Tournaments

This section contains complete information about previous debate tournaments including results, statistics and comments.

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“KYIV SPRING 2005”
International Youth Debate Tournament

Date

April 30 – May 2, 2005

Place

National Univeristy "Kyiv Mohyla Academy"

Tournament’s Motto

“Think Europe!”

Organizers

Debate Federation Stolytsya with help of Ukrainian Branch of Konrad Adenauer Fund (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.) and National Kyiv Mohyla Academy.

Partners

School for Political Analysis of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Centre of Political and Legal Reforms, Center for Democracy Development.

Adjudicators

Oleksiy Desyatnyk, Oleh Veremijenko, Oleksandr Mamunya, Maryna Masyutina, Rostyslav Pavlenko, Igor Romanenko, Olyana Rudyakova, Ivan Siyak, Mykhaylo Shumylo, Kateryna Yablochkova, Oleksiy Yatsenko.

Ukrainian Track

1st place - “Tsunami”, Kyiv (Oleksiy Burchevsky, Andrew Kirmach),
2nd place – “New Order”, Kyiv (Tetyana Sidorova, George Sitenko),
3rd place – “Gravtsi”, Kharkiv (Olga Kurditska, Eugene Zavgorodniy),
4th place – “Triada”, Kharkiv (Kateryna Snizhko, Nastya Bordyug).

Top Speakers

1st place – George Sitenko, “New Order”, Kyiv,
2nd place – Oleksiy Burchevsky, “Tsunami”, Kyiv,
3rd place – Tetyana Sidorova, “New Order”, Kyiv & Andrew Kirmach, “Tsunami”, Kyiv,
5th place – Kateryna Snizhko, “Triada”, Kharkiv.

English track

1st place – “SSE 2”, Riga (Heidi Mallene, Karolis Sella),
2nd place – “Forever Not Yours”, Kyiv (Ksenya Oksamytna, Anna Shaporenko),
3rd place – “SSE 3”, Riga (Zane Benike, Boriss Ginzburgs),
4th place - “SSE 1”, Riga, (Priit Brus, Paulius Ramanauskas).

Top Speakers

1st place – Boriss Ginzburgs, “SSE 3”, Riga,
2nd place – Karolis Sella, “SSE 2”, Riga,
3rd place – Heidi Mallene, “SSE 2”, Riga,
4th place – Priit Brus, “SSE 1”, Riga,
5th place – Zane Benike, “SSE 3”, Riga.

Motions Round 1 This House knows where the Eastern border of EU is.

Round 2 This House would fire the interpreters.

Round 3 This House favors changes to EU economic policy.

Round 4 This House would overflow Europe with orange.

Semi-Final This House would make Sigmund Freud cry.

Final This House knows its external enemy.

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National University Students Debate Tournament

May 17-18, 2003 STOLYTSYA Debate Federation and DIALOG Foundation held a National University Student British Parliamentary Debate Tournament. The general topic for it was "Constitutional Reform in Ukraine".

Winners: "Fen'O'men" (Kyiv)
Runners Up: "Spirit of Love" (Kyiv), "Tsunami" (Kyiv), "Lawyers" (Kharkiv).
Top-speaker: Victoria Svetkova ("Lawyers" Kharkiv).

Special Awards were given to:
"Top speaker of the final round" - Olexandr Mamunya "The most peculiar name" - "Val'kabot"(mispronounced "Walkabout")
(mind it was Ukrainian speaking tournament : )

The tournament aroused interest in Ukraine, considering the large number of applications forms, which the Organizing Committee received.

Round ² : "This House believes that the institute of President's official representatives should be restored"

Round II: "This House believes that the results of 2002 National Referendum should be adopted by the Parliament in the form of one law"

Round ²²²: "This House believes all functions, material and financial resources of regional state administrations should be given to the institutions of local government.

Round ²V: "This House believes that elections to the lower chamber of Parliament should be based on the proportional representation scheme."

Semifinal: "This House believes that Presidential elections and elections to the Parliament should not be held on the same year"

Final: "This House believes that presidential plenary powers should be limited to three functions, namely, 1) being the guarantor of the Constitution, 2) representing the state on the world arena 3) ensuring internal security of the state"

Download tournament results here.

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Kyiv Regional University Students Debate Tournament

April 26, 2003 STOLYTSYA Debate Federation and DIALOG Foundation organized Kyiv Regional Parliamentary Debate Tournament for university students. List of Universities that sent their participants to the tournament include: Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (Faculty of Law, Faculty of Physics, Institute of International Relations ), Kyiv State Academy of Water Transport, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, National Economic University, National Linguistic University, Ukrainian Humanitarian Lyceum and Klovsky Lyceum.

We want to acknowledge a large number of teams that took part in the tournament, debaters' deep interest in the problem of the upcoming Constitutional reform. The organizers also managed to fundraise for the prizes to the tournament winners and top-speakers. And what is more important, after the tournament participants adopted the resolution that included students propositions on what changes are desirable in the Constitution and sent it to the Ministry of Justice.

Unfortunately, it was a bolt from the blue, that the team of Kostyantyn Zadoya and Tetyana Opanasyuk "Magic Touch" didn't manage it to the Semi-finals. We would like to make our apologies, this happened due to the system of points calculation.

Îrganizers: STOLYTSYA Debate Federation & DIALOG All-Ukrainian Charity Foundation.

Chief Adjudicator: Oleksandra "Sasha" Delemenchuk

Round ² - "This House believes that the upper chamber of the Parliament should be elected from the number of regional representative bodies' current deputies by the population of the corresponding regions".

Round ²² - "This House believes that only the lower chamber should have a right to dissolve the Cabinet of Ministers".

Semifinal - "This House would be two-housed with the regional representation in the upper one".

Final - "This House believes that presidential plenary powers should be limited to three functions, namely, 1) being the guarantor of the Constitution, 2) representing the state on the world arena 3) ensuring internal security of the state".

Winners: "Tsunami" (Andriy Kirmach and Oleksiy Burchevskyi)

Runners Up:
"Pirotekhniki" (Grygoriy Sitenko, Oleksiy Yatsenko) - 2nd place,
"Ê.Î.R.À." (Îleksiy Desyatnyk, Oleksandr Mamunya) - 3rd place,
"Mir" (Klym Bratkivskyi, Oleksandr Artyushyn) - 4th place

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First STOLYTSYA Debate Federation Tournament

April 5, 2003 Lyceum # 142 hosted the First Karl Popper Debate Tournament organized by STOLYTSYA Debate Federation.

Seven Ukrainian language teams from three debate clubs took part in the event. The clubs are FORUM Debate Club (Kyiv-Svyatoshyn district gymnasium of Boyarka), Pandora Debate Club (Klovsky Lyceum) and UHL Debate Club (Ukrainian Humanitarian Lyceum of Taras Shevchenko National University) We'd like to note that due to certain problems 2 more clubs couldn't come to the tournament. The finalists were selected after two preliminary rounds.Before the final round started, all participants were able to present their view on constitutional reform during the round table.

Organizers: Kyiv Committee of Youth and Children Nongovermental Organizations, STOLYTSYA Debate Federation and VIDRADA Youth Organization.

Judges: Kateryna Yablochkova, Oleksandr Mamunya, Andriy Kirmach, Andriy Chesnokov, Mykola Stotsky, Oleksiy Burchevsky.

Resolution: "Ukraine should advocate the Constitutional reform" (Policy Karl Popper Debate Format)

Winners: "UHL 6+" ( Tetyana Opanasyuk, Dmytro Yevdokymov, Anna Ovchar)

Finalists: "007" (Oleksandr Mudryk, Tetyana Sydorova, Maria Gerasymyuk).

Team Rate
(team points in preliminary rounds only, 40 being maximum possible)

1. "UHL 6+" 34 (2 wins);
2. "007" 33.6 (2 wins);
3. "Forum -1" 30.9 (2 wins);
4. "Morski kotyky" 29.2 (0+stand by);
5. "Pandora -1" 29.2 (0+stand by);
6. "Forum -2" 26.6 (0 wins);
7. "Pandora -2" 20.6 (0 wins)

Speakers Points
(preliminary rounds only, 40 being maximum)

1. Anna Ovchar "UHL 6+" - 37;
2. Tetyana Sydorova "007" - 36;
2. Maria Gerasymyuk "007" - 36;
4. Dmytro Yevdokymov "UHL 6+" - 35;
5. Viktor Konovalov "Forum-1" - 34;
6. Maksym Oliynyk "Pandora - 1" - 31;
6. Svitlana Yershova "Forum -1" 31;
8. Rostyslav Zabolotny "Morski kotyky" - 30;
8. Tetyana Opanasyuk"UHL 6+" - 30;
10. Taras Bratsyun "Morski kotyky" - 29;
10. Olexandr Mudryk "007" - 29;
12. Olena Bilyk "Forum -1" - 28;
12. Anna Sovyak-Krukovska "Pandora 1" - 28;
12. Maryna Kolesnyk "Forum - 1" - 28;
15. Maryana Golovchenko "Pandora - 1" - 27;
15. Mykola Rekeda "Morski kotyky" - 27;
15. Diana Vlasova "Forum - 2" - 27;
18. Olexandra Zhurakhivska "Forum - 2" 25;
19. Kseniya Lytvynenko "Pandora -2" - 22;
20. Natallya Kulykovska "Pandora -2" - 20;
21. Inna Kudyna "Pandora -2" - 20;

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Debate Tournament and Public Hearing
"Security of Europe and Ukraine"

March 19-20, 2003 - Information Methodic Debate Center organized National University Student Parli Debate Tournament "Security of Europe and Ukraine" in Lviv. The tournament was sponsored by the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine. 8 teams from Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv debated 3 preliminary rounds in American Debate style. Preliminary rounds took place in Hetman hotel, while the Final Brit style round was hosted by Lviv National Ivan Franko University in its famous Mirror Hall. Besides competition, participants had the possibility to discuss problems of European security during round tables with NATO representatives and University professors. The tournament was covered in "NATO News" newsletter (#1, 2003, page 2) and in local media.

Motions:

Show debate - "This House believes that Ukrainian security depends on NATO"

Round ² -"This House believes that Ukraine should stay away from NATO"

Round ²² - "This House believes that NATO should lead the war on terrorism"

Round ²²² - "This House believes that the civilized world should unite in the war on Iraq"

Final - "This House believes NATO has lived its days"

Winners: "Pirotekhniki" (Kyiv) - Grygoriy Sitenko and Oleksiy Yatsenko

Runners Up: "Kharkiv" (Oleg Chuprynin and Kostyantyn Korovin), "Tsunami" (Kyiv) (Andriy Kirmach and Oleksiy Burchevskiy), "Lviv" - Vadim and Maryan - guys you're the best

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Kyiv Regional University Parli Debate Tournament

March, 10th 2003 Kyiv Regional University Brit Parli Debate Tournament was hosted by Kyiv State Academy of Water Transport. Although the tournament was rather small (only 8 teams participated) and was only in Ukrainian, it was very fruitful with emotional rounds and high competitiveness. There were 3 preliminary rounds and a final.

Teams represented: Kyiv National Polytechnical University, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, the Kyiv State Academy of Water Transport, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, National Aircraft University

Organizers: the Kyiv State Academy of Water Transport, Tsunami Debate Club, Olexiy Burchevsky, Andriy Kirmach, Mykola Stotsky.

Special thanks to judges: Oliana Rudiakova (Chief Adjudicator), Òetyana Bulakh, Kseniya Oksamytna, Kateryna Yablochkova, Olesya Matviychuk, Yulia Chudnovets, Anna Shaporenko, Andriy Kirmach, Mykola Stotsky.

Motions:

Round ² - "This House would send Ukrainian troops to Persian Gulf"

Round ²² - "This House believes that the place of woman is at the galley"

Round ²²² - "This House would bring Volodymir Klichko on top"

Final - "This House knows what women want"

Winners: "Pirotekhniki" (Grygoriy Sitenko, Oleksiy Yatsenko)

Finalists:
"Ê.Î.R.À." (Îleksiy Desyatnyk, Oleksandr Mamunya) - 2nd place,
"Catch me if you can" (Olena Cherniy, Kostya Zadoya)- 3rd place,
"Mir" (Klym Bratkivsky, Oleksandr Artyushyn) - 4th place

Team Rate:
(preliminary rounds only. 1st place - 3 points, 4th place - 0 point )

1. "Ê.Î.R.À." - 23 points;
2. "Pirotekhniki" - 20 points;
3. "Catch me if you can" - 14 points;
4. "Ìir" - 14 points;
5. "Leaving Las Vegas" - 13 points;
6. "Senseless" - 11 points;
7. "12" - 9 points;
8. "Cogito" - 4 points;

Speakers points:
(preliminary rounds only)

1. Oleksiy Yatsenko ("Pirotekhniki") - 779;
2. Grygoriy Sitenko ("Pirotekhniki") - 776;
3. Oleksiy Desyatnyk ("K.O.R.A.") - 769;
4. Oleksandr Mamunya ("Ê.O.R.A.") - 755;
5. Kostya Zadoya ("Catch me if you can") - 714;
6. Olena Cherniy ("Catch me if you can") - 698;
7. Oleksandra Delemenchuk ("Leaving Las Vegas") - 687;
8. Klim Bratkivsky ("Ìir") - 665;
9. Oleksandr Artyushyn ("Ìir")- 600;
10. Kostya Lukyanov ("Leaving Las Vegas") - 592;
11. Olena Zadorozhna ("Senseless")- 576;
12. Victoria Kril ("12") - 575;
13. Yuriy Khmelenko("Cogito") - 542;
14. Maria Kyrylovych("12") - 538;
15. Alina Opanasenko ("Senseless") - 510;
16. Anton Semenov ("Cogito") - 459

Download zipped results (.rtf format) here