Lithuania Are Crowned The First Ever World Online Debating Champions

In an acutely able-bodied contested and agreeable final, Lithuania emerged arrive to be crowned the aboriginal anytime apple online debating champions. The final itself lived up to all expectations, with Lithuania’s hypothesis that “We should cost abandon over aegis and abate anti-terrorism legislation” ultimately accepting too abundant for England to auspiciously altercate against. En avenue to the final, Lithuania alveolate up victories adjoin rivals Latvia, as able-bodied as Canada, South Africa and South Korea. This run included achievement adjoin three English speaking countries, a absolutely arresting accomplishment for the Eastern European team.

In accepting to the final, Lithuania showed above and absorbing ability on a ambit of circuitous and arguable issues. Their achievement over South Africa in the division final saw them auspiciously altercate adjoin absorption ante on claimed lending accepting capped at 20%, whilst in the additional annular Lithuania overcame a able a Canadian aggregation on the affair of taxation on affiliated wealth. The final itself was contested over 5 days, with the accommodation on which aggregation should adduce and argue absitively by a bung of a coin.

With the console of six apple chic board accepting the albatross of selecting a winner, both Lithuania and England bare to be on top of their bold to affect and airing abroad with the WODC trophy. Lithuania’s adventurous move of comparing US anti-terrorism legislation with the laws alien in Nazi Germany ultimately paid off, with the chancy action accepting backed up with clear, advisory and agreeable arguments.

Judge Colm Flynn, above armchair of the World’s Council, was abounding of acclaim for the two finalists, adage “I anticipate it is the best of the debates I accept judged, with the two best performances I accept apparent advancing from the teams in the final as you would achievement a final should be but rarely is.” Fellow adjudicator Logan Balavijendran believed the final was “a acceptable debate, abutting and engaged.” These sentiments were echoed by Chief Adjudicator Neill Harvey-Smith who was admiring that the final lived up to expectations, “Congratulations to both teams on a applicable afterpiece to countdown World Online Debating Championships.” In commendations to how Harvey-Smith came to his final accommodation to accolade achievement to Lithuania, he added “They wrote acutely and argued about the issues, not accepting bogged down in abstruse credibility about the action of agitation as abundant as the action did.” In acceptance of their achievement, the Lithuanians will be the aboriginal aggregation anytime to accept the WODC trophy, and will no agnosticism attending to avert it at the next tournament.

The WODC created by Debatewise has been heralded as a abundant success and the final can be captivated up as a affirmation of the top akin of debating abilities from about the world. The achievement will be that the next WODC will be just as aggressive and agitative as the countdown tournament, with the twenty 5 teams who competed this year accepting hopefully abutting by even added countries analytic to crop on World Champions Lithuania.

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