A tab insight: Berlin Worlds' tabmaster Jens Fischer gives some information we used to collect and tweet in the past - and usually we only had them in parts. You may find here a table that shows you the team results after the six open preliminaries. Of course: The details about the individual speaker points are still under wraps. All teams that have accumulated the same number of team points are simply listed alphabetically. And the tension remains: there are three preliminary rounds to go today - and the judges will not give feedback nor team points. The break will be announced ...

Please see the German version to get a fuller coverage of the media review. It's the first time the German language debating championship (Meisterschaft im deutschsprachigen Debattieren or MDD) is hosted outside Germany. The MDD is part of the ZEIT DEBATTEN series. Behind it are VDCH in cooperation with the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT, with the support of Deutsche Telekom and the media partner of a major public German broadcaster (ZDF). The series has been staged in alternating cities for more than a decade under the patronage of the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

Please find here the cover-ups we have gathered for you on the German regionals. Please do not hesitate to read the German version of this article. There you may learn more on what the press writes about the Western German regional (WDM) as well as what debating societies like DK Wien and DC Freiburg have to say about this year's Southern German regional in Bayreuth. Oliver Hörtensteiner, the tabmaster of this year's Southern German regional put the tab of the competition online. You may also find the tab of WDM 2011 online. glx / apf ...

This weekend, VDCH debaters took part in tournaments in Stuttgart and Leeds. On top of that, our neighbors in the Netherlands have also been competing at a tournament. Three tournaments, three CA teams, three languages. Find all motions of this weekend here. Additionally, we kindly ask you, our much appreciated readers, to do us a favor: Which motion did you find the most interesting, the best to debate, the most exciting? Which one did you think was no good idea? Please do not hesitate to leave your comments below and vote for your favorite motion. ...

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version of this article to see what various debating societies say about the ZEIT DEBATTE in Mainz on their websites! ...

On his blog, Manos Moschopoulos compiled unofficial tabs for ESL and EFL respectively for the World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC or Worlds). He did so based on data provided by Leela Koenig, judge at Botswana Worlds, and the competition's language committee. So far, official ESL and EFL tabs have not yet been published by the adjudication team of CA Logandran Balavijendran. According to Manos’ compilation, a correction of the Top Five EFL Speakers has to be noted: “Simon Belak (Ljubljana C) and Andreas Lazar (Stuttgart A) are joint top EFL speakers (initially, they were announced as 2nd and 1st respectively),” Manos ...

We’re sorry, this article is not or not yet available in English. Please read the German version.

The full tab of the World Universities Debating Championships 2011 has been made available online already! The CA team put it on the homepage of Botswana Worlds. Naturally, Achte Minute does have a focus on the results of  VDCH teams and speakers. Hence, to lighten the burden for you, our loyal readers, we compiled their results. ...

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version of this article to see what various debating societies say about the BaWü 2010 on their websites! ...

...

Preußen Punk Potsdam's Tab is now online.

The tab of ZEIT DEBATTE Greifswald can be found online! Interesting enough: The team of Hanse Debating Union Bremen broke to semis with a result of 15 out of 15 points. And the team from Klartext Halle that later won the final was third of the tab after prelims. ...

Hooray and boohoo: Just eight teams out of 24 had the chance to break at the ZEIT DEBATTEN series kick-off that opens the current season of 2010/2011. Here are the teams that compete for the break into finals on Sunday morning at Greifswald by the Baltic Sea. ...

The SOAS Debating Society continues to establish its IV as one of the largest debate competitions in Europe. On October 16th and 17th, 116 teams competed over six preliminary rounds at the School of African an Oriental Studies near King’s Cross in London. For VDCH-debaters, this was a particularly successful weekend. The final was won by Harish Natarjan and Matilda Wnek (Cambridge H). They triumphed over Cambridge E (Maria English and Jack Watson), Loyola (Emily Ravencroft and Bobby Cashen) and KCL A (Daniel Berman and Jordan Anderson). The ESL final was won by the German vice-champion and current exchange student Filip Bubenheimer ...

The Gutenberg Cup 2010 tab is online, and the first credits of the free debating league (FDL) are listed. Thus, first pickings on the competition hosted by the Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg Mainz (DCJG) are presented here. The Tab of the Gutenberg Cup 2010 is available on DCJG’s. It was already after the preliminary rounds that Tübingen’s team Streitkultur Dionysos was a probable candidate for the title of “Master of the Jokes”. A first ranking after FDL’s opening competition can be found on the league’s website. Now, Streitkultur Tübingen is at the top of the new hit list followed by DCJG Mainz. Upcoming ...

Late at night the Schobbe Cup CA-Team Pauline Leopold and Florian Prischl announced the break to semis. Here it is! Team break: 1. Bonn Generations (Jens Fischer, Isabelle Loewe, Gudrun Lux; 665 Points) 2. Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Berlin, Kai Dittmann, Dessislava Kirova, Georg Sommerfeld, 622) 3. Eo Ipso Jena (Severin Weingarten, Friederike Meyer zu Wendischhoff, Jonathan Scholbach, 588) 4. Quantenmechanische Juristen (Mainz, Nicolas Eberle, Max Fritz, Natalie Wieseotte, 580) Independent Speakers: Florian Umscheid (Potsdam, 139 Speaker Points) Moritz Kirchner (Potsdam, 139) Peter Etges (Mainz, 135) Daniil Pakhomenko (Mainz, 134) Friederike Ditzen (Mainz, 133) Till Kröger (Heidelberg, 132) Top Ten: 1. Isabelle Loewe (154 Speaker Points) 2. Nicolas Eberle and Gudrun Lux (je 151) 4. Jens Fischer ...

Boddencup 2010's Tab is now available online. You may also find some societies' reports on the tournament (in German), as there are Debattiergesellschaft Jena's report on Boddencup, a Debattierclub Stuttgart's report and a Berlin Debating Union's report. ...

There is an official version of the tab, by now you can find the ESL Final online, and so on… Here comes a bunch of links that recall the European Universities Debating Championship (EUDC)! ...

Achte Minute scanned the tab distributed after the grand final. You can now find the EUDC 2010 Team Tab and the EUDC 2010 Speaker Tab online. Surely the tabs will be published officially soon. Top Ten Speaker: 1. Fred Cowell, ULU B (London) 2. Sam Block, Manchester A 3. Jack Watson, Cambridge A 4. Thomas Hosking, Oxford A 5. Harish Natarajan, Cambridge A 6. Gregg O'Neill, TCD Phil A (Dublin) 7. Rosie Unwin, ULU B (London) 8. Ben Woolgar, Oxford A 9. Daniel Swain, Team Australia (no break permission) 10. Kelly Butler, Team Australia (no break permission) Top Ten Speaker ESL: 1. Jeroen Heun, Erasmus A (Rotterdam) 2. Daniel Springer, Erasmus A (Rotterdam) 3. David ...

Vignesh Ashok and Emily Pearce of Oxford A won the Tilbury House Summer Open! James Torrance from Nottingham was declared best speaker of the final. Congratulations! Team Tab and Speaker Tab is available online.

Das Tab des Turniers des Vienna Debating Workshop 2010 ist jetzt auf der Seite des Debattierklub Wien (DKW) online. Auch ein englischsprachiger Artikel des DKW über den Workshop findet sich dort.

Großer Erfolg für Köln - mit 18 Teampunkten konnten sich Bianca Sterly und Sebastian Hagemann an die Spitze des Vorrundentabs setzen. Doch sie stehen nicht einsam am oberen Ende der Tabelle - der Spitzenplatz war hart umkämpft. Und auch die Konkurrenz, der sich sie bestblatzierten Teams nun im Viertelfinale stellen müssen, schläft nicht. Die 16 nach 7 Vorrunden am besten bewerteten Teams werden sich noch heute abend in vier Viertelfinaldebatten miteinander messen. Und hier ist er, der Break ins Viertelfinale: 1. Köln Tilbury House Wieß (18 Teampunkte/1083 Rednerpunkte) Bianca Sterly, Sebastian Hagemann 2. Potsdam Rote Kaserne (17/1078) Moritz Kirchner, ...

Das Tab der ZEIT DEBATTE Tübingen 2010 ist online. Es ist auf der Tabseite des VDCH einsehbar. Vielen Dank dem Tabmaster Oliver Hörtensteiner aus München!

Das Tab der Süddeutschen Meisterschaft ist jetzt auch auf der Tabseite des VDCH online. Juhu! Damit sind alle Redner- und Teamranglisten aller vier VDCH-Regionalmeisterschaften 2010 auf der Seite zu finden, ebenso wie die Redner- und Teamranglisten aller ZEIT DEBATTEN dieser Saison. Zudem gibt es einen weiteren Clubbericht über ein Regio: Die Debattiergesellschaft Jena ...

Die Mannheim Debating Union hat das Science Po IV in Le Havre gewonnen. Bei dem Turnier der berühmten Pariser Hochschule, das  von 7. bis 9. Mai in Le Havre in der Normandie ausgetragen wurde, traten 24 Teams gegeneinander an, um sich in englischer Sprache miteinander zu messen. Das besondere: Nur Nichtmuttersprachler waren startberechtigt. ...

Das Tab ist online! Die Team- und Einzelrednerbewertungen sowie die Setzungen bei der ZEIT DEBATTE Wien 2010 sind jetzt auf der Tabseite des VDCH online. Vielen Dank dem Tabmaster des Turniers Oliver Hörtensteiner! Die Top Five der Rednerrangliste nach dem Finale: Peter Croonenbroeck (Streitkultur Tübingen) Tom-Michael Hesse (Streitpunkt Leipzig) Benedikt Nufer (Debattierclub Hamburg, im Turnier für DC Göttingen) Anna Thomas (Rederei Heidelberg) Philipp Stiel (Streitkultur Tübingen)

27 Teams debattierten bei der ZEIT DEBATTE Wien 2010, die acht besten maßen sich am Samstagnachmittag in Viertelfinaldebatten miteinander. Darin setzte sich Göttingen gegen Jena durch, Heidelberg (Rederei) besiegte Stuttgart, Tübingen gewann gegen Frankfurt und Leipzig schlug Berlin. ...

Drei Vorrunden und die Viertelfinals liegen hinter den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern der ersten ZEIT DEBATTE, die außerhalb Deutschlands ausgetragen wird - im kaiserlichen und zauberhaften Wien. Hier gibt's den Viertelfinalbreak der Teams, Fraktionsfreien Redner und der Juroren sowie die Themen der ersten vier Debatten des OPD-Turniers! ...

Das Tab des Berliner Neujahrsturniers und das Tab des Berliner Punk-Turniers der Berlin Debating Union sind online. Neujahrsturnier-Sieger Jan Kastell hat für die Internetseite seines Debattierclub Harthornes House Marburg einen Turnierbericht über das Neujahrsturnier geschrieben.