Results and updates (Update 12th Jan 2005)

 

Congrats to Erik & Jamie from Ottawa A.  They have been one of the top teams competing in competitions around the World for the last couple of years and are well deserved winners of the World Championships.  Well done, and hard luck, to the other teams in the final.

 

The Worlds results section has been updated (including a new way to calculate the world ranking using a 5 year rolling total).  Follow the link on the left to view it.  The speaker database has not been updated but will be shortly.

• The Team Tab

• The Speaker Tab

   

• THE GRAND FINAL

  • Ottawa A (Erik Eastaugh & Jamie Furniss) WINNERS

   

  • Cambridge A (Daragh Grant & Joe Devanney)

  • Oxford. D (Alex Just & Jonathan Bailey)

  • Hart House B (Michael Kotrly & Joanna Nairn)
     

• Best Speaker

  • Kylie Lane (Monash A) 741

  • Seb Isaac (Lincoln's Inn) 736

  • Erik Eastaugh (Ottawa A) 735

  • Richard Osbourne (Inner Temple) 730

  • Jamie Furniss  (Ottawa A) 730

  • Joe Devanney (Cambridge A) 728

  • Daragh Grant  (Cambridge A) 728

  • Andrew Fitch (Monash A)728

  • Rory Gillis (Yale) 726

  • David Whelan (Kings Inn) 724
     

   

• ESL Finalists:

  • UKM A (Tan Ai Huey & Khor Swee Kheng)  WINNERS

   

  • Nanyang Tech U A (Anirudh & Ajay)

  • Nanyang Tech U B (Ankit & Karthik)

  • MGIMO Moscow (Zalivako & Akulich)

   

• Masters finalists:

  • Australia (Roland Dillon & Michael Smith)  WINNERS

   

  • Ireland (Derek Lande & Conor Buckley)

  • New Zealand (Rachel Carrell & Caleb Ward)

  • Tamil (Praba Ganesan & Kevin Moar)

   

• Comedy:

  • ANU (including: Jeremy Farrell, Toby Halligan, Patrick Moody, Emily Byrne, Jeremy Farrell and Bill Bannear).

   

• Public Speaking:

  • Rahim Moloo (UBC)  WINNER

   

• Worlds Council 2005

  • The English rep at Worlds Council has posted an initial review/summary of the council meeting on British Debate.  Click Here to read it

  • The World Debating Council Meeting was be held on 1st Jan in MMU.  Ian Lising, Chair of Council, posted an initial agenda.  Click Here

   

• THE BREAK

  (Note I believe the names of the team members are correct but I am not there so squads may have changed the order of their teams from what was earlier publicised.  I am also missing some names completely).

   

  24 Points

  1. Cambridge A (Daragh Grant & Joe Devanney) (FINALIST)
   

  22 Points

  2. Inner Temple (Richard Osbourne & Alexis Hearnden) (OCTOS)
   

  21 Points

  3. Monash A (Andrew Fitch & Kylie Lane) (SEMI)

  4. King's Inns B (Dave Whelan & Sam Collins ) (OCTOS)
  5. Oxford B (Gavin Illsley & Nick Sloboda)  (SEMI)
   

  20 Points

  6. Lincoln's Inn (Seb Isaac & Fiona Dewar)  (QTRS)
  7. Yale A (Rory Gillis & Josh Bendor) (QTRS)
  8. Auckland A (Jonathan Orpin and Jesse Wilson)  (OCTOS/QTRS)
  9. Oxford C (Yining Wang & Eustabius McKaiser)  (OCTOS/QTRS)
  10. King's Inns A (Brendan Kelly & Ciaran Lawlor) (QTRS)
   

  19 Points

  11. Ottawa A (Erik Eastaugh & Jamie Furniss) (CHAMPIONS)
  12. Sydney A (Ivan Ah Sam & Brad Lancken) (OCTOS)
  13. Oxford. D (Alex Just & Jonathan Bailey) (FINALIST)
  14. Cambridge C (Harriet Jones-Fenleigh & Patrick Emerson) (OCTOS/QTRS)
  15. Hart House B (Michael Kotrly & Joanna Nairn) (FINALIST)
  16. UCD L&H A (Jim McElroy & Noel McGrath) (OCTOS)
  17. Ateneo A (Jess Lopez & Eleanor Uy) (SEMI)  
  18. Monash C (Tom Chapman & Jake Clifton) (SEMI)
  19. Sydney E (Rebecca Mann & Andrew Chapman) (OCTOS)
  20. Sydney F (Anna Garsia & Hamish Nairn) (OCTOS)
  21. UP Dilman A (Carl Nicholas Ng and Sir Martin Cortez)  (QTRS)
   

  18 Points

  22. Trinity Hist B (Sarah Deeny & Manus de Barra) (OCTOS)
  23. UNSW A (Ian Holmes & Vanessa Collins) (OCTOS)
  24. Cambridge B (Allyson Thompson & Nick Devlin)  (OCTOS/QTRS)
  25. Victoria B (Christopher Bishop and Gareth Richards) (OCTOS)
  26. ANU A (Emily Byrne & Toby Halligan) (OCTOS)
  27. Cambridge E (Chris Barnes & Sushma Ananda)  (OCTOS)
  28. Sydney C (Oliver Lamb & Amanda Isouard) (OCTOS/QTRS)
  29. UP Dilman B (Mark Lim & Nicolo Cabrera)  (QTRS)
  30. Alberta A (Alex Ragan & Stephanie Wanke) (OCTOS)
  31. Victoria A (Joseph Connell and Sayeqa Islam) (OCTOS)
  32. Galway A (Stephen Nolan and Sharon Dillon-Lyons) (OCTOS)

   

• University of British Columbia will host Worlds in 2007

   

• MMU Worlds are the largest ever with 312 teams.

• Motions:

  • 1. This House would compel HIV infected people to disclose their disease to their sexual partners

  • 2. This house believes the EU should open its doors to North Africa

  • 3. This House would not teach vocational studies at University

  • 4. This House would positively discriminate women in the armed forces

  • 5. This House believes that outsourcing is good for the developed and developing nations..

  • 6. This house would have harsher sentences for celebrity criminals

  • 7. This house believes that anti-terrorism is the new McCarthyism

  • 8. This house would expand NAFTA into South America

  • 9. This house would prioritise organ donations to those who have lived a healthy lifestyle

  • Octo: This house believes it is time for an ASEAN parliament

  • Qtr: This House Believes That Mentally Handicapped People Are Better Cared For In The Community Than In Institutions

  • Semi: THW Use Gambling To Rejuvenate Depressed Economic Zones

  • Final: This House supports corporal punishment in schools