nan | 楠木

3rd and last day of the preliminary rounds at this years championships.
Round 7: regime change in Myanmar/Burma. This was one of the more funny rounds, because many of the teams knew so little about the Myanmar situation. I heard one team actually mistook the motion to be about two different places… Anyways, we were Closing Opp, just the position to be in I guess when nobody knows what they’re talking about. The Closing Gov were also from China, so it’s a bit unfortunate that we totally took it on them… I felt we totally beat all the gov’s arguments, and turned their points against them. And therefore I think we won this one.
Round 8: banning cosmetic surgery. We were Opening Opp. Thanks to the Debatabase file we had, and thanks to the government defining it in exactly the same way as stated on the file, we could throw out lots and lots of arguments which they couldn’t do much about. But the Closing Gov also did a very good job. So it was hard to judge how we did in terms of rankings.
Round 9: citizenship in exchange for military service. Quite an anti-climax in terms of the round itself, as the government gave an elaborate model, and the Opening Opp not challenging it at all… We being Closing Gov, tried to bring in as much new material as we could, raising the issue of mercenaries and etc. But it was a poor round overall.
Then it was straight back to the Sheraton and the evening banquet. Can’t really say the food was great, but that’s never the point anyway. After some partying (well, not really great partying since you had to pay for your drinks, which led to me not getting any since it was so expensive), the results were announced after midnight. We made the break for the EFL final. I was interested to know how many points we actually had, and how that compared to the ESL breaking teams.