Debate - WUDC - Ban Pardons HWS RR Finals 09 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.
Motion: “This house would eliminate executive pardons.”
Opening Gov: Hart House (Freeman/Lizius)
Opening Opp: Middle Temple (Cochran/Warents)
Closing Gov: Oxford University (Maynard/Worsnip)
Closing Opp: Loyola Marymount (Kiley/Schwab)
From http://workserver.idebate.org/hwsroundrobin/
Oxford wins 2009 HWS / IDEA Round RobinBreaking directly to finals were:
1) Loyola Marymount (Kiley/Schwab) – on a perfect 15 points
2) Oxford (Maynard/Worsnip) – on 14 points
3) Middle Temple (Cochran/Warents) – on 11 points
4) Hart House (Freeman/Lizius) – on 10 pointsIn the final round (on the motion “THW eliminate executive pardons”), the team winning the $1000 prize was Oxford, with Hart House claiming the $500 second place prize.
The Full Tab is available at: http://people.hws.edu/barnes/debate/2009RR-FullTab.pdf
You are also welcome to watch a video of the final round.
The other teams on the top half of the tab all ended on 8 points:
5. Witwatersrand (Roussos/Williams) – 792 speaks
6. York (Kettles/Lof) – 787 speaks
7. Cambridge (Koh/Nugent) – 783 speaks
8. MIT (Goldstein/Magnuson) – 782 speaksThe top speaker at the tournament was Jonathan Leader Maynard.
Top half of the speaker tab:
1. Jonathan Maynard (Oxford) – 418
2. Alex Worsnip (Oxford) – 415
3. Douglas Cochran (Middle Temple) – 408
4. Kevin Kiley (Loyola Marymount) – 407
5. Alexander Schwab (Loyola Marymount) – 406
6. Daniel Warents (Middle Temple) – 402
7. Joe Roussos (Witwatersrand) – 401
8. Dash Veel (Hart House) – 399
9. Brent Kettles (York) – 398
10. Jeff Geels (Yale) – 397
11. Hayley Nix (Yale) – 396
12. Adam Goldstein (MIT) – 396
13. Richard Lizius (Hart House) – 395
14. Mary Nugent (Cambridge) – 395
15. Monica Ferris (Hart House) – 393
16. Mark Samburg (Harvard) -393
The prelim motions were:
Round 1: THW require all citizens to perform a period of national service.
Round 2: THW punish North Korea for weapons testing.
Round 3: THW make teachers’ pay dependent on students’ achievement.
Round 4: THW ban for-profit fortune tellers who claim supernatural insight.
Round 5: THW limit expert testimony to those who are impartially selected by the court.2010 Tournament:
To eliminate the pardon system would be ridiculous! Especially with the amount of people who have been wrongfully accused, how can you eliminate the very system that's meant to forgive people when the system itself, often needs to be forgiven? Makes no sense at all...
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