To learn more about the astonishing success of the debater and medical student Jan Castel in the German version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", please read the German version of the article. xzy / glx

The Debattierclub Regensburg has a new website and also reports a notable growth in membership. xzy / tr

Debating goes to the Croatian Adriatic: from May 18 to 20, the Split Debating Union invites to the Split Union Open. Chief adjudicators are Jeroen Heun (ESL EUDC finalist 2011), Rabejaona Setry Randriamananoro Rola and Luka Keller. The prelim speeches are going to be five minutes long, in the semis and the final you are going to have seven minutes. Registration has already opened for teams and adjucators separately, team cap is 32 teams while n-1 applies. Reg fee is €40 per person. To stay up-to-date, visit the Faceboook page of the Split Union Open. If you have any other questions, please ...

One weekend, two tournaments: The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is going to host not only the Game of Thrones IV on Sunday, June 10, but also the Football Open on June 9. Whilst the IV is all about the "Game of Thrones" fantasy saga, the Football Open offers motions on "the opium of the masses" and "the matter that's more important than life or death". Why? Because "it is time to recognise that there is only one area of interest that billions of people follow passionately around the world", as the org com puts it. CAs are Manos Moschopoulos, ...

Please read the German version to learn more about this tournament in Marburg, which is named after the famous collectors of folk tales Brothers Grimm.

If you are a Game of Thrones devotee, you will have plenty of reason for delight. For the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) invites to the Game of Thrones IV on Sunday, June 10. Convenor Alexander Cavell and his team announce on the tournament's Facebook page that "all motions will concern contemporary and timeless issues of Westeros, the Lands beyond the Sea and the Iron Islands". "Game of Thrones" is fantasy television series based on George Raymond Richard Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of novels. Although the CAs Manos Moschopoulos, Raj Zal Shukla and David Jones are ...

No change at the Swiss Debating Club St. Gallen this time: Julian Bodenschatz, Martin Kirsch, Fabian Schmidt-Skipiol and president Andrej Woerner have been re-elected again. Congratulations and good luck with your work!

The new executive board of Debatte Karlsruhe consists of Johannes Janosovits, Moritz Klammler, Thank Thank Nguyen, Jan Kaufmann, and Frederik Diehl. Congratulations and good luck with your work!

A little exchange at Debattierclub München: Viviane Clarin follows Veronika Gerzer as vice president. Julian Priebe and Katharina Heine remain president and treasurer respectively. Congratulations and good luck with your work! xzy / ...

That was the decision made by the audience after the first show debate of debatING. Kaiserslautern. On November 7, the government consisting of Willy Witthaut, Clemens Fucker and Katharina Tschirner (all of DCJG Mainz) competed with the oppositional professors Michael Hassemer (economics), Sven O. Krumke (maths) and Walter Ruda (business administration) about whether Dagobert Duck should share his fortune with Donald Duck. At the end, the audience voted for the professors to win the debate – poor Donald! You can enjoy the whole show debate on YouTube. xzy / ...

Come to Warwick IV: On February 4, Susan Connolly, Yina Koh and Lindsay Bing are going to CA four prelims, semis and final with five-minute-speeches. Reg fee is £40, n-1 applies. Registration is already opened, more information please check the website of the Warwick Debating Society or the tournament's Facebook page. There is going to be a „fantastic club social on the Saturday night“ with lots of pizza and drinks. If you have any questions, please contact the org com at su315@sunion.warwick.ac.uk. xzy / tr

Oxford Women's Open from January 20 to 21 means debating without men – only female debaters and judges are admitted. The same is true of the chief adjudication team consisting of Catherine Murphy (Trinity College Dublin Historical Society) and Jen Coyne (Oxford Union). Catherine is a Euros finalist 2011 and also topped the tab there. Jen broke to quarters at the Euros 2010 in Amsterdam and at the Worlds 2011 in Gaborone, Botswana. Reg fee is 20 British Pound (about 24 Euros) per institution, no matter how many teams an institution sends. Mixed teams are welcome, too. Registration is already open, if ...

"BP comes to BP": That means an opportunity to participate in an extra tournament before Vienna IV 2012. The debating societies of Central European University and Corvinus University Budapest are going to host the first international tournament in Hungary from March 2 to 5. Registration is already opened until January 10. To registrate, you need firstly to express your will to participate in an e-mail at budapestopen2012@gmail.com. After sending this e-mail, you are going to receive a registration form that have to be filled out and sent back. After that, you are going to receive a confirmation letter. The reg fee ...

The Association of Debating Societies at Universities (VDCH) has announced the details on the first adjudication workshop in the current season 2011/2012. From February 4 to 5, judges with basic experience can deepen their analytical and feedback skill in the Rhineland-Palatinate capital Mainz. Trainers will be Andrea Gau (Mainz), Torsten Rössing (Halle), Pauline Leopold (Tübingen) and Lukas Haffert (Cologne). Both BPS and Open Parliamentary Debate (OPD)will be covered. Reg fee is 15 Euros and registration is opened until January 15. To registrate, please contact VDCH vice-president Simeon Reusch via simeon.reusch@vdch.de. The number of spots is limited to 25. xzy / tr ...

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Carsten Meyer, board member for public relations of Streitkultur Berlin, has redesigned the homepage of his debatins society. It contains news from Streitkultur Berlin as well as the club's history and general information on debating. xzy / tr

Please check the German version of this article to read our review on two German online debating platforms, debatare.de and sagwas.net. xzy / apf