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Jonathan from Kings College London kcl_debating@yahoo.co.uk reports on the latest rankings.

Congratulations to Sam Block and Adam Bott for their victory in the ESU Mace England Leg. The new University Rankings following the English Mace are shown below.

Cambridge extend their lead at the top of the table, but not by much. Durham and KCL both move up the rankings, and Gray's Inn and Inner Temple enter the rankings thanks to the performances of Rhydian and Chris and Sion and Shannon. But there are few other dramatic changes - with a top of tab dominated by Oxbridge teams, fewer teams than normal managed to finish well enough to gain significant points.

Next week it's my own KCL IV, hope to see many of you there. An e-mail with final details for the IV will be sent out on Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning, once registration finally closes. With 71 teams registered we are 9 teams away from our cap so if anyone still has teams they want to register, please do so ASAP. Also, I remember getting a phone call from Southampton asking to register two teams, and I told them to e-mail me, but haven't yet heard. Can someone from Southamption confirm to me ASAP how many teams they want to send?

Jonathan

University Debating Rankings 27/11/06 - After 10 Events

1   1 Cambridge 306.3

2   2 Oxford 286.3

3   3 Yale 170.5

4   4 St. Andrews 146.0

5   5 TCD 143.8

6   7 Durham 133.5

7   6 UCC 126.0

8   8 LSE 121.5

9   10 KCL 110.0

10   9 UCD 100.0

11   11 Manchester 93.5

12   12 Middle Temple 77.5

13   13 Stanford 51.8

14   14 Glasgow 46.5

15   15 UCL 42.3

16   16 Leeds 36.5

17   17 Edinburgh 35.5

18   18 King's Inn 32.0

19   19 UBC 32.0

20   20 Harvard 30.5

21   21 Dundee 26.5

22   22 NUIG 26.0

23   23 Hart House 22.5

24   24 Birmingham 20.0

25   25 Newcastle 19.5

26   26 Berlin 18.5

27   27 McGill 17.5

28   32 Bristol 16.8

29   28 Tilbury House 16.5

30   29 Queen Mary's 15.5

31   30 BPP 15.0

32   31 Warwick 13.0

33     Gray's Inn 13.0

34   33 Aberdeen 11.5

35   34 Chicago 11.0

36   35 Bates 9.5

37   36 Helsinki 9.0

38     Inner Temple 9.0

39   37 Imperial 8.0

40   38 Tilburg 6.0

41   39 Princeton 6.0

42   40 Portland 5.0

43   41 Carleton 3.5

44   42 Strathclyde 2.0

45   43 Nottingham 1.0

46   44 Hobart & William Smith 1.0