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IDAS 2009 motions

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:55:36 +0000

Round 1: This house would give foreign residents the right to vote in general elections

Round 2: THW allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

Round 3: TTHW link executives' salaries to those of their employees.

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Round 4: THBT journalists should not be compelled by law to reveal their sources.

Round 5: THBT rich countries should pay Brazil to re-forest.

Round 6: THBT hunger strikes are a legitimate form of protest in democracies.

Semis: THBT patients cannot refuse life saving medical treatment.

Finals:THBT armies should overthrow corrupt governments.

EUDC 2009 Newcastle motions

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:51:46 +0000

R1: THW allow the police to use entrapment.
R2: THW use the education system to instill moral norms in children beyond mere obedience to the law.
R3: THW grant citizenship to illegal immigrants who report on work-place exploitation.
R4: THBT the gay rights movement should oppose gay marriage.

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R5: THBT western liberal countries have a moral duty to spread democracy across the world using force where necessary.
R6: THBT custody hearings should not take a child's biological parentage into account.
R7: THW allow doctors to actively lie to their patients in order to create or augment a placebo effect.
ESL QF: THW allow the police to physically discipline children below the age of criminal responsibility.
QF: THW allow political parties to designate certain pre-election claims as binding promises, the breaking of which would trigger immediate fresh elections.
ESL SF: THBT countries where assisted suicide is illegal should prosecute those who assist others that travel abroad to receive euthanasia.
SF: THBT desecration of religious sites is a legitimate tactic of warfare.
ESL GF: THW remove all legal barriers to the genetic enhancement of humans.
GF: THW abolish all limits on immigration.

IDAS starting in less than a week

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:44:53 +0000

So, it's this time of the year again, and the best of the best of the debate trainers from around the world will get together in Ormo� again (do check Ormo�, Slovenia on google maps, to get an idea, how small the town is :D ). Its the International debate academy Slovenia time.{mosloadposition user9}

The spots for the whole academy are more than full and we will probably break the record from the previous years and have not one, but two full hotels :D There are a couple of places left for the tournament, that will take place at the Faculty for administration in Ljubljana, a great place to be, I must say.

I will not (sad, sad) attend the academy this year, again, RL kicked in, but as I participated in most of the previous IDAS's I know how much fun it is, so I will join the team both of the weekends, for the arrival day and first lectures on sunday, and the tournament the next weekend in Ljubljana.

I know that the hotel installed a wireless internet system, that worked more or less last year, so do check out my Facebook and twitter for posts, pictures and more. I recomend that you check out Tuna's blog (http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com) too, and Steve's (http://progymna.blogspot.com) as I know they will be posting videos and other, Jens (http://yourgermancorrespondent.blogspot.com) could be blogging too.

eudc day 1 and 2

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:13:08 +0000

Sorry that I've left you without information for so long, but the internet access is really limited and the wifi at the venues does not work for me.So here all the interesting debating news. Day started with a 2 hour delay, because the firs tab that we got to see lacked 20 people. As I heard from Oscar, some people got acccidentally deleted from the tab and some people didn't register properly.That means now, the we won't be having 8 rounds, but only 7, becvause of all the lost time. So we finished three rounds today. Find the motions at the end.An interesting vote was taken yesterday at the debaters and judges briefing, on how many open adjusication rouinds should there be. A lot of yelling, because you casted your vote wit a loud yell, and the people have decided, the we should have 7 round out of total 8 open. Of course now that we have only 7 rounds, 6 will be closed.The accomodation is a lot different from what we had in the last years, on the good side single roums are great, but on the orher hand communal showers and toilets leave space for improvements.A couple of ESL/EFL problems, especially something about the Russian teams, but I don't have a lot of details on that.As the word goes around, we have a couple of teams on 7 points in the ESL.Organisation could be better, people often do not know what comes next, but the org team tries their best. They do lack a couple of helpers as I heard, and I still don't know why someone thinks that an English sandwich could mean lunch. But the English breakfast is the real deal.Motion round 1: This house would allow the police to use entrapmentMotion round 2: This house would use the educational system to instill moral norms in children beyond mere obedience to the law.Motion round 3: This house would grant citizenship to ilegal imigrants who report on workplace exploitation

on my way to EUDC Newcastle

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:25:38 +0000

So, I've just startem my journey to Newcastle, first car ride behind me and while I wait for Maja to show up and take me to the Trieste airport, I'm testing how this posting works. Posting to this page with my BB was not tested yet, so I hope it will work.As mentioned stay tuned for all the EUDC updates, they will appear on the front page.

EUDC updates LIVE!

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:52:55 +0000

In a couple of hours I'm flying to Newcastle, to the European Universities debating championship. I'm taking all my internet gear with me, and only hope that there will be wireless available, so that I can bring you all the motions and some of the results.

Im going as a judge for the first time this year, after three years of debating. You can also check out my Facebook profile, I'll be posting more regulary there on the small things that are happening, from the socials and stuff, pictures will be there too.

Oxford IV 2009 invitation

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:34:24 +0000

Hi everyone,

On the 13^th and 14^th of November 2009, the Oxford IV returns for what looks to be another fantastic tournament, with all the great debating and socials you have come to expect. This year our co-CAs will be Alex Worsnip and Jonathan Leader Maynard, Worlds finalists and Mace winners.{mosloadposition user9}

We have a team cap of 140, with institutions able to each bring 3 teams. The competition will break to quarters and ESL semis. For the reg fee you get all that great debating plus crash both nights and two nights of free booze and amazing parties all set in the beautiful surroundings of Oxford.

International registration will be £100 (opens 1^st Aug) - extras include access to one of the famous Oxford Union debates, an extra social and an extra night crash to let you settle in.

IONA registration will be £75 (opens 1^st Sept)

We are currently updating our website (www.oxfordiv.org) and more details about the competition will follow.

We hope to see you all there, so get the dates in your diary!

Best wishes,

Jo Farmer and Ellen Robertson

Co-convenors of the Oxford IV 2009

convenor@oxfordiv.org

WUDC 2010 Who's IN and who's WAITING

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:24:55 +0000

Dear debaters,

Today was a historic day for global debating and we realize that many of you are waiting for this mail with bated breath. Registration for the Vehbi Koç World Universities Debating Championships 2010 filled in just over 90 seconds and in total, around 600 teams registered to compete at the 30^th round of debating’s greatest tournament. We will set aside for the moment the various debates that this throws up and which must again take place at Worlds Council on New Year’s Day 2010. Our job right now is to say which teams got in, either through first-come, first-serve, our 24 team slots for institutions from nations with slow internet access and for institutions who come from nations that went unrepresented through both of the aforementioned methods. We will also set out our policy regarding the waiting list and give the order of that waiting list based on first-come, first serve.

The institutions that registered on first-come, first serve

This list includes the first 300 teams that registered as well as the next 27 teams on the waiting list that became available after we had taken into account nations represented by teams in the first 300 and the five slots we must constitutionally set aside for nations present at the previous round of the tournament but not present in our current phase of registration. The last two teams on this list registered at the same second when there were only two teams left. We decided to give each institution 1 team and 1 judge and their remaining teams are at the top of the waiting list.{mosloadposition user9}

Institution	Teams	Judges
Assumption University	2	1
Ateneo Debate Society	3	2
Australian National University	3	2
Babes Bolyai University	3	2
Bates College	3	2
Beihang University	1	1
Beijing Foreign Studies University	3	2
Bilkent University	3	2
Binus International	2	1
Bogazici University	3	2
Boston University	2	1
BPP Law School	2	1
Brown University	2	1
Cambridge Union Society	3	2
Cardiff University	3	2
Carleton University	1	0
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar	2	1
Catholic of University Atma Jaya	1	0
City University of Hong Kong	3	2
Claremont Colleges	2	1
Colgate University	3	2
College of the North Atlantic - Qatar	2	1
Cornell University	3	2
Dalhousie University	1	1
DC St. Gallen	1	0
Debate Association of Ewha	3	2
Debattierklub Wien	1	1
Deree College	3	2
DLSU	3	2
Duke University	3	2
Durham University	2	1
East West University	1	0
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam	3	2
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald	2	1
Fordham University	1	1
Galatasaray Universitesi	3	2
Glasgow University Union	3	2
Government College University	2	1
Griffith	3	2
Gujarat National Law University	1	0
Hart House - University of Toronto	3	2
Harvard University	3	2
Hebrew University of Jerusalem	3	2
Hitotsubashi University	2	1
Hobart & Wm. Smith	2	1
Hong Kong Baptist University	3	2
Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Shevchenko University	2	1
International Christian University	3	2
International Islamic University Malaysia	3	2
Islamic University of Technology (IUT)	2	1
Keio University	2	1
London School of Economics	3	2
Macquarie University	3	2
Mapua Institute of Technology	1	0
Marianopolis College Debating Society	1	0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2	1
McGill University	3	2
METU	1	1
MGIMO	3	2
Monash University	3	2
Moscow State Technical University n/a Bauman	3	2
MSAL	3	2
Multimedia University	3	2
Nanyang Technological University	3	2
National Law School of India University	3	2
National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”	1	0
National University of Singapore	3	2
New York University	2	1
North South University	2	1
Northwestern University	1	0
NUIG Literary and Debating Society	3	2
Pacific Lutheran University	2	1
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru	1	0
Portland State University	3	2
Princeton University	3	2
Queen's University	3	2
Radboud University	2	1
Royal Holloway, University of London	2	1
SciencesPo. Paris (Le Havre)	2	1
Seikei University	3	2
Sichuan International Studies University	2	1
Smith College	3	2
Sophia University	2	1
St Johns University	3	2
Stanford	3	2
Swarthmore College	2	1
TCD Phil	2	1
Tel Aviv University	3	2
Texas State University	1	1
The Chinese University of Hong Kong	3	2
The Law Society, University College Cork	3	2
The Oxford Union Society	3	2
UCC Philosoph	3	2
UCD Law Society	1	1
Underwood International College, Yonsei University	3	2
Universidad Del Pacifico	1	0
Universitas Indonesia	3	2
University College Dublin Literary and Historical Society	3	2
University of Alaska	3	2
University of Alberta	3	2
University of Auckland	2	1
University of Belgrade	2	1
University of Birmingham	2	1
University of British Columbia	3	2
University of Canterbury	2	1
University of La Verne	3	2
University of Ljubljana	3	2
University of Macau	3	2
University of Manchester	3	2
University of Maryland	3	2
University of Melbourne	3	2
University of Mostar	3	2
University of Namibia	2	1
University of New South Wales	3	2
University of Nottingham	3	2
University of Queensland	3	2
University of Rochester	2	1
University of Science and Technology Beijing	1	1
University of Split	3	2
University of St Andrews	3	2
University of Sydney Union	3	2
University of Technology Sydney	2	1
University of the Pacific	3	2
University of the Philippines Manila	1	1
University of Waterloo	1	1
University of Western Australia	2	1
University of Zagreb	3	2
Universtity of Kitakyushu	1	0
Utrecht University	1	0
UWI Cave Hill	3	2
Vassar College	1	0
Victoria University of Wellington	3	2
Wits University	3	2
Yale University	3	2
Yeditepe University	3	2
York University	2	1
Zagreb Law	3	2

The institutions that registered through our slow-internet policy

We are really happy that we instigated this policy this year as the tournament is far more diverse than it would have otherwise been. However, we also saw that internet speed is not so much of an issue as several Indian, Chinese and Bangladeshi teams were able to register in the first 300. As a result, we limited the number of teams that institutions could register through this method to two teams and one judge. We have placed the additional teams these institutions wanted to send on the waiting list. We also set a cut-off point of 15 minutes at which slow internet could no longer conceivably be the differentiating factor in registering later than other teams. This meant that 23 teams were able to register through this method.

Institution	Teams	Judges
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology(BUET)	1	1
Beijing Language and Culture University	1	0
BRAC	2	1
Chulalongkorn University	1	1
Dhaka University	1	1
FAST National University	1	0
IBA-DU	2	1
University of Haifa	1	1
LUMS	2	1
Monash South Africa	1	1
RRIS	1	1
Salahaddin University	1	1
Stamford University Bangladesh	1	1
University of Botswana	1	1
University of Cape Town	2	1
University of Chittagong	1	1
University of Duhok	2	1
University of Technology, Baghdad	1	1

Note: We included South Africa in this category after receiving compelling evidence that internet access is really an issue. We also recognized that Israel falls within most people’s definition of the Middle East and so included one team from each institution that registered within 15 minutes of the start of registration.

Institutions that registered as the first representative of their nation

Institutions in this category have a Constitutional right to send one team to the Championships. If they had remaining teams, they were placed on the waiting list where they would otherwise have been.

Institution	Country	Teams	Judges
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México	Mexico	1	0
Mykolas Romeris university	Lithuania	1	0
Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	1	0
SSE Riga	Latvia	1	1
University of Helsinki	Finland	1	1
University of Technology, Jamaica	Jamaica	1	1

Nations that still have one spot reserved at Koc Worlds 2010

The next four nations have one team spot reserved for the next institution that registers from that nation. These spots are reserved until 3^rd July 2009 and if they are untaken, they will become available to the first teams on the waiting list.

Czech Republic

Estonia

Lesotho

Sri Lanka

The Waiting List

As we noted earlier, this year’s registration was swift. This means that there are more teams than ever before waiting to get an opportunity to compete at Worlds. Given the large number of teams on the waiting list, we will accept registrations for one team and one judge only from institutions on the waiting list in line with other major tournaments where waiting lists have been necessary. If we go through the entire list, we will return to the top and offer a further team to those that asked for one. We anticipate that many teams currently registered to compete will consequently not pay – this is a perennial part of Worlds. We would thus ask teams on the waitlist not to despair. We would also ask you to understand that taking one team and one judge from each of you will allow more institutions to compete and make the tournament even more diverse and competitive. Teams may continue to register until 3^rd July 2009 and will take their place on the waiting list.

1	METU
2	UCD Law Society
3	University of Rijeka
4	Tokyo Women's Christian University
5	Zagreb School of Economy and Management
6	Tokai University
7	California State University, San Bernardino
8	Chung-Ang University
9	KhUML
10	University of Athens
11	University of Bristol
12	UT MARA
13	Tsuda College
14	ASDV Bonaparte
15	Seattle University
16	Singapore Management University
17	Debattierclub University of Potsdam
18	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
19	University of Hong Kong (HKU)
20	Amherst College
21	University of Haifa
22	Trinity College Historical Society
23	NTUU "KPI"
24	Universiti Malaysia Sabah
25	University of Western Ontario
26	University of Vermont
27	KDU College PJ Campus
28	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
29	Weill Cornell Medical College - Qatar
30	San Beda College
31	University of Calgary
32	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
33	Lincoln's Inn
34	University of Duhok
35	University of Warwick
36	University of Tokyo
37	Monash South Africa
38	University of Cape Town
39	Texas A&M University at Qatar
40	LUMS
41	Debattierclub Stuttgart
42	University of Newcastle upon Tyne
43	IBA-DU
44	Northwest University
45	ULU
46	University College London
47	SSE Riga
48	University of Athens
49	Higher School of Economics
50	Salahaddin University
51	University of Pennsylvania
52	University of Bucharest
53	University of Chittagong
54	Islamic University of Indonesia
55	University of the Philippines - Diliman
56	University of Hawaii at Manoa
57	BRAC
58	Gavilan College
59	RRIS
60	University of Aberdeen
61	Dublin City University
62	Far Eastern University
63	Chulalongkorn University
64	Universiti Sains Malaysia
65	University of Helsinki
66	Yogyakarta State University
67	Moscow Aviation Institute
68	Bar Ilan University (BIU)
69	Qatar University
70	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
71	Leiden University
72	IDC Hertzliya
73	Griffith College
74	The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
75	Berlin Debating Union
76	King's College London
77	University of Limerick
78	SOAS
79	Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
80	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
81	Multimedia University Melaka
82	University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
83	Korea University
84	Aberystwyth
85	Mahidol
86	University College Lahore
87	Purdue University

Independent Judges

A number of you registered as independent judges today but you will need to contact Can Okar (c.okar@kocworlds2010.com) as well with a CV. He will then share your profile with the relevant DCA and you will be sent a decision regarding your eligibility to judge at the tournament. We will not publish a list of independent judges until a finalized list has been put in place.

And that, for today, is that. We would really like now to take a rest and have a drink. We will outline what you need to do to pay in the next few days. There is no rush in this matter but we want you to be prepared and it is vital that you understand that these registrations are only provisional. Failure to pay your pre-payments and then the full balance in Phases 2 and 3 respectively will result in your teams being scratched from the Championships.

We hope that you will appreciate the difficulty we have had in ensuring that we get this right. Some of our working has had to be at the level of educated guessing as we received such a flurry of data in such a short space of time. Having said that, we believe that after a long day at the office, we have a list that fairly and accurately corresponds to the various policies of Council and that this is about as good as it’s going to get.

We hope you received good news and if not, we ask you to stay cheerful. Fingers crossed, we’ll all be together in Turkey this December.

Warmest regards,

Hasan Sadık Arik

Registration Officer

Vehbi Koç World Universities Debating Championships 2010

WUDC 2010 who's In and who is Waiting

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:21:49 +0000

Webmaster: This is probably the logest post in history. Most interesting 300 teams are registered, and almost 100 are on the waiting list, that means that 1/3 of the people were not able to register. I understand that a lot of registered institutions will not pay for as many teams as they registered, but it still shows a great interest in WUDC 2010. The debate continues on the Forum!

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