To cap off a successful start of the debating season, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council sent three teams and two judges to the 2010 Worlds Debating Championship in Turkey from December 27, 2009 to January 4, 2010. Colin Etnire '12 and Ian Mahmud '12 fared best among the three Brooks Quimby teams at the competition, finishing in a break room in the last round of the tournament but falling short.

Bates debaters attended the Oxford and Cambridge Intervarsity Championships to kick off the International debating season. The partnership of Colin Etnire '12 and Ian Mahmud '12 led Brooks Quimby debaters by finishing just one point short of the championship break at Oxford.

Bates sophomores Ian Mahmud and Colin Etnire won the Robert Huber Memorial Debates at the University of Vermont last weekend, finishing first out of a field of 76 teams. Andrew Wong '12 and Micrea Lupu '11 broke to the quarterfinal round, and Ariela Silberstein '10 and Nate Sweet '11 narrowly missed the break, finishing just one place behind the final team chosen. Etnire was also named 3rd place Varsity speaker.

Just one month into the academic year, Bates has already given strong performances at two APDA tournaments, at Smith College and Boston University's Novice tournament.

Just a week after becoming the first place novice team at Stanford University's debate tournament, the team of Ian Mahmud and Colin Etnire took first again at MIT. The pair beat a hybrid novice team from Harvard University and Brown University in a unanimous 5-0 decision to become the top novices at the MIT tournament.

The Brooks Quimby Debate Council sent five teams to Stanford University's annual APDA debate tournament in sunny Stanford, California. The team of Etnire and Mahmud defeated one of Yale University's top novice teams to take first place in the novice bracket at Stanford.

Brooks Quimby novice debaters competed in an intramural tournament Saturday. Novice teams Colin Etnire and Mikey Pasek, and Mircea Lupu and Andrew Wong made it to the final round.

The team attended the Worlds Tournament in Cork, Ireland. Debaters Ariela Silberstein and Rachel Kurzius made it to the final round of Masters at the tournament.

Brooks Quimby debaters Geoff Shaughnessy '09 and Ariela Silberstein '10 took 16th at the prestigious Cambridge IV debate tournament at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Among the 10 American teams competing at the Cambridge IV tournament, Shaughnessy & Silberstein ranked 2nd. Matthew Marienthal '10 and Jared Levy '09, and Rachel Kurzius '10 and David Kelly '09 also represented the Team, placing 25th and 27th respectively.