It wasn't exactly the note we'd hoped to end the prelims on - although we beat Nigeria unanimously this morning, we lost to Pakistan this afternoon despite having debated the motion against England the weekend before. We've established that between us, our sporting knowledge consists of netball (me) and wrestling (Sarah), with a bit of American basketball (Paul), so we weren't too surprised when the chair judge told us there was a fundamental lack of knowledge on our side of the house. All in all, it was an extremely close debate with very tight margins and we managed to once again take a judge.
So what does this mean in terms of our chances of breaking? We are certain to break on six wins and as all the debates we won were unanimous and the two we lost were both on a split decision, we have a higher number of judges than any of the other teams on six wins. Paul is frantically trying to calculate the tab, but we'll have to wait for this evening to find out for sure. I mentioned in my last post that the break is going to be streamed live online, and that starts at 9:30 tonight.
Just a reminder that the order of teams will be calculated by wins, then judges, then speaks, and finally alphabetically.
So the summary of the results of rounds 7 and 8 is as follows:
Round 7 - THBT women can only achieve equality under a secular system of government (pre-prepared)
Nigeria 0 - 3 Wales
Round 8 - THW punish sports teams for the poor behaviour of their fans (impromptu)
Wales 1 - 2 Pakistan
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