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7 August 2009

EUDC partial team and speaker tabs

I'm sure the full team and speaker tab from Newcastle EUDC will be available shortly.  Once they becomes available I'll publish them. 

In the meantime Achte Minute has published scanned images from the front two pages of the tab.

Achte Minute was a new blog on the scene for this year's Euros but were the best source of updates from Newcastle.  I've added them to my Google Reader and hopefully they will continue to blog about debating competitions they attend.

5 August 2009

Euros Results

Again from Achte Minute:

The winners are:

Main:
Oxford A

ESL:
Leiden A

Congratulations to all - am sure someone will fill in the gaps!

RCM

Euros ESL Final

According to Achteminute (via Twitter), Leiden won the ESL Final at Euros in Newcastle.

RCM

4 August 2009

3 Oxford teams in EUDC final

The traditional Oxford domination of Euros is back.  They have three teams in the final.  Attempting to stop them winning another championships will be Tel Aviv A.  Congrats to all four teams.

The finalists in the 2009 European debating championships are:

Tel Aviv A
Oxford A
Oxford C
Oxford E

The ESL Final will be between:
Galatasaray C
Haifa A
Ljubljana A
Leiden A

Source: Achte Minute

EUDC Semi Finals

Source: Yourgermancorresondant

European University Debating Championships Semi-Finals:

SF 1:

OG Oxford B
OO Tel Aviv A
CG UCD L&H A
CO Oxford A

SF 2:
OG Nottingham B
OO Oxford E
CG Cambridge B
CO Oxford C

Motion: This House believes that desecration of religious sites is a legitimate tactic of warfare.


ESL Semi -Finals
ESL-SF 1

Tel Aviv A
Haifa A
Ljubljana A
Groningen A

ESL-SF 2
Leiden A
Galatasaray C
Tel Aviv B
Leiden C

EUDC QF and ESL QF motions

From yourgermancorrespondant

Qtr-Final Motion: THW allow political parties to designate certain pre-election claims as binding, and whose breach would prompt re-elections.

ESL QF Motion: THW allow the Police to physically discipline children below the age of criminal responsibility.

3 August 2009

EUDC day 2 and Break

Here are details of the EUDC break and motions from Day 2

Main Break
1 Oxford A 20pts
2 Oxford C 18pts
3 Oxford E 17pts
4 UCD L&H A 16pts
5 Nottingham A 16pts
6 Durham B 16pts
7 Cambridge B 15pts
8 Oxford B 15pts
9 UCC Phil A 15pts
10 Cambridge E 15pts
11 Cambridge D 15pts
12 Tel Aviv A 15pts
13 UCD L&H B 15pts
14 Nottingham B 15pts
15 St. Andrews A 15pts
16 UCD Law A 15pts

ESL Break
1 Tel Aviv A
2 Leiden A
3 Tel Aviv B
4 Berlin A
5 Ljubljana B
6 Erasmus A
7 SSE Riga A
8 Haifa A
9 IDC Herzliya A
10 Galatasaray A
11 Leiden C
12 Groningen A
13 Bilkent A
14 Tilbury House Cologne B
15 Haifa C
16 Ljubljana A

Day 2 Motions
R4: THB the gay rights movement should oppose gay marriages.
R5: THB western liberal countries have a moral duty to spread democracy across the world using force where necessary.
R6: THB custody hearings should not take a child's biological parentage into account.
R7: THW allow doctors to actively lie to their patients in order to create or augment a placebo effect.
Sources: Twitter, yourgermancorrespondant & Global Debate
And a new one Achte Minute

2 August 2009

Euros Day 1

The European Debating Championships are currently in progress in Newcastle. 

The Motions so far:
R1 THW allow police officers to use entrapment.
R2 THW use the education system to instill moral norms in children beyond mere obedience to the law
R3 THW grant citizenship to illegal immigrants that report workplace abuse.

Apparently they are cancelling thr 8th Round because of registration/tab/organisational problems.  It's a bit sketchy as to what the actual problem is (and emotions seem to be running high) so I won't speculate but as more firm details come available I'll post them.

Source: Twitter, yourgermancorrespondant & Global Debate