Participants announced for 2010 Round Robin Tournament

Every year, IDEA and Hobart and William Smith College host the prestigious Round Robin Tournament for sixteen top debate schools around the world. The 2010 Round Robin Tournament will take place April 2-3 on the campus of HWS College in Geneva, New York. The debate teams chosen to take part in this year's tournament are the following:

• Athens University, Greece
• Cambridge University, England
• Carleton University, Canada
• Kings Inn, Ireland
• Ljubljana, Slovenia
• McGill, Canada
• Malaysia Multimedia University, Malaysia
• Oxford University, England
• Queen's College, Canada
• Rhodes University, South Africa
• Sydney, Australia
• Tel Aviv, Israel
• University of British Columbia, Canada
• Underwood International College, South Korea
• Yale University, United States
• Irish Times Champions, Ireland

The HWS/IDEA Round Robin Tournament is designed to bring together an elite and internationally diverse group of debaters each year for a weekend of debate at the highest level. The tournament is held in World-Universities Debate Championship format with pre-paired round robin teams, ensuring that each team debates against every other team at least.

The tournament is now accepting applications for adjudicators. For more information on the 2010 HWS/IDEA Round Robin Tournament, click here.