Selected 2005-2006 Winners (Updated 19th July 2005)

(Note: A results "season" on this page runs from July to June)

World Debating Championships

International Mace (IONA Championships)

United Kingdom

Ireland

North America

There are a 3-4 competitions a week in US/Canada so I will only put the Worlds Style results here along with the National Championships results.  For more detailed results visit the CUSID & APDA websites.

Australasia

• Austral Asian Championships: Winner: Sydney 2 (Ivan Ah Sam, Brad Lancken, Patrick Meagher) Finalist: Ateneo 1 (Charisse Borromeo, Leloy Claudio, Sharmila Parmanand) Top Speaker: Ivan Ah Sam (Sydney 2) Top Team on the Tab: Sydney 2 (Ivan Ah Sam, Brad Lancken, Patrick Meagher)

• Asian Universities Debating Championships: Host NTU  Champion: Ateneo A (Jess Lopez, Charisse Borromeo, Sharmila Parmanand)  Finalist: NTU B (Ankit, Ajay, Sushil)  Semifinal 1: Ateneo A def. Ateneo B (Leloy Claudio, Glenn Tuazon, Kellda Centeno)  Semifinal 2: NTU B def. UPD B (Patricia Evangelista, Joan Caccam, Jonathan Yabut) Best Speaker (tab) - Jess Lopez (Ateneo A) Grand Final Best Speaker - Sushil (NTU B) Best Adjudicator - Amit Bhatia (SIM) EforL Champion - KHU A EforL Finalist - BNU A
  The next hosts will be Ateneo de Manila University.

• "Joynt Scroll" - New Zealand Universities Prepared Debating Champs Host: Otago University, 26-29 August 2005 Winners - Auckland 1 (Paul Paterson, Jonathan Orpin, Jordan Ward) Runners-up - Otago 1 (Torie Olds, Renee Heal, Laura Fraser) Best Speaker - Jonathan Orpin (Auckland) Best Adjudicator - Christopher Bishop (Victoria) Most Promising Speaker - Clodagh O'Connor-McKenna (Victoria) New Zealand Universities Team - Jonathan Orpin (Auckland), Laura Fraser (Otago), Gareth Richards (Victoria) Bledisloe Medal for Oratory - Christopher Bishop

   

   

Europe

• 3rd Istanbul International Debate Tournament: Winners: Schoolkids from Ireland A (Ross Frenett & Andrea Mulligan) Finalists: Middle Temple (Daniel Warents & Harish Natarajan), Your Ma (Declan Bruton & Marguerite Carter), No Logo (Daniel Schut & Anat Gelber) Top Team Tab: No Logo (Daniel Schut & Anat Gelber) Top Speaker: Anat Gelber (No Logo)

   

Africa

• South African Nationals: Winner Wits - James and David Fowkes. ESL Winner: Rhodes - Anele and Londa Masters Winner: Kalemba Seleti and Jared Licina Public Speaking Winners: Jared Licina Mayors Cup Winners: Dave Simonsz and Nick Friedman
   

Selected 2004-2005 Winners (Updated 12th July 2005)

2004-2005 results.  If you can add any info to this please e-mail me

World Debating Championships

• World Debating Champions: Ottawa A (Erik Eastaugh & Jamie Furniss) Finalists 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)

• World English as a Second Language Winners: UKM A (Tan Ai Huey & Khor Swee Kheng)

• World Masters  Winner: Australia (Roland Dillon & Michael Smith)

• World Public Speaking Championships: Winner: Rahim Moloo (UBC)

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

   

• World Schools Debating Champions: (held in Calgary)Australia  Finalists England

International Mace (IONA Championships)

• Winners: First Opposition: Lincons Inns (Sebastian Isaac &  Fiona Dewar), England

• Finalists: First Proposition: Glasgow University Union (Niall Kennedy & Kenneth Fleming) Scotland  Second Proposition: Cardiff  (Chantal du Toit & Kate Kopajova) WalesSecond Opposition: Kings Inns (Leo Mulrooney & Rory Staines) Ireland

United Kingdom

• Oxford IV: Winners: Cambridge (Patrick Emerson & Harriet Jones-Fenleigh) Finalists Oxford UCD L&H, TCD Hist & Ottawa

• Cambridge IV:  Winners: Harvard Law (Adam Unikowsky & Adam Jed).  Finalists Yale (Rory ? & Josh ?) Oxford A (Tara Mounce & George Molyneux) Oxford B (Jon Bailey & Alex Just).  Fiona Dewar (Lincon's Inn) was top speaker.

• Glasgow Ancients: Winners: Cork (Derek Lande & Conor Buckley)

• English Mace: Winners: Lincoln's Inn A (Sebastian Isaac & Fiona Dewar).  Finalists  Oxford D (Richard Goodman & Tom Shinner), Inner Temple A (Richard Osborne & Alexis Hearnden) Oxford A (Nicholas Sloboda and Gavin Illsley). Richard Osborne was the best speaker on the Tab.

• Scottish Mace Winners: GUU B (Niall Kennedy & Kenny Fleming)

• Strathclyde IV Winners: UCC Philosoph (Derek Lande & Derek Doyle) Best Speaker Derek Lande (Cork)

• Southampton IV: Winners Cardiff B (Kate Kopajova and Helen Jarman), Finailsts: Cardiff A (Dave Steele and Lisa Wilson), South West Alliance (Jeremy Olver and Richard Stone), Reading B (Elinor Cross and Alexander Flint)

• Nottingham IV: Winners Oxford MC (Sale Lilly and Eusebius McKaiser), Finalists: Bristol (Ed McRandle and Willard Foxton), Alleyns (Mischa Balen and James Morris), Birmingham B (John Alexander and Richard Flint)

• City Open: Winners Composite (Frederick Cowell and Jax Renton), Finalists: Rachel Chan and Can Okar, Garvan Walshe and Danny Riley, Nye Brewer and Kate Brewer

• South-West Cup: Winners Oxford (Tom Shinner and George Molyneaux) Finalists: Oxford (Will Jones and Louise Radnofsky), Oxford (Daniel Marshall and Amanda Whiting), Southampton (Laurence Stellings and Richard Penny)

• Bath IV: Winners: Oxford (Alex Betts & Eusebius McKaiser)

• Manchester IV: Winners: Middle Temple (Matt Higbee and Willard Foxton).  Best Speaker: Willard Foxton (Middle Temple)

• Edinburgh IV Winners: Glasgow IV (Kenny Flemming & Niall Kennedy)

• LSE Open Winners: Comp (Richard Osbourne & Nick Pacheco), Finalists: Richard Goodman & Nick Devlin, Tom Shinner & Tara Mounce Dennis Kavanagh & George Payne

• BPP Open Winners: Durham  (Bob Nimmo & Erin O'Brien) Finalists: Jess Harvey-Smith & Neill Harvey-Smith, David Tan & Sam Fenton-Whittet  Sam Block & Adam Bott

• St Andrews IV  Winners: Durham (Erin O'Brien & Alistair Cormack). Finalists Aberdeen (Greg Murray & Nerissa Drennan) GUU (Niall Kennedy & Richard Anderson) Dundee (Keith Newman & Jenny Harrison)

• Bristol Open:   Winners: City (Seb Isaac & Fiona Dewar) Finalists: Durham B (Emily Hughes & Mark Hastie-Oldland), Birmingham (Megan Shute & Annabel Chapman), Cambridge B (Shauna Gillian & Hugh Hurley)

• Inner Temple IV:   Winners: Oxford (Nick Sloboda & Adam Berlin)

• Durham IV:   Winners: St. Andrews (Jon Stewart & Jason Vit) Finalists: Birmingham B (Rhidian Morgan & John Alexander) Cambridge C (Anna Linter & Chris Barnes) Oxford A (Sarah Jones & Yining Wang)

• Exeter IV: Winner Oxford (Zoe Jacob & Sale Lilly) Best Speaker: Willard Foxton (UWE)

• Newcastle IV: Winners: Glasgow University Union (Forsyth  & Rownatree)

• Lancaster IV: Durham (Bob Nimmo & Erin O'Brien)

• Welsh "Mace": Cardiff  (Chantal du Toit & Kate Kopajova)

• Cardiff IV: Winners: Inner Temple (Alexis Hearnden & Richard Osborne)

Ireland

• Irish Times: Team Winner: Kings Inns (David Whelan & Sam Collins) 1st Opp  Individual Winner: Frank Kennedy (UCD L&H) 2nd Opp Team  Team Runner Up: UCD L&H (Frank Kennedy & Noel McGrath) 2nd Opp   Individual Runner Up: Ross McGuire (UCD L&H) 1st Opp Ind   Team Finalists:  TCD Hist (Claire Gleeson & Josephine Curry)  UCC Philosoph (Eoghan Gannon & Derek Doyle) Individual Finalists: Peter Sexton (TCD Phil) Peter Malone (TCD Phil) Manus de Barra (TCD Hist)

• Irish Mace: Kings Inns (Rory Staines & Leo Mulrooney) Finalists: UCC Philosophical (Derek Lande & Conor Buckley), Kings Inns (Dave Whelan & Sam Collins), UCD L&H (Gregg O'Neill & Ross Kelly)

• Limerick IV:  Winners: Comp (Eoghan Casey & Stephen Nolan).  Finalists: UCD (Ciaran Lawlor & Simon Laragey) Comp (Derek Lande & Gavin Illsley) Cork (Diarmuid Early & Cormac Early) Best Speaker: 3 way tie: Derek Lande (Comp) Gavin Illsley (Comp) Cormac Early (Cork)

• TCD Kingsmill Moore Invitational: Winners: King's Inns (Dave Whelan & Sam Collins); Top Speaker: Sam Collins.

• TCD Clare Stewart Dean-Swift IV: Winners - King's Inns A (Ciarán Lawlor & Brendan Kelly); Finalists: King's Inns B (Whelan & Collins), Cardiff (David Penny & ??) UCD L&H (Frank Kennedy & Richard Waghorne); Top Speaker: Ciarán Lawlor

• Galway IV: Winners: Limerick Deb U (Eoghan Casey & Paddy Bukley); Finalists: UCD L&H (Michael D Clarke & Morgan Shelley), Cork  Phil (Eamonn O'Flaherty & Derek Doyle), Kings Inns (Brendan Kelly & Ian Kehoe).

• Cork IV: Winners: Kings Inns Finalists UCD L&H A (Ciaran Lawlor & Jim Mcelroy), UCD L&H N, UCD Law A (Michael Clarke &  )

• UCC Invitational: Winners: Composite (Caleb Ward & Rachel Carrell)

• UCD IV: Winners: Inner Temple (Richard Osborne & Alexis Hearnden) Finalists: Kings Inns B (David Whelan and Rory Staines), TCD Hist D (Niall McCarthy & Cormac O'Dea), TCD Hist A (Manus DeBarra and Sarah Deeney), Semi Finalists: Kings Inns A (Brendan Kelly & Ciarán Lawlor), TCD Hist B (Hannah Murphy & ??), UCD L&H (Jarlath Regan & Leo Mulrooney), TCD Hist H (Josephine Curry & ??).

• UCD Law: Winners: TCD PHIL (Luke ? & Francis Kiernen) Finalists: Cork Phil (Paul Flynn & Diarmuid ?) Galway L&D (Peter O'Brien & ??) TCD (?? & ??)

• Concern Schools: Winners: Laurel Hill (Orlaith O’Connor, Jean O’Dwyer, Una Donovan & Gillian Kelly.  Coach: Pearse Farrell)

North America

There are a 3-4 competitions a week in US/Canada so I will only put the Worlds Style results here along with the National Championships results.  For more detailed results visit the CUSID & APDA websites.

• US BP National Championships: Winner: University of Alaska A (Michael Rose and Tom Lassen), Top team of the tab: University of La Verne A (Rob Ruiz and Josh Martin), Top Speaker: Josh Martin (University of La Verne), Finalists: University of British Columbia (Ashish Sinha and Monica Ferris), University of Alaska B (Chris Kolerok and Rose Helens-Hart), Colgate University A (Martin Pinnes and Daniel Streim)

• CUSID National Championships: Winners:  Hart House (Michael Kotrly & Rahool Agarwal) Finalist: McGill Jess Prince & Alex Campbell  Top Speaker: Ren (Hart House) Public Speaking Ian Freeman (Hart House)

• CUSID BP Championships: Winners: McGill PS (Jess Prince & Gordon Shotwell) Finalists: Yale 3 (Rory Gillis & Josh Bendor), Alberta A (Stephanie Wanke & Julia Lisztwan) Composite (Erik Eastaugh & Derek Lande) Semi Finalists: McGill KM (Konrad Koncewicz & Theo McLaughlin) UBC A (Spencer Keys & Adam Pauls) McGill GL (Jon Laxer & Guy-Philippe Bouchard) McGill CT (Gaurav Toshniwal & Alex Campbell)

• APDA national Championships: Top Team:  Harvard BP (Blenkinsopp/Potapov) 4-2 314/25 Top Speaker:  Aviva Aron-Dine- Swat A 160.83/9  Top Novice team: Maryland C (Bagchi/Johnson) 3-3 304/29  Top Novice Speaker: Lina Bensman- Brandeis B 158.17/9

• APDA Team of the year: Joint 1st Harvard (Kimel & Wen) John Hopkins (Bateman & Mayernick) William & Mary (Ford & Pratt) Speaker of the Year: Robbie Pratt (William & Mary)

• Guindon Cup: Winners: Hart House Toronto (Ren & Rahool Agarwal), Finalists: Hart House Toronto (Jo Nairn & Mike Koterly), McGill (Konrad Koncewicz & Jason Rogers), McGill (Alex Cambell and Mark Bigney)

• Hughill Cup: Winners: Alberta (Stephanie Wanke & Alex Ragan) Finalists: UBC (Teddy Harrison & Gabe Mastico) Alberta (Sharon Ohayon & Mat Johnson) Alberta (Roman Kotovych & Julia Lisztwan)

• US APDA Team of the year: Link to APDA "Team of the Year" tracking

• West Indies  Inter-Campus IV: Winner Cave Hill Best Speaker Wismar Gibson

Australasia

• AustralAsians Championships: Winners: Monsah 1 (Tim Sonnreich, Kylie Lane and Roland Dillon), Finalists: MMU 1 (Logan, Tate, Balloons)

• All Asians Championships: Winners: Ateneo 1 (Leloy Claudio, Jess Lopez, Eleanor Uy), Finalists: Ateneo 2  (Mahar Mangahas, Madie Dy, Rhyan Uy)

• Sydney Mini: Winners: UNSW A (Vanessa Collins & Ian Holmes). Finalists: Sydney 1 (Ivan Ah Sam & Brad Lancken); ANU A (Toby Halligan & Emily Byrnes); UNSW B (Gillian White & Rob McMonnies). Best Speaker: Ivan Ah Sam (Sydney A)

• Melbourne Mini: Winners: Monash A (Andrew Fitch & Kylie Lane), Finalists: Sydney A (Ivan Ah Sam & Brad Lancken), ANU (Mathew Kenneally & Mike Stanton) and Monash B (Roland Dillon & Doug Stewart). Best Speaker: Ivan Ah Sam (Sydney A)

• Australian Women's IV: Winners: Composite (Liz Sheargold & Chloe McCardel)  Finalists: UNSW (Gill White and Alex Grey), Melbourne (Alice Muhlebach and Nicole Lynch) Melbourne (Tamar Heath and Lauren Knight)

• DLSU IV: Winners Ateneo C (G. Tuazon & S. Parmanand) Finalists: Ateneo B (L. Claudio & C. Borromeo), University of the Philippines Diliman A (C. Ng & S. Cortez) and University of the Philippines Manila (K. Supnad & T. Cruz)

• Ateneo IV: Winners: University of the Philippines Diliman A (M. Lim & N. Cabrera) Finalists: University of the Philippines Diliman B (P. Evangelista & D. Ty), University of Santo Tomas Law A (E. Javeloza & J. Baluyot), and Singapore Management University B (Dutta & Saraf)

• SMU Hammers IV: Winners: Ateneo A (Glenn Tuazon, Leloy Claudio, Kellda Centeno) Finalists: Ateneo B (Charisse Borromeo, Sharmila Parmanand, Patricia Suzara).  Semi-finalists: NTU B (Ankit, Ajay, Sushil). Ateneo X (Bobby Benedicto, Madeleine Dy, Marlon Plazo)
   

Europe

• European Championships:

  Winners: European Champions: Durham A (Bob Nimmo & Erin O'Brien)

  Best Speaker: Niall Kennedy (GUU A)

  ESL Champions Erasmus A (Lars Duursma & Sharon Kroes)

  ESL Speaker: Anat Gelber (Haifa A)

  Finalists: UCD L&H A (Ciarán Lawlor & Eoghan Casey) Inner Temple (Greg O'Ceallaigh & Charlie Spalding) Oxford C (Timothy Saunders & Alex Hill)

  Click here for full results plus the team and speaker tabs

  Berlin will host Europeans in 2006 after defeating Istanbul in a vote at council

   

• Greek Nationals: Winners: University of Macedonia/AUTH (Tsakiridis/Dolianitis)  Finalists: Athens Uni of Economics (Papalianos/Tzanetaki), AUTH A (Patsa/Stikas), AUTH B (Karalazos/Dimitriadis)  Best Speaker: Michael Dolianitis (AUTH)

• Cologne IV: Winners: Manchester (Paul Novelle & Shannon Eastwood) Finalists: Claremont (Benjamin Heidlage & Andrew Patterson) London (David Tan & Timosha Goldfarb) Manchester (Jim Weightman & Ermias Kebede)

• Deree XXIX: Winners: HAEF/Piraeus (Constandinidis/Fornis) - Finalists:
  Deree (Moschopoulos/Atzemoglou), Macedonia/AUTH
  (Tsakiridis/Dolianitis), Pierce (Tsafos/Kalinteri). Best Speaker:
  Fornis (Pireaus)

• Israel English Cup: Winners: University of Haifa (Dov Levin & Yakov Sadis) Finalists: University of Haifa (Shir Barniv & Anat Gelber) IDC (Jacob Shwergold & Nadav) Tel Aviv (Noga Izecson & Michelle Erenburg)  Best Speaker: (There were 3!)Shir Barniv (University of Haifa) , Anat Gelber (University of Haifa) and Jacob Shwergold (IDC)

• Rotterdam Open Winners: University of Alaska (Chris Kolerok & Rose Helens-Hart). Finalists Bonaparte (Daniel Schut & Anne Valkering), University of Alaska (Lindsay Eberhard & Tom Lassen), University of Alaska (Michael Rose & Dana Ovsak).  Best Speaker Alex Ward (L&F)

• Israel Nationals: Winners: Hebrew University (Or Kroyzer & Lital Helman) Finalists: Technion A (Gilad Barzilay & Victor Chernov), IDC D (Guy Nesher and Ilan Kovach), Haifa A (Yakov Sadis & Karni Chagal)

• Israel National Championship for 1st Year Speakers: Winners: Haifa (Ronen & Rubinshtain) Finalists: IDC (Tamir & Lerner) IDC (Knobel & Zefet) IDC (Levinovich & Gan) Best Speaker: Reut Rubinshtain (Haifa)

• Israeli Open: Winners: IDC (Jacob Shwergold & Ohad Orgal), Finalists: Haifa - Tel Aviv (composite team - Shir Barniv & Gilad Barzilay), Hebrew (Shirona Partem & Benny Zhitomirsky), Haifa (Yakov Sadis & Rinat Gershfeld), Best Speaker: Shirona Partem (Hebrew)

• IDEA/NPDA International Championship Series Part I (Estonia) Winners: USA (Joseph Mello and Andrew Swan) ESL Winners: Slovakia (Daniela Richterova and Veronika Vlckova) Top speaker: Lauma Skruzmane (Latvia)  Part II (Latvia) Winners: Latvia (Boriss Ginzburgs and Aleksejs Vlasovs) ESL Winners: Slovenia (Grega Gostencnik and Primoz Karnar)  Top speaker: Mateja Peter (Slovenia)

• Istanbul IV: Winners: Leiden (Elselijn Kingma & Amy Rodgers) Finalists: Composite (Alex Ward & Ben Ricketts), Tilbury (Fabien Dittrich & Ralph Breuer), Composite (Ally Brand & Martin Herz)

• Netanya Open:  (Composite teams): Winners: Ruvi Ziegler (Hebrew) & Dafi Kudish-Weichert (Tel Aviv). Best Speaker: Ruvi Ziegler (Hebrew).

• Riga Open: Winners: Estonian (Andero Uusberg & Kaarel Oja)

• Deree Open: Winners: Independent (Steven Georgalis & Dimitris Samouris) Finalists: Deree (Tasos Katechis & Philip Atzemoglou), Indepentent (Albert Fornis & Alex Vaos), St Lawrence College (George Kanelos & Anna Bogdanova).  Best Speaker Albert Fornis (Independent)

Africa

• South African Champions: Witwatersrand (Brent Archer & Richard Stupart)