Amsterdam Euros registration update‏

Dear debating community,


This is an update from Amsterdam Euros and a reminder that registration will open on Monday the 1st of March, noon (12:00) Central European Time (GMT +1), three weeks from now. Registration will take place through our website: http://www.amsterdameudc.org/ and closes on the 8th of March at noon again. Before registration starts, we will send you another email that shows you exactly what to expect from the first phase of registration so as to prevent any mistakes. We have also updated our program, which can be found here. If needed, you can find a reminder of why you should register for Amsterdam Euros here.

After a few hours, we will post preliminary results of the registration procedure and we will publish a final list on Monday the 8th of March. All institutions that are registered will be asked to make a prepayment of € 50 by March 19. Failure to pay will mean removal from the registration list and replacement by waitlisted institutions.

The team cap for Amsterdam Euros is 200 teams, the registration fee is € 250. The institutional cap will be 3 and the n-1 rule applies for sending judges. Team spots will be granted on the basis of the order of registration, however, we will reserve team spots for all countries eligible to participate in Euros during the first phase of registration. Further details on the registration procedure can be found on our website. Any queries about registration should be referred to registration@amsterdameudc.org

If you are an independent judge who wishes to register, please do so by sending an email to cateam@amsterdameudc.org with your name, your phone number, your intention to register as an independent adjudicator and a judging CV. You will then receive further instructions for registering by email. If your institution fears to violate the n-1 rule or wants to send more judges, please also email cateam@amsterdameudc.org. If you are a non-European team that wishes to participate: this is only possible if there are no longer any European teams on our waiting list. We will reopen registration in that case and you should not register before that time. We expect to know whether any places will be available for non-European teams by the beginning of April. Non-European judges are welcome to apply as an independent judge according to the procedure outlined above

As you can see from our program, we have moved the dates: arrivals day is now on Monday the 12th of July. If you want to start your holiday earlier we can organise something for you with our hotels or inform you about hostel options, so that you can join us on Sunday the 11th of July watching the final of the World Championships Football surrounded by Dutch football fans. If you do arrive on Monday the 12th, we would like to ask you to arrive at Schiphol at around three in the afternoon at the latest so you can participate in the evening’s program. This will include a public debate with guest speakers and a tour of the canals. We will offer you seven rounds on two preliminary days on Tuesday and Wednesday, quarters and semis on Thursday and then the final on Friday the 16th of July. Saturday the 17th will be departures day, but we would encourage you to leave as late as possible, as we offer a picnic in the Vondelpark and excursions in Amsterdam and to other places in the Netherlands on that date.

We hope that this email reaches everyone who is interested in participating in Euros. We would therefore like to ask all of you to send this information on to anyone who you know is interested but not subscribed to any of the email lists. We apologise to anyone receiving this email several times. For any queries, please contact us through info@amsterdameudc.org. We are looking forward to hear from you.

With kind regards,

Anne Valkering

Convenor Amsterdam EUDC
http://www.amsterdameudc.org/
info@amsterdameudc.org
Vendelstraat 2
1012 XX Amsterdam

Prepared motions

Following recent posts about the upcoming World Schools Debating Championships and the Irish Times debating championships I received an e-mail asking about prepared motions. Specifically the question was why there are so few competitions these days that give prepared motions.


I suppose the immediate answer is that most competitions in the UK and Ireland copy the format of the world universities debating championships and a key element of that is 15 minute prep. But there was a time when it was quite common to get an invitation to an intervarsity with the motion(s) included. The Irish Times and Mace competitions still do this. But I also remember going to the National Law Debates where there were about eight teams invited to the Debate (four on each side) and we all had the motion and out position a couple of weeks in advance.

It is certainly a different experience in debating as hopefully everyone has done some research on the topic so the debate is decided more on the speaking talent of the individuals. I wouldn’t go back to the old format of 8-10 teams in a straight to final debate as it can last 2-3 hours. However it would be interesting to see some of the upcoming IVs publish a couple of motions in advance (e.g. one of the preliminary rounds and the final) and see what happens.

Adjudicate in China in May

The Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press, organizer of the most prestigious English language debating tournament in China, invites you participate as a guest adjudicator at the 14th FLTRP Cup National English Debating Championship. The FLTRP Cup will be held May 15-25, 2010 at the FLTRP’s Convention Center in Beijing.


The FLTRP Cup is the oldest, largest and most celebrated intercollegiate debating competition in China. Since it’s inception, the FLTRP Cup has been a major sponsor of intercollegiate debating in China and is on the forefront of promoting open discourse and intellectual exchange among the best and brightest of Chinese college students.

This year, the FLTRP Cup makes an important transition as it adopts for the first time the British Parliamentary format, the style of debating employed by the World Universities Debating Championships. This transition is critical to connect Chinese universities to the world of international debating and will require the cooperation of volunteers willing to contribute their experience as adjudicators to the effort.

Though the competition is open only to Chinese university students, there is a great need for skilled adjudicators to ensure that the standards of the BP style are upheld. To encourage you to participate in this effort, the FLTRP is sponsoring an incentive package for all qualified adjudicators with significant BP experience who agree to adjudicate at the 14th FLTRP Cup. All qualified adjudicators will receive:

• Transfers from Beijing airport to the FLTRP Convention Center (May 15)
• Hotel at the FLTRP Convention Center (May 15-22)
• All meals while at the Convention Center (May 15-22)
• Transfer to downtown Beijing (May 22)
• Hotel in downtown Beijing (May 23-25)
• Tours of major sites like the Great Wall & Forbidden City (May 23-24)
• Some meals while in downtown Beijing (May 23-24)
• Transfers to airport on May 25

Additionally, we will offer partial travel subsidies to select qualified adjudicators.

To apply to be an adjudicator, please visit: http://www.chinadebate.org/Adjudicator.asp
Questions may be directed to steve.johnson.alaska@gmail.com

MIT win North American Championships

Adam Goldstein and Bill Magnuson have won the 2010 North American Debating Champiohships held at York.


Champions:
MIT GM (Adam Goldstein & Bill Magnuson)


Finalist
McGill SS (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik)

Semi FinalistsUBC CS (Evan Choate & Joshua Sealy-Harrington)
Stanford CM (Alex Campbell & Anish Mitra)

Qtr Finalists
Boston CT (Garron Chiu & Alexander Taubes)
Queen's HW (Adam Hetherington & Christine Wadsworth)
McGill MM (Vinay Mysore & Sophie MacIntyre)
Hopkins SW (Vivek Suri & Sean Withall)
Octo Finalists:
Hart House LT (Richard Lizius & George Trotter)
Hart House AF (John Ashbourne & Erin Fitzgerald)
Queen's LR (Adrienne Lipsey & Mark Rubenstein)
Yale KM (Steven Kryger & Grant May)
Chicago AB (Adam Anderson & Ben Field)
Harvard BE (Kyle Bean & Cormac Early) -> Replaced by another team; I forgot which?
Dartmouth HW (Joe Huston & Andrew Wansley)
Yale EF (Naz El-Khatib & Kate Falkenstein)

Top 10 Speakers:

1 Richard Lizius (Hart House LT)
2 Christine Wadsworth (Queen's HW)
3 Adam Hetherington (Queen's HW)
4 Adam Goldstein (MIT GM)
5 Sean Stefanik (McGill SS)
6 Saro Setrakian (McGill SS)
7 John Ashbourne (Hart House AF)
8 Sophie MacIntyre (McGill MM)
9 Alex Campbell (Stanford CM)
10 George Trotter (Hart House LT)

Top Novice Speaker: Tim Abdulla (McGill)

Top Novice Team: Hart House CG (Deirdre Casey, Sam Greene)

Team Tab
Speaker Tab
Source: CUSID, APDA and e-mail

Draw for World Schools Debating Championships 2010

The draw for the Qatar 2010 World Schools Debating Championships was held earlier this week.

To view the draw click here (pdf)

Videos of the draw being made can be found on the Qatar 2010 YouTube Channel here

For more details of the draw visit the schoolsdebate blog

Irish Times Semi Finals

Details of the Semi Finals of the 2010 Irish Times Debating Championships.  One team and one Individual progress from each semi.


Semi-Final A

“This House Would Abolish the Parades Commission of Northern Ireland”

Chairman: Tommie Gorman
Northern Editor, RTE

DATE: Friday, 29th January, 2010

VENUE: IPLS Lecture Theatre, Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Belfast

UCD L&H (1) Julia Lawlor & (9) Rebecca McGrath
UCD L&H (2) Barry Singleton & (10) Niall Fahy
TCD Phil (3) Brian O’Beirne & (11) Jonathan Wyse
TCD Hist (4) Niamh Ni Mhaoileain & (12) Niall Sherry

(5) John Beechinor (UCC Law)
(6) Ian Boyle-Harper (UCD L&H)
(7) Fiona Shine (ICAI)
(8) Sean Butler (NUIG Lit & Deb)

Progressing TCD Hist (Niamh Ni Mhaoileain & Niall Sherry) and Sean Butler (NUIG Lit & Deb)


Semi-Final B
“This House Believes that the 1916 Rising Was Treason Against Ireland”

Chairman: The Hon. Mr. Justice Adrian Hardiman
Judge of the Supreme Court & Twice Winner, The Irish Times Debate

DATE: Monday, 1st February, 2010

VENUE: Bencher’s Room, The Honorable Society of King’s Inns

UL Debating Union (1) David Hartery & (9) Maurice Cotter
King’s Inns (2) Eoghan Casey & (10) Paddy Rooney
UCC Philosoph (3) Eoghan McSwiney & (11) Kieran Murphy
UCD L&H (4) Ian Hastings & (12) Conor McAndrew

(5) Ceile Varley (DCU Deb Soc)
(6) Robert Crowley (King’s Inns)
(7) John Smyth (IT Carlow)
(8) Aengus O Corrain (TCD Phil)
Progressing: UCD L&H (Ian Hastings and Conor McAndrew) and Aengus O'Corrain (TCD Phil)


Semi-Final C
“This House Would Not Welcome a School Established by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Ireland”

DATE: Thursday, 4th February, 2010

VENUE: Council Room, Law Society of Ireland, Blackhall Place

UCD L&H (1) Aoife McDonagh & (9) Dearbhla O’Gorman
TCD Hist (2) Huw Duffy & (10) Barra Rowntree
King’s Inns (3) Niall O hUiginn & (11) Shane Cranley
UCD L&H (4) Kieran Daly & (12) Michael Conroy

(5) Emily Ravenscroft (NUIG Lit & Deb)
(6) Emma Regan (TCD Phil)

(7) Michael MacGrath (King’s Inns)
(8) Ciaran Parkin (TCD Hist)


Semi-Final D
“This House Believes that the Next Government of Ireland Should Be Led by the Labour Party”

Chairman: Senator Rónán Mullen
Member of Seanad Eireann & the only former winner of The Irish Times Debate to have won election to the Oireachtas

DATE: Friday, 5th February, 2010
VENUE: House of Lords, Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin 2; (hosted here by UCD Literary & Historical Society)

TCD Law (1) Ross O’Mahoney & (9) Mark Thullier
DCU (2) Kenneth Hynes & (10) David Brady
UCD L&H (3) Eoghan Sheehy & (11) Janine Ryan
King’s Inns (4) Deirdre O’Donohoe & (12) Aine Hartigan

(5) Robbie Henderson (RCSI)
(6) Sean O’Quigley (Griffith College Dublin)
(7) Charles O’Donnell (UCD L&H)

(8) Liam O’Connell (UCD L&H)

New DLSU Worlds Logo

DLSU have released a new logo for their 2012 World Debating Championships

UL Debating Union Open 2010

Hello everyone

The UL Open takes place on the 12th-13th of March and registration is now open! The CA team is made up of Alex Ward, Sean Butler and Conor Kelly.

We invite you to five rounds, a break to semis and grand final in the beautiful Daghda centre. There will be two fantastic socials with unhealthy amounts of free alcohol followed by a house party on the Saturday with yes you've guessed it even more free alcohol.

We also promise to feed you much more than strictly necessary, twice on Friday and a full Irish breakfast, lunch and formal dinner on the Saturday.

We have a limited amount of crash places - priority will be given to UK and international teams, after that it's a case of first come first serve. Please apply early to avoid disappointment

Registration is €65 per team for Irish teams, €30 for UK teams and free for international teams. There is no registration fee for judges.

Please click on the link below to register now!
http://www.skynet.ie/~debates/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49%3Aulopenreg2010&catid=38&Itemid=57

Mairead De Faoite
IV Convenor,
UL Debating Union

World Schools AGM

All,


The WSDC Ltd. charity's AGM will be held in Qatar at 9am on 16 February 2009, prior to the annual Council meeting. In this regard, please visit the schoolsdebate blog to find the following:

1. The notice of the Charity AGM doc and the notice of the Council meeting including the agendas.
2. The Directors' report for your consideration (including Annexes A, B and C)
3. A call for nominees for the position of Director for 2010-2013

Please note that each nation sending a team to Worlds in Qatar is eligible for membership of WSDC Ltd. The Directors will shortly confirm acceptance of those countries which have applied for membership since Athens and are participating in Qatar.

In the event that your country has corporate membership or has applied for corporate membership of WSDC, the governing documents require that you confirm the name of your authorised representative to the AGM in writing prior to the meeting. Please do this by sending an email message to the Director's nominated chair for the charity's AGM in Qatar, Asher Weill at debasher@netvision.net.il

Best,

Andrea Coomber
Chair, Board of Directors
WSDC Ltd.

Some Recent Results: Qatar and India.

Carnegie Mellon Qatar 2010 won the Qatar Universities Debate League defeating Weil Cornell Medical College in the Final.  Best Speaker was Patrick Steinhagen from Carnegie Mellon University and 2nd Best Speaker was Hayder Almazraqchi from Weil Cornell Medical College

The motions were
THBT The US should not be increasing the numbers of troops in Afghanistan
THBT Qatar should host the World Cup 2022
THBT Immigrants should be allowed full citizenship in Qatar
THBT Google should not cooperate with the Chinese government's censorship


Meanwhile in India the University of Colombo (from Sri Lanka) won the 5th annual National Law School Parliamentary Debate

Update on Euros Registration

It is only a couple of weeks since the end of Koç Worlds and we are sure you are still just as thrilled by the experience as we are. We would like to thank the people from Koç for their hard work and great achievement. We would also like to congratulate our CA team for their good work at the tournament: Jonathan Leader Maynard for topping the team tab and reaching the final and Ross Reid McGuire and Doug Cochran for judging that same final.

We hope that your presence, or absence, at Worlds has convinced you of the need to be present at another once-in-a-lifetime experience: Amsterdam Euros. For anyone who wishes to register for EUDC 2010, here's some important information:

Registration will open on Monday the 1st of March, noon (12:00) Central European Time (GMT +1).

Registration will take place through our website: http://www.amsterdameudc.org/

Registration closes on March 8 at noon.

We will keep you updated regularly on the registration results and publish the final list of registered institutions and waitlisted institutions on March 8. We will then ask every registered institution to pay their registration fee, or an advance of 50 Euros by March 19. Institutions failing to pay by that date will be removed from the list and waitlisted institutions will get an opportunity to register one team.

The team cap for Amsterdam Euros is 200 teams. The institutional cap will be 3. Team spots will be granted on the basis of the order of registration, however, we will reserve team spots for all countries eligible to participate in Euros during the first phase of registration.

Further details on the registration procedure can be found on our website.

We hope that this email reaches everyone who is interested in participating in Euros. We would therefore like to ask all of you to send this information on to anyone who you know is interested but not subscribed to any of the email lists. We apologise to anyone receiving this email several times. This will only happen as we publish registration dates. For any queries, please contact us through info@amsterdameudc.org.

Amsterdam Euros 2010, spread the love!

Kind regards,

Reinier de Adelhart Toorop
deputy-convenor Amsterdam Euros 2010.

Amsterdam EUDC
http://www.amsterdameudc.org/
info@amsterdameudc.org
Vendelstraat 2

South Africa bids for WSDC 2012

South Africa is bidding to host World Schools Debating Championships 2012. The bid is the only one received for 2012 and will be voted on by the World Schools Debating Council at the Annual General Meeting in Doha.

The bid documents can be found here
Members of the South African organising committee will be present at Doha, will be happy to answer any queries and will make a presentation of their bid on the evening of 16 February 2010 before the vote takes place on 18 February 2010.

Haiti Appeal

As regular visitors to this blog will know I generally don't post about non-debating related issues.  So when I do you can be fairly sure it's for an exceptional circumstance.

I'm sure most of you will be aware of the devastation in Haiti after the recent earthquake.  Relief is trickling through but by all reports demand is far out stripping supply and the country is fast descending into anarchy around the survivors.

The chances are if you are reading this then you are in a better position than the inhabitants of Port-au-Prince.  Given the multinational nature of visitors to this site I'm not going to recommend any one relief organisation but if there is one in your country currently appealing for donations to help their work in Haiti then I urge you to contribute what you can.

Thanks in advance,
Colm

London Australs - Reg Opens Tomorrow 10:00am GMT!

Dear All,
London Australs is an exciting new tournament being hosted in London on Saturday March 27th and Sunday March 28th. It will be held in the Austral-Asians debating style (i.e. 3 v 3) with the addition of points of information (similar to the World Schools’ debating format). The competition is completely open so you can debate with absolutely anyone you like.

Our A-Team is incredibly experienced in the format, and consists of Chris Croke (current Australs DCA for Auckland Australs), Tim Jeffrie (Current Australs DCA and Current Worlds DCA for Botswana), Fiona Prowse, Sayeqa Islam (former Australs DCA for Monash Australs) and Ben Jasper. Their debating record speaks for itself, with 1 current World Champion and 3 Worlds finalists, 2 current Australs winners and 3 Australs finalists, 4 Australs Top Ten Speakers and 2 Worlds Top Ten Speakers, all of who have in-depth adjudication experience.

The London Australs team is going out of their way to make this a memorable tournament with plenty of extra tidbits such as a Chocolate Trophy for the winners, cash prizes, Austral-Asian themed food and drink events and more!

Registration for teams opens tomorrow January 15th at 10:00a.m. GMT. We are expecting spots to fill up very quickly, so make sure you register as soon as you can to avoid disappointment. To register, visit http://www.londonaustrals.com/ and click on the "Teams - Register Now" link. Registration is set at the extremely low price of £20GBP per person.

If you would like to be involved in judging at the tournament, visit http://www.londonaustrals.com/ and click on the "Apply to Judge" link to see all the details relevant to judges.

We are very excited about bringing this format to Europe and hope to see lots of you competing. We think it’s important that people on this side of the world have access to different formats of debating and closer links to different regional circuits. If you have any questions or need more information about the competition, check out the website (where we have posted Australs rules/videos and have set up an online forum for any general questions) or email us at londonaustrals@gmail.com.

Check out our promo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzXltMcjrZA

Regards,
The London Australs Team

London Australs March 27th-28th
http://www.londonaustrals.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=246925478397&ref=mf
Held in proud association with the ESU.

World Rankings for 2010

After the recent Koc World Debating Championships I have compiled the 2010 World Rankings of Debating institutions.





A few of things to note:

The rankings are by institution not college. (e.g. UCD L&H and UCD Law are separate)
They are calculated by adding up the total team points scored by an institution at worlds (e.g. if Limerick A score 15 and Limerick B score 14 the total for that institution is 29 for the year).  This score is totalled for each of the last 5 years.  The only exception is where an institution has hosted Worlds (e.g. Cork, Koc, UCD etc) within the last 5 years then their score from 6 years ago is added as they cannot compete in the year when they host.

The score of each team counts.  There have been complaints that the 8 teams Sydney sent to Vancouver pushes them up ahead of other teams.  But the reality is they did send 8 teams.  Worlds Council and the Org Comm allowed them send 8 teams.  The rankings reflect what did happen not what people wish had happened.

There are various arguments about how I should calculate these.  There have been requests to calculate these by average per team.  To just take the result from the top team per institution. To include other tournaments.  etc.  I have looked at these and in each case the arguments are valid.  However for me this method of ranking rewards every point a team gets.  Mathematics don't determine where the institution is ranked, the institution's speakers do.  I think ranking by the total goes some way to rewarding the overall organisation of a society over a number of years rather than just the skill of one or two individuals.

The rankings are unofficial and are just something I have published on this site for a number of years.
Please let me know if you spot any errors in the rankings.

PIDC 2010 Official Invitation‏

Hello everyone!
The University of the Philippines Debate Society will be hosting the Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2010 on April 7-12, 2010 at University of the Philippines, Diliman. The tournament will be in Asians Parliamentary Format and will allot 8 team slots for international teams on a first-come first-served basis. The same registration fee and N-rule will apply. The international teams are non-breaking. The official invitation can be accessed online through the links below. Please forward it to all the members of your institution.
A copy at issuu.com
http://issuu.com/pidc2010/docs/pidc_2010_invitational_letter

Alternative links for download of a PDF copy (16MB)
http://rcpt.yousendit.com/796429274/d69e9fa56ee97508f10ac0ee11eb2b5a
http://rapidshare.com/files/327371874/PIDC_Invitation_Letter_jpg.pdf

Thank you very much! Please contact us if you have any queries. We hope to see you this summer. Happy New Year!

Yours truly,

Angelo Paolo T. Kalaw
Communications Director
PIDC 2010
Email: pidc2010@gmail.com

Videos from Koc Worlds 2010‏

Greetings
First off, a hearty congratulations and a big thank you to Koc for running
what was one the best Worlds I have ever been to! Great organization, great
fun and great topics and adjudication. You guys have made our job at
Botswana next year much harder!

I'm sending this email to
a) share videos I took during the tournament. I have 13 videos, available for viewing at http://loganimal.blip.tv
b) contact the individuals in the videos. I lost the notebook I used to keep their contact information and I promised them I would send them copies of the videos. If anyone wants their videos please email me. If anyone also wants me to remove their videos from the website, please let me know and I'll do it immediately.

Cheers
Logan
Chief Adjudicator - Botswana Worlds

From the Adjudication Team of Koç WUDC

Dear debaters,

We have a few post-tournament announcements which we hope will clarify a great deal of confusion that appears to be floating around cyberspace. Some of this is down to errors on our part which we want to clear up and others are to do with information written on various blogs that is simply false. Let's go:

1) At the announcement of the top ten speakers of the Championships, we accidentally read out Richard Lizius of Hart House as being the equal 4th best speaker. As many will have noticed, he was actually equal 2nd best speaker on the tab. We would like to apologise to him for this error and also congratulate him. This did not affect any of the other announcements of speaker ranks.

2) Following a miscommunication between the Equity Committee and the Adjudication Team, we announced the wrong winner of the World Masters Tournament. After days of sleeplessness, pressure and confusion, we simply acted on a faulty understanding of the situation. This is our fault and does not reflect on the Equity Committee nor anyone else in any way. Vanuatu (Derek Lande and Jason Rogers) were unjustly not announced as the winners and it is now our pleasure to declare them the World Masters Champions 2010. We would like to apologise to the members of Team Canada, to whom we have already apologised in person, for our mistake.

3) In the past days there has been a truly astonishing level of misinformation going around the web concerning equity at this Worlds. We have our opinions on the systemic and structural issues surrounding equity but right now is definitely not the time to get into this debate. What is important now is that we correct some of the factual inaccuracies about specific people whose real lives are being affected by this and to draw a line under this matter.

a. A number of allegations have been made online about the content and scope of the equity complaints concerning the Worlds Masters final, and the eight speakers involved. To clarify: there was only one equity complaint successfully upheld by the Equity Committee on this matter, which concerned only one speaker in the World Masters Final, and was solely to do with the content of that speech in that final. Any suggestions otherwise are false.

b. Any other complaints concerning this speaker and any other speakers in the final were dismissed. Furthermore, all complaints not to do with the final itself were also dismissed.

c. At no point was anyone "dismissed", "expelled", or in any other way asked to leave the Championships or the hotel. This is simply false.

d. At no point was anyone "forced" to give an apology. Any apologies given, publicly or privately, were suggested by the people involved themselves to the Equity Committee and their content was not dictated by anyone.

We hope that this statement can finally draw a line under the things that did not go as we intended at Koc Worlds. We realise that this has upset a lot of people, but we really don't want Koc Worlds to be remembered for equity alone. Our feeling is that a vast number of people now just want to get on with their lives. Please remember that naming individuals online has lasting consequences and just means that any problems get amplified in ways that you may not intend. Of course, we will all need to have a discussion about what happened this year. We think that discussion will be more productive once some time has passed, and tempers have cooled.

For now, we want to say thank you to the Organization Team that worked incredibly hard and created a Worlds that we were proud to be a part of. Hasan Sadik Arik answered over 10,000 mails and made registration run as smoothly as we have ever seen. Seray Kuzu ensured we did not go bankrupt. Emre Karabacak travelled 4,000km bringing you to the hotel. Sevilay Caglar and Semsa Haczeyni helped everyone eat great food all week, whatever their requirements. Cem Hot did the gargantuan task of looking after 1,200 people's accommodation. Anil Kaya spent his life making the parties amazing. Huseyin Ozturk and Avni Mert Toplu solved all the problems before you knew they happened. Burcu Kepsutlu and her team got us into the newspapers.

They deserve our thanks and perhaps by remembering all that was good about Worlds this year we can remember that our problems are solvable with time and discussion. They were fantastic , and so were all of you who joined us to make the last week so unforgettable.

With our warmest regards,

The Adjudication Team of the Vehbi Koç World Universities Debating Championships 2010

Need some info on teams

I'm looking for information on some of the teams who were on the tab at Koc Worlds. Can you provide their full name and country?

BRAC
KhUML
UTHM

"York" is on the list but is it the UK or Canadian York?


Update: I have taken off the colleges from the above list as comments in to give me the info.

WUDC 2010 Team and Speaker Tab

Here is the tab for the 2010 World Debating Championships. 

There are some things to note on the first sheet and then the following sheets contain the results. 

Click on "team tab - open" etc to get to each sheet.



To view the tab in a new window click here