We are the ESL champions of Cambridge Women’s Open 2014!
We are incredibly proud to announce that Melanie Sindelar and Madlen Stottmeyer are the winners of this years’ Cambridge Women’s Open in the ESL Category. They also did incredibly well on the speaker tab and were declared 5th and 8th best ESL speaker respectively. Vienna A (also their teamname for the upcoming World Championships) also […]
Belgrade Open 2014
DK WIEN AT BELGRADE OPEN 2014 by Ingo Bandhauer The Vienna delegation in Belgrade From October 24th to October 26th 2014, Open Communication (or Otvorena komunikacija in Serbian) hosted the Belgrade Open 2014. The DK Wien delegation members (two judges, three teams) arrived separately and in groups, some of us early, others rather late. Essentially, […]
Miri Muntean’s Fresh Impressions of Zagreb EUDC 2014
Between August 18 and 24 2014 Zagreb hosted the European Universities Debating Championship. Debattierklub Wien is the only institution sending teams from Austrian universities to these annual championships. As such, Vienna teams competing for Zagreb EUDC 2014 were: Melanie Sindelar and Stefan Zweiker (Vienna A); Mark Etzel and Madlen Stottmeyer (Vienna B); Andreas Villarreal and […]
At Split Open 2014 Elisabeth Vikydal Unites Gingers of the World
Between August 15 and 17, the weekend preceding the European Universities Debating Championship in Zagreb, Splitska Debatna Unija hosted Split Open 2014. With the presence of the entire Chief Adjudication Team of Vienna EUDC, the tournament naturally focused on being preparatory for the upcoming Championships. Elisabeth Vikydal, the mastermind behind ‘debaters gonna debate’ joined the […]
DK Wien Rocking BBU Open
BBU Open was *the* prep tournament for all DK Teams for Zagreb Euros. And we must say, the prep was not only good, it was very successful! We all went to the land of Dracula (or also, Western Romania) by car – taking shifts, and starting at 2pm at night. Especially team Napoléon had quite […]
The Wiener takes it (all): Der DKWien auf der DDM 2014 in Berlin
Es ist noch gar nicht so lange her, da waren Teams aus Österreich auf der Deutschsprachigen Meisterschaft (die damals auch noch Deutsche Meisterschaft hieß) vom Break bzw. den Finalrunden ausgeschlossen. Besonders ungerecht, hat das aber niemand empfunden, schließlich „würden die das ja eh nicht schaffen“. Im Jahr 2014 sieht es dagegen anders aus. Nicht nur […]