Sydney University win Sydney Mini

Pat Caldwell and Paul Karp from the University of Sydney Union have won the Australian British Parliamentary Debating Champs, known as Sydney Mini.

In the Grand Final they defeated Tim Mooney and Bronwyn Cowell (Sydney A), Victor Finkel and Fiona Prowse (Monash University A) and Amit Golder and Seamus Coleman (Monash/Melbourne).

Top Ten Speakers

1. Amit Golder (Monash) 509
2. Tim Mooney (Sydney) 504
3. Daniel Swain (Sydney) 503
4. Bronwyn Cowell (Sydney) 501
5. Fiona Prowse (Monash) 499
6. Christopher Bishop (Victoria Wellington) 498
7. Victor Finkel (Monash) 497
8= Dom Bowes (Sydney) 494
8= Elle Jones (Sydney) 494
8= Seamus Coleman (Melbourne) 494

 

Melbourne Mini 2010 Results

The Melbourne Mini 2010 was run over the weekend.  The Grand final was contested by

OG: #firstworldproblems (Victor Finkel & Fiona Prowse)
OO: whatever Swain said (Elle Jones & Daniel Swain)
CG: Destiny’s miscarriage (Paul Karp & Pat Caldwell)
CO: MooCowell (Tim Mooney & Bronwyn Cowell)

The winners were Destiny’s miscarriage (Paul Karp & Pat Caldwell)

Best novice speakers were Tyrone Connell and Lloyd Wicks, while the best
speaker was Fiona Prowse.

Full results available here: http://muds.whypsloven.net/mm10/results

Motions:
•Round 1: This House would not provide any government support for non-vocational tertiary education.

•Round 2: This House believes that China should break its ties with North Korea
•Round 3: This House supports the selection of human embryos on the basis of any advantageous genetic characteristic.
•Round 4: This House would create an independent fiscal authority to set binding limits on government spending.
•Round 5: This House would prohibit all political donations.
•Round 6: This House would require users of online social networks to disclose their identity.
•Semi Final: This House would abolish Executive Clemency.
•Grand Final: This House would allow emergency and humanitarian aid to be distributed through groups linked to terrorism.

 

Sydney win Vic Wellington IV 2010

The University of Sydney Union (Paul Karp & Pat Caldwell) has won the Victoria University of Wellington IV 2010.

In the final they defeated Monash University (Kiran Iyer & Ravi Dutta), Victoria University (Christopher Bishop & Stephen Whittington) and Victoria University (Jenna Raeburn & Ella Edginton).

THE BREAK
1. Victoria University of Wellington (Bishop/Whittington) – 14 points, 839 speaker points
2. Monash University (Iyer/Dutta) – 13 points, 819 speaker points
3. University of Auckland (Baxter/Malik) – 12 points, 809 speaker points
4. Victoria University of Wellington (Raeburn/Edginton) – 10 points, 808 speaker points
5. Victoria/Auckland (Templeton/Upadhyay) – 10 points, 807 speaker points
6. University of Sydney Union (Karp/Caldwell) – 9 points, 831 speaker points
7. Victoria University of Wellington (Mukherjee/Smith) – 9 points, 827 speaker points
8. Victoria University of Wellington (O’Connor-McKenna/McCaffrey) – 9 points, 822 speaks

TOP TEN SPEAKERS

8= Hugh McCaffrey, 410
8= Ravi Dutta, 410
8= Akif Malik, 410
7. Joe Connell 411
6. Clodagh O’Connor-McKenna, 412
5. Paul Karp, 413
2= Pat Caldwell, 418
2= Udayan Mukherjee, 418
2= Christopher Bishop, 418
1. Stephen Whittington, 421