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Isa Loewe, Bene Nufer, Daniel Grotzky and Daniel Sommer became rhine gods 2011
Isabelle Loewe (DC Bonn), Benedikt Nufer (DC Hamburg) and Daniel Grotzky (DC München) as team Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal won the Rheingötter-Debattierwettstreit.
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Small but mighty – That was the Jena Open 2011

Jan 27th, 2011 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: News of debating clubs, Themen, Turniere |
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“Adam und Eva” aus Jena gewinnen das Jenaer Freundschaftsturnier 2011
Jonathan Scholbach, Severin Weingarten and Eva Schlindwein (Debattiergesellschaft Jena) have just won this year’s Jena Open defying the Pro side. The motion reads "Open Goverment statt Geheimdiplomatie? – Sollen staatliche Informationen frei verfügbar sein?". ...
Jan 23rd, 2011 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: News of debating clubs, Themen, Turniere |
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ZEIT DEBATTE Mainz: Break to finals
Please read the German version of this article to find out who broke to semi-finals at ZEIT DEBATTE Mainz!
Jan 15th, 2011 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: Turniere |
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WUDC 2011: Unofficial ESL and EFL tabs
On his blog, Manos Moschopoulos compiled unofficial tabs for ESL and EFL respectively for the World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC or Worlds). He did so based on data provided by Leela Koenig, judge at Botswana Worlds, and the competition's language committee. So far, official ESL and EFL tabs have not yet been published by the adjudication team of CA Logandran Balavijendran.
According to Manos’ compilation, a correction of the Top Five EFL Speakers has to be noted: “Simon Belak (Ljubljana C) and Andreas Lazar (Stuttgart A) are joint top EFL speakers (initially, they were announced as 2nd and 1st respectively),” Manos ...
Jan 12th, 2011 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: Turniere |
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Jena wins Berlin Invitational
Clemens Lechner and Moritz Niehaus from Debattiergesellschaft Jenahave just won this year's Berlin Invitational hosted by the Berlin Deabting Union (BDU) in the German capital. The motion read "Dieses Haus fordert nach drei Straftaten Haft bis ans Lebensende". They defeated the other teams (Debattierclub Magdeburg/BDU, BDU proper, Wortgefechte Potsdam) from the position of Opening Government.
vro / apf
Jan 7th, 2011 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: Themen, Turniere |
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Berlin Invitational 2011: Break and motions
The following made it to the final of the Berlin Invitational 2011:
Opening Government: Clemens Lechner and Moritz Niehaus (Debattiergesellschaft Jen)
Opening Opposition: Jan-Dirk Capelle and Jonas Werner (Debattierclub Magdeburg/Berlin Debating Union)
Closing Government: Dessislava Kirova and Filip Bubenheimer (Berlin Debating Union)
Closing Opposition: Moritz Kirchner and Florian Umscheid (Wortgefechte Potsdam)
Judges are Torsten Rössing (Klartext Halle), Daniel Sommer (Debating Club Heidelberg), Bernd Hoefer (Debattierclub Kiel), Patrick Ehmann (Berlin Debating Union) and Katharina Kleine-Tebbe (Debating Society Paderborn).
The motions:
Dieses Haus würde Haiti in die USA eingliedern.
Dieses Haus würde die europäische Außenpolitik an Macchiavelli ausrichten.
Dieses Haus fordert eine Erbschaftssteuer von 100% zugunsten ...
WUDC 2011: Full tab online now!
The full tab of the World Universities Debating Championships 2011 has been made available online already! The CA team put it on the homepage of Botswana Worlds.
Naturally, Achte Minute does have a focus on the results of VDCH teams and speakers. Hence, to lighten the burden for you, our loyal readers, we compiled their results.
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Jan 5th, 2011 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: Turniere |
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WUDC 2011: Pickings 2
This article is a wrap-up of what German and international media write about the World Universities Debating Championships in Gaborone, Botswana. Please read the German version to learn about Israeli pride in their debaters, De Nederlands Debatbond and Justice Mothlabani's address to the debaters at Worlds.
apf / glx
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Jan 5th, 2011 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: Menschen, Turniere |
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WUDC 2011: Winners, rankings, draws and motions

Jan 4th, 2011 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: Themen, Turniere |
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WUDC 2011: The ESL quarters
One quarter of the teams of the ESL break are from Germany! That would make one German team in each room, one could think. But in final rounds, the tab is folded. That means that for instance room one assembles teams ranking on 1, 7, 8 and 16. Thanks to this folding, room three of the ESL qurter finals will see two German teams: Stuttgart A (Andreas Lazar and Michael Saliba) and Berlin B (Patrick Ehmann and Bastian Laubner). Other German teams in the quarters are Berlin B (Florian Umscheid and Dessislava Kirova) and Gutenberg A (Marcus Ewald and Marietta ...
WUDC 2011: German teams break in Botswana
That sure is a good start into the new year for VDCH country: Four German teams broke to ESL quarter finals of the World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC or Worlds) in Gaborone. Here are the lucky ones:
Stuttgart A, Michael Saliba, Andreas Lazar, 15 points
Berlin B, Dessislava Kirova, Florian Umscheid, 14 points
Gutenberg A (Mainz), Marcus Ewald, Marietta Gädeke, 14 points
Berlin A, Bastian Laubner, Patrick Ehmann, 13 points
Jens Henning Fischer and Isabelle Loewe broke as judges.
The complete break was compiled by Stephen M. Llano on his Blog. The draws for the main break are available on Colm Flynn's World Debating Website.
Congratulations to ...
WUDC 2011: VDCH tab from Bots
Breaking news from Botswana: Results of our VDCH teams after round 6 leaked from Gabs and we have it all here for our loyal readers. Colm Flynn provided photographs of the tab on his World Debating Website. So how are our German and Austrian teams doing in Gaborone? ...
Dec 31st, 2010 |
By Anja Pfeffermann |
Category: Turniere |
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WUDC 2011: Telegraph from Gaborone

Dec 28th, 2010 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: Menschen, Turniere |
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WUDC 2011: Let the Botswana Worlds begin!
Let’s get ready to rumble – the 31st World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC or Worlds) are about to start. From 27 December to 4 January Worlds 2011 are to be held in Gaborone, Botswana. Numerous debaters from VDCH countries change to the international debate circuit to compete with more than 300 teams from all over the world for the title of world debate champion.
Nine days, that makes nine preliminary rounds plus various final rounds in three categories: Main break, ESL and EFL. The main break is de jure the category for all speakers, de facto for native speakers of English, ...
Dec 27th, 2010 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: Turniere |
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WUDC 2011: Stay tuned with Achte Minute
Achte Minute is your reliable source on the World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC or Worlds) in Botswana's capital Gaborone. As usual since this year’s Euros in Amsterdam, Achte Minute is going to fulfill this task in English as well as in German.
Your local correspondent in Gaborone is Jens Henning Fischer – he reports the latest and most interesting for participants and those at home: breaks, stories, interviews. If you want your stories and reports published on Achte Minute, please convey them to Jens or send an e-mail directly to achteminute[at]vdch.de.
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Controversial Masters’ Debate in Berlin
Reaching a broad public, debating controversial social topics, provoke thoughts – that’s the idea behind the Masters’ Debate. In this way the Berlin Debating Union (BDU) wants to perform its sociopolitical role. Furthermore the members of BDU want to show what is possible in a really good debate and that even difficult, controversial and contra intuitive motions can be discussed in a reasonable, ambitious and entertaining way.
So early December's motion was a heavy one: “This house would allow disabled parents (in countries where pre-implantation diagnostics are allowed) to choose embryos with the same disability.”
The Opening Government with Annette Kirste and ...
Dec 6th, 2010 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: News of debating clubs, Themen |
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VDCH-speakers triumph at the ESL competition of SOAS IV 2010
The SOAS Debating Society continues to establish its IV as one of the largest debate competitions in Europe. On October 16th and 17th, 116 teams competed over six preliminary rounds at the School of African an Oriental Studies near King’s Cross in London. For VDCH-debaters, this was a particularly successful weekend.
The final was won by Harish Natarjan and Matilda Wnek (Cambridge H). They triumphed over Cambridge E (Maria English and Jack Watson), Loyola (Emily Ravencroft and Bobby Cashen) and KCL A (Daniel Berman and Jordan Anderson).
The ESL final was won by the German vice-champion and current exchange student Filip Bubenheimer ...
Jens Fischer is Master of Masters 2010

Schobbe-Cup 2010: A Review
Aug 20th, 2010 |
By Achte Minute |
Category: Themen, Turniere |
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Schobbe-Cup 2010 Pickings 1
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Bonn wins at Schobbe Cup 2010
Debattierclub Bonn won the Schobbe Cup 2010! In the final round, the team “Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo” from Berlin Debating Union in the proposition argued with “Bonn Generations” about net neutrality at Campus Westend of Frankfurt Goethe University. The team of Isabelle Loewe, Gudrun Lux and Jens Fischer from the former German capital defeated Georg Sommerfeld, Dessislava Kirova and Kai Dietmann from the now capital.
Awarded the title as best speaker of the final were two: Jens Fischer from the winning team and Nicolas Eberle from Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz, a so-called Fraktionsfreier Redner, free speaker. There are usually ...
Aug 15th, 2010 |
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Category: Themen, Turniere |
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Makeover for DDG’s web presence
The web presence of the Deutsche Debattiergesellschaft (DDG), the German alumni association for debaters, hosts a now broadened range of pages for those interested in the history of the alumni association, the various events such as the traditional Masters’ Cup or the award for the up-and-coming debaters at the German debating championships where just recently Florian Umscheid was elected best junior speaker by the DDG members present since he convinced the jury with his wit and deep analysis.
Even freshmen and newcomers to the alumni association will find some things to explore on the re-fashioned DDG pages: the present executive board ...
“Jeder Redner ist einzigartig, von vielen kann ich etwas mitnehmen” / Der DDG-Nachwuchspreisträger über seine Auszeichung und seine Pläne

Jun 21st, 2010 |
By Gudrun Lux |
Category: DDG, Menschen, Turniere |
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DDM 2010 Nachlese 2

Jun 8th, 2010 |
By Gudrun Lux |
Category: Presseschau, Turniere, VDCH |
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Die DDM auf einen Blick
Regios Nachlese 2
Hier kommt der zweite Teil der Nachlese zu den Regios: Team- und Rednerranglisten zweier Regios und noch ein paar Berichte sind online. ...
Apr 21st, 2010 |
By Gudrun Lux |
Category: Presseschau, Turniere, VDCH |
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