Apply for the all stars tournament! The International Debate Association (IDEA) und die Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS) invite debaters from all over the world to the University of Vermont where a tournament of the masters is to be held on 8 and 9 April 2011. Occasion is the IDEA/HWS Round Robin, invitees are the 16 top teams of the world who have won one or more of the competitions listed below. Language of the tournament is of course English, format is the British Parliametary Style. Teams will be paired in round robin, i.e. every team is going to face any other team in prelims. Leela Koenig from the Netherlands will be chief adjudicator, she held the same office at the Amsterdam Euros in 2010. The convenors guarantee three top judges in every room who broke at previous WUDC. If you haven’t got an invitation to IDEA/HWS Round Robin like the teams who won the Yale IV for instance send an e-mail to convenor Eric Barnes at barnes[at]hws.edu to apply for participation.

The following teams have been automatically invited:

• Asian British Parliamentary Debate (Asian BP)winner: Alvin Tan and Robin Teo from National University of Singapore
• United Asian Debating Championships (UADC)winner : Walter Wong, Cecile Gotamco and Danielle de Castro from Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
• Australian British Parliamentary Debating Championships, a.k.a. Sydney Miniwinner: Pat Caldwell and Paul Karp from University of Sydney (Australia)
• Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championship (Australs)winner: Udayan Mukherjee, Stephen Whittington and Ella Edginton from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
• Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) BP Nationalswinner: Adam Goldstein and Bill Magnuson from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
• Hart House IVwinner: Sean Stefanik and Saro Setrakian from McGill University, Montreal (Kanada)
• International Macewinner: Paul Brown and Sebastian Osborn, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
• Oxford IVwinner: John Ashbourne and Anser Aftab from London School of Economics (England)
• Pan-African Universities Debating Championshipswinner: Oyena Gwebityala und Lionel Isaacs from University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
• US BP Championships(Winner not known to the editorial team.)
• Yale IVwinner: Peter McKee and Alex Taubes from Massachusetts Insttitute of Technology (USA)
• plus all participants of the grand final of Botswana Worlds 2011Fiona Prowse und Victor Finkel from Monash University, Melbourne (Australia)John Ashbourne und Anser Aftab from London School of Economics (England)Benjamin Woolgar and Hugh Burnes from Oxford University (England)

  Tim Mooney und Bronwyn Cowell from Sydney University (Australia)

The IDEA/HWS Round Robin has been held annually since 2007. Invitees are the winners of the biggest and most renown competitions in the world. Winners will be awarded a cash prize as well as trophies. The winning team will get 1.000 US-Dollar, the second team will get 500 Dollar.