[caption id="attachment_35269" align="alignright" width="400"] Katharina Jansen and Lisa Knodt - (c) Erasmus Debating Society[/caption] The team Merkel II & III (Lisa Knodt, Katharina Jansen) of the Rhetorica Debating Society Maastricht has won the Erasmus Rotterdam Open 2019. Out of Opening Opposition, they defeated the Opening Government Glorious like the Mongolian navy (Milla Huuskonen, Markus Myllymäki; Helsinki), Closing Government Tudor and Anne (but not Henry and Boleyn) (Tudor Musat, Ana Coman; Cambridge/Bukarest) and Closing Opposition We beg you to propose. That's what she said. (Elizabeta Korenčan, Roel Becker; Llubljana/Leiden) on the motion "Assuming the technology exists, TH supports the use of augmented ...

[caption id="attachment_33743" align="alignright" width="400"] The winners of the Rotterdam Open 2018 - © Laurens van Doorn[/caption] The Rotterdam Open (24.-25.03.2018) ist over and the results are here: In the Open Final, the team Cheaper than Couple's therapy (Marike Breed, Amsterdam & Roel Becker, Leiden) took the win as Closing Government on the motion "THW implement a system of ‘lease of life’ for all products of manufacture (such as: shoes, phones and machines)." The motion had an infotext (see below). They debated against Spatha A (Emma Lucas & David Metz, Leiden) in Opening Government, Stormy Daaniels plus one loyal customer (Floris Holstege, ...

From the 21st until the 25th of July, the Erasmus Debate Society (EDS) invites debaters from all over the World to join DAPDI 2014, the annual debate training camp held in Rotterdam. The training week is meant to give beginners as well as advanced debaters training for the European Debating Championship 2014 in Zagreb an opportunity to improve their skills. Like in the previous years, trainers from the Oxford Debating Union will offer trainings to participants according to their specific skill levels from beginners to advanced debaters. After a three day training period, there will be a two day tournament, ...

Becky West and Rogier Baart from the Leiden Debating Union won the Jacobs Open 2011. Their team Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen as Opening Opposition defeated three other teams from the Netherlands: Jeroen Heun and Daniël Springer (Erasmus Rotterdam), Setry Rabejaona and Liva Andersone (Erasmus Rotterdam) and Danique van Koppenhagen and Tomas Beerthuis (Utrecht Debating Society). Best final speaker as well as top of the tab was Daniël Springer. The tab of the Jacobs Open 2011 is online. All motions of the Jacobs Open at a glance: Round 1: This house would abolish monarchies. Round 2: This house believes that professional sports people ...

Nils Haneklaus and Michael Saliba (both from the debate club Debattierclub Stuttgart) made the break at the DAPDI (Dutch Anglo-Saxon Parliamentary Debating Institute) in Rotterdam – but left the venue before the final rounds took place in order to participate at the Tilbury House Sommer Open.  The DAPDI takes place in Rotterdam every year. There were three days of debate seminars first, an exercise tournament followed (especially to prepare for the EUDC in Amsterdam). The boys from Stuttgart made a blog entry on the DAPDI (in German) and left only positive reference: “What could we get out of DAPDI? A lot, since on ...

Teams der Erasmus Debating Society Rotterdam und der UCU Debating Union Utrecht haben die beiden Finals des Berlin IV gewonnen. 48 BPS-Teams traten am Wochenende vom 23. bis 25. April beim Humboldt Berlin IV der Berlin Debating Union an. Besonders viele Deutsche nutzten die kurzen und schnellen Anfahrtswege um internationale Luft zu schnuppern und Berlin zu erleben. Einige Teams hatten allerdings weit längere Wege zurückzulegen und vertraten beispielsweise die Niederlande, Serbien, England und Israel. Dass doch einige Teams gerade von den Britischen Inseln wegen des Flugchaos' absagen mussten, gelangte den meisten der angereisten Debattanten allerdings zum Vorteil. Das Viertelfinale (Main) und Halbfinale (ESL) ...

Die Erasmus Debating Society Rotterdam kündigt das "DAPDI 2010" an - zum 22. Mal bereits wird das ""Dutch Anglo-Saxon Parliamentary Debating Institute" veranstaltet. Von 5. bis 9. Juli verspricht das DAPDI eine herausragende Vorbereitung auf die Euros zu sein (zwischen DAPDI und EUDC passt bequem noch das Tilbury House Summer Open in Köln). Drei Tage lang werden Debattierkurse von namhaften und erfolgreichen Debattanten gegeben, ein zweitägiges Turnier schließt sich an. Die Debattanten werden in Gruppen von acht bis zwölf etwa leistungsgleichen Teilnehmern unterrichtet - es ist also für Anfänger ein eben so lohnendes Unterfangen, am DAPDI 2010 teilzunehmen ...