Two more rounds, two more wins!

It's been another great day for Team Wales, as we managed to unanimously win both of our debates today, making us one of only three teams who have won all four debates and twelve judges, the other two being South Korea and New Zealand. Both the Philippines and Argentina put up strong fights and the morning debate especially was good, with the judges feeling that the afternoon's impromptu was a little flat, but we're trying to put that behind us and focus on taking on Canada in two days time (as tomorrow we have a day off to go and visit Edinburgh). Just a quick note - Jonathan, our coach, is also posting his perspective on the day's debates on the Team Wales at WSDC facebook page, for anyone who is interested.

This evening was really good fun - many of the teams went to watch a light debate in British Parliamentary format between some of the judges and coaches, several of whom are high-profile university speakers. The motion was THBT Scotland should become an independent nation, and the tone of the debate was set by the first proposition speaker who announced that Scotland should become independent and as part of that have a single nuclear weapon, and illustrated his case with numerous jokes that had the audience in stitches. Wales was referred to as part of an argument by the second opposition speaker when he was describing the UK as a family - Ireland was the elder brother who drinks a lot and always wants more money, and Wales was the faithful family pet. I'll leave you to ponder this one!

So, in summary, the results of the rounds 3 and 4 are as follows:

Round 3 - THBT universal primary education is a misallocation of resources for the developing world (pre-prepared)
Philippines 0 - 3 Wales

Round 4 - THW make voting in national elections mandatory (impromptu)
Wales 3 - 0 Argentina


We've all discovered how desperate the sleep situation is getting, as we went to set our alarm clocks last night and felt a surge of excitement at the thought that we only needed to wake up at 6:15, and would therefore have a lie-in! So after a couple of rounds of Irish snap, we're planning to turn in, because there's no preparation to do for tomorrow as we're off to Edinburgh!