{"id":24634,"date":"2014-09-30T23:09:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/?p=24634"},"modified":"2015-04-16T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T02:56:10","slug":"skopje-open-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20140930\/skopje-open-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Skopje Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is the first international debating tournament in British Parliamentary Style (BPS) in Macedonia: Skopje Open will take place on the weekend of November 7-9, 2014. Up to 32 teams can register now. The tournament costs \u20ac50 per participant, including accommodation in a hotel and three meals per day, organiser Milka Gerovska<\/strong> says. For people arriving early because they directly come from Thessaloniki Open<\/strong><\/a> on the preceding weekend, the organisers will provide with crash accommodation or a cheap hostel.<\/p>\n

The convener of the tournament is the \"skopje<\/a>Youth Educational Forum (YEF), an NGO that has organized many debate competitions before, more than 30 on the national and 8 on the international level. However, this is the first international competition between universities. More information can be found on the facebook event<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are four Chief Adjudicators confirmed for the tournament:<\/p>\n

Steven Ramesh Rajavinothan<\/b> draws experience from 17 IV finals he judged and has been in the adjudication core of multiple tournaments. As a speaker, he has reached the semi-final of the European Universities Debating Championship (EUDC).<\/p>\n

Manos Moschopoulos<\/b> will be CA of the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) in Thessaloniki 2016. In the category English as a Second Language (ESL), he was successful both at WUDC and EUDC, being a finalist in the former and best speaker of the latter.<\/p>\n

For Helena Ivanov<\/b>, this is the first tournament as a CA, having been Deputy CA of the Arandjelovac Open and Turku Open. At the recent WUDC in Chennai, she was the best speaker in the category English as a Foreign Language (EFL), but broke into the ESL final.<\/p>\n

Georgi Velkovski<\/b> was CA of the 2013 Global Youth Forum in Galway, Ireland. At the WUDC Berlin 2013 he was a quarterfinalist. Besides judging, he has been the tabmaster for many tournaments.<\/p>\n

Registration is open via Google Docs for teams<\/a><\/b> and adjudicators<\/a><\/b> respectively.<\/p>\n

Info in a nutshell:<\/p>\n