Two Slices Of Great British Summer: The Imperial IV and The SOAS Open
Is this about the Olympics? Sure not. Maybe about this is about the weather? No, otherwise we wouldn’t use the word “great”. So maybe this article is about debating again? Yep. A couple of DKWien athletes headed to London for the Imperial IV and the SOAS Open. They had a look on how Londoners prep […]
Battle for Belgrade – The Chips Are Down!
For the first time since its inception Debattierklub Wien had more teams applying for a Championship then there were slots available. Five teams competed for 3 slots, all of them had their merits and none of us knew how to settle that. Hence we decided to run the EUDC trials and find it out the […]
“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 […]
THE SOAS IV 2011 SEEN FROM OUR NOVICE DEBATER MARIAN HOCHGERNER
2 teams from Debattierklub Wien attended the SOAS IV 2011 between 21 – 23 October 2011. Vienna A being slightly more experienced broke into ESL semi finals while Vienna B competed as novices team. The freshman Marian Hochgerner reports on the event. London – It does not come as a surprise that Europe’s most […]
Divine Experiences and Godless Euros
From 7 – 13 August 180 teams competed at Europe’s most important debate tournament in Galway, Ireland. DKW sent Karoline Lutz and Regina Puthenpurayil as Vienna B, Leonhard Weese and Christoph Jäger as Vienna A along with Rosie Halmi as adjudicator. The buzz around the ESL final motion “THBT God Exists” has eclipsed most other […]
Debating Behind a Wall of Fire
Chrisotph and Leo are invited to a marvellous tournament at Beijing FSU, get to know many interesting Chinese debaters and meet old friends from Europe, learn more about China than ever before and have plenty of fun.
