The 2012 Manchester IV is now over. We want to thank to all the 108 teams from the 15 countries that attended the event, to all the organisers and the adjudication team represented by Harish Natarajan, Manos Moschopoulos and Georgie Barker.

The motions of this tournament were:

  • R1: THB India should remove its ban on 'The Satanic Verses'
  • R2: THW support the building of big casinos to rejuvenate economically deprived areas
  • R3: THB the Greek Government should reject the latest EU, ECB & IMF bailout agreement
  • R4: THB the Gay Rights Movement should oppose Gay Pride Parades in Western Liberal Democracies
  • R5: THBT the states of former Yugoslavia should create a unified football league
  • Open QF: THBT Vladmir Putin should make a credible public offer to the United States for joint decommissioning of their entire nuclear arsenal
  • ESL SF: THBT the Media should not show images of police brutality
  • Open SF: THBT film stars, music stars & other popular entertainers should be prohibited from participating in political campaigns
  • ESL Final: THW grant automatic asylum to women from countries under sharia law
  • Open Final: THBT Western European countries should teach an overwhelmingly negative version of their imperial histories
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We hope to see you all in 2013!

Traian Zaharia
Rugilė Stonytė
Tournament Convenors