Breaking directly to finals were:

      1)  Loyola Marymount (Kiley/Schwab) – on a perfect 15 points
     2)  Oxford (Maynard/Worsnip) – on 14 points 
      3)  Middle Temple (Cochran/Warents) – on 11 points
      4)  Hart House (Freeman/Lizius) – on 10 points 

In the final round (on the motion “THW eliminate executive pardons”), the team winning the $1000 prize was Oxford, with Hart House claiming the $500 second place prize.

The Full Tab is available at:  http://people.hws.edu/barnes/debate/2009RR-FullTab.pdf

You are also welcome to watch a video of the final round.

The other teams on the top half of the tab all ended on 8 points:

5.  Witwatersrand (Roussos/Williams) – 792 speaks
6.  York (Kettles/Lof) – 787 speaks
7.  Cambridge (Koh/Nugent) – 783 speaks
8.  MIT (Goldstein/Magnuson) – 782 speaks

The top speaker at the tournament was Jonathan Leader Maynard.

Top half of the speaker tab:

1.  Jonathan Maynard (Oxford) – 418
2.  Alex Worsnip (Oxford) – 415                    
3.  Douglas Cochran (Middle Temple) – 408
4.  Kevin Kiley (Loyola Marymount) – 407
5.  Alexander Schwab (Loyola Marymount) – 406
6.  Daniel Warents (Middle Temple) – 402
7.  Joe Roussos (Witwatersrand) – 401
8.  Dash Veel (Hart House) – 399
9.  Brent Kettles (York) – 398
10.  Jeff Geels (Yale) – 397
11.  Hayley Nix (Yale) – 396
12.  Adam Goldstein (MIT) – 396
13.  Richard Lizius (Hart House) – 395
14.  Mary Nugent (Cambridge) – 395
15.  Monica Ferris (Hart House) – 393
16.  Mark Samburg (Harvard) -393 

The prelim motions were:

Round 1:  THW require all citizens to perform a period of national service.
Round 2:  THW punish North Korea for weapons testing.
Round 3:  THW make teachers’ pay dependent on students’ achievement.
Round 4:  THW ban for-profit fortune tellers who claim supernatural insight.
Round 5:  THW limit expert testimony to those who are impartially selected by the court.