ESU Schools Mace England Final

The England Final of the ESU Schools Mace, the National Debating Championship, was held on 24 March at Dartmouth House. The six schools that won their regional round of the competition took part in the final, debating against each other on three motions. The standard of all three debates was extremely high, and it was therefore a difficult decision for the judging panel, which comprised of James Probert and Harold Raitt from the ESU Centre for Speech and Debate, Usman Ahmed, an England finalist in the ESU John Smith Memorial Mace in 2005, Nick Devlin, International Schools Mace Champion in 2003 and Jacqueline Renton, England Delegate to the World Universities Debating Council. After much deliberation, they decided that this year's winners were City of London Boys' School. Their team of Timosha Goldfarb and Andrew Rose will now go on to compete in the International Schools Mace final in the House of Lords on May 6 against schools from Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

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