Round 0

The resolution for Round 0 was announced after 7 pm, Saturday evening once the sun had truly set, and the 4 debates began after 8 pm. These were held in various rooms in the hotel and many of the teams which were not debating in the round turned up to watch, providing the competing teams a generous and much appreciated audience. In our debate, (Namibia v Romania) two of the observing debaters cheerfully offered to be chairperson and timekeeper and the audience attentively listened to both teams.

Despite the noise from the hotel lobby below (which at one point necessitated our intervention ), from other youngsters staying in the hotel using the room as a cacophonous thoroughfare and from the clatter of the hotel staff as they went in and out of the lift and moved various large items behind us, the debaters prevailed!

For Round 0 results, click here