The break of the World Universities Debating Championship has been announced.

The following teams will compete in the out-rounds on the 2nd of January:

Open Break

Teams / Points, direct break to Open Octo-Finals

1 University of Sydney Union B / 26 (Eleanor Jones, Chris Bisset)
2 Cambridge Union Society A / 22 (Thomas Simpson, Ashish Kumar)
3 Monash University A / 21 (James Beavis, Gemma Buckley)
4 Harvard University A / 21 (Josh Zoffer, Ben Sprung-Keyser)
5 McGill University A / 21 (Cole Bricker, Sarah Balakrishnan)
6 University of Canterbury A / 21 (Tom O’Brien, Tim Bain)
7 University of Cape Town B / 21 (Yashodhan Nair, Daniel Corder)
8 University of Melbourne A / 20 (Daniel Golder, Ruby Pryor)
9 University of Otago A / 20 (Alec Dawson, Kieran Bunn)
10 Cambridge Union Society B / 20 (Kitty Parker Brooks, Benjamin John Frank Adams)
11 Australian National University B / 20 (Thomas Goldie, Yi-An Shih)
12 London School of Economics B / 20 (Elisabeth van Lieshout, Daniel Berman)
13 University of Sydney Union A / 19 (Dominic Bowes, Joanna Connolly)
14 St Andrews University A / 19 (Alex Don, Ruairidh MacIntosh)
15 University of Auckland A / 19 (Joshua Baxter, Jessica Storey)
16 Imperial College London A / 19 (James Clough, Ed Middleton)

Teams / Points, break to Open Partial Double Octo-Finals

17 Monash University B / 19 (Nisha Dutta, Beatrice Paull)
18 Oxford Union B / 19 (Ben Goldstein, Fergus Peace)
19 Cornell University B / 19 (Julius Kairey, Justin Ying)
20 University of Birmingham A / 19 (Andrew Green, Jamie Batchelor)
21 Bates College A / 19 (Taylor Blackburn, Jac Stewart)
22 University of New South Wales B / 19 (Julian Ingham, Alex London )
23 Oxford Union C / 19 (Ettie Bailey-King, Nathaniel Ware)
24 Yale University A / 18 (Sammy Ward-Packard, Mikey Barton)
25 Victoria Wellington A / 18 (Jodie O’Neill, Asher Emanuel)
26 Ateneo de Manila A / 18 (Allan Arthur Cabrera, Paulina Blanca Robles)
27 Glasgow University Union A / 18 (John McKee, Duncan Crowe)
28 Monash University C / 18 (Andrew Gaulke, Thomas Stansfield )
29 Cambridge Union Society C / 18 (Frederick Powell, Michael Dunn Goekjian)
30 Yale University B / 18 (Zach Bakal, Sesenu Woldemariam)
31 Stanford University A / 18 (Ilya Gaidarov Andrew Suciu)
32 BPP A / 18 (Benjamin Dory, Steven Rajavinothan)
33 University of Melbourne B / 18 (Liam Gage Brown, Tyrone Connell)
34 University of Melbourne C / 18 (James Gray, Rebecca Hibbard)
35 Western University (Canada) A / 18 (Victoria Hale, Brent Schmidt)
36 University of Queensland B / 18 (Leo Rees-Murphy, Samuel Leigh)
37 University of New South Wales A / 18 (Pramudie Gunaratne, Justin Chan)
38 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay B / 18 (Souradip Sen, Ritvik Chauhan)
39 Bates College B / 18 (Matt Summers, Stephanie Wesson)
40 University of Belgrade A / 18 (Viktor Prlja, Goran Jankuloski)
41 Hart House A / 17 (Sam Greene, Veenu Goswami)
42 Oxford Union A / 17 (Matt Handley, Tasha Rachman)
43 University of Western Australia A / 17 (Jeremy Rich, Daniel Kirkby)
44 University of Cape Town A / 17 (David Harris, James Wink)
45 University of Sydney Union C / 17 (Evangeline Woodforde, Daniel Farinha)
46 University of Queensland A / 17 (Shyaam Raivedera, Daniel Gibbons)
47 International Islamic University Malaysia A / 17 (Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, Mubarrat Wassey)
48 University of Otago B / 17 (John Brinsley-Pirie, Patrick Dawson)

ESL Break

1 Lund University A / 17 (Peer Klüßendorf, Emilia Carlqvist)
2 Berlin Debating Union A / 16 (Dessislava Kirova, Kai Dittmann)
3 University of Belgrade B / 16 (Helena Ivanov, Stefan Siridzanski)
4 Babes-Bolyai University A /16 (Radu Cotarcea, Octavian Vasile Buta)
5 Ben-Gurion University A / 16 (Monica Forman, Avishai Tsur)
6 Raphael Recanati International School A / 16 (Alon van Dam, Amos Wasserbach)
7 Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka A / 16 (Wasifa Noshin, Mohammed Taosif Amin Khan)
8 Babes-Bolyai University B / 16 (Ioana Stupariu, Calin Muresanu)
9 University of Zagreb A / 15 (Matija Medvidovic / Nika Jelaska)
10 International Islamic University Malaysia B / 15 (Ameera Natasha Moore, Ahmad Hazim Bin Norahmadi)
11 EDIS A / 15 (Yonbom Chung, Youngcho Lee)
12 Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg A / 15 (Felicia Hoer, Stefan Torges)
13 Tilbury House A / 15 (Fabian Farkas, Leonard Münstermann)
14 Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka B / 15 (Shadmaan Ahmed Siddiqui, Saad Ashraf)
15 Kyunghee Debate Society A / 15 (Dongyeop Lee, Ilhwan Hwang)
16 University of Belgrade C / 15 (Stefan Badza, Stefan Milic)

EFL Break

1 Warsaw Debate Club A / 15 (Konrad Kiljan, Karolina Partyga)
2 Hitotsubashi University A / 14 (Tomoya Yonaga, Stevensen)
3 New Economic School A / 14 (Ilya Androsov, Mikhail Sonin)
4 Kyoto University B / 14 (Hiroki Yokoyama, Takuya Tanohata)
5 Beijing Language and Culture University A / 13 (Manting Chen, Mengnan Li )
6 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen A / 13 (Konrad Gutschow, Nikos Ioannis Bosse)
7 Universitas Gadjah Mada A / 12 (Amir Abdul Aziz, Nabila A. Olivia)
8 Institut Teknologi Bandung A / 12 (Vicario Reinaldo, Fauzan Reza Maulana)

Breaking judges

Aashay Sahay #independent
Adam Noonan Trinity College Dublin Philosophical Society
Aislin Flynn Hart House
Andrew Bell University of Sydney Union
Andrew Belyea-Tate Monash University
Andrew Connery #independent
Andrew Elder #independent
Andy Hume #independent
Anne Valkering #independent
Ansuya Rungasamy #independent
Ben Gladnikoff #independent
Ben Kornfeld #independent
Buzz Klinger #independent
Carlo Cabrera #independent
Charlie Morris #independent
Chin Yi Chinny Chow Sciences Po Paris – Campus le Havre
Chris Burch University of Western Australia x
Christine Simpson #independent
Clive Eley #independent
Colin Etnire #independent
Danique van Koppenhagen #independent
Daryl Isla #independent
Diana Li Yale University
Dino de Leon #independent
Edward Miller University of Sydney Union
Ely Zosa #DCA
Emma Johnstone University of Sydney Union
Filip Muki Dobranic #independent
Fiona Prowse #DCA
Fred Cowell #independent
Gavin Illsley #independent
Greg Farquhar Oxford Union
Harish Natarajan #CA
Hirohito Asai ICU
James Dixon #independent
James Hardy #independent
James Torrance #independent
Jonathan Leader Maynard #independent
Jordan Anderson #independent
Josh Martin #independent
Kate Falkenstien #independent
Kaya Ellis #independent
Kira Dusterwald University of Cape Town
Leela Koenig #independent
Lewis Iwu #independent
Lucian Tan #independent
Madeline Schultz #independent
Maja Cimerman #independent
Manos Moschopoulos #independent
Mark Manson #independent
Marko Cirovic University of Belgrade
Mary Nugent #independent
Melissa Matteo #independent
Michael Baer #CA
Michael Shapira #DCA
Monica Ferris #independent
Nate Blevins #independent
Nate Blevins #independent
Omer Nevo #independent
Patricia Johnson-Castle McGill University
Patrick Ehmann Berlin Debating Union
Paul Gross #independent
Paul Karp #independent
Paul Smith University of Auckland
Pete Doughton #independent
Philip Belesky #independent
Prarthana Manohar Nanyang Technological University
Raj Zal Shukla University of Belgrade
Rebecca Barrett #independent
Rebecca Irvine #independent
Rebecca Meredith #independent
Richard Boltizar Swarthmore College
Richard D’Ath #independent
Rishada Cassim University of Queensland
Romeo Maione #independent
Rosie Halmi #independent
Rosie Unwin #independent
Sam Block #independent
Samuel James Molloy University of Sydney Union
Scott Ralston Oxford Union x
Sella Nevo #independent
Shengwu Li #independent
Simon Tunnicliffe #independent
Simone van Elk #independent
Solange Handley University of Sydney Union
Stephanie Bell #independent
Stephanie D’souza #independent
Steve Whittington #DCA
Steven Johnson University of Alaska
Steven Penner #independent
Tariq Maketab #independent
Tarit Mukherjee #independent
Tasneem Elias #independent
Tim Blair #independent
Tom Jackson #independent
Udayan Mukherjee #independent
Vipul Nanda #independent
Will Gibson #independent
Yuki Oka #independent

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