{"id":17310,"date":"2013-07-29T19:11:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/?p=17310"},"modified":"2013-07-30T10:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T08:11:48","slug":"patras-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20130729\/patras-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Patras Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Patras-Open.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Patras Open\" src=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Patras-Open-400x298.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a>There is not much to report from the\u00a0Patras Open International Debate Championship, that took place in Greece from July 26th to July 29th.\u00a0But we can give you\u00a0some impressions:<\/p>\n<p>The motion of the Grand Final that took place in the Theater by the Sea in Patras was &#8220;TH as Socrates wouldn&#8217;t have drunk the hemlock&#8221;. The winning teams came from Turkey: Congratulations to <strong>Melda Eren<\/strong> and <strong>Ali Avci <\/strong>as well as the best speaker of the Open, <strong>Kallina Basli.<\/strong> The CA team consisted of <strong>Manos Moschopoulos, Harish Natarajan <\/strong>and<strong> Milan Vignjevic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Motions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>R1: THW ban Golden Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>R2: THBT the state should not give religious institutions any financial benefits.<\/p>\n<p>R3: THBT the United Kingdom should abolish its monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>R4: TH regrets Disney&#8217;s continuation of the Star Wars film saga .<\/p>\n<p>R5: THW abolish national sports teams.<\/p>\n<p>Semifinals: THBT the City of Thessaloniki should name one of its major avenues after Kemal Atat\u00fcrk.<\/p>\n<p>Final: THW, as Socrates, have used the opportunity to escape the death penalty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Patras-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patras 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Patras-2-400x400.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tab will be published on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/522834841116789\/\">Facebook-Event<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/debating.gr\/\">website<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n<p>Readers that are interested in more details about debating in Greece are adviced to read the following <a href=\"http:\/\/idebate.org\/news-articles\/idea-and-partners-talk-about-debating-greece\">interview<\/a>. <strong>Katerina Karadimitri<\/strong>, the Director of the Debating Society of Greece, and <strong>Manos Moschopoulos<\/strong>, IDEAs International Programmes Officer, were interviewed by the English version of \u03b5\u03bbculture,\u00a0the most popular platform of contemporary Greek culture.<\/p>\n<p><em> ak<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is not much to report from the\u00a0Patras Open International Debate Championship, that took place in Greece from July 26th to July 29th.\u00a0But we can give you\u00a0some impressions: The motion of the Grand Final that took place in the Theater &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1017,46],"tags":[1249,1098,1248,1250],"class_list":["post-17310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-2","category-turniere","tag-greek","tag-natarajan","tag-patras","tag-patras-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17310"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17332,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions\/17332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}