And the winners are...

Firstly, thank you for your patience.  It's been very difficult to choose the winners of the competition as so many of your debates were of such high quality.  However, the judges have come to a unanimous decision and I'm delighted to announce the following debates have won.

First place – MacBook Air
Voting should be compulsory in the UK
The most comprehensive and most clearly explained debate - this was a well written and persuasive summary of the main arguments on both sides of the issue.

Second place – iPhone
Stop the Olympic games
An impressively researched and thoroughly analysed debate, with a huge range of factual material to support claims on both sides of the argument.

Third place – iPod classic
University education needs to be capped and more selective
An interesting debate that provided plenty of explanation for its claims on both sides of the argument. It also displayed a high quality of rebuttal.

In addition, the Wiki Zen Master prize to the person who's contributed most to the site goes to oneday12.  Congratulations, your iPod touch will be on its way shortly.

To everyone else, thank you for your entry and sorry you didn't win.  I hope you can take some consolation from the fact that your debate has added to Debatewise and will live on for others to benefit from.

Terms and Conditions

• Enter as many times as you like.
• All entries must be unique and legal. Any plagiarism or copyright issues will result in disqualification, as will any libellous remarks.
• Each entry must confirm to the criteria listed above in order to be eligible for the prize.
• We accept entries from any country in the world but entries must be in English.
• All debates created after 23rd March 2008 and before 14th May 2008 will be automatically entered into the competition. If you don't want your debate entered please email us at stating the name of your debate and the email address you used when registering.
• All entries to the competition will automatically appear on the site. If you would like your entry removed please email us at stating the name of your debate and the email address you used when registering.
• Winners will be announced on this page and by email, on or before the 1st June 2008. The judges' decision will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
• By entering the competition the you agree to participate in such promotional activity and material as we may require. Don't worry, we're not going to get you to dress up in a chicken suit. Well probably not anyway.
• The panel of judges for each competition will be comprised of the directors of Debatewise and leading members of UK debating societies, such as Jonathan Leader Maynard from Kings College. The names of whom will be announced here soon.
• No part of a prize is exchangeable for cash or any other prize.
• This competition is organised by Debatewise Ltd, 77 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4QS.
• We will endeavour to get the prizes to you within a month of the competition end date.
• We may have to change the rules from time to time, any such changes will be announced on this page as and when they take place.

News

• Keep up-to-date with all site developments by reading our brand new blog.
• By popular demand we've extended the competition close date to the 8th June.
• New debate judges include the World Debating Champion of 2008 and the Chair of the English National Universities Debate Council
• More info in our newsletter. Start a debate and you'll get the next edition