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

The Rules

Each country is represented by one poem; all poems must previously have been published in The Missing Slate (poems that have also appeared elsewhere will remain eligible).

For the first round, the countries have been drawn in alphabetical order. The first in the alphabet (Bangladesh) plays the last (Venezuela), and so on. In the second round, the winner of the opening match will play the winner of the second match, and so on.

The winner of each match will be decided by The Missing Slate‘s readers a poll on the magazine’s website, located at the foot of each individual match page. (Please note: for the opening two matches, it was also possible to vote on the magazine’s facebook page. The voting process has now been streamlined to avoid potential confusion over two separate sets of results.)

Each match will run for exactly 24 hours, beginning at midday Pakistan time (PKT; GMT+4 hours). After 24 hours, the poem with the most votes will be declared the winner and will go through to the next round.

In the event of a tie, the match will go to a “golden vote”. The poem that receives the first vote after midday PKT will be the winner.

In the event of any dispute over the result, the decision of The Missing Slate‘s editors must be regarded as final.