WDI Assisted Debate Academy in Serbia Concludes

 Finalists: Goran, Fabian, Petros, Slobodan, Viktor, Marko; Tijana and Teo in front

The Serbia Debate Academy was sponsored by Open Communication Serbia, The World Debate Institute at the University of Vermont, the US Department of State and the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe. It concluded with a tournament on Friday.

It was quite an international event, with debaters from Serbia, Greece, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Romania and the USA. The final round involved students from Serbia, Greece, Germany and Slovenia. But the Serbs prevailed.
Goran Januloski and Tijana Mijalkovic won in front of the entire crew and a seven judge panel chaired by Stephen Boyle from Ireland. The team of Petros Papalianos and Fabian Farkas placed second. The other two teams were Marko Krajnc and Teo Radetic of Slovenia and Victor Prija and Slobodan Trivic.
Semifinal Results:

BUSINESS TIME (1) 1OPP advances (0n 3-2 vote over 1st Prop)

HONEYBUNNY & BOOBEAR (USA) (4) 1PROP

ALPSKI SRBI (5) 2^ND PROP advances

FRANZ FERDINAND (Austria) (8) 2OPP

JUDGES: MILAN (CHAIR), MANOS,  MARKO,  JOVANA, NEBOJSA

MINDEDJ (Serbia) (2) 1OPP

BAILOUT BASTERDS (3) 1PROP advances

=3 (6) 2PROP advances

WE HATE CUPCAKES (Serbia) (7) 2OPP

Speaker Awards:

1	Goran Jankoloski	Business Time	476	79.33
2	Teo Radetic	Alpski Srbi	467	77.83
3	Tijana Mijalkovic	Business Time	466	77.66
4	Marija Simic	Mindedj	464	77.33
5	Fabian Farkas	Bailout Basterds	455	75.83
6	Petros Papalianos	Bailout Basterds	452	75.33
7	Stefan Milic	Mindedj	451	75.16
7	Jessica Bullock	Honeybunny & Boobear	451	75.16
9	Emily Barkdoll	Honeybunny & Boobear	450	75.00
10	Viktor Prija	=3	443	73.83
10	Mihai Alexandrescu	Mocanu-Alexandrescu	443	73.83

Results can be found at http://debate.uvm.edu/usudc/sda2010/
Motions were:

1. THW ban all pornography

2. THBT Serbia should immediately recognize Kosovo

3. THW tax tobacco and alcohol no more than other consumer goods

4. TH supports the outing of gay public figures.

5. THBT EU should only consider economical factors when admitting new member states

6. THW tax religious organizations the same as businesses.

s. THW give citizens below the poverty tine two votes.

f. THW ban advertisements that use sex to sell products 

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