Results and Motions: NEAO 2012

RESULTS AND MOTIONS

NEAO 2012 at Kyung Hee University

* List of Breaking Judges has been added. Apologies in the delay.

Dear Northeast Asian Debate Community,

NEAO 2012 is over.

NEAO 2012 at Kyung Hee University, organized by Kyunghee Debate Society (KDS), brought together more than 300 debaters and adjudicators to the Northeast Asian debate scene.

NEAO 2012 observed a number of developments in the debate scene. There has been much discussion in the Council regarding what NEAO should be as a tournament and its rules. NEAO 2012 fulfilled its role of bringing various national debating and judging styles into a regional place, where style, standard, and understanding of debate and adjudication were fused into one debate scene called Northeast Asia.

This tournament was a product of efforts by a number of individuals, Convener Doori Hong, Finance Director Won-il Jang the big guy, Deputy Chief Adjudicators Abel, Yuki, and Wendy, Tab Directors Logan and Mohan, Deputy Tab Choong Geun Lee, and the staff. We wish to recognize especially Tournament Director and Master of Ceremony Dave Il-Hwan Hwang, whose idea it was to invite GayaGeum Quartet to the Banquet.

It was a true honor for us to serve as Co-Chief Adjudicators. We hope you had as much fun as we did. We look forward to progress and development of debate in next year’s NEAO, also taking place in Korea.

Sincerely Yours,

JyaHyun Albert Lee

NamChul Kim

Co-Chief Adjudicators, NEAO 2012

p.s. Please find below the final results and motions. Please find the Full tab file at KIDA Public Forum  http://www.facebook.com/groups/295556537170672/

Champion		KU 2
Finalist		CUDS 1
		FDU 1
		Ewha 1
Semi-Finalist		Solbridge 1
		Ewha 3
		HYDS 1
		Ewha 4
Quarter-Finalist		KDS 5
		UU 2
		CUHK 2
		ADS 1
		SNUDA 1
		KU 3
		UU 1
		HKU 1

Pre-Quarter-Finalist		WAD 1
		Sophia 1
		KU 5
		UMAC 2
		CUDS 2
		HKU 2
		UU 4
		Kyoto 2

EFL Champion		ICU 1
EFL Finalist		KDS 4
		Kobe 1
		Kyoto 1
EFL Semi-Finalist		NUDT 2
		THU 1
		ICU 2
		Tokyo 1

Main Top 10 Speakers
Position	Speaker Name	Team Name
1	WonJoon Jang	DREAM Team 1	79
-	Hyewon Rho	KU 2	79
3	Donghee Chae	KU 2	78.66
-	Taeyeong Kim	CUDS 1	78.66
5	Lee Youngcho	Ewha 1	78.33
-	Hannah Jung	DREAM Team 1	78.33
7	Lee Hyewon	Ewha 1	78.16
8	Seung-Hwan Hong	CUDS 1	78
9	Minjae Kim	SolBridge 1	77.83
10	Chan Keun Kim	KU 3	77.66
-	Jinseok We	KU 4	77.66

EFL Top Speakers
Position	Speaker Name	Team Name
1	Takenori Hayashi	WAD 1	76.66
2	Chiaki Furukawa	TMU 1	76.16
3	Satoru Nabeshima	Kobe 1	76
4	Masanori Hayashi	WAD 1	75.83
5	Yongrak Jeong	Kyoto 2	75.66

Breaking Adjudicators

Adj Core

NC, Albert, Abel, Yuki, Wendy

In no particular order,

Gilman Ahn, Junbin Yoon, Natalie Karam, Keita Takayanagi, Toshiaki Ikehara, Logan, Mohan, Jan Galas, Zheng Bo, Joe Iesue, Tommy Hu, Bo Young Kim, Soyoung Lee, Cindy Ng, Isao Ayabe, Monami Nohara, MiKyong Kim, Songwon Byun, Yoonhoo Jung, Yoonjin Park, Joshua Park

MOTIONS

Round 1: Rights and state's obligations    

THBT gender reassignment surgery should be included in state funded medical care

Round 2: Arts   

THBT the government should compensate the music industry for the losses arising out of illegal downloading

Round 3: Middle East

THS an Egyptian military security guarantee against the invasion of Gaza

Round 4: Education

THBT early childhood education should undermine traditional gender roles

Round 5: The New Age  

THW treat cyberattack as an act of war

Round 6: Development   

THBT national governments should depopulate areas with few viable economic activities

Pre-Quarters: Africa

THBT the West should actively seek to displace Chinese investments and acquisition of Africa's natural land and resources

Quarters: Immigration    

THBT it is legitimate for States to reject immigrants who oppose the prevailing social values of the receiving State

Semi-Final: the Middle East

THW ban religious parties from participating in elections in newly democratized Arab states.

Grand Final: Social Engineering

Assuming it is possible, THW incept citizens into socially good behavior

EFL Semi-Final: Immigration

THBT states that receive refugees should be financially compensated by the country from which they came

EFL-Final: Social Engineering

Assuming it is possible, THW forcefully erase the memory of extremely traumatized patients

Test Debate: Romance    

THW allow teachers to have romantic relationships with students