Oxford wins 2009 HWS / IDEA Round Robin
Breaking 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 points
In 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: 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 speaks
The 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.