Berlin siegt beim Vienna IV 2012
Berlin won the Vienna IV 2012!
The final:
- Patrick Ehmann and John-Thomas Eltringham, Berlin A
- Arielle Dundas and Tomas Beerthuis, Utrecht University
- Lukas Haffert and Veronique Lorenz, Tilbury House B (Cologne)
- Fabian Farkas and Lyuba Ilieva, Tilbury House East (Cologne)
- Motion: “Given the technology of a full pregnancy in an incubator, this house would seek humanity to give up natural pregnancy.”
- Judges: Isabelle Fischer, Maja Cimerman, Mark Manson, Michael Shapira, Leela Koenig, Danique van Koppenhagen, Tarit Mukherjee, Omer Nevo, Stefan Zweiker
Break to semis
Semi 1:
- John-Thomas Eltringham and Patrick Ehmann, Berlin A, BDU, 16 points
- Arielle Dundas and Tomas Beerthuis, Utrecht University, 14 points
- Gregg Roman and Mika Kayt, RRIS A, 13 points
- Michael Sutherland and Renee Yeh, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 12 points
- Judges: Omer Nevo, Isabelle Fischer, Crt Podlogar, Milan Vignjevic, Rosie Halmi
Semi 2:
- Gustaf Lundgren and Johan Bâge, Stockholm School of Economics A, 15 points
- Lukas Haffert and Veroniqque Lorenz, Tilbury House B, 12 points
- Ahmed Al Suwaidi and Oscar Avery, ULU, 14 points
- Fabian Farkas and Lyuba Ilieva, Tilbury House East, 13 points
- Judges: Tarit Mukherjee, Leela Koenig, Jocelyn Heng, Christoph Jäger, Leonhard Weese
Motions:
- Round 1: This house would introduce mandatory trips to Nazi concentration camps for Austrian elementary school students.
- Round 2: This House supports the use of charity rather than state welfare systems.
- Round 3: This House believes that Russia was justified in vetoing intervention in Syria.
- Round 4: This House believes that Facebook is justified to censor any of its users’ content for any reason it sees fit.
- Round 5: This House supports the appointment of technocratic governments in Eurozone countries suffering fiscal crisis.
- Round 6: This house believes the Israeli Army should adopt a policy of shooting to kill their own comrades where they are likely to be captured.
- Semis: This House believes that EU Countries should promote Christianity and not other religions.
- Final: Given the ability to carry a full term pregnancy in an incubator. This house believes that humankind should seek to abolish natural pregnancy.