Thursday, September 11, 2008

Rounds 5 and 6



Above: Team Germany making friends and influencing people at Indian Creek High School 10 September 2008

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the delay in getting results to you....but when you're working all day travelling a number of hours to judge wonderful debates outside Washington and working all night every night into the small hours (such is the volume of work for this CAP, even more so than last year)then there is little time or opportunity short of complete sleep deprivation to post to the blog.

For the last two days I, some other judges and 4 debating teams have been travelling by bus out to the warmly welcoming Indian Creek High School in Crownville, Maryland. It's a refurbished, rebuilt high school, the new buildings being only two years old, on a former tobacco farm in a leafy, semi-rural setting. Yesterday it took us two hours to get there in humid conditions, because we got lost, the directions were wrong, and even the local mailman did not seem to know where it was. But we did see a great deal of the Maryland country side and the local bush, creek and nouveau-rustic cottages nestled beneath the trees - although perhaps more than we had intended and more than once past the same crashed and crushed black car sitting on an otherwise impeccably manicured front lawn...

Finally, we arrived, our orange bus (reminiscent of Peru but without the rapid-fire horn sounds) rumbling up the sweeping driveway half an hour after we were scheduled to begin debating. The school took it all in its stride and the staff simply rearranged their day. Today, the same bus driver knew where to go and we arrived within an hour. The school was delighted to have us, dispatched appreciative audiences to our debates (it was so great to have an audience), hosted the debates either in a light, open music room with the sun warming our backs or in the impressively spacious auditorium, fed us well, enjoyed a workshop by Asher Weill today and hosted a reception tonight to thank and farewell us. This will be one of my fondest memories of this tournament - this is what WSDC is all about.

The school is setting up its own debating team and I said that I hoped to one day see a member of Team USA from Indian Creek HS.

Anyway, here are the results of Rounds 5 and 6. The teams that debated at Indian Creek in those rounds were Australia, Ireland, Pakistan and South Africa, four power houses of debating who put on great performances for the students and teachers, many of whom were enthused and inspired by our teams. (Today, teams Canada, Germany, Lithuania and Hong Kong came out to the same school and further impressed the school with their verbal dexterity and eclectic general knowledge. I'll post rounds 7 and 8 once I have them all!)

Round 5: Prepared: THW make the directors of multinational companies personally liable for environmental abuses committed by their companies in the developing world.

PROPOSITION OPPOSITION

Swing 0 Qatar 3

Montenegro 3 Mongolia 0

England 3 USA 0

Wales 1 Slovenia 2

South Korea 1 Israel 2

Kuwait 0 Canada 3

Argentina 0 Greece 3

Peru 1 Philippines 2

Romania 1 Indonesia 2

Estonia 2 Bermuda 1

Sri Lanka 2 Bangladesh 1

New Zealand 3 Scotland 0

Hong Kong 0 Singapore 3

Australia 1 South Africa 2

Ireland 1 Pakistan 2

Mexico 0 India 3

Botswana 3 Slovakia 0

Netherlands 3 Czech Republic 0

Lithuania 1 Germany 2

Bye: Japan

Round 6: Impromptu: This house would cease the use of detention without trial in the war on terror

PROPOSITION OPPOSITION

Greece 3 Kuwait 0

USA 3 Peru 0

India 3 Japan 0

Mongolia 0 Swing 3

Slovenia 2 Argentina 1

Israel 3 Wales 0

Philippines 1 South Korea 2

Indonesia 2 Estonia 1

Bermuda 0 Sri Lanka 3

Bangladesh 2 Romania 1

Canada 1 England 3Scotland Hong Kong

Singapore 0 New Zealand 3

Pakistan 3 Australia 0

South Africa 3 Ireland 0

Qatar 3 Montenegro 0

Slovakia 1 Mexico 2

Czech Republic 2 Lithuania 1

Scotland 1 Hong Kong 2

Germany 0 Netherlands 3

Bye: Botswana.

2 Comments:

At 10:06 am, September 11, 2008 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

What happened to Scotland-Hong Kong in round 6?

 
At 1:59 pm, September 11, 2008 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Scotland-Hong Kong now fixed. Thanks!

 

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