The LSE Open will be held on 19 and 20 February at the London School of Economics in the British capital. Convenor Scott MacDonald is expecting up to 100 teams. Chief adjudicators are John Ashbourne and Anser Aftab. Together they were running as team LSE A in the grand final of Botswana Worlds earlier this year. In November 2010 they won the Oxford IV, one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world. For 40 British Pound, the convenors guarantee crash for all  international debate teams. As usual, they allure to debaters with booze: “Last year we bought more alcohol than we could drink…“, is what the homepage of the LSE Open says. There you may also register. More detailed info is also available from lsedebate [at] gmail [dot] com.