Kyushu Cup 2015

Basic Information

Date

28th~30th August 2015

 

Place

Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

 

 Main Schedule

28th (Fri) Sub Tournament (NA)

                 (Tournament for novices)

29th (Sat) Main Tournament (BP)

                  (Preliminary Tournament)

30th (Sun) Main Tournament

                  (Break Tournament)

 

Adjudication Core

Chief Adjudicator:

Joshua Park (South Korea)

Deputy Chief Adjudicator:

Yasufumi Tozuka (Japan)

Ken Kuroki (Japan)

Shimon Nakayama (Japan)

Masahiro Hayashi (Japan)

Mizuki Kitada (Japan)

 


motions

Sub Tournament (NA):

 

R1:

THW prohibit the sexualization of adolescent celebrities

 

R2:

THW abolish the use of juries in criminal trials

 

R3:

THW impose university entrance quota for marginalized minorities

 

GF:

TH regrets the rise of animal right activism

 

 

Main Tournament (BP):

 

R1:

THBT former colonizer nations should return artifacts of significant cultural heritage to places of their origin

 

R2:

THW impose strict liability on the state in cases of epidemic outbreaks (e.g. MERS, Ebola, SARS, etc)

 

R3:

THBT public universities should only offer majors that are deemed to be in the society’s interest

 

R4:

THW ban the development of artificial intelligence technologies that can learn to do complex tasks and thus would cause human labor to be unnecessary

 

Quarter Final:

THW censor all traditional and social media graphic depictions of ISIS atrocities

 

Semi Final:

As governments in states where Ashley Madison is operational, THW shut down Ashley Madison

 

Rookie Grand Final:

TH supports the right to commit suicide

 

Grand Final:

TH regrets the acceptance of political correctness as a social norm in western liberal democracies

Results

Sub Tournament (NA):

 

Speaker:

Best Speaker; Masaru Urano

2nd Best Speaker; Sae Kobayashi

3rd Best Speaker; Ryo Watanabe

4th Best Speaker; Minjun Park, Kentaro Gonaka

6th Best Speaker; Jimin Han

7th Best Speaker; Kaeun Seo

8th Best Speaker; Nami Cho

9th Best Speaker; Naoya Kondo

10th Best Speaker; Shotaro Tsunoda

 

Team:

Champion

WAD A (Masaru Urano, Ryo Watanabe)

Grand Finalist

KDS A (Sae Kobayashi, Kentaro Gonaka)

 

 

Main Tournament (BP):

 

Speaker:

Best Speaker; Jaedong Jeong

2nd Best Speaker; Sunghyun Moon

3rd Best Speaker; Peter Kipp

4th Best Speaker; Laura Salakari

5th Best Speaker; Kanghyun Kim

6th Best Speaker; Kaeun Seo

7th Best Speaker; Chikara Mizokami

8th Best Speaker; Sadahiro Ideriha

9th Best Speaker; Ryota Yoshii, Kota Jodoi,

                                Mizuki Kusaka, Minjun Park

 

Team:

Rookie:

Rookie Champion

QU A (Soichiro Uchino, Shotaro Tsunoda)

Rookie Grand Finalist

KDS A (Sae Kobayashi, Kentaro Gonaka)

APU A (Yuki Mizutani, Yugo Nishimura)

QU D (Naoya Kondo, Haruka Kuramochi)

Open:

Champion

SSEDA (Jaedong Jeong, Sunghyun Moon)

Grand Finalist

Plus 1 Without Pepper (Kanghyun Kim, Laura Salakari)

Ladies and Gentlemen (Tomoki Tanaka, Chikara Mizokami)

Common Sense (Kota Jodoi, Peter Kipp)

Semi Finalist

WAD A (Tatsumi Uchiyama, Tamane Sasaki)

Gomora & deer (Isao Ayabe, Sadahiro Ideriha)

Doarainbow (Mizuki Kusaka, Narumi Terakishi)

Bear, Beer and Bee (Azusa Iwane, Vipin Kumar)

Quarter Finalist

Osaka A (Takuya Morioki, Kei Iwawaki)

KCUFS A (Kana Okamoto, Nozomi Akari)

Nagoya K (Koji Imai, Takuya Kitaoka)

Kanagawa (Ryota Yoshii, Kodai Wakamatsu)

Team Kichi-guy (Koki Goto, Manao Sunaga)

SDS A (Minjun Park, Kaeun Seo)

Kansai Saikyo L (Yohei Nakanishi, Shohei Kuri)

SDS B (Jimin Han, Sanggil Shim)

 

 

Best Adjudicator:

Fumiko Hirasawa (Japan)

 

 

Tab

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw5kUFkKW1HubTVJVWxOaUNQMG8/view?usp=sharing