On New Year’s Eve in Dublin, the 32 breaking teams in this year’s World University Debating Championships were announced. Canada broke 7 teams — more teams than any other country in the competition and more teams than Canada has ever broken in one year since Worlds officially changed to the British Parliamentary format ten years ago.
The Canadian teams who will debate in the Octofinal rounds on January 2 are Michael Kotrly and Joanna Nairn (Hart House A), Jess Prince and Gordon Shotwell (McGill B), Rory McKeown and Gaurav Toshniwal (Hart House D), R. Jesse McWaters III and Jason Rogers (McGill A), Rahool Agarwal and Ren (Hart House B), Ian Freeman and Melanie Tharamangalam (Hart House C), and Garnett Genuis and Padraic Ryan (Carleton).
Full Break:
1 Yale A
2 Chicago A
3 Sydney A
4 Cork Philosoph A
5 Oxford B
6 Hart House A
7 McGill B
8 Melbourne A
9 Cape Town A
10 Hart House D
11 Yale C
12 Yale E
13 McGill A
14 Sydney C
15 Glasgow A
16 Sydney E
17 Cambridge A
18 Ateneo B
19 Leeds A
20 UNSW A
21 Middle Temple B
22 Hart House B
23 Cambridge B
24 Oxford D
25 Inner Temple A
26 Cork Philosoph B
27 Bristol A
28 Hart House C
29 Carleton
30 Monash C
31 Ateneo A
32 Oregon A
Good luck to our teams and have a happy new year!!