Sadly Team Wales' winning streak came to an end this morning in a close debate against Canada. Although we were disappointed, they are the reigning world champions and we did manage to take a judge, so we were pleased with that.
After a lot of confusion this afternoon, in the midst of which the original motion was released early to two teams who (through no fault of their own) began preparing before the other teams, the reserve motion was deployed to avoid unfairly giving some teams an advantage. After an interesting debate against Barbados, a new team, we got back on track by winning unanimously, putting us on 5 wins and 16 judges at the end of the third day. Currently, Paul has calculated that this puts us in 6th position on the overall tab*, but tomorrow has some dangerous clashes between top teams that could completely alter this before the break tomorrow night. Paul has put together a comprehensive tab of the standings after round 6, which can be found at: http://paullau.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/results-wsdc-2011-round-5-6/
Also, the break tomorrow night is going to be streamed live online at: http://www.dundeechannel.com/wsdc.html
so you can take part in the tension yourself!
In summary, the results of the rounds 5 and 6 are as follows:
Round 5 - THW legalise the sale of human organs (pre-prepared)
Wales 1 - 2 Canada
Round 6 - THW stop sending humans into space (impromptu)
Barbados 0 - 3 Wales
*The tab is the table of results in a debating competition.
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