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3 August 2010

Cambridge IV 2010

Hi all!

We're pleased to announce that registration for the Cambridge IV 2010 is now open. To register, please click on the link below.

https://spreadsheets2.google.com/viewform?formkey=dElsRV8tWFYweUNHaDlWTDgzaUZGWFE6MQ

CAs:
Art Ward - Worlds Finalist and 9th Ranked Speaker, Koc Worlds 2010, Grand Final Judge Australs 2009, Winner LSE Open 2008
Daniel Warents - Worlds Finalist 2008, European finalist 2007, Oxford IV winner 2008, European final judge 2009

5 preliminary rounds, 7 minute speeches, break to quarter finals & ESL break to semi-finals

Closed motions

100 teams, 3 team institution cap, n-1 judges for IONA teams

£80 registration fee: champagne black tie social, crash, breakfast, hogroast, lots of free drinks

Supplementary package (available to all) - £20 per team: debate workshops, entry to the Thursday night Cambridge Union debate, extra crash Thursday night
Registration will open towards the end of July.

For more information contact Julie Chan and Will Davis at iv@cus.org.

Timetable (Provisional)

THURSDAY 18th NOVEMBER (supplementary package only)
16:00-17:30 Debating Workshop
19:30-22:00 Cambridge Union Debate

FRIDAY 19th NOVEMBER
15:00-17:00 Registration
17:00-17:30 Briefing for teams and for adjudicators
18:00-19:15 Round 1
19:15-20:00 Dinner
20:00-22:00 Round 2
22:00-00:00 Social

SATURDAY 20th NOVEMBER
09:00-11:00 Round 3
11:15-13:00 Round 4 announced
13:00-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:45 Round 5
15:45 Break announcement
16:00 Main break quarter-finals & ESL semi-finals
18:00 Main break semi-finals & ESL final
19:00-20:00 Dinner
20:00 Grand Final
22:00-03:00 Black Tie Social

Update from Botswana Worlds

Dear Botswana Worlds participants,

We are proud to announce that the 2nd Phase of registration (Deposit payments) has been in progress successfully with fewer challenges.

Confirmation emails shall be sent to all institutions and major debate websites by the end of this week. This applies to all institutions that have made their payments and sent proof of payments, and we have received their funds by close of business on the 30th July (including those that communicated their challenges to us). We are currently finalizing the cross-checking our records with the banking data and promotion of institutions on the waiting list and we are 60 per cent done with this process.

The delay in releasing the confirmation communiqué is a result of the following reasons;

– Challenges with the Automatic Invoicing system on our website leading to manual invoices

– Failure of the registration system in uploading Proof of Payments from institutions directly and automatically making confirmations to institutions. This led to the Finance team having to receive 90 per cent of Proof of Payments via email leading to manually having to cross check the payments and confirming teams.

– Institutions sending payments via their Accountants/Treasuries/Sponsors and then not communicating with the Finance Team about such payments leading to Org. Comm. to receiving anonymous payments. We therefore wish to request all institutions that are affected by this to email us immediately about their transactions.

In consideration of the above, we wish to announce that the 3rd Phase of Registration shall resume on the 9th August 2010:8:00AM GMT (10AM Botswana Time) and Closes on the 9th September 2010:8:00AM GMT (10AM Botswana Time)

All those institutions that have been allocated slots as per the first phase including all African teams and have not communicated with the registration team MUST get in touch with us IMMEDIATELY.

Thank you

Botswana Worlds Registration Team