Worlds' Results
Following the Assumption Worlds Universities Debating Championships, Sydney has retained its position as the best debating institution in the world. All five of our teams broke to the finals rounds, all our speakers ranked in the top 75 in the world, we had more adjudicators break than any other institution, and we were finalists in Masters, Public Speaking and Comedy Night.
The following breaking teams proceeded to the finals series after 9 rounds. Count them. There's five.
5th - Sydney B (Jack Wright and Steve Hind)
6th - Sydney D (James Simonian and Sasha Bodero-Smith)
8th - Sydney C (Brad Lancken and Naomi Oreb)
10th - Sydney A (Chris Croke and Dom Thurbon)
22nd - Sydney E (Bronwyn Cowell and Hamish Nairn)
Grand finalists and runners-up - Sydney A (Chris Croke and Dom Thurbon) Oxford A were the Champions. The other grand finalist teams were Monash A and Cambridge B.
Individual speaker results - all our debaters ranked in the top 75 out of almost 800 speakers.
5th - Naomi Oreb (best female and also best Australian speaker)
11th - Dom Thurbon
15th - Steve Hind
18th - Chris Croke
20th - Brad Lancken
25th - Jack Wright
26th - Sasha Bodero-Smith
33rd - James Simonian
47th - Hamish Nairn
74th - Bronwyn Cowell
Breaking adjudicators
Main break - Ivan Ah Sam, Steph Paton, Julia Bowes, Tom Robertson, Anna Garsia, Sam Greenland, Giselle Kenny
ESL break - Naomi Hart, Daniel Wodak, Alice Dixon, Rob Clark
Masters rounds
Breaking 1st - Julia Bowes and Ivan Ah Sam
Public Speaking
Grand finalist, having progressed through three previous rounds - Nathaniel Ware
Comedy Night
Champion - Patrick Bateman
World Universities' Peace Invitational Debating Tournament Results
Sydney Uni was invited to send two teams and two adjudicators to this inaugural event, held in Kuala Lumpur before Christmas. Again, our contingent achieved astonishing results.
Grand Champions - Chris Croke and Steve Hind
Semi-finalists - Naomi Oreb and Julia Bowes
Speaker rankings
3rd - Steve Hind
4th - Julia Bowes
5th - Naomi Oreb
7th - Chris Croke
Our adjudicators, Ivan Ah Sam and Brad Lancken, both judged finals rounds but were disqualified from judging the Grand Final because of the conflict of interest with the Sydney speakers competing there.