Berlin Debating Union (BDU, Berlin), Debattierclub Goethes Faust Frankfurt (Frankfurt), Debattierclub Kiel, Debattierclub M\u00fcnchen (Munich), Debattierclub M\u00fcnster, Wortgefechte Potsdam, Debattierklub Wien (Vienna).<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Opening Ceremony. \u00a9 2014 Matthias Carcasona<\/p><\/div>\n
Debate teams<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/p>\nBDU A: Philip Schr\u00f6der<\/strong>, Christina Dexel<\/strong><\/p>\nBDU B: Lilian Seffer<\/strong>, Alexander Hans<\/strong><\/p>\nBDU C: Pegah Maham<\/strong>, Christof Kebschull<\/strong><\/p>\nFrankfurt A: Andreas Dreher<\/strong>, Sven Schuppener<\/strong><\/p>\nKiel A: Aleksandar Markovic<\/strong>, Rauad Abagela<\/strong><\/p>\nMunich A: Maja Mosor<\/strong>, Reinhold Koch<\/strong><\/p>\nMunich B: Benjamin Seidel<\/strong>, Laura Leman<\/strong><\/p>\nM\u00fcnster A: Matthias Carcasona<\/strong>, Teresa Widlok<\/strong><\/p>\nPotsdam A: Mathias Hamann<\/strong>, Moritz Kirchner<\/strong><\/p>\nVienna A: Madlen Stottmeyer<\/strong>, Melanie Sindelar<\/strong><\/p>\nAdjudicators<\/strong><\/h3>\nBDU: Julian Ohm<\/strong>, Lena Schneider<\/strong>, Dessislava Kirova<\/strong>, John Eltringham<\/strong>, Kai Dittmann<\/strong>, Patrick Ehmann, Rebecca Irvine<\/strong><\/p>\nMunich: Anne Gaa<\/strong><\/p>\nVienna: Jakob Reiter<\/strong>, Regina Puthenpurayil<\/strong><\/p>\nMotions of day 1<\/h3>\n
R1:<\/strong> This House regrets the decline of tightly integrated families.<\/p>\nR2:<\/strong> Infoslide: Climate engineering is a deliberate and large-scale intervention in earth’s climatic system in an effort to combat Global Warming. Climate engineering may take many forms; Examples include, but are not limited to, planting large forests where none previously existed, fertilizing the ocean with iron to dramatically increase the population of algae, and increasing cloud coverage so less sunlight reaches earth’s suface.<\/em> This house believes that environmental movements should support climate engineering that fundamentally alters the environment, in an attempt to combat Global Warming.<\/p>\nR3:<\/strong> This House believes that in areas of socio-economic deprivation, schools should train students in vocational skills to the exclusion of the Liberal Arts.<\/p>\nThe Tab-team gives updates on the matchups, the motions and on the results after every round on the Malaysia WUDC homepage<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nThe organizers<\/strong><\/a> and Pretty Pictures photographer Matthias Carcasona<\/strong><\/a> already published photos of the last two days.<\/p>\nAchte Minute<\/em> will give you daily updates on\u00a0the points of the VDCH-teams and the break. So, watch this space, follow WUDC 2015 from wherever you are in the world and cross your fingers for the VDCH delegation 2015!<\/p>\nTeresa Widlok\/ama<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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BDU B: Lilian Seffer<\/strong>, Alexander Hans<\/strong><\/p>\n BDU C: Pegah Maham<\/strong>, Christof Kebschull<\/strong><\/p>\n Frankfurt A: Andreas Dreher<\/strong>, Sven Schuppener<\/strong><\/p>\n Kiel A: Aleksandar Markovic<\/strong>, Rauad Abagela<\/strong><\/p>\n Munich A: Maja Mosor<\/strong>, Reinhold Koch<\/strong><\/p>\n Munich B: Benjamin Seidel<\/strong>, Laura Leman<\/strong><\/p>\n M\u00fcnster A: Matthias Carcasona<\/strong>, Teresa Widlok<\/strong><\/p>\n Potsdam A: Mathias Hamann<\/strong>, Moritz Kirchner<\/strong><\/p>\n Vienna A: Madlen Stottmeyer<\/strong>, Melanie Sindelar<\/strong><\/p>\n BDU: Julian Ohm<\/strong>, Lena Schneider<\/strong>, Dessislava Kirova<\/strong>, John Eltringham<\/strong>, Kai Dittmann<\/strong>, Patrick Ehmann, Rebecca Irvine<\/strong><\/p>\n Munich: Anne Gaa<\/strong><\/p>\n Vienna: Jakob Reiter<\/strong>, Regina Puthenpurayil<\/strong><\/p>\n R1:<\/strong> This House regrets the decline of tightly integrated families.<\/p>\n R2:<\/strong> Infoslide: Climate engineering is a deliberate and large-scale intervention in earth’s climatic system in an effort to combat Global Warming. Climate engineering may take many forms; Examples include, but are not limited to, planting large forests where none previously existed, fertilizing the ocean with iron to dramatically increase the population of algae, and increasing cloud coverage so less sunlight reaches earth’s suface.<\/em> This house believes that environmental movements should support climate engineering that fundamentally alters the environment, in an attempt to combat Global Warming.<\/p>\n R3:<\/strong> This House believes that in areas of socio-economic deprivation, schools should train students in vocational skills to the exclusion of the Liberal Arts.<\/p>\n The Tab-team gives updates on the matchups, the motions and on the results after every round on the Malaysia WUDC homepage<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The organizers<\/strong><\/a> and Pretty Pictures photographer Matthias Carcasona<\/strong><\/a> already published photos of the last two days.<\/p>\n Achte Minute<\/em> will give you daily updates on\u00a0the points of the VDCH-teams and the break. So, watch this space, follow WUDC 2015 from wherever you are in the world and cross your fingers for the VDCH delegation 2015!<\/p>\n Teresa Widlok\/ama<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday\u00a0the 35th World University Debating Championships were officially started by the grand Opening Ceremony. The German speaking debating circuit is represented by a strong delegation this year. Seven members of the\u00a0VDCH \u2013 the Association of German Speaking University Debating Societies\u00a0are …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1017,46],"tags":[563,936,928,333,1009,71,208,2352,469,960,1224,2436,108,857,2435,1162,1834,728,2433,334,545,446,320,472,1207,929,2434,450,1371,2882,494,152],"class_list":["post-25444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-2","category-turniere","tag-abagela","tag-carcasona","tag-dexel","tag-dittmann","tag-dreher","tag-ehmann","tag-eltringham","tag-gaa","tag-hamann","tag-hans","tag-kebschull","tag-kichner","tag-kirova","tag-koch","tag-leman","tag-maham","tag-malaysia","tag-markovic","tag-mosor","tag-ohm","tag-puthenpurayil","tag-reiter","tag-schneider","tag-schroder","tag-schuppener","tag-seffer","tag-seidel","tag-sindelar","tag-stottmeyer","tag-vdch","tag-widlok","tag-wudc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25444","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25444"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25565,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25444\/revisions\/25565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Adjudicators<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Motions of day 1<\/h3>\n