Oxford Win Cambridge IV

Oxford (Jonathan Leader Maynard and Shengwu Li) have won the 2009 Cambridge IV. In the final they defeated ULU A, SOAS A, Oxford CH. UCU A won the English as second language (ESL) competition.

Breaking Teams
1 Oxford LLM
2 ULU A
3 Manchester A
4 MIT A
5 Yale A
6 TCD Hist A
7 De La Salle A
8 Oxford DK
9 Yale B
10 McGill A
11 Leiden A
12 Oxford CH
13 TCD Phil A
14 Erasmus A
15 SOAS A
16 Birmingham A

ESL Finalists:
1 Leiden A
2 Erasmus A
3 Utrecht B
4 Bonaparte A

Motions
R1: THW reduce welfare payments to parents whose children break the law.
R2: THB that it should be illegal to incite others to boycott an election.
R3: THW replay international sporting events if an extreme umpiring error affects the result.
R4: THBT the USA should pay war reparations to Vietnam.
R5: THW allow children over the age of 13 to obtain gender-reassingment surgery without parental consent.
QF: THB that California should create high schools that teach primarily in Spanish.
SF: THB the State should refuse to assist in rebuilding areas prone to natural disasters.
ESL Final: THW allow the conception of children using the sperm of someone who has died.
Final: THB Western Nations should use military force to rescue journalists captured by the enemy.

Source: Achte Minute

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