



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Wales and Scotland contest 2012 WSDC final

Wales and Scotland will contest the final of the 2012 World Schools Debating Championships in Cape Town.

In the semi finals Scotland defeated Philippines 6-1 while Wales defeated England also by 6-1.


25 January 2012

World Schools Debating Championships Qtr Final Results


Philippines defeats Singapore (5-0)
England defeats New Zealand (3-2)
Scotland defeats Australia (5-0)

World Schools Octo-Final Results

OF1: Singapore (1) vs. South Korea (16) 2-1 Singapore
OF2: Philippines (8) vs. Canada (9) 2-1 Philippines
OF3: Australia (4) vs. Malaysia (13) 3-0 Australia
OF4: Scotland (5) vs. Greece (12) 3-0 Scotland
OF5: Lithuania (11) vs. England (6) 3-0 England
OF6: Hong Kong (14) vs. New Zealand (3) 2-1 New Zealand
OF7: India (10) vs. Wales (7) 3-0 Wales
OF8: Ireland (15) vs. South Africa (2) 2-1 Ireland

Quarterfinal Match-up
QF1: Singapore (1) vs. Philippines (8) (Judges:Christopher Bishop (chair), Taiumur Bandey, Seham Areff, Iqbal Gafiedz, Eirianna Kouri)
QF2: Australia (4) vs. Scotland (5) (Judges: Tracey Lee (Chair), Beth James, TJ Senamngern, Desley Horton, Tom McLennan)
QF3: England (6) vs. New Zealand (3) (Judges: Daniel de Kadt (Chair), Stephanie Dick, Chris Sanchez, Chris Hibbard, Mehvesh Mumtaz Ahmed)
QF4: Wales (7) vs. Ireland (15) (Judges: Joshua Park (Chair), Kip Oebanda, Irene McGrath, Thng Yi Ren, Kristen Price)


24 January 2012

World Schools 2012 Final Tab

The draw for the Knock outs of the 2012 World Schools Debating Championships is

1 Singapore vs 16. Korea
8 Philippines vs 9 Canada

4 Australia vs 13 Malaysia
5 Scotland vs 12 Greece

6 England vs 11 Lithuania
3 New Zealand vs 14 Hong Kong

7 Wales vs 10 India
2 South Africa vs 15 Ireland.
You can find this in a neater graphical view showing the path to the final on http://www.schoolsdebate.com/years/2012/Knockout.pdf
Also the overall final team tab is

TEAM TAB AFTER EIGHT ROUNDS
Position Team Debates Wins Adjudicators Total points
1 SINGAPORE 8 8 23 6233.5
2 SOUTH AFRICA 8 8 21 6179.5
3 NEW ZEALAND 8 8 21 6112.5
4 AUSTRALIA 8 7 20 6151.0
5 SCOTLAND 8 7 19 6122.5
6 ENGLAND 8 6 20 6241.0
7 WALES 8 6 18 6088.5
8 PHILIPPINES 8 6 18 6005.5
9 CANADA 8 6 17 6087.5
10 INDIA 8 6 17 6029.0
11 LITHUANIA 8 6 17 5953.5
12 GREECE 8 6 16 6066.0
13 MALAYSIA 8 6 15 5991.5
14 HONG KONG 8 5 16 6127.0
15 IRELAND 8 5 16 6033.5
16 KOREA 8 5 15 6104.5
17 PAKISTAN 8 5 15 6082.0
18 ISRAEL 8 5 15 5942.0
19 SRI LANKA 8 5 14 6015.0
20 THAILAND 8 5 14 5930.0
21 ESTONIA 8 5 14 5915.5
22 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 8 5 12 5962.5
23 SLOVENIA 8 4 14 5979.0
24 NETHERLANDS 8 4 13 5983.0
25 INDONESIA 8 4 13 5923.5
26 SLOVAKIA 8 4 13 5919.5
27 MEXICO 8 4 12 6008.0
28 SWAZILAND 8 4 12 5910.5
29 ARGENTINA 8 4 12 5860.5
30 TURKEY 8 4 11 5897.0
31 CZECH REPUBLIC 8 3 10 5898.5
32 CHINA 8 3 10 5849.5
33 ROMANIA 8 3 10 5841.0
34 ZIMBABWE 8 3 10 5783.0
35 PERU 8 3 8 5847.5
36 GERMANY 8 3 7 5870.0
37 BANGLADESH 8 2 12 5932.0
38 UNITED STATES 8 2 8 5831.5
39 BOTSWANA 8 2 6 5623.5
40 QATAR 8 2 4 5640.0
41 DENMARK 8 1 5 5768.0
42 SWEDEN 8 1 5 5756.0
43 BERMUDA 8 1 3 5637.0
44 KUWAIT 8 0 2 5763.0
45 MOLDOVA 8 0 2 5640.5
46 JAPAN 8 0 1 5606.5
47 NIGERIA 8 0 0 5647.5
48 MONGOLIA 8 0 0 5436.0

23 January 2012

World Schools Results after Round 6 #WSDC

From http://www.schoolsdebate.com/years/2012/

TEAM WINS JUDGES
Argentina 3 10
Australia 5 15
Bangladesh 2 10
Bermuda 0 1
Botswana 2 6
Canada 5 14
China 1 5
Czech Republic 3 8
Denmark 0 3
England 5 16
Estonia 3 9
Germany 1 3
Greece 5 13
Hong Kong 4 12
India 4 11
Indonesia 3 10
Ireland 3 9
Israel 3 10
Japan 0 1
Korea 5 15
Kuwait 0 2
Lithuania 4 11
Malaysia 4 10
Mexico 2 6
Moldova 0 1
Mongolia 0 0
Netherlands 3 9
New Zealand 6 16
Nigeria 0 0
Pakistan 3 10
Peru 3 7
Philippines 4 13
Qatar 2 4
Romania 3 9
Scotland 5 14
Singapore 6 17
Slovakia 3 10
Slovenia 4 12
South Africa 6 16
Sri Lanka 4 10
Swaziland 3 8
Sweden 1 4
Thailand 4 11
Turkey 3 8
UAE 4 10
USA 2 7
Wales 5 15
Zimbabwe 2 7

Note: The Chief Adjudicators do not yet guarantee the accuracy of these results.

Note that one judge retired through illness during Round 4, but the debate was allowed to continue.
This result is still to be confirmed in due course.
Note that the India v. Mexico debate for Round 5 has been postponed until this evening.