PHOTO: Aerial viw of UBC campus
December 27 is arrival day in Vancouver for the largest university debating tournament in the world -- Worlds 2007 at the University of British Columbia. Check their now-operating blog at http://www.debating.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=35
We hope to have some reports from our correspondents there in the days to come.
Miranda Wegler mweigler@mac.com has published a list of attendees, and at 339 teams it is the largest ever.
Listed with team/ judge/ observer numbers.
Aberdeen University
1 team
Amherst University
2 teams, 1 judge
Assumption University
3 teams, 12 judges and 2 observers
Ateneo de Manila University
3 teams, 2 judges
Australian National University
3 teams, 2 judges
Bates College
4 teams, 4 judges
Berlin debating union
1 team
Bonaparte
1 team
Bond University
1 team
Boston University
2 teams, 2 judges
Brandeis University
1 team, 1 judge
Bristol
1 team
Cabrillo College
1 judge
California State University, San Bernardino
3 teams, 2 judges
Cambridge Union Society
5 teams, 3 judges
Carleton University
3 teams, 2 judges
Chinese University of Hong Kong
5 teams, 4 judges
Chung-Ang University
3 teams, 2 judges
Claremont Colleges
3 teams, 2 judges
Colgate University
4 teams, 4 judges
Columbia Basin College
3 teams, 2 judges
Duke University
2 teams, 1 judge
Durham University
3 teams, 2 judges
East West University
1 team, 4 judges
Ewha Women's University
1 team
Fordham University
3 teams, 2 judges
Foreign Affairs
1 team
Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press
1 judge, 1 observer
George Washington University
1 team
Glasgow University Union
2 teams, 1 judge
Griffith University
2 teams, 3 judges
Han Yang University
1 observer
Hart House
5 teams, 4 judges
Harvard University
5 teams, 3 judges
Hebrew university
2 teams, 1 judge
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
1 team, 1 judge
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
3 teams, 2 judges
Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
1 team
InCheon
1 team, 1 judge
Inner Temple
1 team
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka
3 teams, 1 judge
International Christian University
3 teams, 3 judges
International University Bremen
2 teams, 1 judge
Islamic University of Technology
1 team, 2 judges
Johns Hopkins University
3 judges
Kansai Foreign Study University
1 team, 1 judge
Kansai Gaidai University
3 teams, 2 judges
Keio University
4 teams, 3 judges
KDI
1 judge
KUITTHO
1 team, 2 judges
Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
1 team, 1 judge
Kyung Hee University
2 teams, 1 judge, 1 observer
Kyoto University
1 team
La Verne
4 teams, 4 judges
Leiden University
1 team, 2 judges
Lewis & Clark College
1 team, 1 judge
Literary & Historical Society
3 teams, 4 judges
London School of Economics Students' Union
3 teams, 2 judges
Louisiana College
2 teams, 2 judges
Loyola Marymount University
3 teams, 2 judges
LUMS
2 judges
Macquarie University
3 teams, 2 judges
Mahidol University International College
2 teams, 1 judge
Manchester Debating Union (MDU)
1 team
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 teams, 1 judge
McGill University
3 teams, 2 judges
McMaster University
1 team, 1 judge
METU
2 teams, 2 judges
Middle Temple
2 teams
Monash University
4 teams, 4 judges
National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, India
1 team
National University of Ireland
5 judges
National University of Lesotho
3 teams, 2 judges
National University of Singapore
3 teams, 4 judges
New York University
1 team, 1 judge
NIDA
1 team
North South University
3 judges
Northwest University
3 teams, 2 judges
NTU Singapore
2 teams, 1 judge
Ocean University of China
1 team
Occidental College
1 team
Osaka University
2 teams, 1 judge
Oxford Union Society
6 teams, 5 judges
Portland State University
6 teams, 5 judges
Princeton University
3 teams, 2 judges
Queen Mary, University of London
1 team
Queen's University
3 teams, 2 judges
Royal Holloway, University of London
3 teams, 2 judges
Seattle University
3 teams, 2 judges
Seikei University
3 teams, 2 judges, 1 observer
Shanghai Jiaotong University
2 judges
Simon fraser University
1 judge
Singapore Management University
2 teams, 1 judge
Society for Associated Inter-Tertiary Debaters (SAID), Singapore
1 team, 1 judge
Sophia University
1 team
south-central University of Nationalities
1 team, 1 judge
Southern Illinois University
1 team, 3 judges
St Andrews University
3 teams, 2 judges
Stanford
3 teams, 2 judges
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
1 team
Swarthmore College
3 teams, 2 judges
TCD Hist
2 teams, 1 judge
TCD PHIL
2 teams, 1 judge
Tilburg University
1 team
Tokai University
2 teams, 3 judges
Tokyo University
1 team
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2 teams, 1 judge
Tokyo Women's University /International Christian University
2 teams, 1 judge
Tsinghua University
1 team, 1 judge
Tsuda College
3 teams, 2 judges
Universiti Sains Malaysia
1 team, 1 judge, 1 observer
Univ. of Alaska
3 teams, 3 judges
University of Alberta
4 teams, 12 judges
UBB Law
1 team
Univeristy of Birmingham, UK
1 team
University of Bonn
1 team, 2 judges
University of Botswana
2 teams
University College Lahore
2 teams, 3 judges
The UCC Law Society
2 teams, 1 judge
University College Cork Philosoph
2 teams, 1 judge
UCD Law Society
3 teams, 3 judges
University of Calgary
3 teams, 2 judges
University of Chicago
2 teams, 2 judges
University of Colombo
1 team
University Of Dhaka
1 team
University of Dundee
1 judge
University of Haifa
1 team, 2 judges, 1 observer
University of Helsinki
1 team
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
6 teams, 4 judges
University of International Business and Economics
1 judge
University of Lethbridge
1 team
University of Manitoba
1 team
University of Melbourne
1 team, 1 judge
University of Minnesota
1 team, I judge, 1 observer
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
3 teams, 2 judges
University of Oporto
1 team
University of Otago
1 team
University of Ottawa
2 teams, 1 judge
University of the Pacific
3 teams, 1 judge, 1 observer
University of the Philippines Manila
1 judge
University of Saskatchewan
2 teams, 1 judge
University of Sydney Union
8 teams, 9 judges, 1 observer
University of Technology, Jamaica
3 teams, 2 judges
UT MARA
3 teams, 2 judges
University of Technology, Sydney
2 teams, 4 judges
University of Toronto
1 judge
University of Queensland
6 teams, 6 judges
University of Vermont
1 team
University of Waterloo
2 judges
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
2 teams, 2 judges
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Faculty of Law
1 team, 1 judge
University of the West Indies, Mona
3 teams, 2 judges, 2 observers
University of Western Ontario
2 teams, 1 judge
University of Winnipeg
1 team, 1 judge
University of Zagreb
1 team
Vassar College
1 team
Voices MMU Cyber
2 teams, 1 judge
Western Washington University
2 teams, 1 judge
Wilfrid Laurier University
2 teams 1 judge?
Willamette University
2 teams?
Wuhan University
1 team, 1 judge
Xiamen University
1 judge
Yale University
6 teams, 7 judges
Yokohama City University
5 teams, 12 judges?
York University
1 team
Zagreb Law
3 teams and 1 judges
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