Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Semi-final announcement postponed

The announcement of the cut to Semi-Finals and ESL Final has been delayed. It was scheduled to take place before the Masters Final, the the decision was tekn to postpone the announcement because one team was not present.

It seems ridiculous that all those teams who turned up on time should be made to suffer because one team didn't bother turning up. If you give a time to announce something and a team isn't present then surely it should just "suck to be you" for them, especially when the semi-finals themselves aren't scheduled to take place until tomorrow morning.

Almost everyone is extremely frustrated with the decision - noone who deserved to benefit from it does, and a whole load of people are pretty angry.

Quarter Final Motion

The Motion for the Quarter Finals is:

"TTHB that people sentenced to life imprisonment should be allowed to choose the death penalty instead"

Quarter Final Draw 4

QF 4
Stanford A 2o
George Washington A 2p
Sydney D 1p
Cambridge C 1o

Quarter Final Draw 3

QF 3
Queensland A 1p
KCL A 2o
Cambridge A 2p
Alaska A 1o

Quarter Final Draw 2

Quarter Final 2 is:

QF 2
Sydney A 1p
Sydney G 2p
Sydney E 2o
Oxford C 1o

Quarter Finals Draw 1

Quarter Final 1 is:

QF 1
Oxford D 1p
St. Andrews A 1o
L&H A 2p
Queensland B 2o

Octo Finals Over


The octo-finals are now over. I think they're going to make the teams sweat until after lunch so it'll be a while before I get the results. That said , I want to take back my criticism of the motion as boring. The debate was actually really enjoyable and a few others have agreed that their initial reactions were confounded. Well done to the Adjudication team and whichever of them pushed the motion.