Finnish National Debating Championship

Jenni Juvonen and Leo Silvennoinen from the University of Tampere won the Finnish National Debating Championship.  

The tournament was organised by Aalto Debating Society and Helsinki Debating Society with the final being held in the Helsinki City Hall.

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Baltic Championships Results

Team Tallinn B (Maria Kesa and Mihhail Jevdokimov) were the winners of the Borenius Group Baltic Debate Championships 2008, in Helsinki on the 25-26th of April. They defeated Estonia A (Iivika Kalden and Anna Karolin), Vilnius University (Aiste Dumbryte and Eugenija Golubova) and SSE Riga MV (Martins Vaivars and Vaidotas Lasas) in the Final, with the motion "THW Ban the Use of Landmines".

The best speaker on the tab was Anna Karolin, of Estonia A and the panel for the final was Neill Harvey-Smith, Richard Penny, Uve Poom, Helina Loor and Zeshan Qureshi.

Baltic Debate Championships 2008

The first stage of registration for the 2008 Baltic Debate championships is now open.

The championships are on Friday 25th of April and Saturday 26th of April

The registration fee with be €25 per debater, and €15 per judge. N-1 applies for judges

Only Baltic societies may enter during the first stage of registration. For the purposes of this competition 'Baltic' will mean the three Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and then any countries with Baltic Sea coastline (eg Germany, Denmark, Sweden etc).

Speeches in the Prelims will be 5 mins in length. The semi and final will be 7 mins.

This is a worlds style event, and use the worlds scoring system.

To register contact the Reg Officer: Anna Bessonova, at helsinkidebating@gmail.com or visit the website at http://helsinkibaltics08.blogspot.com/