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WODC- Aujudication pool revealed
Leo here again with the latest news on the World Online Debating Championships. First up we at debatewise finally know who some of the adjudicators are going to be, an group of people that our Chief Adjudicator Neil Harvey Smith describes as " the best all-star adjudication pool ever put together". In alphabetical order they are:- Ray D'Cruz
Monica Ferris
-Colm Flynn
Connie Grieve
-Andy Hume
-Ian Lising,
-Logan
Jonathan Leader Maynard
Tony Murphy
Can Okar
Sharmila Parmanand
Omar Salahuddin
With more still to follow we have a group of very high quality people for what is promising to be a high quality competition. Debaters whether novices or old hands are going to get a massive opportunity to learn their craft and the rest of the world will also be able to follow and learn too.
Meanwhile two teams Um Shmum and Pakak Pakka are squaring off in the only preliminary round to see who gets to be in the championships being the standard bearer for Israel . Their Hebrew names are pretty dismissive of certain institutions and everbody else respectively but who will be the ones doing the dismissing or suffering an early dismissal? Here's the link for those interested to see and maybe help shape the fate of this preliminary roundhttp://www.debatewise.com/debates/985-surrogate-mothers-should-be-allowed-to-profit-financially-from-surrogacy