New Rounds from Trinh

Posted on May 3, 2013

Octas (Queens v. Yale) is new.

Semifinals

MIT A (Adam Goldstein & Bill Magnuson) def. UBC CS (Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Evan Choate)

This house would support corporate donations to political campaigns.

McGill SS (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik) def. Stanford MC (Anish Mitra & Alex Campbell)

This house would support corporate donations to political campaigns.

Quarterfinals

McGill SS (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik) def. Hopkins SW (Vivek Suri & Sean Withall)

This house would put entire urban areas under video surveillance.

UBC CS (Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Evan Choate) def. BU CT (Alex Taubes & Garron Chiu)

This house would put entire urban areas under video surveillance.

Northams

Posted on March 11, 2012

Quarterfinals is up

Hugill Cup

Posted on March 20, 2011

Hugill finals is online. Winner unknown until CUSID gets back to me.

Finals

McGill/UBC (Alex Amar & Adam Coombs) def. Alaska CC (Drew Cason & Sarah Carpenter), University of Saskatchewan KH (Meritt Kocdag & Dylan Hardy) and University of Alberta FS (Robert Fox Lees-Miller & Ashvin Singh)

TH welcomes the decline of American Hegemony

More Hart House

Posted on March 20, 2011

More videos from CUSID's library

Finals

UBC SW (Dan Westlake & Joshua Sealy-Harrington) def. McGill (Riva Gold & Redacted ???), McGill (Sean Stefanik & Redacted ???) and Alaska KI (Michael Imeson & James Kilcup)

This House would not contact undiscovered human populations.

Quarterfinals

McGill (Riva Gold & Jake Liang) def. Queen's (Gretchen McCulloch & Ryann Atkins), Yale A (Steven Krieger & Aaron Hakim) and Dalhousie (Auyon Siddiq & Andrew McCoomb)

THS a 100% Death Tax

Hart House

Posted on March 20, 2011

Some videos from over CUSID way are now online.

Finals

McGill (Sean Stefanik & Redacted ???) def. Carleton A (Simon Cameron & Redacted ???), Alaska SG (Amie Stanley & Akis Gialopsos) and UBC A (Evan Choate & Redacted ???)

Cap income through tax, redistribute income.

Semifinals

Alaska SG (Amie Stanley & Akis Gialopsos) def. Queens HV (Adam Hetherington & Megan Van den Hof), Queens WE (Wudi Wu & Kaya Ellis) and McGill (Sean Stefanik & Redacted ???)

This House would support affirmative action for male educators.

Quarterfinals

RMC A (Redacted ??? & Redacted ???) def. Vermont GL (Paul Gross & Isaac Loeb), Vermont AN (Sara Anders & Sam Natale) and Carleton A (Simon Cameron & Redacted ???)

This House supports a constitutional role in government for the Pakistani military.

Seagram Pro-Am

Posted on February 21, 2010

This round is hilarious.

Finals

McGill Kyuzo (Jake Liang & John Clarke) def. Queen's Rock & Bowl (Christine Wadsworth & Diana Holloway)

When presented with the chance to save a poacher from the parents of the baby bear he has just killed, THW not.

Northams!

Posted on February 15, 2010

Thanks to Alex Amar & Mitchell Gerskup for recording.

Semifinals

MIT A (Adam Goldstein & Bill Magnuson) def. UBC CS (Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Evan Choate)

This house would support corporate donations to political campaigns.

McGill SS (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik) def. Stanford MC (Anish Mitra & Alex Campbell)

This house would support corporate donations to political campaigns.

Quarterfinals

McGill SS (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik) def. Hopkins SW (Vivek Suri & Sean Withall)

This house would put entire urban areas under video surveillance.

UBC CS (Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Evan Choate) def. BU CT (Alex Taubes & Garron Chiu)

This house would put entire urban areas under video surveillance.

Demonstration Debate - CUSID

Posted on November 7, 2008

Thanks, Alex.

Demonstration

Dino Demo Team (Alex Levy & Romeo Maione) , Dino Demo Team (Christine Wadsworth & Adam Coombs) , Dino Demo Team (Paul-Erik Dash Veel & Nick Shkordoff) and Dino Demo Team (Vinay Kumar Mysore & Sophie MacIntyre)

THW not fund art

CUSID Novice 2008

Posted on November 7, 2008

This is all Alex Amar's doing...

Finals

Queen's First Dudes (Ali Sajun & Chris McIntyre) def. McGill Chan Chan (Annike Flomen & Bryce Balcom), McGill Ksar (Calvin Rosemond & Joe Bricker) and McGill Persepolis (Adrian Bradley & Sean Husband)

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Semifinals

Queen's First Dudes (Ali Sajun & Chris McIntyre) def. McGill Ksar (Calvin Rosemond & Joe Bricker), Carleton Spiders from Mars (Simon Cameron & Waleed Malik) and McGill Borobudar (Karen Geukers & Miriam Gough)

Historical artifacts should be returned to their countries of origin.

Hart House 2008

Posted on November 7, 2008

Thanks, Alex Amar.

Finals

UCD BH (Stephen Boyle & Ian Boyle Harper) def. Harvard A (Alan Cliff & Chris Kolerok), Queen's (Claudia Newman-Martin & Anisah Hassan) and Harvard / Brandeis (Mark Samburg & Evan Green-Lowe)

TH Believes that the catholic church should condemn the Bolivarian revolution.

Semifinals

Brandeis GLS (Mark Samburg & Evan Green-Lowe) def. UCD BH (Stephen Boyle & Ian Boyle Harper), Queen's (Sheldon McCormick & Christine Wadsworth) and McGill Van't Hoff (Sean Stefanik & Sophie MacIntyre)

TH Believes in a Citizen's right to sell their vote

A few updates

Posted on March 22, 2008

2 rounds from Worlds, 2 rounds from Northams and 3 rounds from McGill have been added. Thanks to Alex Amar for being awesome.

2007 NorthAms Final

Posted on September 26, 2007

Thanks to Adam Goldstein and Matthew Wansley, the final round of the 2007 North American Championship is now available. For those of you who missed the other rounds when they were first added to the site, they're linked to below.

Finals

Yale GW (Matthew Wansley & Dylan Gadek) def. UBC A (Teddy Harrison & Ashish Sinha)

THBT child soldiers who defect from rebel armies should be allowed to serve in government armies

Semifinals

Yale GW (Matthew Wansley & Dylan Gadek) def. Yale CP (Adam Chilton & Rosa Po)

The media has a right to televise court proceedings.

Quarterfinals

Yale GW (Matthew Wansley & Dylan Gadek) def. Stanford MS (Faris Mohiuddin & Ray Seilie)

Fathers who request an abortion should not have to pay child support.

Welcome to the New ParliDebate.com

Posted on July 15, 2007

The site has undergone a major overhaul, but it's nowhere near completed. Unforseen inputs will break scripts, untested browsers will stumble across design quirks and hastily copied round information will be inaccurate or incomplete. If you find an error or have missing information please let me know. I'd like to improve the site as much as possible, but Gloria and I won't be able to do it alone.

Minor Improvements

There are some minor changes to the site worth a brief mention. The old design broke as soon as text was resized, but the new one expands to accomodate larger text. The old design also used multiple table entries for the same round. E.g., Video 1/2, 2/2 and the audio from nats finals 2007 all had their own place on the Nationals' tournament table. (A table whose font was way too small). Now everything is grouped together for easy access.

Advanced Search

The previous search solution - a google search of site:parlidebate.com - left much to be desired. On the right side of the page underneath the Google-powered "Basic Search" box, you should find a much better way to find rounds on the site.

Feeds that Work

We tried feeds earlier - it sucked. Our hosting company offers this "type stuff here and make a feed" option, and neither of us felt like re-entering data just so the feeds' three subscribers found new rounds 5-10 minutes earlier than they would have otherwise. But now everything is database driven, and the *5* different feeds will be updated automatically. Which reminds me...

Everything is Database Driven

Rounds can now be entered with about a minute of effort. And with the custom-built content management system, non-techy people can do entering and editing using only a browser. This is the bigest structural change to the site, and since it will make it easier to maintain in the future, I think it's the most important.

New Content

There are tons of new recordings spread across the non-APDA sections of the site. Alex Amar contributed CUSID rounds, Alex Blenkinsopp sent in BP DVDs and Jason Steck and Danny Cantrell offered up their NPDA recordings. And while APDA might have to wait a little while for new debate rounds, hopefully the new APDA sections of the site will point people towards information they wouldn't have found otherwise. Speaking of new sections, I'll develop a dino directory if enough people express interest. The same is true for any other features you can think up, so start suggesting.

I think that's pretty much everything. I hope you like the new functionality, but would love to hear from you if you don't.

All the best, Matt