{"id":4962,"date":"2010-08-09T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achteminute.vdch.de\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2010-08-10T10:01:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T08:01:07","slug":"berliner-club-veranstaltete-internen-alternate-timeline-memorandum-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20100809\/berliner-club-veranstaltete-internen-alternate-timeline-memorandum-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Debating Union staged Alternate Timeline Memorandum Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>In early August, <strong>Berlin Debating Union<\/strong> (BDU) staged a fun tournament, the first Alternate Timeline Memorandum Cup, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debating.de\/\">as is reported on BDU\u2019s homepage<\/a>. Twelve teams \u2013 some consisting of only one speaker who filled both positions of the team \u2013 debated bizarre and comical motions such as \u201cThis house would try to teach great apes the finite nature of their existence\u201d or \u201cThis house would merge consciousnesses\u201d. It was up to the individual speakers to decide upon the language of debate, be it English or German. In the preliminary rounds, the speakers functioned as their own jurors. That gave <strong>Hauke Blume<\/strong> and <strong>Niels Schr\u00f6ter<\/strong>, chief adjudicators of the competition, the chance to run against other BDU members. But in the final round, it was <strong>John Eltringham<\/strong> and <strong>Patrick Ehmann<\/strong> who won the tournament while debating the motion \u201cThis house would shoot the time traveler before they could tell something about the future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early August, Berlin Debating Union (BDU) staged a fun tournament, the first Alternate Timeline Memorandum Cup, as is reported on BDU\u2019s homepage. Twelve teams \u2013 some consisting of only one speaker who filled both positions of the team \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43,46],"tags":[94,364,71,208,509],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neues-aus-den-clubs","category-themen","category-turniere","tag-berlin","tag-blume","tag-ehmann","tag-eltringham","tag-schroter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}