Team Burnaby wins iTOC #6
Global Debate and iDebate reported:
“On May 22 and 23, excellent teams from Canada, the Philippines and several states within the US gathered on the campus of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, for the 6th annual International Tournament of Champions. The three-person teams debated, in the World Schools format, the topic, “In some cases, juveniles should be tried as adults.”
Competition was fierce during the day, but in the evenings students gathered for impromtu talent contests, games on the Wii, foosball, air hockey and movies.
“WOW! We had an amazing time,” said parent Karima Kassam. “Our son Armaan is actively involved with debate and we have gone as far as the Czech Republic to debate. Truly, the organization, the atmosphere, the comradery, and yes of course the FOOD exceeded our expectations.”
Here are the results:
1st Christina Yu, Armaan Kassam and Annie Jin of Team Burnaby, Burnaby, British Columbia
2nd Annie McKenna and Logan Brog of Bentley School, Lafayette, California
3rd Karl G. Maeser Preparatory Academy
4th Ashley Bowron, Trevor Davis and Liam Carson of West Point Grey Academy, Vancouver, British Columbia
The International Tournament of Champions is known for its more relaxed, fun, intimate atmosphere. Students stay on-campus in dorm rooms, getting a taste for campus life while making friends with students from different corners of the globe.
Registration for the 2011 tournament will begin in January 2011.”
4 Comments to Team Burnaby wins iTOC #6
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Amazing tournament, amazing fun!
Congratulations, Christina, Armaan, and Annie!
For those of us down in California that didn’t attend, how was iTOC? How many teams attended, how was the judging, how is worlds style debate?
Overall, the iTOC was run with precision. I have been to very few tournaments that have run on time. There was disclosure and detailed critique after every round. I believe every judge was a debate coach. We especially enjoyed having Canadian judges because it gave a new perspective to our debating (Mr. Cena especially).
Worlds style debate was interesting. Because few teams had very much experience in it, each team interpreted it a little bit differently: we ran it as parli with facts, others ran it as policy with anecdotes, etc. In the final round, the difference between Canadian and American debate became very evident.
Teams represented many of the major Anglophone countries of the world, including two teams from Asia and three or four teams from Canada.
Having debated quite extensively in the parli “circuit” in the western United States, I would posit that most successful teams doing varsity parli in Norcal would have done well in preliminary rounds while the teams having done very well at states would have had a difficult challenge at semis. The debating at this point was as good as any I have seen. The teams from Canada cannot be underestimated… the debate is different but they really clash, have great sportsmanship, and stellar speaker points.
We had a great time!