After the announcement of the winners, the tournament ended and people were asked to leave the premises. For some reason people lost their crash persons and ended up sleeping at some other persons places.<\/p>\n
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Cambridge IV then started one week later, for those who booked the international package, they also enjoyed the Union Thursday night debate.<\/p>\n
On Friday evening, the first two rounds started, between there was time to get something from the grocery stores nearby and also tea and cake was provided. After the two rounds, everyone enjoyed staying at the Union bar and get free drinks with the \u2018free-drinks buttons\u2019 we were handed out beforehand. For the sake of humanity, the rounds on Saturday only started at 9 am (Oxford started their rounds at 8 am, and yes one hour makes a huge difference), but we were reminded by Bob Nimmo<\/strong>, the famous tab master who calls himself \u2018the small angry men in the tab room\u2019 that we better ought to really turn up promptly at nine. (Which most of the teams managed to do so.) Also the OrgCom provided a cereal breakfast that was big enough for everyone to get a bite, even the last-minute arrivals.<\/p>\n
Later in the afternoon the main break quarter-finals and ESL semi-finals took place. The English seem to be obsessed about hog roast, so again there was a delicious hog roast dinner (and, in both Oxford and Cambridge, a veggie alternative), that led over to the finals and the black-tie social with champagne and free drinks, as well as good music! Those who didn\u2019t want to leave for bed after the social followed some debaters to an after-party.<\/p>\n
The open final at the Cambridge IV was won by BPP A, Jack<\/strong> Watson<\/strong> and Doog<\/strong> Cochran<\/strong>. They defeated Oxford BC (Steph<\/strong> Bell<\/strong> and Jen<\/strong> Coyne<\/strong>), Oxford BW (Ben<\/strong> Woolgar<\/strong> and Hugh<\/strong> Burns<\/strong>) and Loyola (James<\/strong> Kilcup<\/strong> and Dearbhail<\/strong> O\u2019Crowley<\/strong>) in the final. The ESL-final was won by UDS A (Danique<\/strong> van<\/strong> Koppenhagen<\/strong> and Tomas<\/strong> Beerthuis<\/strong>), defeating Berlin A (Niels<\/strong> Schr\u00f6ter<\/strong> and Jonas<\/strong> Werner<\/strong>), Bucharest A (Serban Pitic <\/strong>and Radu Tiganas<\/strong>) and BBU C (Ioana Georgescu <\/strong>and Bianca Prunea <\/strong>)<\/p>\n
In terms of organization it seemed that the Cambridge IV was better organized, convener James<\/strong> Hardy<\/strong> had an open ear for everyone, even for some homeless debaters from Austria, getting them last-minute crash. Thanks!<\/p>\n
The Cambridge IV as a whole was more popular in VDCH country, with teams joining from Berlin, Vienna and Kiel. Berlin A (Niels<\/strong> Schr\u00f6ter<\/strong> and Jonas<\/strong> Werner<\/strong>) broke into ESL finals and took places 3rd<\/sup> and 4th<\/sup> on the ESL speaker tab. Also, the final was chaired by Isabelle<\/strong> Loewe<\/strong> (from Debattierclub Bonn, EUDC winner 2006, ESL). Congratulations to everyone!<\/p>\n
With regard to a recommendation to which of the IVs you should visit next year: visit both of them and form your own opinion about the tournaments and squeeze in a visit to London between!<\/p>\n
Here an objective comparison of both tournaments:<\/p>\n
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