{"id":24359,"date":"2014-08-23T03:57:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T01:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/?p=24359"},"modified":"2014-08-24T08:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:46:23","slug":"eudc-2014-break-to-the-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20140823\/eudc-2014-break-to-the-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"EUDC 2014 &#8211; Break to the Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The break to the Finals at the European Universities Debating Championship 2014 has been announced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Zagreb-EUDC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21464\" alt=\"Logo Zagreb EUDC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Zagreb-EUDC-400x169.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Zagreb-EUDC-400x169.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Zagreb-EUDC.jpg 586w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>In the ESL category, Berlin A, Lund A, Belgrade B and BBU A made it through the semi-finals with the motion &#8220;This house believes that leaders of minority religions in Europe should strongly encourage their congregations to refrain from public displays of their faith&#8221;. In the Open break, Oxford A, Sheffield A, Nottingham A, and Edinburgh A won the semi-finals with the motion &#8220;THBT the US should invade and forceably partition Iraq&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Semi-finals of the Zagreb EUDC<\/h3>\n<p><strong>In the Open semi-final 1, the following teams competed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OG: <strong>Edinburgh A<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>OO: KCL A<\/li>\n<li>CG: <strong>Oxford A<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CO: BPP A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The debate was judged by <strong>Michael Shapira<\/strong> (Chair), <strong>Rebecca Meredith<\/strong>, <strong>Sella Nevo<\/strong>, <strong>Arielle Dundas<\/strong>, <strong>Rogier Baart<\/strong>, <strong>Matt Hazell<\/strong>, <strong>Roberto Sarrionandia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the Open semi-final 2, the following teams competed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OG: Oxford B<\/li>\n<li>OO: <strong>Nottingham<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CG: Cambridge A<\/li>\n<li>CO: <strong>Sheffield A<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The debate was judged by <strong>Madeline Schultz<\/strong>, <strong>Colin Etnire<\/strong>, <strong>James Clough<\/strong>, <strong>Jonathan Kay<\/strong>, <strong>Yael Bezalel<\/strong>, <strong>Eitan Har-Oz<\/strong>, <strong>Fanele Mashwama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>ESL semi-finals<\/h3>\n<p><strong>In the ESL semi-final 1, the following teams competed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OG: <strong>Berlin A<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>OO: Hebrew A<\/li>\n<li>CG: Tartu A<\/li>\n<li>CO: <strong>BBU A<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The debate was judged by <strong>Ashish Kumar<\/strong>, <strong>Greg Farquhar<\/strong>, <strong>Fred Cowell<\/strong>, <strong>Lucinda David<\/strong>, <strong>Gigi Gil<\/strong>, <strong>Manos Moschopoulos<\/strong>, <strong>Duncan Crowe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the ESL semi-final 2, the following teams competed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OG: Belgrade A<\/li>\n<li>OO: <strong>Lund A<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CG: <strong>Belgrade B<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CO: Leiden A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The debate was judged by <strong>Maja Cimerman<\/strong>, <strong>Bo Seo<\/strong>, <strong>Anat Shapira<\/strong>, <strong>Pete Doughton<\/strong>, <strong>Patrick Bateman<\/strong>, <strong>Alex Harris<\/strong>, <strong>Patrick Ehmann<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>All information about the breaking teams, judges, and motions is compiled in a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1A2vgaacv6s4ojm9vxUmuLUIkMFd8ExUTS5uuaHI2xV4\/edit?pli=1#gid=700452310\"><strong>Google Doc<\/strong><\/a> provided by the EUDC 2014 tab team.<\/p>\n<p>The following motions were debated in the outrounds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ESL tie break motion:<\/strong> This house would make membership in a labour union compulsory for every worker.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--><\/style>\n<p><strong>ESL quarter-final:<\/strong> This house would require companies to place images of animal suffering on all products or food whose production harmed or killed animals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESL semi-final:<\/strong> This house believes that leaders of minority religions in Europe should strongly encourage their congregations to refrain from public displays of their faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open quarter-final:<\/strong> This house believes that supreme\/constitutional courts should not have the power to strike down legislation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open semi-final:<\/strong> This house believes that the United States of America should invade, and forcibly partition Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>nbo\/hug<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The break to the Finals at the European Universities Debating Championship 2014 has been announced. In the ESL category, Berlin A, Lund A, Belgrade B and BBU A made it through the semi-finals with the motion &#8220;This house believes that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":21464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1017,46],"tags":[829,2260,1846,165,2235,2248,1082,1848,2247,2256,71,2173,2198,1887,2264,2263,1628,2244,2239,2251,2252,1229,2255,1104,456,1034,2262,2025,2257,1083,571],"class_list":["post-24359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-2","category-turniere","tag-baart","tag-bateman","tag-bezalel","tag-break","tag-cimermann","tag-clough","tag-cowell","tag-crowe","tag-david","tag-dundas","tag-ehmann","tag-etnire","tag-eudc-2014","tag-farquhar","tag-finals","tag-foughton","tag-gil","tag-har-oz","tag-harris","tag-hazell","tag-kay","tag-kumar","tag-mashwama","tag-meredith","tag-moschopoulos","tag-nevo","tag-sarrionada","tag-schultz","tag-seo","tag-shapira","tag-zagreb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24376,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions\/24376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}