The Committee on OPD Rules (Regelkommission) sat and adapted a few changes. OPD? Yepp, that's the most popular format of debating on the German language circuit: Offene Parlamentarische Debatte, or open parliamentary debate (OPD). It was founded in 2002 and since then updated whenever necessary. The authors of the set of rules are Bernd Rex, Ansgar Kemmann and Michael Hoppmann, all of them debaters from Streitkultur Tübingen, Germany's oldest deb soc. Included in the set is now the permission to use electronic devices such as smart phones during prep time - or more exactly: the convenors may decided upon the permission ...