Middle Temple Wins Oxford

Information taken from the Oxford IV 2008 tab at http://www.oxfordiv.org/halloffame.html

Homegrown teams continued to dominate the results at Oxford.

The PricewaterhouseCoopers Oxford IV 2008 was won by Middle Temple (Daniel Warents and Doug Cochran), debating the motion 'This House Would Make the Number of Votes a Person Can Cast in an Election Inversely Proportional to their Wealth'. Daniel Warents also topped the speaker tab.

The ESL Competition was won by BBU (Nico Lupea and Dan Cristea), debating the motion 'This House Would Directly Elect the US Vice President'. Nico Lupea also topped the ESL speaker tab.

Here are the top 25 teams with the top 16 teams who cleared to quarterfinals. Notice that there are six USA teams in the top 16.

1 MIDDLE TEMPLE .
2 UCC PHIL B
3 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT A
4 CAMBRIDGE A
5 CAMBRIDGE D
6 MIT A
7 TCD PHIL D
8 UCD L&H A
9 UCD L&H B
10 LSE .
11 PORTLAND STATE .
12 SSE RIGA A
13 NOTTINGHAM .
14 FORDHAM SP
15 YALE A
16 PRINCETON A
17 UCC LAW A
18 CAMBRIDGE C
19 HELSINKI .
20 CAMBRIDGE B
21 CAMBRIDGE F
22 NUIG LIT & DEB A
23 YALE B
24 TCD HIST A
25 DURHAM A

Motions:

Rd 1: This house would not prosecute battered wives for killing their husbands.
Rd 2: This house would negotiate with al quaeda
Rd 3: This house would nationalise all banks
Rd 4: This house would make politicians work in health, defense, education or emergency services to qualify for office
Rd 5: This house make entry into university based on a lottery after passing a basic high school exam
Quarter: This house would sell right to sue
Semi: This house would give money to African countries not to take money off China