Team Texas A&M A (Syed Taha and Alya Al-Harthy) defeated teams from Stuttgart, Berlin and Utrecht in the Science Po IV 2011 final. Twenty BPS teams competed from May 7 to 9 at the tournament in Le Havre, France. Chief adjudicator at the ESL-only IV in France’s Normandy was Manos Moschopoulos, his deputies were Anne Valkering, Isabelle Loewe, Milan Vignjevic and Rob Honig. The Tab is already online.

All motions at a glance:

• Round 1: This House would invalidate any election result with a turnout below 70 per cent.
• Round 2: This House believes that children should be excluded from any religion until adulthood.
• Round 3: This House would allow animated child pornography.
• Round 4: This House would pay developing countries to host western prisoners.
• Round 5: This House would abolish state pensions and instead only award benefits based on disability.
• Semis: This House believes that the US government should publish all visual material relating to Osama Bin Laden’s death.
• Final: This House would offer immediate EU candidate status to North African states on the precondition of democratic transition.

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