Things were going fast during the second to last day at the World Universities Debating Championship 2013 in Berlin. So many Knockout rounds took place that we had difficulties following all announcements and breaks. But now we tried to sort everything a bit and present you here the break into the day of WUDC Finals. In the Open Break, we have a break into Semi-Finals. They will take place at 10:15 on today's Thursday. In the Open Semi Final 1 there will compete Monash B, Otago A, Sydney A, St Andrews A. In the Open Semi Final 2 we have Sydney ...

It took until after midnight that the WUDC 2013 break coul be announced in Berlin. The CA-team took its time to sort out which 100 (!) judges broke into the break knockout rounds. Especially, they had to handel the new 48-team break for the first time which lets 16 teams break into octo-finals directly and sends 32 more teams into mock-octos (read here what that is). In the following we provide you the breaks and tab positions at WUDC 2012 after the nine preliminary rounds. Note that due to the WUDC constitution, unlike as at Euros, there is no double break. ...

Debattierclubs Freiburg is now presided by a new and fresh executive board: Julian Keimer (president), Jonathan Dollinger (vice-president) and Ute Hoffmann (treasurer).

The German language debating championship is about to start in Vienna, Austria. Competing for the title are 68 teams from Germany, Switzerland and Austria, or debating societies from Aachen, Bayreuth, Berlin, Bonn, Dresden, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Graz, Göttingen, Halle, Hamburg, Hannover, Heidelberg, Ingolstadt, Jena, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Klagenfurt, Köln, Konstanz, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Mainz, Marburg, München, Münster, Potsdam, Regensburg, Salzburg, Stuttgart, St. Gallen, Tübingen, Wien, Würzburg and Zürich. Learn more about MDD in the German version of this article and follow us on Facebook and Twitter (hashtag #MDD12). It's the first time the German language debating championship (Meisterschaft im deutschsprachigen Debattieren or MDD) is hosted ...

Georg Sommerfeld and Bruno Davids of Berlin Debating Union (BDU) won Saggsn Masders 2012, a tournament in the Saxonian capital Dresden. Georg was also awarded best speaker of the final. The other final teams were from Mainz (Willy Witthaut and Betty Braun) and of BDU: Sarah von Kaminietz and Martin Funck, and Hauke Blume and Marijana Todorovich). The top speakers of the tourney: Georg Sommerfeld Willy Witthaut Hauke Blume Sarah von Kaminietz, Dessislava Kirova The top team results of the league after Saggsn Masders: Mainz (53) Heidelberg Debating (44) Tübingen (44) Berlin Debating Union (36) Freiburg (26) Top speaker results after Saggsn Masders: Willy Witthaut (64) Almut Graebsch (45), Zsolt Szilagyi (45) Philipp Stiel (44) Please ...

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Debattierclubs Freiburg is now presided by a new and fresh executive board: Zsolt Zsilágy (president), Patrick Flamm (vice-president) and Ute Hoffmann (treasurer). Good luck to the new executive boar!

FDL Rankings after round 2: 1. Heidelberg Debating (34 points) 2. Mainz (32) 3. Freiburg, Tübingen (19) 5. München (14) The top five speakers: 1. Zsolt Szilagyi (35 Punkte) 2. Almut Graebsch, Victoria Reuter (30) 4. Peter Croonenbroeck (26) 5. Jan Papsch, Willy Witthaut (24) Manuel Adams / apf

The Gutenberg-Cup was the first round of the Freie Debattierliga, or free debating league (FDL). According to the rules of the FDL (in German only), the preliminary results are the following: Institutions: Mainz Freiburg Heidelberg (Debating) Frankfurt Marburg Speakers Victoria Reuter Zsolt Szilagyi Jan Papsch Robert Epple Michael Powala, Johannes Samlenski, Thore Wojke The Freie Debattierliga, or free debating league (FDL) is a loose association of debating societies staging local tournaments in German speaking Central Europe. It encompasses the year-round competition between both deb socs and speakers. This season is the second season after the founding during the course of the general assembly of the Association of Debating Societies at Universities (VDCH) in ...

Mainz won the Gutenberg Cup! Please read the German version of this article to learn more about the details.

The final break at the Gutenberg Cup in Mainz: Mainz (prop) vs. Freiburg (opp), Free Speakers are Robert Epple (Frankfurt), Michael Powala (Mannheim) and Victoria Reuter (Heidelberg). On the panel are CAs Sarah Kempf and Torsten Rössing, by their sides Marion Seiche (president), Pauline Leopold (chair), Ruben Brandhofer, Sven Hirschfeld and Daniel Jurjew. The final motion: God is a woman.

Semi-finalists in Mainz: Heidelberg (607 points) Victoria Reuter, Robin Azinovic and Johannes Sonnenholzner Freiburg (599 points) Zsolt Szilagyi, Johannes Samlenski and Julian von Lautz Frankfurt (571 points) Robert Epple, Andreas Dreher and Paul Utler Mainz (564 points) Jan Papsch, Thore Wojke and Betty Braun To get more information please read the German version!

News from the Western foot of the Black Forest: Debattierclub Freiburg elected a their executive board. Johannes Samlenski and Zsolt Szilagyi were confirmed in their offices as president and vice-president respectively. The newbie on board is Patrick Flamm as treasurer, following Christian von Sieg in the office. Good luck to the three!

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version to learn about how the prelims of this tourney were spread all over town - in shared flats.

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version of this article to see what various debating societies say about the IV in Stuttgart! https://www.achteminute.de/?p=8412 ...

Debattierclub Freiburg has made a choice in the general assembly: They elected a new executive board. The old and new president is Johannes Samlenski, his deputy is Zsolt Szilagyi. The latter was treasurer before he was now replaced by Christian von Sieg. Congratulations and good luck for your work! apf / glx

After five prelims, team Freiburg Türme, Zsolt Szilagyi and Friedemann Groth, won the final of Stuttgart Punk on the past weekend. The motion read "Dieses Haus würde Vegetarier werden", or this house would become vegetarian. Best speaker of the final was Clemens Fucker from Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg Mainz. Chief adjudicators Sarah Kempf, Nils Haneklaus and Andreas Lazar made up motions for five prelims and a final: 1. Vorrunde: Dieses Haus würde Einwanderern die Staatsbürgerschaft verleihen, wenn sie im Einwanderungsland Militärdienst geleistet haben. 2. Vorrunde: Dieses Haus würde Handelsbeziehungen mit Ländern abbrechen, in denen Christen verfolgt werden. 3. Vorrunde: Dieses Haus lehnt den ...

Shout outs to Heidelberg from all directions! Read more on how Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg (DCJG) and Debattierclub Freiburg hail Debating Club Heidelberg for hosting one of the best tournaments - see the German version of this article! apf / glx ...

The Debattierclub Freiburg presented their debating society at Freiburg University, as the club reports on their website (in German).

Zsolt Szilagyi and Johannes Samlenski of Debattierclub Freiburg published an article on the Dortmunder Freundschaftsturnier. (Linked article only available in German.)

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Debattierclub Freiburg presents its new website. Check out the new website of DC Freiburg!

Debattierclub Freiburg has elected a new executive board. Johannes Samlenski will once again be president and Gesa Tamcke remains in office as vice president. New team member is Zsolt Szilagyi as treasurer. Congratulations and good luck with your work!

Begeisterung allenthalben: Die Debattierclubs berichten von der ZEIT DEBATTE in Tübingen. Hier gibt es Zitate, Ein- und Ausblicke. ...

Der Debattierclubs der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg hat einen neuen Vorstand gewählt. Künftig werden Johannes Samlenski (Präsident), Gesa Tamcke (Vizepräsidentin) und Martin Prem (Schatzmeister) den Verein in Baden leiten. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur Wahl und viel Erfolg!