The World Universities Debating Championship 2014 has its winners:

The World Champion 2014 in the category “English as a foreign language” is Bandung A (Vicario Reinaldo and Fauzan Reza Maulana).

The World Champion 2014 in the category “English as a second language” is Berlin A (Dessislava Kirova and Kai Dittmann).

The World Champion 2014 is Harvard A (Josh Zoffer and Ben Sprung-Keyser).

ESL Semi Final

Motion: This House believes that Pope Francis should publicly encourage Catholics to support radically redistributive government policies.

Break into ESL Final:

• Babes-Bolyai A (Radu Cotarcea, Octavian Vasile Buta)
• Lund A (Peer Klüßendorf, Emilia Carlqvist)
• Belgrade B (Helena Ivanov, Stefan Siridzanski)
• Berlin A (Dessislava Kirova, Kai Dittmann)

Open Semi Final

Motion: This House believes that women should reject practices that alter the appearance of their genitalia, such as waxing and labiaplasty.

Break into the Grand Final:

• Harvard A (Josh Zoffer, Ben Sprung-Keyser)
• Sydney B (Eleanor Jones, Chris Bisset)
• Cambridge B (Kitty Parker Brooks, Benjamin John Frank Adams)
• Glasgow A (John McKee, Duncan Crowe)

EFL Final

Motion: This House believes that multinational companies should be liable for any human rights abuses that occur anywhere in their supply chain.

• Opening Government: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Konrad Gütschow, Nikos Bosse)
• Opening Opposition: Bandung A (Vicario Reinaldo, Fauzan Reza Maulana)
• Closing Government: Warsaw Debate A (Konrad Kiljan, Karolina Partyga)
• Closing Opposition: New Economic School A (Ilya Androsov, Mikhail Sonin)

Adjudication Panel: Harish Natarajan (chair), Rosie Unwin, Paul Karp, Shengwu Li, Prarthana Manohar, Madeline Schultz, Manos Moschopoulos

ESL Final

Motion:This House would allow countries to pay other countries to settle asylum-seekers at their borders.

• Opening Government: Belgrade B (Helena Ivanov, Stefan Siridzanski)
• Opening Opposition: Babes-Bolyai A (Radu Cotarcea, Octavian Vasile Buta)
• Closing Government: Berlin A (Dessislava Kirova, Kai Dittmann)
• Closing Opposition: Lund A (Peer Klüßendorf, Emilia Carlqvist)

Adjudication Panel: Michael Shapira (chair), Fiona Prowse, Sam Block, Sella Nevo, Tasneem Elias, Fred Cowell, Paul Smith

Grand Final

Motion: This House believes that India should adopt aggressive free market policies.

• Opening Government: Harvard A, (Josh Zoffer, Ben Sprung-Keyser)
• Opening Opposition: Glasgow A (John McKee, Duncan Crowe)
• Closing Government: Cambridge B (Kitty Parker Brooks, Benjamin John Frank Adams)
• Closing Opposition: Sydney B (Eleanor Jones, Chris Bisset)

Adjudication Panel: Michael Baer (chair), Ely Zosa, Steve Whittington, Leela Koenig, Tim Blair, Jonathan L. Maynard, Ben Kornfeld

Text: ama