World Universities Debating Championships
Macquarie University: 1996 World Champions, aiming
to repeat
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The World Universities
Debating Championships is the pinnacle for all debaters across the
world. Approximately two hundred universities across the world take part, and
the competition is structured after the British Parliamentary style of
debating. It is really a measure of the standard
of Australian debating that out of the four teams in the grand final of the
1999 World Championships, three were from Australia! Macquarie made another
impressive show. Out of the two teams that we entered, both performed
exceptionally well. Macquarie made the semi-finals once more. Since then, Macquarie has made the Octo-Finals
twice, in 2000 and 2004. Worlds debating is a challenging,
fun tournament. The two “Mini-worlds” tournaments, held in early December and
hosted at Sydney University and Melbourne/Monash respectively, provide good,
fun training. Past Worlds Contingents 2007 Worlds – University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada. Many thanks to Oliver Lamb (UNSW; USYD) for acting as our team
selector. Team A: Tom Hosking, Felicity Wilson Team B: Matt Fellew, James O’Brien Team C: Trupti Bapat, Marcus Dunn Adjudicators:
Layla Nafari, Erica Salisbury 2006 Worlds – University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Team A: Tamer Morris, Abby Millerd Team B: Felicity Wilson, Alex Southcott Team C: Matt Fellew, Tom Hosking Team D: Sam Kafataris, Matt Hansen Team E: Liam Bailey, Erica Salisbury Adjudicators:
Tim Chandran, Beau Spry, Alana Kilijourn, Layla Nafari 2005 Worlds – Multimedia University, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. Team A: Tamer Morris, David Cramsie Adjudicators:
Felicity Wilson, Matt Fellew 2004 Worlds – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Team A: Melissa
Saadat, Abby Millerd Adjudicators:
Josephine Walsh, Rupeng Chen 2000 Worlds – University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Team A: Hooma Mishra & Janine Dennis – World Octo-Finalists 1999 Worlds - University of Manila, Manila,
Phillipines. Team
A: Steven Kaless, Peter Van Onselen – World Semi-Finalists Team B: Hooma Mishra, Janine Dennis 1996 Worlds – University of Cork, Cork, Ireland. Team A: Ben Way, Fenja
Berglund – World Champions Past Worlds Hosts and Champions
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