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31 July 2009

Yeditepe pull out of bid for EUDC

Yeditepe University in Istanbul have pulled out of the competition to host the 2010 European Universities Debating Championships.  This leaves Amsterdam as the only currently declared bidder.

Dear Debaters of Europe,

As you may know, we had previously announced that we would be bidding to host the EUDC 2010. We promised to offer everyone "the greatest Euros ever". We made many preparations until now for to this end; we organized 2 successful BP tournaments this year to add to our experience, we signed several sponsorship agreements and attended big competitions to see how things were run. However after discussion with our CA team and organization comittee during Istanbul Yeditepe Open 2009 we have decided to postpone our bid for this year, as we don't think we're ready to fulfill our promise and make everyone as happy as we would want them to be. For this reason we will be withdrawing our candidacy for EUDC 2010.


We wish great luck and success for the lovely people in Amsterdam for EUDC 2010.


Hope to see you very soon,
Yavuz Yiğit
Yeditepe University

30 July 2009

Training lectures/videos

Alfred "Tuna" Snider has been busy over the past few days uploading videos from a recent debate summer camps in Serbia and Slovenia.  They cover a wide range of topics on both World Universities and World Schools Format.

FOr more info visit: http://debatevideoblog.blogspot.com/

Preliminary round of WODC commences!

From idebate

Debatewise and IDEA are pleased to announce that the preliminary round of the inaugural World Online Debating Championships (WODC) has started. This is to decide which debating teams from the United States of America, Israel and China will go on to represent their country in the Championships on August 10th.


These teams will compete in a straight knockout tournament lasting just over a month. This is a joint initiative between the International Debate Education Association, Debatewise, and the World Universities Debating Council (some of whose members are acting as Adjudicators, with Neill Harvey Smith being the Chief Adjudicator).

The championships are taking place in a time of great international economic, political and social turmoil, and domestic discontent across many countries. We believe strongly that never before has the need for debate by individuals of whatever race, age, gender, creed, physical or neurological condition from the quiet or noisy corners of the globe has been greater than now.

Currently we have strong representation from across Asia with teams hailing from Bangladesh to the Republic of Korea, a variety of the ex Soviet countries in Eastern Europe as well as teams from the major debating powers Australia the USA and the UK. We also hope to have some teams representing regions as well.

The winners of the World Online Debating Championships will be revealed on September the 21st and will receive a suitable reward for their commitment, intelligence and passion over the past month. Regardless of who wins or loses, we hope that bringing people together from different countries will strengthen global discourse.

28 July 2009

Cambridge IV 2009 Details

Hosted by the Cambridge Union Society


Cambridge IV 2009
20th and 21st November

**This year with CLOSED motions**
** CA: Naomi Oreb (Best Speaker, Australs 08 & Worlds 09)**
DCA: Harish Natarajan (10th Best Speaker, Worlds 09)
Tab Master: Bob Nimmo



* 5 preliminary rounds,  7 minute speeches, break to quarter finals & ESL break

* 100 teams, 3 team institution cap, n-1 judges for IONA teams

* £75 registration fee: our famous black tie social, crash, breakfast, dinner both evenings, beer, whisky, cocktails...
* International package, free to non-IONA teams: debate workshops, entry to the Thursday night Cambridge Union debate, extra crash Thursday night


Register now at http://tinyurl.com/cambridgeiv

* For more information contact Aliyah Akram and Sean Koh at iv@cus.org or see www.cus.org/iv_tournament