Aberdeen IV

[Connie]

This Saturday, we'll register ANYONE who wants to go. Leaving Saturady morning, getting back in the evening. So far I have

Jess and Beth
Tom and Miles
Laura and Johnti
Lauren and Frank?

anyone else?

--Connie

[knight time hippy]

yes please! I'd like to go - does anyone need a partner?
If I'm a spare, could I go as a judge?
Zoe

[ChrisH]

You better not be forgetting me and Rach, how are we to win if we cannot go?

[David Bean]

Any idea who's competing this year? Which universities, I mean. I remember Aberdeen was always quite a small, friendly competition, mainly because not many people from south of the border could be chewed making the journey, but as we've shown, a couple of good years can quickly lead to a reputation that attracts people from all over.

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Psalm 91:7

[Guest]

Quoting connie from 12:15, 6th Mar 2007
This Saturday, we'll register ANYONE who wants to go. Leaving Saturady morning, getting back in the evening. So far I have

Jess and Beth
Tom and Miles
Laura and Johnti
Lauren and Frank?

anyone else?

--Connie

[Connie]

Hi guys

So here's the plan for aberdeen.

TRAIN AT 8AM FROM LEUCHARS

I won't be there but I'm suggesting meeting at the bus station at 7.15.

Even if you don't have partner, thats ok, lots of people don't. jason is going to pair you up on the train. So far I have

Rachael and Chris
Tom and Miles
Jess and Beth
Laura and Johnti
Lauren and Sally

then whoever wants to. i really mean whoever.

Even if you don't get a chance to email me, feel free to turn up.

have fun!
--Connie

[Mr Comedy]

Does this mean that Jason isn't coming to LSE this weekend?

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[Connie]

Yes, it does sadly.

We will try to make up for his lack of presence

[Anish]

Quoting knight time hippy from 12:47, 6th Mar 2007
yes please! I'd like to go - does anyone need a partner?
If I'm a spare, could I go as a judge?
Zoe

I need a partner too, if you want you could speak with me.

[Lauren]

Quoting connie from 14:36, 8th Mar 2007
Hi guys

So here's the plan for aberdeen.

TRAIN AT 8AM FROM LEUCHARS

I won't be there but I'm suggesting meeting at the bus station at 7.15.

Even if you don't have partner, thats ok, lots of people don't. jason is going to pair you up on the train. So far I have

Rachael and Chris
Tom and Miles
Jess and Beth
Laura and Johnti
Lauren and Sally

then whoever wants to. i really mean whoever.

Even if you don't get a chance to email me, feel free to turn up.

have fun!
--Connie

Hey sorry I didn't notice the thread and zoe and I planned to speak together - tht ok?

[Mr Comedy]

And for anyone making the long journey down to the LSE open, I'll see you there!

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[mattina]

TALKS OF TRAIN STRIKES CONTINUING FOR ANOTHER FOUR DAYS...

...which makes travel tomorrow extremely interesting.

As far as I can figure out the timetables, a bus leaves Dundee for Aberdeen at 6:20am (arr. 9:25) and the next bus doesn't leave until 8:25 arriving at 10:45 which is probably too late for registration.
Do buses even leave St Andrews for Dundee that early?

Even better, the last train should it be running leaves at 21:22 but the last bus I can find to Dundee leaves at 19:15.


Any thoughts anyone?

-Laura

[Sally]

This probably means the unions are planning another 2 48 hour strikes. According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6433343.stm the RMT are meeting this afternoon to discuss further strikes. There's nothing to suggest that the strikes will continue over the weekend.

See you at 7.15!

[Frank George]

I am unable to make it to Aberdeen (shameless plug: come see Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience, which I am dedicating so much of my time to and missing the IV for, next week, Tuesday-Thursday in Venue One), but good luck to all of you.

[David Bean]

According to the Network Rail web site, the strikes stopped as of this afternoon, and shouldn't be back on again (assuming they can't avert them) until next weekend. So we should be all right.

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Psalm 91:7

[Sally]

Aberdeen was won by GUU C (Claire Brown and David Adams). Congratulations to Miles and Tom (Liberals without a Cause) and Jason and Jenni (Team Ice Cream) for breaking to the final.

Motions were:
1. THW allow nightclubs to sell ecstasy
2. THBT Japan should change its constitution to allow it to take aggressive military action
3. This House Believes That THIS is the chairperson's favourite motion
4. THW make the learning of English a requirement of entry to the UK
Final THW eliminate juries from all criminal trials

Team Tab
[s]1 GUU C (David Adams & Claire Brown) 3 3 3 3 647 12
2 Liberals Without A Cause (Tom Cahn & Miles Wood) 3 2 3 3 608 11
3 Team Ice Cream (Jason Vit & Jenni Harrison) 3 3 2 2 617 10
4 GUU B (Neil Armstrong & Richard Anderson) 3 1 2 3 589 9
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5 The Grandkids of Evil (Beth Connor & Jess Siegel) 2 3 1 2 603 8
6 Tories for Social Injustice (Chris Hawkins & Rachael Whitbread) 3 2 0 2 604 7
10 Bridges Too Far (Anish Narendran & Zoe Sutherland) 2 0 3 1 551 6
13 Norfolk and Chance (Laura Mattina & Jhonti Bird) 2 1 0 2 541 5
14 What Would Amy Do? (Fergus Sinclair-House & Andrew Smith) 0 0 2 3 535 5

20 RGU (Michael Hutchison & Sandy Brownlee) 1 1 0 0 513 2
[/s]

Speaker Tab
[s]1 Claire Brown (GUU C) 83 80 84 83 330
2 David Adams (GUU C) 78 78 80 81 317
3 Jason Vit (Team Ice Cream) 79 80 83 73 315
4 Rachael Whitbread (Tories for Social Injustice) 79 78 73 79 309
5 Tom Cahn (Liberals Without A Cause) 76 77 76 76 305
6 Jess Seigel (The Grandkids of Evil) 75 78 75 75 303
6 Miles Wood (Liberals Without A Cause) 74 73 80 76 303
8 Jenni Harrison (Team Ice Cream) 76 75 78 73 302
9 Beth Connor (The Grandkids of Evil) 73 76 77 74 300
11 Chris Hawkins (Tories for Social Injustice) 78 70 71 76 295
19 Anish Narendran (Bridges Too Far) 75 63 74 69 281
24 Jhonti Bird (Norfolk and Chance) 69 64 69 72 274
27 Andrew Smith (What Would Amy Do?) 64 69 68 70 271
28 Zoe Sutherland (Bridges Too Far) 70 63 72 65 270
31 Laura Mattina (Norfolk and Chance) 68 63 66 70 267
34 Fergus Sinclair-House (What Would Amy Do?) 66 60 71 67 264

40 Michael Hutchison (RGU) 67 67 55 61 250[/s]

[Frank George]

Congratulations! It looks like St Andrews had a strong showing, both on the speaker tab and team tab, and Tom and Miles definitely did well!

How did "This House Believes That THIS is the chairperson's favourite motion" turn out? It sounds a BIT open...

[Mr Comedy]

St Andrews were also in attendance at the LSE Open, with Connie and Doug representing for St Andrews.
Tony was also speaking with Gregg O'Neil.

Motions as follows:

R1: THW directly elect the British Prime Minister
R2: THW admit Taiwan to NATO
R3: THW provide tax breaks to married couples with children
R4: THW criminalise smoking and drinking for pregnant mothers
R5: THW allow individual British people to sell their citizenship
QF: THW set income tax at a flat 28% above £9,000 annual income

St Andrews and Tony both broke to Quarters.
Unfortunately I didn't stick around past this, because the rugby was on and I wanted to go to the pub.
However, I was adjudicating, and chaired rounds 1-4, taking wind judge in one of the top rooms for round 5. Rebecca Emmett was also adjudicating, taking chair for R1-3.

More news (probably) and the tab (possibly) when people get back to St Andrews. Who knows?

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[ChrisH]

How did "This House Believes That THIS is the chairperson's favourite motion" turn out? It sounds a BIT open...

Painfully that's how it went! I fully deserved a 71 in that round for my 1st Op speech consisting of "shit, blub, blub, blub, argh!"

As for the speaker tab: 70! 70! For that first prop in round 2! Travesty! No way was it a 70!

Argh!

[mattina]

As it turned out, Aberdeen had changed that motion soon before the round from something slightly less open to prevent everyone from propping Iraq because they hoped no one would.

Sadly, they forgot to tell first prop in the room I was in who propped "THW impose a three-state system in Iraq".

Which I tend to think wasn't our chairperson's favourite motion by a long shot...