Poetry World Cup 2014

WINNER: Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé (Singapore)

                              
                              
                              
                              

The Draw

FINAL

Singapore (Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé) v. Pakistan (Mehvash Amin) SGP by 25 votes

Semi-finals

Tunisia (Ali Znaidi) v. Singapore (Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé) SGP by 54 votes
Pakistan (Mehvash Amin) v. Laos (Bryan Thao Worra) PAK by 137 votes

Quarter-finals

Venezuela (Rafael Ayala Páez) v. Tunisia (Ali Znaidi) TUN by 29 votes
Trinidad & Tobago (Vahni Capildeo) v. Singapore (Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé) SGP by 70 votes
Scotland (Ryan Van Winkle) v. Pakistan (Mehvash Amin) PAK by 23 votes
India (Shikha Malaviya) v. Laos (Bryan Thao Worra) LAO by 131 votes

Round Two

Venezuela (Rafael Ayala Páez) v. USA (Ravi Shankar) VEN by 4 votes
Bermuda (Nancy Anne Miller) v. Tunisia (Ali Znaidi) TUN by 3 votes
Trinidad & Tobago (Vahni Capildeo) v. St. Lucia (John Robert Lee) TTO by 5 votes
Singapore (Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé) v. Cyprus (Nora Nadjarian) SGP by 34 votes

Scotland (Ryan Van Winkle) v. Russia (Valery Petrovskiy) SCO by 8 votes
Republic of Ireland (Anatoly Kudryavitsky) v. Pakistan (Mehvash Amin) PAK by walkover
India (Shikha Malaviya) v. Indonesia (Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi) IND by 5 votes
Iran (Payam Feili) v. Laos (Bryan Thao Worra) LAO by 56 votes

Round One

Bangladesh (Mir Mahfuz Ali) v. Venezuela (Rafael Ayala Páez) VEN by 10 votes
Barbados (Esther Phillips) v. USA (Ravi Shankar)  USA by 7 votes
Bermuda (Nancy Anne Miller) v. Uganda (Derek Lubangakene) BMU by 20 votes
Botswana (TJ Dema) v. Tunisia (Ali Znaidi) Tie; TUN by golden vote

Bulgaria (Kapka Kassabova) v. Trinidad & Tobago (Vahni Capildeo)  TTO by 3 votes
Canada (Ottilie Mulzet) v. St. Lucia (John Robert Lee) LCA by 16 votes
China (Changming Yuan) v. Singapore (Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé) SGP by 48 votes
Cyprus (Nora Nadjarian) v. Serbia (Dušan Gojkov) CYP by 3 votes

Denmark (Amalie Smith) v. Scotland (Ryan Van Winkle) SCO by 9 votes
England (Jon Stone) v. Russia (Valery Petrovskiy)  RUS by 10 votes
Finland (Kat Soini) v. Republic of Ireland (Anatoly Kudryavitsky) IRE by 12 votes
Ghana (Kwame Dawes) v. Pakistan (Mehvash Amin) PAK by 28 votes

India (Shikha Malaviya) v. Nigeria (David Ishaya Osu) IND by 8 votes
Indonesia (Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi) v. New Zealand (Iain Britton) IDN by 30 votes
Iran (Payam Feili) v. Malaysia (Sharanya Manivannan) IRN by 17 votes
Laos (Bryan Thao Worra) v. Lebanon (Wadih Sa’adeh) LAO by 37 votes