TCD IV

[lem55]

Despite illness and extremely delayed flights, most of the St Andrews TCD contingent managed to make the trip across to Dublin. In a tournament that saw a number of interesting developments such as teams you would think would make the break knocking each other out (save Steve Nolan and Art Ward who were knocked out of the break by the World Schools team) and a pair of fantatic freshers from UCD winning the final-Julia Lawlor and Rebecca.

Congratulations to James and Claire for breaking 8th to the quarter-finals and to Jess for breaking as a judge. Also well done to all of the freshers who did very well-Sarah and Jack were in a break room in the last round which is fantastic.

Team Tab:

1. UCD L 2 3 2 3 3 13
2. Cambridge B 2 3 3 1 3 12
3. Middle Temple 1 3 3 3 2 12
4. King's Inns A 3 2 3 1 3 12
5. Maquarie 3 3 3 2 1 12
6. UCD B 3 2 3 3 0 11
7. Oxford JQ 3 2 1 3 2 11
8. St Andrews A (James and Claire) 3 2 0 3 3 11
...they broke to quarters so some other teams broke too...

33. St Andrews D (Jack and Sarah) 2 1 2 2 1 8
39. St Andrews B (Zoe and Laura) 1 3 3 0 0 7 (the second day did not go well...)
41. St Andrews C (Sean and Phil) 1 0 1 3 2 7

Speaker Tab:
1. Will Jones 80 81 89 86 82 418

26. James Beadle 78 76 72 77 86 389
58. Claire Murran 75 68 72 74 84 373
62. Laura Mattina 73 77 78 72 72 371
74. Zoe Sutherland 70 78 75 71 72 366
82. Jack Whiteley 77 71 74 73 65 360
88. Sarah Whittam 74 73 72 72 65 356
88. Phil Goose 72 68 66 77 73 356
99. Sean Duff 70 68 64 76 73 351

Motions:
1. THW intern known gang members without trial.
2. THW make people do community service proportional to wealth.
3. THW place Western sanctions on countries that don't have women's equality, like was done in South Africa.
4. THW ban the media from publicising or commenting on political statements made by religious leaders.
5. THW prosecute passengers of drunk drivers.
Quarter: THW in newly democratised countries publish lists of those who collaborated with the previous regime (or something like that was much longer)
Semi: THW ban alcohol
Final: THW have a constitutional dictatorship over democracy.

Laura

[Jessica]

Yes! Congrats to all! What excellent fun! I'm so impressed with James and Claire. Nice.

Genuinely great showing from St Andrews all around.

I believe James Beadle will post soon about the discrepancy between speaker points shown on the team tab vs on the speaker tab (though this did not affect the break).

[lem55]

TCD messed up their tab by incorrectly totalling the number of speaker points that each team had; this affected the ordering of teams in each group of team points. This was an issue as one team on 9 team points broke and the incorrect ranking of teams meant that the team from UCD that went on to win the competition should not have broken and Art Ward and Steve Nolan should have instead.