Worlds 2008: Assumption Uni, Thailand

[Mr Comedy]

Well done guys - it seems as if everyone has done well and congratulations to all. Frank, 16 points in your first Worlds is pretty awesome, and I don't think I did that well at Worlds so well done.

Also congratulations to Connie and Doug on breaking again.

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[Dave the Explosive Newt]

Well done everyone! Incredible that St Andrews does so well against such stiff competition and testament to the talents of our (your) debaters.

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Mmmmmmm, cake.
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[Imago]

Wow!! Connie and Doug put out Sam and Adam!! That's impressive!!! Here goes against the three Aussie teams...

[Mr Comedy]

It's probably worth mentioning St Andrews A are through to the Semis, isn't it?

Qtr Final motion: This House would force religious adoption agencies to place children with homosexual couples.

The Semifinalists:
Oxford A
Monash A
St Andrews A
Sydney A
Cambridge B
Queensland E
Yale E
Brandeis B

St Andrews have Queensland E, Cambridge B, and Sydney A in the semis - any news from these please let me know.

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[Mr Comedy]

Oh, and St Andrews A won the room in the quarters - go team!

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[Dickie]

Shall I go out and buy silver polish?

Keep up the good work and bring back a trophy (it need not be ours!!!)

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[Lid]

Quoting Dickie from 13:46, 3rd Jan 2008
Shall I go out and buy silver polish?

It wouldn't harm, the stuff on the table already could do with a sprucing!

I'm just hoping there'll be as many wine receptions to celebrate - after last year's Worlds success, College Gate were all too happy to celebrate

Congratulations you guys, and keep up the good work!

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[mattina]

Just to keep the running motion log going, the Octo motion was: THB that governments in the developing world should invest in sex tourism.

Far, far more importantly-congratulations to all and go Connie and Doug!

Laura

[Jason]

Dear God they did it again...now the real tension begins!

Sam and Adam out - for those who don't know IV stuff that is amazing and a half (p.s. Doug I told you so.)

[Frank George]

Connie and Doug have been eliminated.

I use a little emoticon for this post to express my dismay.

They made it to the semi-final ("THB people should be granted asylum for extreme economic need" or something like that), where they were finally put out. I don't quite agree with the decision, especially the Sydney team which they mauled that went straight through (a Cambridge team also went through on a split decision).

They were incredibly successful and have made it to the semi-finals twice, an incredible achievement. Congratulations!

Tonight's Grand Final will be between teams from Cambridge B, Oxford A, Sydney A, and Monash A. I'm pretty sure those are the right team letters, but the wireless in this Soviet gulag-resort is pretty slow and I don't have the patience to check; verify it yourselves!

[Imago]

I was assuming everyone would be following the many other blogs etc running but if not, the final is as follows:

Prop 1 Monash A (Tim Jeffrie & Fiona Prowse)
Opp 1 Cambridge B (Daniel Warents & Mhairi Murdoch)
Prop 2 Oxford A (Lewis Iwu & Samir Deger-Sen)
Opp2 Sydney A (Dom Thurbon & Chris Croke)

Daniel is an FP of RGS Newcastle
Mhairi was at Grove Academy Broughty Ferry!
Chris Croke is twice at World Champion at WSDC – Lima 03 and Stuttgart 04
Lewis is from St Bonaventure’s, east London and is a fomer International Schools Mace winner
Samir was at King Edward’s Birmingham

Motion is THW require people who infect others with HIV to make drug support payments

Many congrats to Doug and Connie for doing so well.

They seem to be on about the 4th speech at the moment and the place to follow it is the Facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6407639217

[Dickie]

If there is no silver on its way back, then I shall donate a small token to mark two years success.

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[Imago]

Everyone has already read all this on Colm or Facebook, right?
WUDC won by Lewis and Samir for Oxford A.
Sam Block of Camb top on tab, Adam Bott 4th (they won St Andrews Senior Schools together for Dulwich College in 2005)
Mhairi and Daniel in the Final.
Will Jones of Oxford (ex-Aberdeen Grammar) and James Dray (S Africa and Oxford) won Masters.
All of whom are quite delightful people who have done UK debating proud, as have Connie and Doug. Warmest congratulations all round.

[mattina]

...and the (now official)tab is up...a strong showing from everyone!

Team:

Ranking Team R1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total SP
1. Oxford A 3 3 2 3 2 3 3 3 3 25 1538

18 St And. A 3 2 3 1 2 3 2 2 1 19 1485

32. L&H B 3 3 2 0 3 3 1 1 2 18 1454

91. St And B 3 2 2 2 0 3 3 1 0 16 1393

230. St And C 2 1 1 3 1 2 1 0 2 13 1292

395.Holloway Swing A 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 144
396. Swing A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 123

Individual:

rank name team R1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 total
1. Sam Block Ox. A 88 87 86 90 87 87 85 91 89 790
20. Connie St A A 77 82 84 84 82 86 81 87 80 743
23. Doug St A A 79 83 83 83 84 85 81 85 79 742
181. Chris St A B 78 76 75 82 75 76 85 78 74 699
189. RachaelSt A B 82 77 74 82 75 76 84 75 72 697
470. Zoe St A C 75 74 70 78 73 71 73 62 78 654
557. Frank St A C 72 72 60 76 70 73 69 68 79 639

*A congratulations all around for such a good showing!
*Connie and Doug ended on 19 points, to all who are amused
*my apologies for the poor spacing

(swing teams, etc made the bottoms of the tab a bit odd but the lowest scoring speaker who spoke in all 9 rounds had a total of 548 speaker points, for reference)

Laura

[TC]

Well done to everyone at world's for such a brilliant set of results! See you soon.

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Per Ardua ad Astra

[Steveo]

I have to congratulate Connie and Doug, again, on a good show.

What worries me is, are they both graduating this year? Do we have the talent to keep this sort of thing up?

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Get off my internet.

[kdc4]

First, thanks loads to all of you for your support; it's been great to know that you've been cheering us on all along.

Also, we have not left Thailand empty-handed, so there will be a trophy for LPH.

[TC]

What trophy? Thats brilliant!

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Per Ardua ad Astra

[Imago]

Quoting kdc4 from 12:45, 7th Jan 2008
Also, we have not left Thailand empty-handed, so there will be a trophy for LPH.

Ooh tremendous! Is it one that Dickie can polish or something appropriately ethnic? - we had to have an export certificate for the'cultural treasure' presented to us in Peru!

[David Bean]

Indeed, congratulations to St Andrews A, and indeed everyone for their efforts.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd be very interested to hear of any interesting highlights from any of the debates - new and interesting arguments, and what have you

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