ASDC 2013: Novice Finals Result!

Photo Courtesy: Keana Reinu

Champion:

Sri KDU, Malaysia 
(Lim Ying Yi, Daniel Tan Shern Ee and Thulasi Vikeneswaran)

Photo Courtesy: Tonmoy

Runners-Up:

Notre Dame, Bangladesh (Sabyasachi Roy Ronit, Meev E. Enayet, Sourodip Paul)

UADC 2013: Online Adjudication Exam and its deadline!

Good day Asian Debating Community,

UADC is coming up and we are excited to have you. For this year, we are going to have an online exam. ALL adjudicators, independent or not, are required to take this test and submit on or before the 22nd of May, 12 noon, Manila time. 

The link to the test is found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BZTraohBhkC6TisJ8eS08A_9BLameQPmuUABeMfAX3s/viewform

For the essay portion of the exam, we used a video specifically taped for this purpose that composes of people from the organizing committee, all of whom are neither debating nor adjudicating in the tournament. The motion is THW ban political dynasties. The links to the speeches are found below:

Prime Minister - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXBCowgmgFQ

Leader of Opposition - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDKH41vR_4
Deputy Prime Minister - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh4BD0xJdss
Deputy Leader of Opposition - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbi8U5hEn70
Government Whip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyh6iQoSbOs
Opposition Whip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yKtd1GWM7M
Opposition Reply - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPkTp1OmUZ8

Government Reply - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78yml5Bjhs

All adjudicators who are not able to comply with this requirement are in danger of not breaking. Those who miss the exam due to unforeseeable and extraordinary circumstances can take a make-up exam on May 23. For such concerns, send any member of the adjudication core an e-mail (alistair.zosa@gmail.com; carlo.cabrera@me.com; shafiq_rembe@yahoo.com and zbrandom@gmail.com) and we will deliberate on the merits of your excuse.

Thanks,

Alistair, Carlo, Shafiq and Zheng Bo
UADC Adjudication Core 2013

UADC 2013: Subsidized Independent Judges (Approved and Confirmed)!

Hi Asian Debating Community,

We are happy to announce the individuals we are subsidizing for UADC 2013. The pool represents people who we've approved and have in turn confirmed with us. See below for the list:

Abel Quintos (Philippines)

Ahyoung Kim (South Korea)

Aji Abu (Singapore)

Carlos Hernandez (Philippines)

Dino de Leon (Philippines)

Ely Zosa (Philippines)

Iqbal Hafiedz (Malaysia)

Job de Leon (Philippines)

Jovan Cerda (Philippines)

Kandahar (Afghanistan)

Kip Oebanda (Philippines)

Loke Wing Fatt (Singapore)

Mabroor Wassey (Bangladesh)

Madeline Schultz (Australia)

Mayukh Samanta (India)

Peejay Garcia (Philippines)

Robin Teo (Singapore)

Sanjeev Parmanand (Philippines)

Tariq Maketab (Malaysia)

We've already contacted these people regarding the details of their subsidy. Hope to see you all soon!

Thanks,

Alistair, Carlo, Shafiq and Zheng Bo

UADC Adjudication Core 2013

Chennai Worlds 2014! - Final Registration Information!

Dear All,


We are writing to remind you about the upcoming registration for Chennai Worlds, as well as to provide you with some final registration details and updates. As always, if you have any questions please feel free to contact us at michael.baer@chennaiworlds.com or harish.natarajan@chennaiworlds.com


Registration


Registration will open on Monday May 20, 2013, at 10am GMT.  Registration will remain open for ONLY 24 hours.  If you take nothing else away from this email, please be sure to register on Monday, May 20. 

Registration will be conducted via Google Forms. A link to the registration form will be available on our Facebook group, our website and sent to all major debating mailing lists.

If you have any issues with accessing Google Docs, please contact us at registration@chennaiworlds.com

Past Attendance List

In line with the advice from Council, the Chennai Worlds registration process takes into account the prior performance of institutions at WUDC.  Institutions will be prioritized according to the average number of teams from that institution that have made the break in any language category over the past 3 WUDCs. Furthermore, the process also limits institutions that have not sent a team to any of the previous 3 WUDCs to registering a maximum of 1 team this year.  The full details of our registration policy are available on the Chennai Worlds 2014 Facebook page.

A record of teams that have broken at the last three WUDCs and attended is available here:

http://goo.gl/xd9Ny


If you see any incorrect information in the above document, please let us know by Friday, May 17.  To the best of our knowledge, there is no central record of all the institutions that have attended WUDC before, nor a collection of break data. Thus it is possible that there may be errors in the data. This includes mistakes to the name of your institution.  It will be an enormous help to our registration process (and to registration for future WUDCs) if every institution is referred to in a consistent manner.  Please do not provide a different institution name when you actually register on May 20.

 

Please email any corrections to registration@chennaiworlds.com.

Independent Judges

Judges that are not sent as part of an institutions contingent can apply to come to Chennai Worlds. Those judges will either be able to pay registration and participate or apply for funding from WUDC. Excluding members of the adjudication teams and organization committee, we will be funding 80 judges to come to Chennai Worlds 2014. We will be opening applications for independent judges in June.


Full information about the process will be pushed by 3 June.


Scholarships


Previous WUDC have provided scholarships for teams to attend. Pending confirmation, we aim to allocate another 30 slots through a ‘Scholarship Scheme’ at a later date. We will release information about the scheme in the near future.


Hotel Information


During the bid and ratification process, we signaled our intent to host Chennai Worlds participants at the ITC Grand Chola. We have since been approached by the Taj Hotel Group which, in addition to providing 5* accommodation, are willing to serve as a sponsor for Chennai Worlds, host socials, and provide substantial quantities of free food and drink. The Taj Group is charging approximately US$400,000 less than the ITC group, which would enable us to provide grander socials, higher quality food, increase judging quality and potentially reduce registration costs. For more information on the Taj Hotels in Chennai please visit http://www.tajhotels.com/Luxury/City-Hotels/Taj-Coromandel-Chennai/Overview.html


The organization committee is still considering the offers and discussing options. We will provide final details as soon as possible.


Finances


Chennai Worlds has continued to have success recruiting sponsors. We have already confirmed substantial amounts of sponsorship. We are also negotiating an agreement with one of India’s largest news networks to cover the event. Full details will be released as soon as the contract is finalized. If we garner additional sponsorship, we aim to reduce registration fees.


Website


We are in the process of increasing server capacity and improving the website. A new website should be up in the next day. We apologize that the website has been down during the week leading up to registration.


Regards,
Michael Baer (michael.baer@chennaiworlds.com)
Harish Natarajan (harish.natarajan@chennaiworlds.com)
Chief Adjudicators, Chennai Worlds 2014

UADC 2014: Call for Bids!

Hello, Asia!

Bidding for the rights to host the United Asian Debating Championship in 2014 is now open. If your institution is interested in bidding, please send an email indicating your interest to the UADU Executive Committee by May 20, 2013.

Please send information pertinent to the bid, including the proposed Convener and Tournament Director, and the name of the institution that wishes to bid. This also includes details on the possibility (if any) of adjudication subsidy, the ceiling price for registration, and the team cap.

Initial presentation will be done at the Pre-Council meeting to be held in Manila during UADC 2013. Voting happens after a Q&A at the Council meeting held on the Free Day of UADC.

Please send your notice of intent to uadu2013@gmail.com, cc-ed to elyzosa@gmail.com and valenciaferdi@gmail.com. 

Best of luck to everyone, and we hope to hear from you soon!

Ely

Chairperson

UADU Executive Committee 2013

Sydney Pre-Australs 2013!

If Australs is the Golden Globes of international debating, we’d like to invite you to the Screen Actors Guild awards.

We know what you’re thinking: YAY! ANOTHER TOURNAMENT! BUT ALSO: ANOTHER TOURNAMENT? WHY?

While backstroking through our private lake of gold doubloons, Sydney Debating suddenly realised that our reputation as the Slytherin of Australian wasn’t totally unjustified. And if Oprah taught us anything it’s that it’s important to conceal your obnoxiousness with conspicuous philanthropy.

We thought about giving back by editing a free online annual Journal of Intervarsity Debating until we remembered that we’d rather tickle our corneas with infected scalpels.

There was support for hosting a 3-on-3 tournament for the marginalised heterosexual male debater sub-community until the gay men of Sydney debating voiced their disgusted at the idea of Menstrals.

Instead, we’ve inaugurated a new cut-price, high-quality, multi-gendered pre-Australs tournament: USU Pre-Australs.

ADJUDICATING

Our CA is Monash’s magnificent Madeline Schultz. She’ll be third-wheeling with her DCAs from the University of Sydney:

Chris ‘Bisset is French for Judas Iscariot’ Bisset

and Elle Jones, the Paris to his Helen of Troy.

Between the three of them they’ve amassed an illegibly detailed Venn diagram of achievement: two Australs best speakers, two Australs champions, a Worlds best speaker, three top 10 Worlds best speakers, a Worlds Grand Finalist.

And they’ll be joined by Sydney’s entire Australs adjudicating contingent. You haven’t been this fairly judged since you wore that terrible outfit to the last champ dinner.

(Added bonus for adjudicators: Elle and Chris are also on the UT MARA Australs Adj Core and will be on the look out for judging talent.)

COST

$30 for Adjudicators and $50 for Debaters for six preliminary rounds of debating across two days, lunches, a Champ Dinner, bar tabs, afternoon tea and morning tea. Even Wayne wouldn’t pretend we’ll end up in surplus.

REGISTRATION OPENS JUNE 1ST

Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/434899769938580/

Open Call for Northeast Asia Open(NEAO) DCAs!

Dear fellow debaters and adjudicators,

I am writing to inform you that applications for the position of Deputy Chief Adjudicators for the upcoming Northeast Asia Open in November 2013 are now open. The application form can be found on the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JvXnHdC0--Ezn9m5OfQP45xlPcfPh9miw1A3kLWR2D4/viewform

This year, NEAO will be held in SolBridge International School of Business, South Korea with Yoojin Choi/Eun Ah So as co-Convenors, and myself as Chief Adjudicator. The date proposed in the last NEAO council is 15th - 17th November.

I am looking for candidates that have experience, perspectives and abilities that can demonstrate the following qualities (in no particular order):

    1. Organizational ability – DCAs should have the ability to help with the running of the competitions and the ability to work well as part of a team

    2. Motion-setting ability – DCAs should be able to set interesting and fair motions and should have the ability to critique motions (including their own)


    3. Strong Adjudicators – DCAs should be good adjudicators, able to make correct decisions and provide high-quality feedback to participants.


    4. Strong motivation – DCAs should be strongly motivated to work to bring additional values to the tournament and always open to learning.


I plan to appoint 4 DCAs:

There’s a strong preference for a institutionally and regionally diverse Adjudication Team as Northeast Asia Open is a diverse, representative tournament in Northeast Asian debate community.

As part of new initiative by all organizers for this NEAO, a pre-NEAO training workshop by this year’s CAP will be pursued in countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan if other conditions are met because we organizers share that the responsibility of NEAO CAP is not only about running a smooth tournament with fair motions but also about contributing to overall growth of Northeast Asian debate community.

Also, one DCA will be available for candidates outside of Northeast Asian debate community.

Applications will close at 11:30pm (Korean Time) on June 12th. Please fill out the online form.

If you have any questions, or would like to discuss the role further, please do not hesitate to contact me (yijuseung@gmail.com).

I’m looking forward to receiving your applications!

Warm Regards,

JuSeung Daniel Yi,
Prospective Chief Adjudicator of Northeast Asia Open