Motion Analysis Day 1 - return of the casefile?

Well I don't think people could really complain about the first motion, it was a standard first principles case - the only criticism you could have is that there is a risk of people debating at cross purposes due to differences in the educational systems around, well, the world. To be fair, that's a problem for the teams and you can't fault the A-team for it.

The other two motions are quite "specific-knowledge"y. It's not unfair to ask people to debate about the UK nuclear detterent though, and to be fair if people are prepping for worlds, they really should know something about South Africa's situation with urban poverty, slums, and inequitable land distribution, maybe a little knowledge about something called apartheid also.

It's probably worth mentioning that these motions aren't exactly new with the UK Trident debate being run at Cork last year and the Land resdistribution case being set by Derek for a round in the Irish Mace - maybe Derek's day of motions is over and done with, and without a WTO case!

That said, people seem to be saying that the motions are more specific than trends in the last few years would indicate. Teams with specific knowledge of either of the later motions would have been at a significant advantage. The consensus is that the four volume casefile may be back.