{"id":6514,"date":"2010-11-16T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T10:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achteminute.vdch.de\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2010-11-16T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:04:02","slug":"london-schools-of-economics-gewinnt-oxford-iv-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20101116\/london-schools-of-economics-gewinnt-oxford-iv-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"London School of Economics wins Oxford IV 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Ashbourne<\/strong> and <strong>Anser Aftab<\/strong> from the <strong>London School of Economics<\/strong> (<em>LSE A<\/em>) won the Oxford IV on the past weekend. ESL, the category for those who speak \u201cEnglish as a Second Language\u201d, was won by <strong>Daniel Springer<\/strong> and <strong>Jeroen Heun <\/strong>from <strong>Erasmus Rotterdam<\/strong>, ranked 1 and 2 on the ESL tab of this year\u2019s Euros in Amsterdam. <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=0Ah1YmyEZMuKZdFZjM2pBNElUYVBPUWdXeGJqTzk1Y2c&amp;hl=en&amp;authkey=CPfx0Y0G\">The tab of the Oxford IV can be found online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teams breaking to semis (main break):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cambridge A<\/li>\n<li>Cambridge B<\/li>\n<li>Yale C<\/li>\n<li>Manchester SR<\/li>\n<li>Durham A<\/li>\n<li>Manchester AJ<\/li>\n<li>Yale A<\/li>\n<li>Stanford B<\/li>\n<li>Monash<\/li>\n<li>Sydney<\/li>\n<li>TCD Hist B<\/li>\n<li>ULU C<\/li>\n<li>Princeton AL<\/li>\n<li>UBC A<\/li>\n<li>LSE A<\/li>\n<li>St Andrews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ESL Break to semis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Groningen B<\/li>\n<li>MGMIO A<\/li>\n<li>(Helmut Kohl and East Germany; team broke third but missed semis)<\/li>\n<li>Erasmus A<\/li>\n<li>Leiden<\/li>\n<li>BBU C<\/li>\n<li>Utrecht B<\/li>\n<li>Mykolas Romerus<\/li>\n<li>UCU WH (team moved up)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Motions<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Round 1: This House believes that adoption agencies that receive state funding should give priority to same sex couples and infertile couples.<\/li>\n<li>Round 2: This House would ban the use of armed combat drones.<\/li>\n<li>Round 3: This House would tax those who use expensive lawyers in order to fund state prosecutors and legal aid.<\/li>\n<li>Round 4: This House would require large online social networks to be controlled democratically by their users.<\/li>\n<li>Round 5: This House would hold the state liable for injuries or deaths due to being homeless.<\/li>\n<li>Quarter Final:\u00a0 This house believes that the UN should offer large bounties for the capture of pirates and the destruction of pirate ships.<\/li>\n<li>Semi Final: This house believes that, compared to a planned economy, the free market does not make ordinary workers more free.<\/li>\n<li>Final: This house believes that democracies should conscript citizens by lottery when facing any prolonged military intervention.<\/li>\n<li>ESL Semi: This house would abolish state funding of all arts degrees.<\/li>\n<li>ESL Final: This house would alter WTO rules to allow poor countries to erect protectionist barriers against rich countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A first <a href=\"http:\/\/debattierclubstuttgart.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/wm-vorbereitung-1-oxford-iv.html\">review by German debaters can be found on the web site<\/a> of <strong>Debattierclub Stuttgart<\/strong> (DCS). <strong>Andreas Lazar<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Saliba<\/strong> were ranked 11 and 18 out of 64 ESL speakers. They saw it as a good opportunity to practice for this year\u2019s Worlds in Botswana.<\/p>\n<p>apf \/ glx<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ashbourne and Anser Aftab from the London School of Economics (LSE A) won the Oxford IV on the past weekend. ESL, the category for those who speak \u201cEnglish as a Second Language\u201d, was won by Daniel Springer and Jeroen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,46],"tags":[540,89,136,85,84],"class_list":["post-6514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-themen","category-turniere","tag-england","tag-lazar","tag-oxford","tag-saliba","tag-stuttgart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}