Author: Trevor Sather

Scotland defeated the Philippines and Wales knocked out England, both by a margin of 6-1.

Quarter-Final results: Philippines beat Singapore 5-0; Scotland beat Australia 5-0; England beat New Zealand 3-2; and Wales beat Ireland 3-2. The Semi-Finals will therefore be Philippines v Scotland and England v Wales.

The motion was ‘This House believes that the gay right movement should “out” gay public figures’.

Thanks to @paullaucm, @debatetourney and others for spreading the word on Twitter.

The Break (the top 16 teams who fight on in tomorrow’s knockout rounds) has been announced – see the full team tab and the draw for the knockout rounds.

And the final preliminary round was “This house believes that states should enshrine legally actionable socio-economic rights”, a prepared topic.  Download the summary or aggregate results.

New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa march on undefeated.  Round 7 was the impromptu motion “TH believes that developing countries should allow child labour”.  Download the summary or aggregate results.

Round 6 was the prepared topic ‘This house believes that the feminist movement should seek a ban on pornography’.  Download the summary or aggregate results.

Round 5 was the impromptu motion ‘THBT the police should use racial profiling to fight crime’. See the summary or aggregate results.

Round 4 was the prepared motion “This House believes that developing states should impose limits on internal rural-urban migration”.  Download the summary or aggregate results.

Note that one judge retired from duties through illness, but the debate was allowed to continue; adjudication team will confirm that result in due course.

Round 3 was the impromptu motion “THW allow single parents in prison to raise their children behind bars”.  See the summary or aggregate results.