Bit behind posting this but UCC Law (Becky West and Gearoid Wrixon) have won the Berlin IV.
In the final they defeated University of London Union (ULU) A (Samantha Neville and David Jones), Utrecht Debating Society (UDS) A (Lucien de Bruin and Tomas Beerthuis, Leiden Debating Union (Rogier Baart and Suus Kingma)
Motions:
THW financially incentivise parents to have two or more children.
THBT any language which needs protection is not worth protection.
THW make all prison sentences indefinite until the prisoner is deemed rehabilitated.
THW privatise water.
For peacekeeping missions in Africa, THW only use African troops.
THW only hold team sports competitions with mixed-sex teams.
For more information:
Tab: http://goo.gl/9eQKx
Photos: http://goo.gl/KWKYR
Article (in German): http://goo.gl/5IWSt
Main site: http://abearstongue.blogspot.com
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Minggu, 17 Juli 2011
Selasa, 14 Juni 2011
German Debating Championship Results
On the pentecostal weekend, the DebatingClub Heidelberg of the time-honoured University of Heidelberg hosted the German Language Debating Championship. The format of this year's Championship was Offene Parlamentarische Debatte (OPD), or open parliamentary debate.
Winners: Debattiergesellschaft Jena (Severin Weingarten, Moritz Niehaus, Clemens Lechner)
Best Speaker by points: Severin Weingarten
Best Speaker elected by the honourary adjudication panel: Free Speaker Lukas Haffert (St. Gallen)
Finalists: Streitkultur Tübingen (Pauline Leopold, Steffen Jenner, Dominic Hildebrand)
Free Speakers (a characteristic speaker position in the format of OPD): Tom-Michael Hesse (Leipzig), Nicolas Eberle (Mainz), Lukas Haffert (St. Gallen)
This tournament's CAs were Gudrun Lux, Jan Lüken, Marcus Ewald and Tim Richter.
The motions: (Translated from German)
Round 1: Should we prohibit begging?
Round 2: Do we need a mandatory reference of real names on the internet?
Round 3: Do we need state-run control of the mineral oil markets?
Round 4: Should Antigone bury Polyneices?
Round 5: Should Belgium be split up?
Round 6: Should we abandon the international war on drugs?
Octos: Does the European Central Bank need a veto on the government budget of Euro countries?
Quarters: Should Wikiepedia become UNESCO World Heritage?
Semis: Do we need a European Marshall Plan for North Africa?
Final: Should laws generally be determinable?
--
Anja Pfeffermann
on behalf of the Achte Minute editorial team
Winners: Debattiergesellschaft Jena (Severin Weingarten, Moritz Niehaus, Clemens Lechner)
Best Speaker by points: Severin Weingarten
Best Speaker elected by the honourary adjudication panel: Free Speaker Lukas Haffert (St. Gallen)
Finalists: Streitkultur Tübingen (Pauline Leopold, Steffen Jenner, Dominic Hildebrand)
Free Speakers (a characteristic speaker position in the format of OPD): Tom-Michael Hesse (Leipzig), Nicolas Eberle (Mainz), Lukas Haffert (St. Gallen)
This tournament's CAs were Gudrun Lux, Jan Lüken, Marcus Ewald and Tim Richter.
The motions: (Translated from German)
Round 1: Should we prohibit begging?
Round 2: Do we need a mandatory reference of real names on the internet?
Round 3: Do we need state-run control of the mineral oil markets?
Round 4: Should Antigone bury Polyneices?
Round 5: Should Belgium be split up?
Round 6: Should we abandon the international war on drugs?
Octos: Does the European Central Bank need a veto on the government budget of Euro countries?
Quarters: Should Wikiepedia become UNESCO World Heritage?
Semis: Do we need a European Marshall Plan for North Africa?
Final: Should laws generally be determinable?
--
Anja Pfeffermann
on behalf of the Achte Minute editorial team
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