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 […]
Petit Tournament in the Grande Nation (SciencesPo Le Havre IV)
The awkward moment when you notice you actually learned something in school. And if it is only painting rudimentary matchstick men. As the author’s camera stayed in France (damn whoever has taken it), the painting classes in elementary school really paid off. Besides exposing you to incredibly detailed drawings, this article will deal with the […]
Debates, Trains, Bicycles – Dutch Open 2012
Assume you receive an email on a Monday at about 1am offering you a team slot at a good tournament in the Netherlands, which starts off 4 days later. What would you do? The correct answer is looking up a flight of course. At least for Melanie Sindelar and Stefan Zweiker who confirmed the slot […]
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 […]
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.
100% Pure Debating. Insights from Sydney.
Stefan Zweiker, our ‘DK-southern hemisphere export’ lived, studied, debated and surfed in Sydney for half a year. He joined not only the Sydney Mini from 9th to 11th Dec 2011, but also, as he was for some time resident, a debating society that is nowadays known for topping the tabs wherever possible. Read his thoughts […]
