[caption id="attachment_29710" align="alignright" width="344"] View over Warsaw - © Lennart Lokstein[/caption] At the EUDC 2016, hosted in Warsaw, the following teams make the break. Note that, different to WUDC, ESL (English as a Second Language) teams can be in both the EPL (English as Primary Language) and ESL break if they are high enough in the total ranking. ESL teams in the EPL ("main") break are marked. In the EPL category (English as Primary Language): Durham A PEP A LSE A Cambridge B TCD Phil B Durham B Oxford C Hebrew A Tel Aviv A (ESL) Cambridge A Oxford A Tel Aviv ...

[caption id="attachment_29710" align="alignright" width="344"] Blick auf Warschau - © Lennart Lokstein[/caption] Vom 14.-20. August findet in Warschau die European Universities Debating Championship (EUDC) 2016 statt. Die Achte Minute ist live dabei und präsentiert hier die Ergebnisse der verschiedenen Teams aus der deutschsprachigen Delegation. Getwittert wird unter dem Hashtag #eudc2016. Die Ergebnisse nach Tag 2 und somit sechs Vorrunden lauten: Bayreuth/München (Samuel Scheuer, Yimin Ge): 9 Punkte BDU A (Stefan Torges, Pegah Maham): 9 Punkte BDU B (Frederick Aly, Julian Stastny): 10 Punkte BDU C (Anonym, Anonym): 11 Punkte BiTS Debating Society A (Florian Schneider, Julian Vaterrodt): 8 Punkte BiTS Debating Society B (Anonym, Sebastian Chudek): 4 Punkte Göttingen (Nikos ...

[caption id="attachment_29710" align="alignright" width="344"] Blick auf Warschau - © Lennart Lokstein[/caption] Vom 14.-20. August findet in Warschau die European Universities Debating Championship (EUDC) 2016 statt. Die Achte Minute ist live dabei und präsentiert hier die Ergebnisse der verschiedenen Teams aus der deutschsprachigen Delegation. Getwittert wird unter dem Hashtag #eudc2016. Die Ergebnisse nach Tag 1 und somit drei Vorrunden lauten: Bayreuth/München (Samuel Scheuer, Yimin Ge): 4 Punkte BDU A (Stefan Torges, Pegah Maham): 6 Punkte BDU B (Frederick Aly, Julian Stastny): 6 Punkte BDU C (Anonym, Anonym): 7 Punkte BiTS Debating Society A (Florian Schneider, Julian Vaterrodt): 3 Punkte BiTS Debating Society B (Anonym, Sebastian Chudek): 1 Punkt Göttingen (Nikos ...

Von heute bis kommenden Samstag (14.-20.08.) findet in Warschau die European University Debating Championship (EUDC) 2016 statt. Es ist nach der Weltmeisterschaft das größte Debattierturnier der Welt und wird in diesem Jahr von der Foundation Poland Debates (Fundacja Polska Debatuje), dem University of Warsaw Debate Club (Klub Debat) und dem Warsaw School of Economics Debate Club (SKN KLUB DEBAT SGH) organisiert. Der Zeitplan beinhaltet neun Vorrunden, sowie Auscheidungsrunden in den zwei Sprachkategorien "Open" und "English as a Second Language (ESL)". Wie üblich stehen auch einige Partys, offizielle Abendessen und ein Treffen des EUDC-Council auf dem Programm. Das leitende Jurorenteam besteht neben ...

Coming Sunday at the 14th August the European Debating Championship 2016 will take place in Warsaw and, as usual, the Achte Minute will be there to report. But for now the big question is not yet who managed to break but rather what to bring along. As a wonderful German proverb states: "Life ain't no pony yard" - it means that life isn't easy. Most participants have to pack their own bags, since mother or father don't do it for them anymore. So we want to have a chat out of the sewing box with you about things we deem ...

At the European Universities Debating Championship (EUDC) in Zagreb, the EUDC council will meet to decide who will host the EUDC in 2016. A couple of weeks ago, the University of Cork announced their bid for the EUDC 2016. Now there is a second bid: The University of Warsaw Debate Society has joined the ranks of the applicants to host the prestigious tournament. Marcus Ewald, former President of the EUDC council, asked both bidding societies to provide information to enable debaters to compare the bids. The full information gathered is compiled in a Google Doc. As a caveat, Marcus notes that ...

Between September 8 and 11 2013 BGU carried out the Red Sea Open for the fourth time. Convened by Mor Zoran and Noa Golan hyper-funded by the Ben Gurion University the rounds took place on the Eilat Campus of BGU. 32 teams, an outstanding Chief Adjudication team and an all round board combined an intimate debate atmosphere with a party holiday mood.  And the debate community has a new contender that wants to host EUDC 2016. Eilat, a rather Unconventional Debate Scenery From around a dozen tournaments yearly generated on the Israeli circuit the Red Sea Open is the only one truly ...