[VIDEO] WSDC 2013 – Octofinal (Mexico vs. India)

Octofinal debate between Mexico (proposition) and India (opposition) on the motion ‘THW cut welfare support for compulsive gamblers’. Mexico won the debate 4-1 and progressed onto the semifinals.

WSDC 2013 – ESL Tab [RESULTS] [UPDATED]

Top 20 English as a Second Language speakers following the 8 preliminary rounds.

Note that this is different both to those announced at the Grand Finalas well as the subsequent list posted earlier. This is becaues a number of issues arose in the calculations of the scores and the CAP have had to continiously update this list as this information becomes integrated. This post is accurate only as of the time it was udpated {4pm 14/2/2013}

Position. Name (Country) Debates – Average
1. Diego Cepeda (Mexico) 7 – 72.667
2. Siddarth Shrikanth (India) 8 – 72.521
3. Jose de los Heros (Peru) 6 – 72.417
4. Aaron Luke (Malaysia) 6 – 72.222
5. Ariel de la Garza (Mexico) 5 – 72.000
6. Dhruva Bhat (India) 8 – 71.979
7. Shriya Suriyanarayanan (India) 4 – 71.917
8. Kaan Ülgen (Turkey) 6 – 71.722
9. Luis Enrique Zela-Koort (Peru) 7 – 71.619
10. Yerin Yang (South Korea) 6 – 71.611

WSDC 2013 – EFL Tab [RESULTS] [UPDATED]

Top 20 English as a Foreign Language speakers following the 8 preliminary rounds.

Note that this is different both to those announced at the Grand Finalas well as the subsequent list posted earlier. This is becaues a number of issues arose in the calculations of the scores and the CAP have had to continiously update this list as this information becomes integrated. This post is accurate only as of the time it was udpated {4pm 14/2/2013}

Position. Name (Country) Debates – Average
1. Joris Broeders (Netherlands) 7 – 71.667
2. Roel Becker (Netherlands) 8 – 71.146
3. JunHyub Lee (South Korea) 4 – 70.917
4. Carrisa Tehputri (Indonesia) 8 – 70.875
5. Simonas Bartulis (Lithuania) 7 – 70.833
6. Ziva Antolin (Slovenia) 7 – 70.750
7. Jonathan Shvartz (Israel) 7 – 70.667
8. Ida Ayu Pradnya Paramita (Indonesia) 8 – 70.604
9. Bogdan Andrei Morosanu (Romania) 8 – 70.333
10. Egle Kavaliunaite (Lithuania) 6 – 70.167
10. Atakan Paksoy (Turkey) 4 – 70.167

[VIDEO] WSDC 2013 – Round 8 (India vs. Scotland)

Final round debate between India (proposition) and Scotland (opposition) on the motion ‘THW require university students to work in their country of origin for a number of years after graduation’

WSDC 2013 – Final Team Tab [RESULTS]

The final team tab that factors in the results of the knock-out rounds following the preliminary team tab.

Rank	Team	Wins	Ballots	Average Score per Debate
1. (5) GF	Australia	7	20	768.5
2. (2) GF	Swaziland	7	21	764
3. (3) SF	Singapore	7	21	763
4. (9) SF	Ireland	7	17	759.5625
5. (4) QF	South Africa	7	21	758.0625
6. (6) QF	England	7	20	757
7. (7) QF	Mexico	7	20	755.0625
8. (16) QF	Canada	6	14	752.875
9. (1) OF	New Zealand	8	21	763.375
10. (8) OF	Peru	7	19	752

WSDC 2013 – [MOTIONS]

R1: THBT important decisions about children’s health should be made by medical professionals and not by their parents
R2: (Impromptu) THBT the media should be prevented by law from intruding the lives of public figures
R3: THS greater US military presence in East Asia
R4: (I) THW allow prisoners to choose death over life sentence
R5: THW cease the exploitation of resources in the Arctic Region
R6: (I) THW require government schools to teach religious studies
R7: THS sovereign debt default as a legitimate economic strategy for countries
R8: (I) THW require university students to work in their country of origin for a number of years after graduation
OF: (I) THW cut welfare support on compulsive gamblers
QF: (I) THBT social movements in democratic countries should drive social change through the courts rather than the legislature
SF: (I) THBT the government should pay house wives and house husbands for their work
GF: THBT Turkey is better off outside the EU

WSDC 2013 – Speaker Tab [RESULTS]

Top 50 Individual Speakers based on the scores for the 8 preliminary rounds

Position. Name (Country) Debates – Average
1. Bo Seo (Australia) 6 – 73.694
2. Fanele Mashwama (Swaziland) 8 – 73.542
3. Pavan Hegde (Hong Kong) 4 – 73.333
4. Darion Jin Hotan (Singapore) 8 – 73.229
5. Thomas Simpson (New Zealand) 7 – 73.214
6. Zoe Brown (Australia) 4 – 73.208
7. James Lo (Hong Kong) 7 – 73.143
8. James Penn (New Zealand) 6 – 73.028
9. Adohan Peelo (Ireland) 7 – 72.976
10. Tyrone Connell (Australia) 5 – 72.967
11. Charlie Holmes (Scotland) 6 – 72.917
11. Anisah Mahomed (Canada) 6 – 72.917
13. Teck Wei Tan (Singapore) 8 – 72.771
14. Deigo Cepeda (Mexico) 7 – 72.667
15. Nicholas Salmon (Australia) 5 – 72.633
16. Edward Foley (New Zealand) 5 – 72.567
17. Oliver Havelock Mills (Swaziland) 8 – 72.542
17. James Stratton (Australia) 4 – 72.542
19. Siddarth Shrikanth (India) 8 – 72.521
20. Jose de los Heros (Peru) 6 – 72.417

WSDC 2013 – Grand Final and Awards [RESULTS]

WSDC 2013 Grand Final (from WSDC Ltd. credits Chris Sanchez)

Results still incomplete.
This is Australia’s 9th Championships having previously won in 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, 1998 and 1997. It is their 14th Grand Final apperance, which means they have won nearly two-thirds of their Grand Final apperances. It is the third WSDC tournament for 2013 WSDC Best Speaker Bo Seo, who also debated for Team Australia in the 2011 Grand Finals. Swaziland may not have won the championship this year, but they have certainly had an amazing run to the Grand Final in only their 2nd WSDC tournament.

Grand Finals: Australia 9-0 Swaziland
Champions: Australia
Runners-up: Swaziland
Best ESL Team: Peru
Best EFL Team: Indonesia

Top 10 Best Speakers
1. Bo Seo (Australia)
2. Fanele Mashwama (Swaziland)
3. Pavan Hegde (Hong Kong)
4. Darion Hotan (Singapore)
5. Tom Simpson (New Zealand)

WSDC 2013 – Grand Final: The fairytale continues

The 2013 World Schools Debating Championships may well be one of the most eventful tournaments in recent years. The run-up to the tournament saw a number of unexpected surprises from a call for extra adjudicators, reworked draws and now a truly unexpected Grand Final. Starting at 7pm Turkish time, the Grand Final will feature Team Swaziland against Team Australia on the motion THBT turkey is better off outside the EU. Interestingly enough, the two teams featured are also the two teams who recieved the highest total speaker scores, one of the rare instances in which the speaker scores seem to correlate with actual performance.

Team Australia preparing for the Grand Finals (from @AustSchoolsTeam)

Team Australia are the most sucessful WSDC team in history, winning the Championships on 8 ocassions (2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, 1998, 1997). Team Australia also featured in the Grand Finals in 1988, 1990, 1991, 2002 and 2011, the latter being a memory that will still be present for members Bo Seo and and Tyrone Connell who were both runners-up in WSDC 2011 in Dundee, Scotland. They will seek to go one better this time now joined by Zoe Brown, Nick Salmon and James Stratton. In reaching the Grand Finals, Australia sucessfully beat Ireland, South Africa and the Netherlands; loosing only to Canada in Round 8 and breaking 5th overall with the highest total speakers scores of the tournament.

Team Swaziland, earlier on, preparing for WSDC 2013 (from @TeamSD2013)

Their opponents, Team Swaziland, will join the short list of WSDC Champions if sucessful. Team Swaziland attended WSDC 2012 for the first time, going 4-0 and ranking 28th. They have returned this year, going all the way to the Grand Finals. The team again features Fanele Mashwama who attended WSDC 2012. He is joined by Sandile Mndzebele, Lindelani Mabuza as well as fellow classmates of Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Swaziland Oliver Havelock Mills and Wabantu Hlophe. Team Swaziland are coached by UWC Swaziland alumnus Mlungisi Dlamini, who graduated in 2010 and was a Davis Scholar at Franklin and Marshall College before returning to teach at UWC Swaziland Waterford KaMhlaba UWC. Winning all but their first debate against Singapore, which Swaziland avenged in the semifinals; Team Swaziland beat defending champions Scotland on the way to breaking 2nd and with the 2nd highest total speaker points of the tournament.

WSDC 2013 – Semifinal [RESULTS] Grandfinal Draw

SF: THBT the government should pay house wives and house husbands for their work

SF1: Ireland (9)(P) v. Australia (5)(O) == 7-0
SF2: Swaziland (2)(P) v. Singapore (3)(O) == 4-3

GF: Australia v. Swaziland

See Grand Final write-up here.

Team Swaziland during their 4-3 victory over Team Singapore (from @DebatingHungary)