From http://www.idebate.org/:
IDEA will be organizing British Parliamentary Debate Championship in Russian on the shores of the beautiful Issyk-Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan between 17-20 September 2011. The Championship is open to Russian speaking teams and individuals from all over the world – with participants being university students.
The Championship will also feature workshops for debaters and judges and plenty of opportunities for social interaction and fun.
Details concerning the venue, logistics, tournament, workshops as well as registration and financial aid will be available at www.idebate.org shortly.
IDEA организовывает Всемирный Чемпионат по Британским Парламентским Дебатам на русском языке, который будет проходить с 17 по 20 сентября 2011 года в Кыргызской Республике на берегу прекрасного Иссык-Куля. Чемпионат открыт для студентов всего мира, дебатирующих на русском языке.
Чемпионат включает в свою программу семинары для дебатеров, для судей, множество возможностей для социального взаимодействия, и веселое времяпровождение в кругу единомышленников - дебатеров!
Более подробная информация о турнире, месте проведения, логистике, семинарах, а также о регистрации и финансовой поддержке доступна на сайте www.idebate.org
What's next the World Championships in Hindi? Mandarin? Indonesian? French? ... This has to stop! The titles will become meaningless if every region or language community proclaims itself to have the WORLD champions in their midst.
ReplyDeleteI seriously doubt that tournament will be of any match to WUDC standard. I'd love to see the org and A-team names.
ReplyDeleteNo offence, but there's NO SINGLE debater from Kyrgyzstan or even Kazakhstan who ever attended WUDC.
At best what they can do is to finally bring in some good trainers and coaches to teach them real debating - now there are "own" rules of the game with very specific understanding of what debating is.
the arrogance here is staggering.
ReplyDeleteWhen people start putting political agenda and self-interest ahead (or even instead) debating, that can't but raise arrogance in true debaters
ReplyDeleteI like how there're people anointing themselves 'true' debaters. Care to elaborate on where the rest of us sign up?
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