On the 2nd of January 2014 several out-rounds of different language categories took place. Three German teams are still in the competition. Here are the result and the motions:

Open Double Octo Finals

Motion: This House would abolish gated communities in the developing world.

Break into Open Octo-Finals:

• Otago B (John Brinsley-Pirie, Patrick Dawson)
• Monash B (Nisha Dutta, Beatrice Paull)
• IIUM A (Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, Mubarrat Wassey)
• Stanford A (Ilya Gaidarov, Andrew Suciu)
• Western University A (Victoria Hale, Brent Schmidt)
• Yale B (Zach Bakal, Sesenu Woldemariam)
• UCTA A, (David Harris, James Wink)
• Monash C (Andrew Gaulke, Thomas Stansfield)
• Sydney C (Evangeline Woodforde, Daniel Farinha)
• Cambridge C (Frederick Powell, Michael Dunn Goekjian)
• Glasgow A (John McKee, Duncan Crowe)
• IIT Bombay B (Souradip Sen, Ritvik Chauhan)
• Oxford A (Matt Handley, Tasha Rachman)
• Ateneo A (Allan Arthur Cabrera, Paulina Blanca Robles)
• Yale A (Sammy Ward-Packard, Mikey Barton)
• Vic Wellington A (Jodie O’Neill, Asher Emanuel)

Open Octo-Finals

Motion: This House believes that Japan should shame its soldiers who participated in WWII, including those who did not commit war crimes themselves.

Break into Open Quarter Finals:

• Imperial A (James Clough, Ed Middleton)
• Victoria Wellington A (Jodie O’Neill, Asher Emanuel)
• Sydney B (Eleanor Jones, Chris Bisset)
• Yale A (Sammy Ward-Packard, Mikey Barton)
• McGill A Cole Bricker Sarah Balakrishnan
• Monash C (Andrew Gaulke, Thomas Stansfield)
• Sydney A (Dominic Bowes, Joanna Connolly)
• Harvard A (Josh Zoffer, Ben Sprung-Keyser)

ESL Quarter-Finals

Motion: This House would remove all copyright protection for material deemed to be morally objectionable.

Break into ESL Semi-Finals:

• Lund A (Peer Kluessendorf, Emilia Carlqvist)
• Babes-Bolyai B (Ioana Stupariu, Calin Muresanu)
• Babes-Bolyai A (Radu Cotarcea, Octavian Vasile Buta)
• Tilbury House A (Fabian Farkas, Leonard Münstermann)
• IIUM B (Ameera Natasha Moore, Ahmad Hazim Bin Norahmadi)
• Berlin A (Dessislava Kirova, Kai Dittmann)
• Belgrade B (Helena Ivanov, Stefan Siridzanski)
• Raphael Recanati A (Alon van Dam, Amos Wasserbach)

EFL Semi-Finals

Motion: This House believes that the gay rights movement should abandon the claim that sexuality is not a choice.

Break into EFL-Final:

• Bandung A (Vicario Reinaldo, Fauzan Reza Maulana)
• Warsaw Debate A (Konrad Kiljan, Karolina Partyga)
• New Economic School A (Ilya Androsov, Mikhail Sonin)
• Tübingen A (Konrad Gütschow, Nikos Ioannis Bosse)

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