Named Finals

The ENL final is:

Oxford D (Shengwu Li and Ben Jasper, I think)
Oxford B (Alex Worsnip and Simon Quinn)
Oxford A (Will Jones and James Dray)
KCL A (Jonathan Leader Maynard and Louis Palombo)

Go go JLM!

The ESL final is:

BBU A (Dan Cristea and Nico Lupea)
Leiden A (Leela Koenig and Simone Van Elk)
Tel Aviv A (Yoni Cohen and Rinat Gershfeld)
HSoG A (Adam Hildebrandt and Alena Asyamova)

Go go Leiden!

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so our predictions were more accurate for the ESL final than the ENL final....

Bad luck to Ireland

EUDC 2008: The Book

Ok,

My bid for the ENL final is: KCL A, Oxford A, UCD Law A and UCC Law A.

My bid for the ESL final is: Leiden A, Tilbury for sure. I'm afraid I don't know about the others so I'll run with their breaking position and take BBU A and Tel Aviv A.

What nationality are BBU, by the way?



Any bets?

Named ESL Semis

Can Okar has been good enough to file the names for the ESL semis:


1G BDU B (Ehmann Patrick and Daniel Hinkeldein)
1O Bonaparte B (Sarie Muijs and Reinier de Adelhart Toorop)
2G Leiden A (Leela Koenig and Simone Van Elk)
2O BBU A (Dan Cristea and Nico Lupea)

1G Tel Aviv A (Yoni Cohen and Rinat Gershfeld)
1O HSoG A (Adam Hildebrandt and Alena Asyamova)
2P Tilbury A (Felix Lamouroux and Assen Kochev)
2O Warwick A (Hanns Koenig and Anna Diofasi)

Named Semis

Regrettably, neither Manchester nor ULU B made it through.

The Named Semi final is therefore:

The pairing for SF 1:
1G Oxford A (Will Jones and James Dray)
1O UCD L&H A (Stephan Boyle and Ian Boyle Harper)
2G UCC Phil A (Ross Frenet and Conor O'Brian)
2O KCL A (Jonathan Leader Maynard and Louis Palombo)


The pairing for SF 2:
1G Oxford D (un-listed)
1O UCD Law A (Ross Maguire and Marguerite Carter)
2G Oxford B (Alex Worshnip and Simon Quinn)
2O UCC Law A (Art Ward and Tiernan Fitzgibbon)

Names Quarter Finals

Thought it might be useful to name who was who in the quarters as team names don't say much.

______

1G Oxford C (8) (Max Kasriel and Jamie Susskind)
1O UCD L & H A (9) (Stephan Boyle and Ian Boyle Harper)
2G Oxford A (1) (Will Jones and James Dray)
2O TCD Phil B (16) (Brian O'Beirne and Jonathon Wyse)

Judges: Daniel McCarthy (Chair), Derek Doyle, Isabelle Loewe, Stuart Anderson, David Middlemiss

QF 2
1G Cambridge B (7) (Netan Dogra and Charlotte Thomas)
1O ULU B (10) (Fred Cowell and Rosie Unwin)
2G UCC Law A (15) (Art Ward and Tiernan Fitzgibbon)
2O Oxford B (2) (Alex Worshnip and Simon Quinn)

Judges: Ali Cormack (Chair), Adriaan Andringa, Andy Hume, Kirsty Russell, David Wheelan

QF 3
1G UCD Law A (6) (Ross Maguire and Marguerite Carter)
1O UCD Law B (14) (Shane Cranley and Eoin Martin)
2G Oxford D (11) (not listed?)
2O Manchester A (3) (Dan Bradley and James Dixon)

Judges: Daniel Schut (Chair), Sam Block, Ewan MacDonald, Tony Murphy, Olga Polunina

QF 4
1G Leiden A (4) (Leela Koenig and Simon van Elk)
1O KCL A (12) (Jonathan Leader Maynard and Louis Palombo)
2G Helsinki A (13) (Richard Penny and Ina Subulica)
2O UCC Phil A (5) (Ross Frenet and Conor O'Brian)

Judges: Greg O'Neill (Chair), Felicity Cook, Neil Dewar, Andrew Marshall, Bob Nimmo

Motion: "This House would ban the broadcast of recordings produced by terrorists."

Breaking!

Whoop!

MDU A (Dan and James) and ULU B (Fred and Rosie) broke :D

MDU broke 3rd and ULU B broke 10th.

Cue much happiness and delight!

Manchester A - top room

Manchester A are in the top room for round 5, suggesting that they won round 4.

This would put them on +2/10pts.


Whoop!


(Room info courtesy of: http://yourgermancorrespondent.blogspot.com/2008/06/motion-r5-eudc-2008.html)

EUDC 2008: Top 16, so far...

Ok, not strictly the top 16, the table sorts by teams points then alphabetically so as about half of the teams on 7 points are in the top 16, I've included everyone on 7 points.

The numbers on the left hand side are irrelevant.

	Team	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Total
20	BRISTOL A	3	3	3	9
100	OXFORD A	3	3	3	9
101	OXFORD B	3	3	3	9
24	CAMBRIDGE A	3	2	3	8
60	INNER TEMPLE A	3	3	2	8
69	LEIDEN A	3	2	3	8
79	MANCHESTER A	3	3	2	8
103	OXFORD D	2	3	3	8
105	QMUL B	3	3	2	8
117	ST ANDREWS B	3	2	3	8
14	BONAPARTE A	2	2	3	7
19	BPP LAW A	2	2	3	7
25	CAMBRIDGE B	3	2	2	7
36	DURHAM A	2	2	3	7
38	DURHAM C	2	3	2	7
48	HELSINKI A	2	3	2	7
54	HUNI A	2	2	3	7
67	KOC A	3	1	3	7
70	LEIDEN B	1	3	3	7
97	NUIG L&D A	3	2	2	7
125	TCD PHIL B	3	1	3	7
137	UCD L&H A	3	3	1	7
140	UCD LAW A	3	3	1	7
146	ULU B	3	1	3	7

EUDC 2008: Results on EUDC website

Love it:

http://www.eudc2008.eu/index.php?content=42&menuid=15

(Tournament results)

EUDC 2008: Euros Results (day 1) Final update and tab for the day

Inner temple (Rupert and partner): 2,2,3, five points, minus 1.

SOAS: All teams are on three points (minus 3) have taken three thirds.

On the 'tab of teams I'm watching' therefore:

MDU A: 8, (+2)
ULU: 7, (+1)
Middle: 6 (0)
KCL A: 6 (0)
KCL B: 6 (0)
MDU B: 5 (-1)
MDU C: 5 (-1)
Inner: 5 (-1)
SOAS: 3 (-3)

And on to tomorrow....

EUDC 2008: Euros Results (day 1): Confirmed MDU results

I am grateful to Dan James for sending the following results through:

MDU A: Dan/James: 1st 1st 2nd
MDU C: Tom/Kenny: 3rd1st 3rd
MDU B: Klairi/Usama: 4th 2nd 1st

This puts:
MDU A on 8 points, or plus 2
MDU C on 5 points, or minus 1
MDU B on 5 points, or minus 1

I suspect the 'definite break' will be plus 1. Straights might do it though, if speaks are high enough.

EUDC 2008: Euros Results (day 1) UPDATE

Update on day one:

Middle A (James and Katrina): are on straights
ULU (Fred and Rosie): Plus 1

For those of you who don't know, a first is +1, a second is 0, a third is -1 and a fourth is -2. ULU have therefore for two 2nds and a 1st. Middle A either have three 2nds or a 1st,2nd and 3rd.

KCL A (Jonathan Leader Maynard and Louis Palomb): Straights

KCL B (Andrew Tuffin and Jon Gaydon): straights

No update on SOAS.

Latest results are from Rosie (thank you :) )

EUDC 2008: Euros Results (day 1)

MDU A (Dan Bradley and James Dixon): two wins, no result for round 3.
MDU B (Usama Rehman and Klairi Liis): 4th, 2nd and 1st
MDU C: 2nd and either 1st or 3rd, no result for round three

ULU (Fred and Rosie): No results

Middle A (James and Katrina): No results
Inner: No results
SOAS: No results

More updates when I bully them out of people!

World's Tab motion break down

Well, first prop is traditionally seen as hard and this analysis of results per position would see to support that theory.

Interesting that every single one of the motions was op heavy. A lot of them felt a bit biased. I'd be interested to see this analysis over other large tournaments.

It does illustrate, once again, how shockingly awful the Putin round was. I believe the octo-final motion suffered similar problems.

LIZ
xx

Warwick IV

Well, I was in little motion heaven this weekend :-)

Round 1: THW allow the teaching of intelligent design in the USA in science classrooms
Round 2: THW allow women to join the front line
Round 3: THW force all people receiving benefits to do work in the community
Round 4: (Analysis) THBT a Pakistan under Musharref is better that under a weak democracy
Rounds 5: THW use brain dead people for medical experiments rather than healthy volunteers

Semi: THW introduce a verdict of Not Proven in rape cases

Final: (wording may be wrong) THW create a duty for companies to protect children from intimidatory, racist or sexual behaviour in online virtual worlds

The only bad thing about the semi was that I couldn't remember what I'd actually written in the blog post on the same topic a while ago...

Round 1 suffered from an unfortunate lack of robot stories. Shame!

Finalists were:
1p, Birmingham
1o, KCL
2p, Middle Temple
2o, Bristol

JLM was best speaker on the tab. The final was won by Middle Temple and I was best speaker :)

Tab to follow.

World's Tab

A preliminary tab for Worlds can be found here. I have no idea what makes it preliminary rather than final. On the eighth day, God created tab geeks for that very purpose....

My, didn't we get shafted badly! Three actively bad decisions, 2 bad luck decisions and 1 fairly deserved 4th in 9 rounds. Oh well, thankfully Cork should have a distinct lack of crazy Aussie judges.

I find it interesting that although only 7 IONA teams broke, 3 reached the semis and 2 the final. Is it me or does that type of proportion suggest poor judging of teams in the in rounds?

If you look at the ESL out-rounds, it's nice to see Amsterdam and Tilbury House chase each other up the rankings. Nothing like a decent tag team effort :) Well done to Amsterdam for winning and to TH for reaching the final.

Lancaster IV 2007 Speaker Tab

Rank	Speaker name	Team Name	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
1=	Rachel Francis	Durham A	78	77	81	78	314
1=	Stephanie Shepherd	Newcastle Untoward Events	76	76	77	85	314
3=	Tom Jackson	Nottingham Men in Tights	80	74	81	77	312
3=	James Torrance	Nottingham Men in Tights	78	74	82	78	312
5	Luke Wells	Durham B	75	78	76	82	311
6=	Tabitha Willmer	Durham B	77	77	77	79	310
6=	Antonia Henbest	Newcastle Untoward Events	76	74	78	82	310
8	Fletch Williams	Durham A	79	74	76	79	308
9	Tom Silverton	Manchester TM	72	77	77	81	307
10=	Sherraz Qureshi	SOAS A	76	77	73	79	305
10=	James Gillespie	Durham C	75	73	77	80	305
12=	Chris Woods	Boring York A	77	78	72	75	302
12=	Phil Alexander	Durham C	76	73	77	76	302
14	Sam Dobin	Cambridge	76	74	77	73	300
15	Ashleigh Lamming	Cambridge	78	79	73	69	299
16=	Usama Rehman	Manchester RU	74	71	79	74	298
16=	Klairi Liis	Manchester DK	74	72	77	75	298
18=	Jordan Anderson	SOAS A	71	74	74	77	296
18=	Rachel Crook	Warwick His and Hers	76	70	72	78	296
20	Kyalo Burt-Fulcher	Warwick His and Hers	77	74	68	76	295
21=	Ruby Newton	Manchester RU	76	71	78	69	294
21=	Rajim Chowdury	Sheffield A	75	74	73	72	294
21=	Viv	Swing C	73	74	72	75	294
21=	Tim Lees	Nottingham Shottingham	78	71	76	69	294
25	Michael Joslin	Manchester TM	66	75	75	76	292
26	Andy Hunter	Boring York A	74	74	69	73	290
27	Sam Morrow	Manchester BS	70	75	72	72	289
28=	Sam Eccleston	Manchester SR	75	65	76	72	288
28=	Deborah Joseph	Manchester DK	72	69	71	76	288
30=	Rob Bentall	Manchester SR	75	67	75	70	287
30=	Ben Morrow	Manchester BS	75	73	69	70	287
32	Anthony Wieczorek	Durham D	74	67	73	72	286
33=	Jessica Moore	Warwick Tips the Velvet	72	70	72	70	284
33=	Dom	Swing A	66	76	69	73	284
33=	Luke	Swing C	65	73	72	74	284
33=	Ciaran Prendeville	Manchester SC	69	75	65	75	284
33=	Weijie soh	Boring York C	73	71	70	70	284
33=	Patrick Keating	Boring York C	71	72	71	70	284
39	Maya Kessler	Nottingham Shottingham	75	68	71	69	283
40=	Laura Knightly	Sheffield A	68	71	72	69	280
40=	Gayan Samarasinghe	Monsters Inc.	69	73	68	70	280
40=	Sissy Wamaitha	Manchester SC	69	73	65	73	280
43=	Michael Dallaway	Newcastle Rainbow	73	68	69	69	279
43=	Aris Catsambas	Boring York B	69	70	69	71	279
43=	Caroline Howard	Warwick Tips the Velvet	75	65	65	74	279
43=	Ruthie Jacobs	Manchester MR	72	69	70	68	279
47	Belinda Carr	Newcastle Skittles	72	66	69	70	277
48=	Maria	Swing B	66	74	69	67	276
48=	Oliver Lewis	Newcastle Rainbow	74	69	65	68	276
48=	Robert Haynes	Strathclyde	69	69	67	71	276
48=	Venita Nordon	Boring York B	67	69	69	71	276
52	Alex Cavell	SOAS charasmatic un troopers	72	72	66	65	275
53=	Stephen Jamieson	Newcastle Skittles	70	65	69	70	274
53=	Ben	Swing A	67	72	63	72	274
53=	Marc Dunwell	Manchester MR	71	67	69	67	274
56=	Charlotte	Swing B	66	73	69	65	273
56=	Sophie Burt	Durham E	72	69	66	66	273
58=	Simon Smith	Warwick His and His	74	67	62	69	272
58=	Anneka Sirs	Durham E	72	66	70	64	272
60	Richard Mead	Warwick His and His	73	67	61	70	271
61=	Maddie Fry	SOAS charasmatic un troopers	66	74	64	66	270
61=	Rob Harris	Strathclyde	67	67	66	70	270
63	Will Day	Durham D	67	64	63	72	266
64	Adam Raysor	Monsters Inc.	68	61	67	67	263

Lancaster IV 2007 Team Tab

Rank	Team Name	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total team Points	Total Speaker Points
1	Newcastle Untoward Events	2	3	2	3	10	624
2	Durham A	3	3	3	1	10	622
3	Durham B	3	3	2	2	10	621
4	SOAS A	1	3	2	3	9	601
5	Manchester DK	3	1	3	2	9	586
6	Nottingham Men in Tights	3	2	3	0	8	624
7	Manchester TM	0	3	2	3	8	599
8	Manchester BS	2	3	0	3	8	576
9	Durham C	2	2	1	2	7	607
10	Manchester RU	2	1	3	1	7	592
11	Warwick His and Hers	3	1	0	3	7	591
12	Nottingham Shottingham	2	0	3	2	7	577
13	Warwick Tips the Velvet	1	1	2	3	7	563
14	Cambridge	3	2	1	0	6	599
15	Boring York A	1	3	1	1	6	592
16	Swing C	2	2	0	2	6	578
17	Manchester SR	3	0	1	2	6	575
18	Boring York C	2	1	3	0	6	568
19	Manchester SC	0	3	0	3	6	564
20	Manchester MR	2	0	2	1	5	553
21	Durham D	1	0	1	3	5	552
22	Newcastle Skittles	1	0	3	1	5	551
23	Durham E	1	2	2	0	5	545
24	Swing A	0	2	0	2	4	558
25=	Newcastle Rainbow	3	0	1	0	4	555
25=	Boring York B	0	2	1	1	4	555
27	Swing B	0	1	3	0	4	549
28	Strathclyde	0	1	2	1	4	546
29	Sheffield A	1	2	0	0	3	574
30	Monsters Inc.	1	1	0	1	3	543
31	Warwick His and His	0	0	0	2	2	543
32	SOAS charasmatic un troopers	0	0	1	0	1	545