The World Universities Debating Championship 2015 in Malaysia has its champions:And the winners are...The Open CategorySydney A (Edward Miller, Nick Chung) won the final in the Open Category. They debated the motion "This House believes that humanitarian organisations should, and should be allowed to, give funding, resources or services to illegal armed groups when this is made a condition for access to vulnerable civilians." and won against Oxford A (Patrick Bateman, Natasha Rachman) in Opening Government, BPP A (Steven Rajavinothan, Michael O'Dwyer) in Opening Opposition and Harvard A (Bo Seo, Fanelesibonge Mashwama) in Closing Opposition. The final was adjudicated by Shafiq Bazari (chair), Dominic ... Beiträge zum Stichwort ‘ Cowell ’
WUDC 2015: And the winners are…
The World Universities Debating Championship 2015 in Malaysia has its champions:And the winners are...The Open CategorySydney A (Edward Miller, Nick Chung) won the final in the Open Category. They debated the motion "This House believes that humanitarian organisations should, and should be allowed to, give funding, resources or services to illegal armed groups when this is made a condition for access to vulnerable civilians." and won against Oxford A (Patrick Bateman, Natasha Rachman) in Opening Government, BPP A (Steven Rajavinothan, Michael O'Dwyer) in Opening Opposition and Harvard A (Bo Seo, Fanelesibonge Mashwama) in Closing Opposition. The final was adjudicated by Shafiq Bazari (chair), Dominic ... EUDC 2014 – Die Ergebnisse des European Council
Der Council der European Universities Debating Championships (EUDC, Euros) bestimmt jedes Jahr, wo die übernächste EUDC ausgerichtet werden wird. Am Samstag, dem 23.08., dem letzten Tag der EUDC 2014 in Zagreb, entschied sich der Council für Warschau als Austragungsort der EUDC 2016. Neben der Vergabe der zukünftigen Euros und trifft das Gremium jedoch auch andere Entscheidungen, die die Europäischen Debattiermeisterschaften als Ganzes betreffen. Achte Minute-Korrespondent Nikos Bosse hat die deutsche Repräsentantin Teresa Widlok zum Council-Meeting begleitet und fasst die Ereignisse zusammen.
Etwa fünfzig Debattierer aus ganz Europa saßen im Council zusammen, um sich zu beraten und Entscheidungen für das europäische ... EUDC 2014 – Break to the Finals
The break to the finals at the European Universities Debating Championship 2014 has been announced.
In the ESL category, Berlin A, Lund A, Belgrade B and BBU A made it through the semi-finals with the motion "This house believes that leaders of minority religions in Europe should strongly encourage their congregations to refrain from public displays of their faith". In the Open break, Oxford A, Sheffield A, Nottingham A, and Edinburgh A won the semi-finals with the motion "THBT the US should invade and forceably partition Iraq".
Semi-finals of the Zagreb EUDC
In the Open semi-final 1, the following teams competed:
OG: Edinburgh A
OO: ...
23. August 2014 |
Redakteur: Nikos Bosse |
Kategorie: International, Turniere |
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Zagreb EUDC 2014 – Open and ESL break
The break of the European Universities Debating Championship 2014 in Zagreb has been announced. The following teams will compete in the out-rounds on the 22nd of August (data might be inaccurate):
Open Break
23: Cambridge C
22: Oxford B
21: Cambridge B
21: Oxford A
21: GUU A
20: Cambridge A
20: Oxford C
19: Edinburgh A
19: LSE A
19: Sheffield A
19: Durham B
19: KCL A
19: Hebrew A
19: Nottingham A
19: Durham C
18: BPP A
ESL Break
19: Hebrew A
18; Belgrade B
18: Lund A
18: Tartu A
18: Berlin A
17: Tel Aviv B
17: Leiden A
17: Bucharest A
17: BBU A
17: Tilbury House A
17: Mannheim A
17: ELTE A
17 BGU A
16: Belgrade A
16: Tel Aviv A
16: tie of ... BBU Open 2014
From July 11th to July 13th the BBU Open will take place in Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) in Transylvania, Romania. To give a first taste of the city and the tournament, the Babes-Bolyai University (BBU) Debate Society published this video on their website:
The tournament features 5 preliminary rounds, semi-finals and a final. The Chief Adjudication team comprises of Anser Aftab (WUDC grand finalist 2011 and EUDC champion 2013), Fred Cowell (best speaker at EUDC 2010 and twice WUDC grand final judge), Karin Merckens (ESL grand finalist at WUDC 2013), Michael Shapira (future CA of the EUDC 2015), Milan Vignjevic (future CA of ...
24. März 2014 |
Redakteur: Nikos Bosse |
Kategorie: International, Neues aus den Clubs, Termine, Turniere |
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Proposals for a fairly, better bidding process
On August 23 EUDC Council assembled in Manchester. Amongst other things the decisions on who will host Euros in 2014 and 2015 were made, with bids by Durham and Zagreb for EUDC 2014 and a bid by Vienna for EUDC 2015. Zagreb took the win over Durham and will host Euros next year. Vienna’s bid was confirmed, which makes them the hosts for Euros the year after next. Teresa Widlok was present in Council in her capacity as International Officer of the Association of German Speaking University Debating Societies and German delegate to Council. The following article describes her impressions ...
9. September 2013 |
Redakteur: Achte Minute |
Kategorie: International, Turniere |
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Applications for DCA at Durham EUDC are open
Fred Cowell and Danique van Koppenhagen, the CAs of Durham EUDC 2014 have openned the application process for Deputy Chief Adjudicators. All infromations about where to apply can be found on the EUDC Druham website. The requirements for future DACs are outlined here. Applicants need to fill in the form by 11.59pm 30th of August.
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4. August 2013 |
Redakteur: Achte Minute |
Kategorie: International |
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The Appointment of DCAs for Durham EUDC 2014
[caption id="attachment_17141" align="alignright" width="324"] Beyond black and withe: Danique van Koppenhagen (l) and Fred Cowell (r) are looking for Co-DCAs[/caption]
The DCAs of the Durham EUDC 2014 bid contacted Achte Minute about the application process for Durham EUDC DCAs. Below are all the informations you need if you want to consider an application.
"We will not be appointing DCAs on a specifically regional basis but will instead be appointing those individuals who meet the qualifications and are best placed to fulfil the duties and expectations of a DCA. The qualifications and duties of a DCA are set out below, we will be ...
15. Juli 2013 |
Redakteur: Achte Minute |
Kategorie: International, Menschen, Turniere |
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Reform des Bewerbungsprozesses für stellvertretende Chefjuroren
In the past the Deputy Chief Adjudicators of the European Universities Debating Championships (EUDC) were choosen in advance. Danique van Koppenhagen one of the Chief Adjudicators of the Durham EUDC bid shares her and Fred Crowell ideas about a reform. Comment and discuss away!
At EUDC council in Belgrade, a decision was made to no longer allow bids for EUDC to announce more than two members of their prospective CA team. The Durham EUDC bid for 2014 has taken this to heart, and announced only Fred Cowell and myself as co-CA’s. DCA’s will be announced after the bid has been awarded.
The change ...
10. April 2013 |
Redakteur: Achte Minute |
Kategorie: International, Mittwochs-Feature |
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Stockholm IV
Das erste, schwedische Debattierturnier, das Stockholm IV, wird vom 10. - 12. Mai in der schwedischen Kapitale stattfinden. Das Team-Cap ist 48, die Teilnehmerbeitrag beträgt 45 Euro pro Person, es gilt n-1 für Juroren. CAs sind Michael Shapira, Frederick Cowell and Ben Gladnikoff. Sie gestalten die Themen für fünf Runden, Halbfinale und Finale. Möglicherweise gibt es eine ESL-Break.
Mehr Informationen gibt es auf dieser Website.
fpu Im Rückblick findet dieses Haus das Vienna IV immer noch großartig
Auf dem Vienna IV wurden in diesem Jahr mit unterschiedlichen Arten von Motions gespielt. Die Achte Minute war dabei und berichtet über die Motions, die Atmosphäre und die Gewinner des Turniers.
„Als wir Chefjuroren über mögliche Themen für das Turnier geredet haben, haben wir festgestellt, dass einige spannende Debatten nicht zugänglich sind für die Debattierwelt“, berichtet Danique van Koppenhagen: „Wenn man beispielsweise darüber debattiert, ob der Irak Krieg gerechtfertigt war, kommt ziemlich schnell das Argument, dass keine Massenvernichtungswaffen gefunden wurden und deshalb der Krieg nicht gerechtfertigt gewesen ist. Wir dachten es wäre spannend nun einmal zu debattieren warum ein Krieg damals ... 
