Debating Society Germany e.V.
BBC / English Speaking Union (ESU) Award 2012 launched
We're proud to announce the launch of the BBC/ESU Public Speaking Awards in Germany! This is an event for individual speakers, not teams, and will be run on a pilot basis this year in the Berlin/Brandenburg/Saxony region. If everything goes as we expect, then it will be expanded to the whole country for the 2012/2013 academic year. We're running this event with our partners BBC World, Deutsche Telekom and the English-Speaking Union and the generous support of the British Embassy in Berlin. If you're interested in taking part, then please visit the BBC/ESU Awards page of this website!
SL Würzburg weekend registration closing soon (16 JAN)
Registration for the Senior League Weekend 2012 (rds 5-8) from 3-5 FEB 2012 is now open until 16 JAN 2012. Please sign up as a school delegation, a student judge (at a discount price) or to travel on a hired bus picking up teams and individuals in times of rising train travel costs.
Please follow this link to start the registration process.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon in Würzburg!
Best regards
Debating Society Germany e.V.
WSDC 2012 motions and draw announced
The World Schools Debating Championship motions for the event in January 2012 have been pulished on 18 NOV and are as follows:
- This house believes that newly democratised Arab nations should not allow religious parties to participate in elections
- This house believes that the feminist movement should seek a ban on pornography
- This house believes that developing nations should place limits on internal rural-urban migration
- This house believes that states should enshrine legally actionable socio-economic rights
Grand Final: This house regrets South Africa's decision to use the Truth and Reconciliation Commission rather than prosecuting perpetrators of crimes committed under Apartheid.
The teams facing the German delegation are as follows (published 9 DEC):
Rd1: GER v Ireland
Rd2: Lithuania v GER (Impromptu)
Rd3: Denmark v GER
Rd4: GER v Australia (Impromptu)
Rd5: GER v Indonesia
Rd6: Sri Lanka v GER (Impromptu)
Rd7: India v GER
Rd8: GER v Czech Republic (Impromptu)
Click here for the full draw.
Click here for more info on the German delegation.
Turkey A wins EurOpen 2011
Turkey A has won this year's EurOpen 2011 Schools Debating Championship! Congratulations! Runners-up are Alberta after performing in a brilliantly entertaining Grand Final which ended 5-2 in favor of Turkey A, who were opposing on the motion "This house believes that the pen is mightier than the sword".
Our sincerest thanks go to all 38 teams that have visited our tournament here in Stuttgart. We've had a great time organising it and we hope you had a great time debating and meeting the other teams. It's been a pleasure having you all here!!
Hoping to see you again next year for EurOpen 2012!!
from left to right:
Jason Lamb (Alberta), Joen Rowledge (Alberta), Zach Shapiro (Alberta), Safak Kilic (Turkey A), Mert Zorlular (Turkey A), Kaan Ülgen (Turkey A)
Follow this link for the results
Yours,
Debating Society Germany e.V.
JL 2011/12
Motion for Round 2 - JL (Ba-Wü):
"THBT sportsmen have ceased to be good role models".
National Final Dates Announced
The national Junior League finals will take place between 26th and 29th April 2012 at the Jugendherberge Würzburg. This will be DSG's second visit to the hostel in 2012 and we are grateful to the administrators for permitting two debating competitions there in one year!
The 6 best teams from around the country will compete against each other over the 3 days and the winner selected after the Grand Final on the 29th. Preliminaries will take place in the individual states.
Junior League (South) registration now open
The following dates have been set for this year's Junior League. Registration begins THU 20 OCT and ends 5 NOV. The draw will therefore be sent out right after the BaWü fall break.
Rounds 1 & 2 Saturday 26th November 2011.
Rounds 3 & 4 Saturday 21st January 2012.
Rounds 5 & 6 in early March.
Best regards,
Debating Society Germany e.V.
