Becky West and Rogier Baart from the Leiden Debating Union won the Jacobs Open 2011.

Their team Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen as Opening Opposition defeated three other teams from the Netherlands: Jeroen Heun and Daniël Springer (Erasmus Rotterdam), Setry Rabejaona and Liva Andersone (Erasmus Rotterdam) and Danique van Koppenhagen and Tomas Beerthuis (Utrecht Debating Society). Best final speaker as well as top of the tab was Daniël Springer. The tab of the Jacobs Open 2011 is online.

All motions of the Jacobs Open at a glance:

• Round 1: This house would abolish monarchies.
• Round 2: This house believes that professional sports people have a moral obligation to publicly come out.
• Round 3: This house believes that all schools in the states of former Yugoslavia should use the same history books.
• Round 4: This house would provide long-term addicts with free drugs and the facilities to use them.
• Round 5: This house believes the UN Security Council should hand over Laurent Gbagbo to the International Criminal Court for indictment.
• Semis: This house would grant persons with an “aggression gene” an automatic sentence reduction.
• Final: This house would promote atheism.

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