Heaps fun with debates and stuff: Melbourne Mini starts off the Down Under Worlds Prep
From December 2nd to 4th Melbourne Mini demonstrated that the world best institutions prepare for the upcoming WUDC in a fun and relaxed atmosphere, gathering 60 teams in 6 pre-rounds without the need to hype their prestige. Stefan Zweiker reports from Down Under. The most prestigious tournaments actually take place in Australia, of course. Cambridge and Oxford can […]
Debating Just A Few Meters Down The Danube – A Friendly Tournament in Budapest
Possibly this article will alter history a little bit (sorry, that’s an Austrian habit). The first reason therefor is that due to writing this article several days after the tournament, the author’s memories are not so detailed anymore. Two things are totally clear, however: Budapest was loads of fun and it had something to do […]
Dinner at Tito’s: Feedback on Split Union Open 2011
Split Union Open 2011 took place in Split Croatia on May 13-15 2011. The first half of this article will be structured the way a good debating feedback always should be: first stating the results in terms of some freshly invented criteria, second explaining the reasons for the decision. The final paragraphs include a statement […]
Big Principle: The secret article about Bristol IV
Every time, we send our debaters to foreign tournament, they have explicit order to spy out everything that could help debating in Austria improve. Like liberal governments we usually keep this information secret, but since wikileaks revealed so many Viennese documents, we see ourselves forced to publish this article that otherwise would be leaked anyway. […]
Fragebogen IDAS Ljubljana 2010
Weil wir sowieso immer vielzuviel Ähnliches über Turniere schreiben, gibt’s die Informationen zur International Debate Academy Slovenia, oder besser gesagt dem dazugehörigen Turnier, diesmal in einem standardisierten Fragebogen. Bewertung IDAS Ljubljana 2010
Red Sea Open: Alles Inklusive Debattieren
“Beautiful hotel accommodation, five minutes from the beach, full board residential, free alcohol”, das klingt vielleicht nach Ferien und Party jedoch nicht unbedingt nach universitären Wortgefechten. Aber wenn solche Zeilen auf der Website eines Debattierturnieres stehen, dann kommt man auch als Debattant recht schnell auf die Idee, dort hinzufahren. Wir kamen zurück mit folgender Erkenntnis: […]