There were a few hiccups (one school pulled out beforehand reducing us to 3 schools & accidents/roadworks delaying teams (and our caterers) getting to IFR) but Jason (our chairperson) pulled out all the stops to get us going and kept us on time.
We had judges with a wide range of experience (albeit all but one were DM judge newbies - myself included).
The three topics (minimum pricing of alcohol, copyright protects the arts & state regulation of party political funds) were challenging and were strongly contested.
This certainly made judging a non-trivial task but eventually the Langley School were declared the winners and go through to further rounds (Read their blogged report here).Regardless of whether they won or not, I hope that all the teams enjoyed themselves on the night and found the experience useful. I was genuinely impressed with the ability of all the pupils and wish them well.
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