The full tab of the World Universities Debating Championships 2011 has been made available online already! The CA team put it on the homepage of Botswana Worlds.

Naturally, Achte Minute does have a focus on the results of  VDCH teams and speakers. Hence, to lighten the burden for you, our loyal readers, we compiled their results.

VDCH teams

• Stuttgart A (106)
• Berlin B (142)
• Gutenberg A (Mainz, 153)
• Berlin A (158)
• Potsdam A (184)
• Wien A (192)
• Munich A (196)
• Greifswald A (227)
• Stuttgart B (230)

VDCH speakers

• Michael Saliba, Stuttgart A (148)
• Patrick Ehmann, Berlin A (170)
• Bastian Laubner, Berlin A (192)
• Andreas Lazar, Stuttgart A (288)
• Dessislava Kirova, Berlin B (288)
• Sarah Jaglitz, Greifswald A (304)
• Wladi Jachtschenko, München A (304)
• Marcus Ewald, Gutenberg A (Mainz, 304)
• Florian Umscheid, Berlin B (309)
• Markus Dankerl, München A (318)
• Nils Haneklaus, Stuttgart B (351)
• Rafael Heinisch, Greifswald A (357)
• Moritz Kirchner, Potsdam A (385)
• Mathias Hamann, Potsdam A (385)
• Jana Gilke, Stuttgart B (397)
• Leonhard Weese, Wien A (438)
• Marietta Gädeke, Gutenberg A (438)
• Christoph Jäger, Wien A (456)

Numbers in brackets indicate the ranking.

Since 1981, debaters from all over the world have been competing at the World Universities Debating Championships at alternating locations across the planet. It was not before 1996 that the British Parliamentary Style became the mandatory format for this annual tournament. The African continent has been host to previous Worlds and staged the Worlds now for a third time, this year from 27 December 2010 to 4 January 2011 at the University of Botswana, Gaborone. Language of debate is English and there are three categories: “Main” for native speakers, “ESL” (English as a Second Language, for those who prove great proficiency in English) and “EFL” (English as a Foreign Language, for those who studied English as a mere subject).

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