Tournament scrapbook - World Schools Debating Championships

WSDC 2008
12/3/08 9:53 AM
Debating Championships and a number of other national and
international tournaments. Since then he has been involved with
the WSDC as the Team USA coach in 2005 and 2006 and a
member of the Chief Adjudicator’s Panel in 2007. He has also
been a member of the Executive Committee since 2006. He has
chaired the Learning Materials Working Group and currently chairs
the Debate Administration Working Group.
Posted by Alfred Charles Snider at 2:12 PM 0 comments
How the Draw Was Done
From Aaron Maniam:
As in previous years, the draw was done blindly through an
assignment of codes to teams. The only thing the code told the
organisers was which quartile a team was in (quartiles were assigned
to countries based on their performance in the last three WSDC's).
The codes were swapped for country names only after the entire
draw was formulated.
This process helped to check against potential bias and guaranteed
randomness of the pairings within the constraints of ensuring that
teams meet a good cross section of opponents, and as far as possible
have approximately equal numbers of Prop and Opp rounds, for both
prepared and impromptu debates.
Good luck to all teams!
Posted by Alfred Charles Snider at 7:46 AM 0 comments
Saturday, August 30, 2008
WSDC 2008 Draw
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