{"id":8002,"date":"2011-01-24T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achteminute.vdch.de\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2013-10-07T17:16:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:16:39","slug":"wodc-2011-online-debattieren-und-weltmeister-werden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20110124\/wodc-2011-online-debattieren-und-weltmeister-werden\/","title":{"rendered":"WODC 2011: Become an online debate champion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wodc-online.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8006\" title=\"wodc online\" src=\"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wodc-online.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>Why jet around the planet in real life when there is an easier and less expensive possibility of becoming an online debate champion? For the third time in a row the World Online Debating Championships (WODC) are to be held, well, yes: online! The team cap is 32, so you better register sooner rather than later. And yes, of course you <a href=\"WODC%202011:%20Online%20debattieren%20und%20Weltmeister%20werden\">register online on the websites of WODC<\/a>. Registration fees are 20 US-Dollars per person, but not more than 100 Dollars per team. A team is made up of two to five debaters. Only one team is accepted per nation. From July this year pairings and motions will be announced.<\/p>\n<p>And this is how a typical WODC debate looks like:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Monday, 12 a.m.: Motion will be announced, the      proposition makes their case.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, 12 a.m.: Motion and arguments of      proposition announced to opposition, the again make their case.<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, 12 a.m.: Proposition responds to      opposition, adding new arguments.<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, 12 a.m.: Again, the oppositional      team responds, adding new arguments for their side.<\/li>\n<li>Friday, 12 a.m.: Both factions conclude.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, 12 a.m.: Judging begins. Two of      the judges are experienced judges who broke at Worlds. In past years, among      them were\u00a0 <strong>Andy Hume<\/strong> (WUDC winner 1997), <strong>Can Okar<\/strong> (chief      adjudicator Worlds 2010), <strong>Colm      Flynn<\/strong> (former chair of the WUDC Council) and <strong>Jonathan Leader Maynard<\/strong> (EUDC winner 2009).<\/li>\n<li>The winning team breaks to the next round.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All dates are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), i.e. 12 a.m. GMT is 1 p.m. in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Motions of past World Online Debating Championships read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The EU should impose a special Europe-wide tax on meat consumption to help save the planet.<\/li>\n<li>All evidence gathered by intelligence agencies should be admissible in courts of law.<\/li>\n<li>Pre-nuptial agreements should not be recognised in divorce courts.<\/li>\n<li>Heavy drinkers should be denied liver transplants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those interested may read complete debates of WODC 2009 online on the <a href=\"http:\/\/debatewise.org\/wodc\">homepage of debatewise<\/a>. There you may also find more information. <a href=\"http:\/\/praguemonitor.com\/2010\/10\/06\/czechs-win-online-debating-championships\">In 2009, the Czech team (proposition) defeated New Zealand (opposition) in the final and is now World Online Debating Champion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>apf \/ glx<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why jet around the planet in real life when there is an easier and less expensive possibility of becoming an online debate champion? For the third time in a row the World Online Debating Championships (WODC) are to be held, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[367],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turniere","tag-wodc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19095,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/19095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}