What you need to know about day 1 of the Cape Town World University Debating Championship 2019:

Team codes passed after a revisit by the WUDC Council, and are displayed alongside the last names of team competitors. In addition, for the first time, WUDC tabulation is happening in tabbycat software.

On day 1, the tournament ran only a few minutes behind schedule and ended on time.

The motions were:

Round 1: TH, as South Africa, would forcibly break up exclusive Afrikaner* enclaves
*Afrikaners are a white South African ethnic gorup descended from predominantly Dutch settlers

Round 2: THBT the protections of international law conventions and treaties should not apply to combatants from terrorist organisations (e.g. prohibition on torture, prisoner of war status, guarantee of post-conflict release)

Round 3: THO the norm that romantic love would be the primary source of fulfilment in a person’s life