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The field for the 2010 HWS / IDEA Round Robin.
| Athens |
Greece |
| Cambridge |
England |
| Carleton |
Canada |
| Kings Inn |
Ireland |
| Ljubljana |
Slovenia |
| McGill |
Canada |
| MMU |
Malaysia |
| Oxford |
England |
| Queen’s |
Canada |
| Rhodes |
South Africa |
| Sydney |
Australia |
| Tel Aviv |
Israel |
| Trinity College |
Ireland
|
| UBC |
Canada |
| UIC |
South Korea |
| Yale |
United States
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The competition will take place on April 2-3, at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.
Anyone interested in adjudicating at the Round Robin should contact Eric Barnes:
barnes (at) hws (dot) edu
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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.
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| ADJUDICATOR |
AFFILIATION |
| Neill Harvey-Smith |
University of London |
| Beth Conner |
St. Andrews |
| Eric Barnes |
HWS |
| Peter Neilson |
Hart House |
| Josh Martin |
LaVerne |
| Michael Kotrly |
Hart House |
| Jason Rogers |
Hart House |
| Maria Avgitidis |
Deree & NYU |
| Noel Selegzi |
IDEA & Columbia |
| Andrew Rohrbach |
Yale |
| Li Xixi (Cecilee) |
Beijing Foreign Studies |
| Jillian LaCroix |
HWS |
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We only need 14 judges, but we hope to have a few extras. Decisions regarding the remaining judges will be made shortly.
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Teams Attending the 2009 HWS/IDEA Round Robin
| Babes Bolyai |
Romania |
| Middle Temple |
England |
| Cambridge University |
England |
| Columbia University |
New York |
| Hart House (University of Toronto) |
Canada |
| Hart House (University of Toronto) |
Canada |
| Harvard University |
Massachusetts |
| Loyola Marymount University |
California |
| Loyola Marymount University |
California |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Massachusetts |
| National Law School |
India |
| Oxford University |
England |
| Tel Aviv University |
Israel |
| University of the Witswatersrand |
South Africa |
| Yale University |
Connecticut |
| York University |
Canada |
Just a few selected accomplishments of the teams attending:
➢ 3 Quarterfinalist teams at the World Championships
➢ Semi-finalists at the World Championships
➢ 2 Finalist teams at the Canadian National Championships
➢ Finalists at the US National Championships
➢ Finalists at the North American Championships
➢ Finalists at the Southern African Championships
➢ Finalists at the Oxford IV
➢ The second breaking ESL team at Worlds
➢ The ESL World Champions
➢ Finalists at the World Championship
➢ The Canadian National Champions
➢ The US National Champions
➢ The All-Asian Tournament Champions
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This 2 page bulletin is a quick summary of the Round Robin.
The official website for the IDEA / HWS Round Robin is now live. The website includes information about the tournament, past and future participants as well as events and happenings around the tournament weekend.
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