Monday, January 3, 2011

WUDC 2011: ESL Final Underway

We're on whip speeches now.
Organizers didn't call us back in, so I missed half the PM speech. The model seems to revolve around size of parties - this was briefly ciriticized, but hasn't influenced the debate much.

General trend seems to be that principles were debated at the top of the table and bottom is focusing on implementation-related extensions with ties to principle. The latter has worked surprisingly well in many cases at this Worlds. Seems like debateland is moving back closer to reality ;)

I am leaning somewhat towards opp, but the speeches in opening were of different strength, and closing might be focusing a little much on the idea that if the problem that OG presented exists, this is the fault of "broken democracy" in the first place. Strong performance from CG as well, so this will be a suspenseful one until tonight ...

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