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It is the most important tournament of the year: From December 27\u00a0until January 4, more than\u00a01000 participants will gather in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC). Registration opened at 8 am on Saturday, December\u00a027. The official program will start in the evening at 8 pm with welcoming drinks. Up to this point, registration was smooth with no major problems and short waiting times. For many, the only problem is becoming accustomed to the tropical weather with temperatures between 24-30\u00b0C and a humidity of almost 100 percent.<\/p>\n
The participants are being accomodated in the five-star Pullmann Kuala Lumpur Bangsar Hotel, which offers a gym area and a pool. Unfortunately, the pool is not located on the roof and there is no bar next to it. Some of the participants voiced disappointment: \u201eI was really looking forward to sit next to the pool and drink cocktails with tiny umbrellas in it,\u201c one said.<\/p>\n
As the tournament’s title suggests, the people taking part in the WUDC 2015 come from all over the world. A\u00a0map<\/a>\u00a0provided by the organisers shows the diverse backgrounds nicely. For interested people there will be a livestream<\/a> to follow the tournament from home.<\/p>\n The Chief Adjudication panel of the tournament consists of Shafiq Bazari,<\/strong>\u00a0Jonathan Leader Maynard<\/strong>\u00a0and five additional Deputy Chief Adjudicators. Sunday, December 28, will start with briefings and a Q&A session, followed by the first rounds of the WUDC’s Masters’ Cup, a small debating competition in which experienced trainers and judges speak for one nation of their choice.<\/p>\n As always, the Achte Minute<\/em> will post all motions and results on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>. We will use the official Hashtag #WUDC2015.<\/p>\n gaa\/hug<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is the most important tournament of the year: From December 27\u00a0until January 4, more than\u00a01000 participants will gather in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC). Registration opened at 8 am on Saturday, December\u00a027. The official …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":25433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1017,46],"tags":[1052,2352,960,1834,1051,1534,494,1049,2432],"class_list":["post-25425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-2","category-turniere","tag-bazari","tag-gaa","tag-hans","tag-malaysia","tag-maynard","tag-registration","tag-widlok","tag-wudc-2015","tag-wudcs-masters-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25425","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25425"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25564,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25425\/revisions\/25564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}