{"id":22226,"date":"2014-03-11T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T10:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/?p=22226"},"modified":"2014-03-14T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:42:42","slug":"a-small-foretaste-of-eudc-the-vienna-iv-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20140311\/a-small-foretaste-of-eudc-the-vienna-iv-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"A small foretaste of EUDC: The Vienna IV 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marija Simi\u0107<\/strong> and <strong>Djordje Jovicevic<\/strong> are the winners of the Vienna IV 2014. On Sunday, the team Belgrado in Closing Government won the final round with the motion: &#8220;This House believes that no state, in any situation, has the right to demand, encourage or promote its citizens to fight or die for their country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The following teams broke into the final:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OG: Warsaw A (<strong>Karolina Partyga<\/strong>, <strong>Maja \u0141ukomska<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>OO: Vermont GW (<strong>Rebecca White<\/strong>, <strong>Mariel Golden<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>CG: Belgrado (Marija Simi\u0107, Djordje Jovicevic)<\/li>\n<li>CO: Vermont SS. (<strong>Jacob Senghas<\/strong>, <strong>Franny Solnick<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_22239\">\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Vienna-IV-2014-winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The CAs of the Vienna IV Stefan Zweiker, Christine Simpson and Nicole Loiter with the winners Marija Simi\u0107 and Djordje Jovicevic (l. to r.) (c) DK Wien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Vienna-IV-2014-winners-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>The CAs of the Vienna IV Stefan Zweiker, Christine Simpson and Nicole Loiter with the winners Marija Simi\u0107 and Djordje Jovicevic (l. to r.)<br \/>\n(c) DK Wien<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>With 96 teams participating in the tournament, the Vienna IV is presumably the biggest international tournament in Europe after EUDC. The tournament also provided a small foretaste of EUDC 2015, for Debattierklub Wien, the host of the Vienna IV, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20140119\/wien-plant-die-eudc-stefan-zweikers-rueckschau-auf-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>will also organise the EUDC 2015<\/strong><\/a>. For example, participants could already see the new Campus that will be the venue for next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Vienna IV 2014 Chief Adjudicators were <strong>Christine Simpson<\/strong> (UCD\/Ireland), future CA of the EUDC 2015 and 5th best speakers at WUDC 2013, <strong>Nicole Loiter<\/strong> (RRIS\/Israel), CA of the Israeli English Cup and <strong>Stefan Zweiker <\/strong>(DKWien\/Austria), breaking judge at many international tournaments and CA of the Vienna Freshers\u2019 2012 and Vienna Mini 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/pub?key=0AmI-ezPvhLPNdDM0ZklJODZ6cno2cHo4S1NaYXdQZ0E&amp;gid=0\"><strong>tab of the Vienna IV 2014<\/strong><\/a> is awailable online.<\/p>\n<p>The motions of the preliminary rounds and the final (not the exact wording) read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1st round:<\/strong> This house believes that NGOs should reject sponsorship from companies who don&#8217;t act in accordance with the NGO&#8217;s aims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2nd round:<\/strong> THBT that in cases, where it is the doctor&#8217;s choice and where both aims are mutually exclusive, doctors should prioritise prolonging life over the quality of that life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> THBT that Vienna should devote Ottakring to immigrants from Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4th round:<\/strong> THBT that the EU and the US should support the Russian annexation of the Crimea in exchange for an otherwise independent Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5th round:<\/strong> This house would allow its citizens to participate in the Thirst Games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6th round:<\/strong> THW support nations marketing themselves as places for Good Time Tourism (e.g. sex tourism, drug tourism).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarter<\/strong>: Given a machine that can predict a person&#8217;s life 95% accurately, THW not use it.<br data-reactid=\".hm.1:3:1:$comment676114772430398_676899182351957:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$1:0\" \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi:<\/strong> THBT media aimed at children should reject the &#8220;happily ever after&#8221; model and show a more realistic picture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final:<\/strong> THBT no state, in any situation, has the right to demand, encourage or promote its citizens to fight or die for their country<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>nbo\/kem<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marija Simi\u0107 and Djordje Jovicevic are the winners of the Vienna IV 2014. On Sunday, the team Belgrado in Closing Government won the final round with the motion: &#8220;This House believes that no state, in any situation, has the right &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":22239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1017,46],"tags":[1067,1697,1699,1703,1696,1695,1700,1698,1329,1701,1702,1085,437],"class_list":["post-22226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-2","category-turniere","tag-dk-wien","tag-golden","tag-jovicevic","tag-loiter","tag-lukomska","tag-partyga","tag-senghas","tag-simic","tag-simpson","tag-solnick","tag-vienna-iv-2014","tag-white","tag-zweiker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22226"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22303,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22226\/revisions\/22303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}