Early birds – Vienna IV 2012
Read about the Vienna IV through the lenses of last year’s convener of the Vienna IV 2011, Leonhard Weese and what he has to say about the challenges of running a tournament. He also reveals how the orgcom turned a draconian punctuality into a real treat for the participants.
Budapest Open 2012
The Budapest Open from the 1. to the 4. March, 2013 was (almost) the first official British parliamentary debate tournament taking place in Hungary. As a cooperation between students and debate societies from the Central European University and Corvinus University of Budapest it attracted total of 48 teams debated in 4 preliminary rounds to break […]
Berlin wins the Vienna IV 2012
From March 9 to 11 Debattierklub Wien hosted the Vienna IV for the second time since it’s inception. 50 teams competed in 6 British Parliamentary rounds on Friday and Saturday. The tournament was chief adjudicated by Maja Cimerman, Mark Manson and Michael Shapira. The Semi and Final debates were held in the festive location of […]
Debattieren, Flanieren, Philosophieren – Die ZEIT Debatte Hamburg 2012
Vom 13.1.2012 bis 15.01.2012 fand in Hamburg die erste ZEIT DEBATTE des Jahres statt. Der Debattierclub Hamburg e.V. lud gemeinsam mit dem Debattierclub Kiel zum Turnier, das nach Regeln der Offenen Parlamentarischen Debatte (OPD) ausgetragen wurde. Für den Debattierklub Wien traten Philipp Deutsch, Andreas Prischl und Jakob Reiter als die „Wiener Gschichtldrucker“ und Karoline Lutz […]
Dropping by in South East Asia: Singapore Debate Open 2011
Singapore Debate Open took place in the small capitalist police state from December 14th to 16th. The tournament was well organised and attracted a high class adjudication core. Let’s better not talk about the rest though. The author decided to show pictures instead.
“Cheating is Human, Adultery is a Virtue” Savoir Vivre Lessons from the Centrale IV 2011
3 weeks before WUDC, the Centrale IV was one of the last chances to fine tune debate skills. Christoph Jäger and Rosie Halmi competed as Vienna A together with 40 international teams in (almost) Paris on December 2nd and 3rd. With the usual suspects on the judging pool, five preliminary rounds, beer, pizza and an […]
