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
posted by Kiwi Claire @ 8:32 am
17 Comments
17 Comments:
Dear Claire
Many thanks for posting the result so promptly.
Many congratulations to Scotland on a fantastic achievement and to both teams for producing what sounds like a terrific debate.
Mike Elder
Claire, this blog bas been fantastic - thanks for the results!
Massive congratulations to the Scottish team - from what I've heard, it was an incredibly good debate, so all credit to Singapore too.
I'm sure I'll stop smiling soon...
Kirsty Russell
Bet you won't!
Keep spreading the good news, Kirsty.
CU,
Kiwi Claire
You might be right - my colleagues are all smiling bemusedly at me now, as if I'm some kind of lunatic.
I write for a newspaper here in Dundee, and am putting a piece across for use tomorrow, so will keep spreading the word that way too!
Kirsty
YAY
Send my huge congratulations to my Scottish friends they have done themselves proud!!
Much Love for them- and for everyone else out there!
Jess Palmer xx
Well Done SCotland! Great news and really pleased for the team and their new coaches!
Best Wishes to everyone
Anna Crosby
thanks Claire....Lisa and Peter Rich here....two very delighted parents given Jeremy's award tonight!!! Please pass on our congrats to Scotland and thanks again for all the wonderful and prompt info throughout the tournament.
thanks for the blog claire, a great way to keep up with the results and colour of wsdc. sorry to see the Australian run broken but am sure the scots are worthy winners!
chris croke
My heartiest congratulations to Singapore!
To reach this point is incredibly fantastic. They deserve due credit.
Congratulations to Scotland as well.
Kirsty, do you want some photos?
Hi Claire
It's Mike Elder here from Jo Farmer's school. If you were happy to make some photos available to me as well, that would be brilliant as I'm trying to get some press interest in Aberdeen and pictures could be a great help.
Kind regards
Mike
Mike,
My email is tautoru@xtra.co.nz
Flick me an email and I'll return you a jpeg.
C
Well done Team Scotland we are so proud of you!
Jo's friends from aberdeen
Well done The Scots!
Claire, photos would be brilliant. If you could anything you have to debating@thecourier.co.uk, they'll reach me.
In other news, the story about worlds made the front page of the paper here, with more comment inside, and a motion in the Scottish Parliament commending the debaters on their performance!
Yay Jeremy Rich <3
By the way, the winner of the ESU Korea award for best speakr in a new team is Itaru Hiromi from JAPAN
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