The World Universities Debating Championship 2015 in Malaysia has its champions:And the winners are...The Open CategorySydney A (Edward Miller, Nick Chung) won the final in the Open Category. They debated the motion "This House believes that humanitarian organisations should, and should be allowed to, give funding, resources or services to illegal armed groups when this is made a condition for access to vulnerable civilians." and won against Oxford A (Patrick Bateman, Natasha Rachman) in Opening Government, BPP A (Steven Rajavinothan, Michael O'Dwyer) in Opening Opposition and Harvard A (Bo Seo, Fanelesibonge Mashwama) in Closing Opposition. The final was adjudicated by Shafiq Bazari (chair), Dominic ... Posts Tagged ‘ Beerthuis ’
WUDC 2015: And the winners are…
The World Universities Debating Championship 2015 in Malaysia has its champions:And the winners are...The Open CategorySydney A (Edward Miller, Nick Chung) won the final in the Open Category. They debated the motion "This House believes that humanitarian organisations should, and should be allowed to, give funding, resources or services to illegal armed groups when this is made a condition for access to vulnerable civilians." and won against Oxford A (Patrick Bateman, Natasha Rachman) in Opening Government, BPP A (Steven Rajavinothan, Michael O'Dwyer) in Opening Opposition and Harvard A (Bo Seo, Fanelesibonge Mashwama) in Closing Opposition. The final was adjudicated by Shafiq Bazari (chair), Dominic ... Zagreb EUDC 2014 – Open and ESL break
The break of the European Universities Debating Championship 2014 in Zagreb has been announced. The following teams will compete in the out-rounds on the 22nd of August (data might be inaccurate):
Open Break
23: Cambridge C
22: Oxford B
21: Cambridge B
21: Oxford A
21: GUU A
20: Cambridge A
20: Oxford C
19: Edinburgh A
19: LSE A
19: Sheffield A
19: Durham B
19: KCL A
19: Hebrew A
19: Nottingham A
19: Durham C
18: BPP A
ESL Break
19: Hebrew A
18; Belgrade B
18: Lund A
18: Tartu A
18: Berlin A
17: Tel Aviv B
17: Leiden A
17: Bucharest A
17: BBU A
17: Tilbury House A
17: Mannheim A
17: ELTE A
17 BGU A
16: Belgrade A
16: Tel Aviv A
16: tie of ... Lund’s Emilia Carlqvist and Peer Klüßendorf win the Berlin IV
The Berlin IV – European Debates Conference 2014 has its winners: Emilia Carlqvist and Peer Klüßendorf from Lund Debate Society won the final in a three-to-two split decision. Peer and Emilia debated in Opening Government as the team "Dixendorf". The motion of the final read: "This House believes that the EU should force member states to adopt socially progressive legislation (e. g. same-sex marriage, abortion rights, ethnic and religious minority rights)."
[caption id="attachment_22737" align="alignright" width="400"] Participants during the public debate on Friday (c) Matthias Carcasona[/caption]
"REC Truth Department", another team from Sweden consisting of Olivia Sundberg and Martin Devenney, spoke in Closing ... Wo der Bär steppt – Manuel Adams über das Berlin Humboldt IV 2011
Mixing cocktails, strolling through Berlin, the German women football team losing to Japan, prospective Worlds and Euros convenors beating each other in distributing their giveaways ... All that and much more is the Berlin IV. Find here the motions, the break to (semi-)finals and the tab! And read the German version of this article to learn more about how Manuel Adams saw the Berlin IV or what it is called these days.
The motions:
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1. Vorrunde: This house would financially incentivise parents to have two ... 
