More WSDC in the news...

Thanks to all of you who have been sending in links to press articles about WSDC or debating in general. Keep them coming - and we've been adding them to the Seoul 2007 page on this website.

Team placings at WSDC 2007

Here is the full list of team placings at Seoul.

Final%20Rankings%20Table%202007.doc

Individual Top 50 tab and final team placings out soon

Don't worry - we haven't forgotten these. The CAP had less administrative support than usual (i.e. none) so such things have taken a little longer to format and load onto the site. But I will get the top 50 and final team placings on the blog for you shortly (ie by the end of this working week) then after that, they'll feature in all the official places.

We don't release the full list of all individual speakers in public - for obvious reasons including the fact that it's not helpful to widely advertise the lower ranked speakers - but we will send a list to the coach of each participating nation.

Coaches, if you'd like to flick me your emails (to tautoru@xtra.co.nz)or contact me on Facebook (yes,I've succumbed,as have many people from the Seoul tournament)then I can get you those lists.

WSDC final in the news

Mark Gabriel has spotted the following news articles about WSDC so has passed them to the blog so you can enjoy them too. Just copy and paste into your browser.

Articles in the UK press about Scotland winning the championship:

Scotland Courier, 12 July 2007 -
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2007/07/12/newsstory9983689t0.asp

The Scotsman, 11 July 2007 -
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1083512007

The Herald, 12 July 2007 -
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/education/display.var.1538061.0.0.php

Times Educational Supplement, 13 July 2007 - http://www.tes.co.uk/2407041


Articles in the Singapore press about the performance of Singapore's team:

The New Paper, 14 July 2007 -
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,135829,00.html

The Straits Times, 13 July 2007 -
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_138676.html

Australs Results 2007 (involving WSDC alumni)

At the recent Australasian Intervarsity Debating Champonships ("Australs"), held at the Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, concurrently with WSDC in Seoul, there were some notable performances by WSDC alumni:

Runners-up: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Sayeqa Islam (WSDC 1999 for New Zealand) - best speaker on tab and in the Grand Final
Christopher Bishop (WSDC 2001, 2002 for New Zealand) - 8th on tab
Stephen Whittington (WSDC 2005 for New Zealand) - 17th on tab

Sienna Merope (WSDC 2005 for Australia) reached the quarter-finals in the Melbourne University 2 team

Tim Mooney (WSDC 2005 for Australia) ranked 11th on the tab for Sydney University 1
Steve Hind (WSDC 2005 for Australia) ranked 22nd on the tab for Sydney University 1

"Australs" is the world's second largest debating tournament and equal in prestige to the World Universities Debating Championships. Australs is considered by some to be the most intellectually demanding in the world, and is recognized for its high standards of debating and adjudicating. Debaters have half an hour to prepare a case on topics ranging from regional politics, international economic policy, sport, culture, religion and philosophy.

The competition attracts a large number of ex-WSDC debaters from the Asia-Pacific region and involves over 300 competitors. Accordingly, potential coaches, adjudicators and organising committee members for WSDC come from the Australs ranks and it is therefore a good idea, especially if WSDC is being held in the Asia-Pacific region, not to schedule it at the same time as Australs (usually the first to second weeks of July.) For the next two years, that will not be a problem as WSDC in Washington DC 2008 will be held in September and WSDC in Athens 2009 will be held in February.

However, for everyone's information, Australs 2008 will be held in Manila, the Philipines, between the 3rd and 11th of July 2008 and they've already launched their website!

The website for Australs 2007 can be found at http://www.australs2007.com/ and that for 2008 at http://www.ateneoaustrals.com/

Other blogs

There have been other blogs about this tournament that I didn't know about before so I apologise for not advertising them earlier.

However, now I know some, please do check out the following blogs of;

Team Philippines
http://www.wsdc-philippines.soriano-ph.com/

Team Canada
http://teamcanadadebate2007.blogspot.com/

Team Slovenia
http://www.vecer.com/blog/zainproti


Let me know about any others!

WSDC Executive 2007/8

President: Chris Erskine (Australia)
Vice President: Mark Gabriel (Singapore)
Secretary: Claire Ryan (NZ)

6 committee members;

Taimur Bandey (Pakistan)
Martin Pollard (Wales)
James Probert (England)
Sixto Ramos (Peru)
JJ Rodriguez (USA)
Bojana Skrt (Slovenia)

And the winner is.........

The WSDC champion for 2007 is........TEAM SCOTLAND!

In a close but clear decision, the adjudicators agreed that the Opposition analysis prevailed. It was a great contest and one of the best finals I've seen. Both times I've judged Singapore in a final, they have set up a fantastic debate and the Lima 2003 and Seoul 2007 finals are for me the apex of school debating.

Individual prizes:

ESU Korea prize for the best speaker from a new team:
Itaru Hiromi from Japan.

Prize for best EFL speaker:
Filip Dobranic from Slovenia

Prize for best ESL speaker:
Anser Aftab from Pakistan.

Best EFL team:
Slovenia

Best ESL team:
Pakistan.

Best 3 WSDC debaters 2007:

3 Jeremy Rich from Australia
2 Jamie Susskind from England
1 Kaerlin McCormick from Australia


More details later. The final dinner is about to start but as the rain softly falls in Seoul, I thought I'd get these results to you first.

Love to all the debating whanau all over the world, esp to all the Kiwis.
NEXT YEAR IN WASHINGTON DC.(7 -17 September 2008.)

Kiwi Claire

The final

THW abolish the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Proposition: Singapore
Opposition: Scotland

Time 3 pm, Seoul time tomorrow (11 July)
Venue: 7th floor ballroom, Imperial Palace Hotel.

Judges: we select these on the basis of competence, performance during the competition and geographical representation where possible. My co-chief Adjudicator Mark Gabriel can't be on the panel because he's from Singapore and Singapore is in the final. There have been a number of very good judges in this competition and we couldn't select them all so here is the panel of 9 for tomorrow's final:

Claire Ryan (NZ)(chair of panel), Kris Ade (Canada), Taimur Bandey (Pakistan), Chris Erskine (Australia), Effie Giannakouri Greece), Jumin Lee (South Korea), Martin Pollard (Wales), James Probert (England), JJ Rodriguez (USA).

Afterwards, there will be prizes for winning team, runner up team, top 3 speakers, best ESL speaker, best EFL speaker, ESU Korea award for best speaker from new team.

They've been there before.....

The two finalist teams have been in finals before but not, as far as I know, against each other.

Singapore and Scotland both won in close split decisions (3-2) this afternoon. I watched the best debate I've seen all tournament between Scotland and England in a room full of animated debaters who cheered loudly for both the teams between speeches but sat so intently during their speeches that you could have heard a pin drop.

I was particularly unimpressed with one thing however: the audience member seated next to me who left her mobile phone on despite the chairperson's request at the start of the debate to switch them all off. Then it abruptly rang - of course -during the first prop's speech and - she answered it, covering her mouth with her hand as if that would somehow conceal the sound! Then there were those who thought it was ok to come in and go out during that same speech. Things calmed down after I had a bit of a public whinge after the first speaker had sat down.

Still, at least we had an audience! And a very interested one at that!

So, onto the final tomorrow after what will be a very fractious AGM because people will want to comment about the organisation of this tournament...

CU,

Kiwi Claire

Quarter final results

Resolution: THW would privatise public utilities companies

PROP OPP
Canada 2 South Africa 1
England 3 Pakistan 0
Hong Kong 1 Scotland 2
Singapore 2 Australia 1

So now we proceed to the semifinals:

Resolution: THW partition Iraq

Singapore proposes against Canada.
Scotland proposes against England.

Debates begin in about half an hour.

We saw some fabulous quarter final debates today, folks, at the Chung Ang University. Apart from those eliminated teams who bravely got out of bed at 6:30 am in time for the early breakfast and were on the buses at 8 am to cheer for the 8 teams still in the competition, there were no audiences, a hitherto unknown experience for WSDC but the norm at this tournament (more about that some other time.) The nice thing about the University was the cafeteria - we had to pay for our own lunch but at least it was nourishing and nutritious for a change, just what stressed debaters really need.

Some exceptionally good teams lost today. Spare a thought for Australia -
there will now be a new world champion. We'll know who that is tomorrow.

Feedback forms

This year we've trialled feedback forms which the teams' coaches complete at the end of each debate and in which they comnment about the topics and adjudications. I have been very grateful for the thoughtful and constructive comments received, both critical and positive.

The best feedback I've received comes from a coach about my own adjudication:

"Your adjudication was bad for my blood pressure - but good."

And the curse of the top room continues

Ireland was defeated by South Africa earlier today in a split decision. The no 1 team has been undone by the no 16 team for a second year in a row. Last year Pakistan lost to South Korea in a similar split in the octos last year. We Kiwis feel your pain, guys: our team, ranked no 2, and having won all of its 8 preliminary rounds at WSDC Singappore in 2002 was undone by the killer Kuwaits, ranked 15th at the end of the prelims. It hurts right now, Ireland, but congratulations for 8 great rounds and commiserations on your defeat.

BTW, Pakistan avenged its loss last year by beating South Korea 2-1 this year.

The wonderful Slovenian team also lost to Canada on a split in today's octos but hopefully, their stylish charge into the break rounds will be broadcast on national TV as there was a Slovenian crew in tow throughout the rounds. This was the best performance by a Slovenian team ever (and they're great kids too)- send us the CD, Slovenian TV!

Oh and by the way, the results are:

PROP OPP
Ireland 1 South Africa 2
England 3 Greece 0
Hong Kong 2 Philippines 1
Australia 3 Argentina 0
Singapore 2 Israel 1
Scotland 2 USA 1
Pakistan 2 South Korea 1
Slovenia 1 Canada 2

As you can see, many of these debates were close and hard fought as indicated by the splits.

The quarter finals and seni finals will be held tomorrow and that's when tiredness really sets in. It then becomes anyone's and everyone's chance! This may sound like Granny Claire speaking, but seriously, tell your teams to eat and sleep as well as they can tonight - tomorrow is not for the faint hearted.

Signing out in Seoul.

Kiwi Claire
(Sad that my team is not here but delighted to watch the performances of others.)

Hi,
Could you write a big Hello to Conor McAndrew of the Irish team, his teammates, his mother Keara (who's over there supporting), his teammates' parents and of course his Granny Clodagh whos following the event via phonecalls from Soeul and this blog.
Thanks a million
Alan Kinsella (Conor's Uncle)


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Send your messages, people and we'll publish them!

Kiwi Claire

Octo-finals topic and teams

Topic "THW force organisations to place more women in senior positions".

PROP OPP
Ireland South Africa
England Greece
Hong Kong Philippines
Argentina Australia
Singapore Israel
Scotland USA
Korea Pakistan
Canada Slovenia

Octo-finals begin in about half an hour.

Break out

The break is now out - 16 teams, some predicted, some not. A number of teams attained the same number of wins as each other AND the same number of judges so they had to be separated by speaker points. The CAP worked through the day to tabulate all the results and by dinner time, we felt tired but happy that we had team and speaker tabs all completed. Then about an hour before the break was to be announced, Joshua Park, the convenor, asked me and Mark if we would "do the flags" the way the break teams were announced in Wales. In the past, the names have simply been read aloud but Wales 2006 had a jazzy power point presentation involving the appearance of flags which was much enjoyed.

I had assumed that the South Korean organizers would arrange this as the Welsh had done. When I realised that no, it was entirely up to the CAs to do something and at the last minute, I ran up to the computer room, filled with debaters emailing family and friends, and commenced the fastest flag search on line in South Korea, before throwing together a power point show with 16 flags, all the while trying to guard it from prying eyes. At last, I raced dowstairs with the data stick to plug into the school computer with Justin Resnick ready to launch it onto the screen at the break party.

As I flew down the stairs towards the hall where I understood everyone was gathered, I noticed the silence. I even paused for a moment, straining to hear what surely would be the hall alive with the sound of music. But it was not. I'd been to 5 WSDC break parties before tonight and there'd always been plenty of music, food, music, drink, music, dancing and music. I'd heard some music earlier on tonight and expected this famous party to be in full swing by the time the break was announced. But it was not. As I reached the hall, I realised there was no music, food, drink or dancing. It was the strangest break night ever. Instead, the debaters, judges and coaches were sitting around in the semi-darkness of a stilled hall waiting anxiously for Mark and me to proclaim the names of breaking teams before they would all be herded back onto the buses for the hotel. It seemed like a thousand eyes were staring, waiting, willing a favourable result. The silence was indeed very loud!

The "doing the flags" bit seemed to shatter that silence and wild cheers broke out as we counted from 1 to 16, with the flags flashing onto the screen. You might think we would count from 16 to 1, but most people have worked out the top ranked teams and there's always more interest and speculation as to who else made the break, especially as so many teams were so close this year.

The debaters from Slovenia who broke 8th were just screaming and screaming - and everyone around them could not help but join in exuberantly. The whole count down became a joyous cacophany, even by those who didn't break but were barracking wildly for one or more of the top 16.

And I guess you want to know who they are. The octo-finals start tomorrow afternoon. The first ranked team must debate the 16th, the 2nd the 15th, the 3rd the 14th and so on. Sides will be chosen by a coin toss before the topic is announced. Send them all your best wishes.


1. Ireland 16. South Africa
2. England 15. Greece
3. Hong Kong 14. Philippines
4. Australia 13. Argentina
5. Singapore 12. Israel
6. Scotland 11. USA
7. Pakistan 10. South Korea
8. Slovenia 9. Canada

Signing out from Seoul

Kiwi Claire

Hi everyone.

The break party has begun and in just over an hour the top 16 teams will be revealed. We're at the Seoul English village, an immersion centre in which students live in and speak only English. Today the place certainly resounded with English - international accents ardently arguing the merits of free trade and censorship.

The results are:

Round 7: THBT free trade harms the developing world

PROP OPP
Bermuda 0 Israel 3
Canada 3 Malaysia 0
Czech 0 Australia 3
England 3 Slovakia 0
Greece 3 Mongolia 0
Hong Kong 3 Sri Lanka 0
India 0 Singapore 3
Ireland 3 Hungary 0
Japan 0 Scotland 3
Kuwait 2 Estonia 1
Lithuania 0 Korea 3
Netherlands 1 Bangladesh 2
Pakistan 3 Indonesia 0
Peru 1 Slovania 2
Philippines 0 USA 3
Romania 2 South Africa 1
Wales 1 Germany 2

Round 8 (impromptu) THW limit media reporting on terrorist atrocities
Argentina 2 Wales 1
Australia 0 Ireland 3
Babngladesh 1 Peru 2
Estonia 2 Romania 1
Germany 1 Netherlands 2
Indonesia 1 Kuwait 1
Israel 0 Hong Kong 3
Korea 1 Philippines 2
Malaysia 1 India 2
Mongolia 1 Japan 2
Scotland 0 Pakistan 3
Singapore 2 Canada 1
Slovakia 0 Czech 0
Slovania 3 Lithiania 0
South Africa 1 England 2
Sri Lanka 2 Bermuda 1
United States 1 Greece 2

Better get the break round power point ready....

Round zero (bye round) results

After a chaotic tour to the DMZ (no tour guides, no volunteers, no idea of what was happening and no western food for those who had paid double the price of the Korean food to have it - but the third tunnel was fun!), we arrived late back to the Imperial Palace Hotel for the bye round, necessary because there is an uneven number of teams at this year's Worlds, namely 35.

Eight lucky teams prepared in various rooms in the hotel tonight (mainly in the bedrooms of opposing teams) on the topic "This house would execute war criminals." At least there were audiences as a number of teams who were not debating in the bye round came along to watch and lift the spirits of the tired debaters. Well done teams for debating your hearts out after a long day!

Here are the results:

Prop Opp
Australia 3 Indonesia 0
Hungary 3 Slovakia 0
Scotland 3 Bangladesh 0
Slovenia 2 Argentina 1

(I was the split. First time since Calgary '05!)

So we're on the home straight now. Tomorrow night's the break party and you'll all know then who's made the exalted list of the top 16.

Stay tuned and hold on to your seats. This roller coaster ride isn't over yet. Lots of teams are in with a chance. Two of the unbeaten teams, Ireland and Australia, meet head to head tomorrow. So which teams do you think will make the top 16?

By the way, here is the draw for tomorrow:

SUN JUL 8 – ROUND 7

Motion: This House believes that free trade harms the developing world.
Venue: Seoul English Village

Proposition Opposition
Bermuda Israel
Canada Malaysia
Czech Republic Australia
England Slovakia
Greece Mongolia
Hong Kong Sri Lanka
India Singapore
Ireland Hungary
Japan Scotland
Kuwait Estonia
Lithuania Korea
Netherlands Bangladesh
Pakistan Indonesia
Peru Slovenia
Philippines United States
Romania South Africa
Wales Germany

Argentina has the bye

SUN JUL 8 – ROUND 8
Impromptu round

Seoul English Village

Proposition Opposition
Argentina Wales
Australia Ireland
Bangladesh Peru
Estonia Romania
Germany Netherlands
Indonesia Kuwait
Israel Hong Kong
Korea Philippines
Malaysia India
Mongolia Japan
Scotland Pakistan
Singapore Canada
Slovakia Czech Republic
Slovenia Lithuania
South Africa England
Sri Lanka Bermuda
United States Greece

Hungary has the bye.

Signing out in Seoul

Kiwi Claire

Some upsets today

Hi folks,

Rounds 5 and 6 took place at the Korea International School, the same venue as yesterday and much closer than the 2 hour bus journey some debaters, coaches and judges had to make to Gimpo Foreign Language High School on the first day of competition. Thanks to JUSTIN RESNICK who has been patiently arranging rooms at the KIS, co-ordinating volunteers and ensuring all goes smoothly. Without him, there would be chaos!

Unfortunately, there are few audience members for the debates, usually none unless the teams have supporters like the 4 Irish parents who flew in last night. This is because the championship is taking place during Korean students' exams...

Anyway, there are 3 new nations at the Championships - JAPAN, INDIA and MONGOLIA. I hope to have a few words from them for this site over the next few days.

Tomorrow, we are going to the DMZ so watch this space for news and photos about the border tour. Hopefully none of the students will point at the North Korean guards (we've been told not to point!)and we'll have a great time.

But in the meantime..... here are today's results.
Drop us a line or two saying what you think of the results or the debate topics.

ROUND 5

THBT that the United States should withdraw from its military bases in Asia

Germany 1 Ireland 2
Hungary 0 Hong Kong 3
Israel 3 Mongolia 0
Korea 2 Czech Republic 1
Slovenia 0 Pakistan 3
South Africa 3 Bermuda 0
Sri Lanka 0 England 3
United States 3 Japan 0
Bangladesh 0 Philippines 3
Estonia 0 Canada 3
Netherlands 0 Kuwait 3
Singapore 3 Romania 0
Slovakia 0 Wales 3
Argentina 3 India 0
Indonesia 1 Greece 2
Malaysia 1 Peru 2
Scotland 3 Lithuania 0

Australia had the bye

ROUND 6

Impromptu: THW legalize all drugs

Bermuda 3 Hungary 0
Czech Republic 1 Germany 2
England 1 Israel 2
Hong Kong 1 South Africa *
Ireland 2 Korea 1
Japan 0 Slovenia 3
Mongolia 0 Sri Lanka 3
Pakistan 1 United States 2
Canada 1 Netherlands 2
Kuwait 1 Australia 2
Philippines 1 Estonia 2
Romania 2 Slovakia
Wales 1 Singapore 2
Greece 0 Argentina 3
India 0 Indonesia 3
Lithuania 2 Malaysia 1
Peru 0 Scotland 3

Bangladesh had the bye.

Unless I'm mistaken, the unbeaten teams are:
Australia, Ireland and Scotland.

Signing out from Seoul,

Kiwi Claire

Greetings from Seoul

Hi everyone,

At last - access to a computer, some time (actually 3 am, NZ time) and a chance to send a brief blog. It seems like only yesterday that I was just arriving in the world's 2nd most densely populated city, Seoul, with over 10 milion inhabitants or over 23 million if you include the greater metropolitan area. The only thing over 23 million which Kiws usually encounter is...the number of sheep in NZ (over 43 million or 12 to every NZer, which is of course just what you wanted to know.)

I don't speak Korean apart from some very basic words I learned on the 16 hour flight. So, despite the fact that I once survived being alone in a dark French train station at midnight when the trains were on strike (don't ask), I did emerge from customs on June 30 with some trepidation, wondering to what extent my rudimentary linguistic acquisitions would be put to the test. I needn't have worried. My introduction to the Republic of Korea was the smiling and welcoming Kyunghee Kim in the arrival area. Kyunghee is the deputy convenor of the championships in Seoul and the volunteer co-ordinator. With her gracious help, I was soon on the one hour bus journey from Incheon airport to the Imperial Palace Hotel in Seoul city's south.

Seoul is huge, but the traffic seems no worse than my home city - gridlock, a "rush hour" that lasts for more than two, the frequent use of the horn and the way you can tell it's summer by the fact that the rain is warm. What is different and disconcerting is, firstly, the cloud and smog that constantly shrouds the city and conceals both the summer sun and northern hemisphere stars and secondly, the unhelmeted moped riders who zip between, around, and behind pedestrians on the pavements or on the crossings notwithstanding the "walk" signs. The convenor of the championship, Joshua Park, told us that pedestrians do have the right of way but he added " well, legally, anyway!" So I have learned never to be the first person onto the crossing or the last off it. I try and selfishly position myself between crowds of crossing Koreans. While it is true that Kyunghee is a nurse and there is a nearby hospital, I think that it would be better for all of us if I didn't have to find the words in Korean for "yes, my patella was indeed fractured by a flying moped."

Those are the two disconcerting aspects of this mega-city. However, they are outweighed by three gifts - first, the spicy, healthy, diverse and wonderfully cheap Korean food, second the hospitality of Koreans including those who have spontaneously and generously offered us advice and translations when we are at restaurants or when we are helplessly seeking directions on the street and thirdly and most importantly, the student volunteers for the championships, in their bright orange shirts, chairing debates, guiding us to rooms and events and taking us on food tours at night time. They are just awesome and we are very appreciative of all their smiling, patient, good humoured and sometimes witty efforts for us.

Being co-chief adjudicators has kept Mark and me extremely busy, certainly more so than any previous CAP I've been on. This has certainly meant huge upskilling in tabbing - quite a task for the excel-challenged. WE MISS TAB MAESTRO TREVOR SATHER! However, we do have a wonderfully hard working, enthusiatic and supportive CAP - Irene McGrath from Scotland who can spot an erroneously completed mark sheet at 10 kms, even without a calculator, our Dutch satirist Ard van der Steur who is the ultimate CV collector and connoisseur of all good things including wine, kimchi and marksheets separated into neat piles for teams, the man from NZ's West Island Chris Erskine, who is the source of wisdom, history and encouragement as well as the analyst of lonely space travel, Wales representative and 2006 convenor Martin Pollard who has graphically shown us all why you don't drink the tap water in Seoul and the greatest CApper of them all, none other than Excel King JJ from USA, who has endured late nights, talking to us, and the riveting experience of entering hours of data from marksheets into the computer. It's enough to drive a man to drink!

That cannot be said for the debating. It has been a real pleasure to judge. I have enjoyed witnessing some close and hard fought debates, especially in round 3, a debate of an extremely high standard, well worthy of a break round. The general feedback has been very positive about the teams. A spirit of friendship prevails, with hard work during the debating rounds but mutual respect and the enjoyment of each others company after the work is over. To any parents reading this site, yes you can be proud of your debating children because they really are fine young men and women. So keep the messages of support, the emails and the texts coming!!

Signing out to get some sleep,

Kiwi Claire

Results: Rounds 1-4

Sorry for delay - complicated chain of results involving more than one continent... Here are the first two days' results:

Round one prepared “THBT free trade harms the developing world

BAN 0
ENG 3

EST 1
LIT 2

GER 3
IND 0
(IND= India)

KOR 1
CAN 2

MON 0
BER 3

SIN 3
PER 0

SLE 3
ROM 0

SAF 3
WAL 0

ARG 0
PAK 3

AUS 3
GRE 0

HUN 1
KUW2

INA 2
CZE 1
INA = Indonesia

SLA 0
PHI 3

ISR 0
IRE 3

MAL 3
NET 0

SRI 3
JAP 0

USA 0
HKG 3

Round 2 impromptu “THW ban the use of models who are below a healthy weight

BER 0
SIN 3

CAN 3
GER 0

ENG 3
SLE 0

IND 0
KOR 3

LIT 2
SAF 1

PER 3
MON 0

ROM 1
BAN 2

WAL 3
EST 0

CZE 0
ARG 3

GRE 3
HUN 0

KUW1
SCO 2

PAK 3
SLA 0

PHI 1
AUS 2

HKG 3
MAL 0

IRE 3
SRI 0

JAP 0
ISR 3

NET 0
USA 3

Round 3 Prepared “This House believes that Holocaust denial should be a crime”

BER 0
SLE 3

CAN 1
SCO 2

CZE 3
MON 0

ENG 3
SIN 0

GRE 2
SAF 1

HKG2
ARG 1

IND 1
EST 2

IRE 2
USA 1

JAP 1
HUN 2

KUW3
BAN 0

LIT 2
SRI 1

NET 0
INA 3

PAK 0
AUS 3

PER 0
KOR 3

PHI 2
GER 1

ROM 0
MAL 3

WAL 0
ISR 3

Round 4 Impromptu “THB that governments should not place limits in the areas which scientists may research

ARG 2
NET 1

AUS 3
JAP 0

BAN 0
BER 3

EST 2
PER 1

GER 2
GRE 1

HUN 0
PAK 3

INA 0
HKG 3

ISR 1
PHI 2

KOR 3
KUW0

MAL 0
IRE 3

MON 0
ENG 3

SCO 3
ROM 0

SIN 3
CZE 0

SLA 0
CAN 3

SAF 3
IND 0

SRI 0
WAL 3

USA 3
LIT 0