{"id":10524,"date":"2011-08-09T19:51:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achteminute.vdch.de\/?p=10524"},"modified":"2013-10-07T16:46:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:46:37","slug":"galway-euros-2011-achte-minute-talking-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20110809\/galway-euros-2011-achte-minute-talking-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway Euros 2011: Achte Minute talking to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<strong> Manos Moschopoulos<\/strong> and <strong>Art Ward<\/strong>. Besides live  tweeting from the rounds and rooms, we&#8217;ve gone completely, no, not  insane, but multimedia. You don&#8217;t know who Manos and Art are? Then meet  them in our video taken Monday night at Galway Euros. They are both  involved in the Belgrade bid for Euros next year, <a href=\"..\/index.php\/20110730\/belgrade-euros-manos-moschopoulos-gewahrt-einblick\/?lang=en\">Art is chief adjudicator and Manos one of the forces behind this bid from Serbia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BoK83Mp22MA\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BoK83Mp22MA\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The European Universities Debating Championships (EUDC  or Euros) have    been held annually since 1999. It was started in  Rotterdam where 32    teams of two competed for the title. For the  records: In Amsterdam, 192    teams competed for the very same title in  2010. Format has ever since    been <a href=\"http:\/\/vdch.de\/unterlagen\/regeln\/bps2007.pdf\">British Parliamentary Style<\/a>(BPS),     language of debate is English. Debaters from all over Europe and    Israel  take part in Euros and compete with each other in two    categories: the  open break (for native speakers) and \u201cEnglish as a    Second Language\u201d  (ESL). Current champions are Eoghan Casey and Patrick    Rooney (Kings  Inn), ESL champions are Maja Cimerman and Filip  Dobranic   from Ljubljana.  This year\u2019s Euros will be held in Galway,  Ireland,  from  7 to 13 August.  Chief adjudicator is Ruth Faller  (Ireland), her   deputies are Shengwu Li  (Singapore), Simone van Elk  (The Netherlands),   Steven Nolan (Ireland)  and Yoni Cohen Idov  (Israel). Isabelle Loewe   from Debattierclub Bonn and  Tony Murphy  (Ireland) will be equity   officers. Galway\u2019s tabmaster is  Harry  McEvansoneya, an Irish as well.   During the Euros, the EUDC Council   will sit and for instance decide   about the host of next year\u2019s   championship. Currently, <a href=\"..\/index.php\/20110808\/index.php\/20110807\/index.php\/20110806\/index.php\/20110730\/belgrade-euros-manos-moschopoulos-gewahrt-einblick\/?lang=en\">Belgrade (Serbia)<\/a> is bidding for staging the European Universities Debating Championships 2012.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note from the editor: During Galway, we\u2019ll be publishing mostly in English only. Thanks for understanding. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Manos Moschopoulos and Art Ward. Besides live tweeting from the rounds and rooms, we&#8217;ve gone completely, no, not insane, but multimedia. You don&#8217;t know who Manos and Art are? 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