The team cap for this year's EUDC, due to be held by the Koc University Debating Club on August 5-11 in Istanbul, Turkey, has been reached on the opening day of registration. According to Can Okar, Chief Adjudicator of the upcoming European Universities Debating Championships, the team cap of 132 for this year's EUDC was met in 3 and a half hours after pre-registration opened last Monday.
Under these circumstances the team cap has been extended to 148, while the full list of the institutions that are eligible to enter the second phase of registration is available in the e-mail that Can Okar sent to the mailing lists on Tuesday.
The deadline for paying the registration fee via credit or debit card is May 20. For more information refer to the EUDC website at www.eudc2007.com
7 April 2007
4 April 2007
APDA 2007-2008 Executive
President - Chris Baia (Hopkins)
VP (Operations) - Jason Sheltzer (Princeton)
VP (Finance) - Josh Bone (Yale)
Members at Large -
Andrew Rohrbach (Yale)
Matt Scarola (Columbia)
Ben Strahs (William and Mary)
VP (Operations) - Jason Sheltzer (Princeton)
VP (Finance) - Josh Bone (Yale)
Members at Large -
Andrew Rohrbach (Yale)
Matt Scarola (Columbia)
Ben Strahs (William and Mary)
3 April 2007
Amsterdam Open
Dear Debaters,
On the 27th and 28th of April the first AMSTERDAM Open Debating Tournament will be held and registration is now open. Come see for yourself how lovely the city of Amsterdam is in spring time, debate in a competitive tournament with 7-minute speeches and enjoy great parties in Amsterdam´s historic city centre!
Anat Gelber will be CA and Will Jones and Daniel Schut are the DCA's, so a good adjudication pool is guaranteed.
Before April 8 you get a discount on registration:
30 euros per debater (35 after April 8)
15 euros per adjudicator (20 after April 8)
You get:
5 preliminary rounds BP-style
Competitive tournament in the historic city centre of Amsterdam
Crash accommodation
Lots of food &
Lots of parties
We also offer you to stay an extra day and enjoy Queensday, the most extravagant public holiday in the Netherlands.
Check our website for registration and information: www.ao2007.nl. Or email us at
amsterdamopen@ asdvbonaparte. nl .
Hope to see you in the city of sin,
Gijs Schumacher and Anne Valkering
__._,_.___
On the 27th and 28th of April the first AMSTERDAM Open Debating Tournament will be held and registration is now open. Come see for yourself how lovely the city of Amsterdam is in spring time, debate in a competitive tournament with 7-minute speeches and enjoy great parties in Amsterdam´s historic city centre!
Anat Gelber will be CA and Will Jones and Daniel Schut are the DCA's, so a good adjudication pool is guaranteed.
Before April 8 you get a discount on registration:
30 euros per debater (35 after April 8)
15 euros per adjudicator (20 after April 8)
You get:
5 preliminary rounds BP-style
Competitive tournament in the historic city centre of Amsterdam
Crash accommodation
Lots of food &
Lots of parties
We also offer you to stay an extra day and enjoy Queensday, the most extravagant public holiday in the Netherlands.
Check our website for registration and information: www.ao2007.nl. Or email us at
amsterdamopen@ asdvbonaparte. nl .
Hope to see you in the city of sin,
Gijs Schumacher and Anne Valkering
__._,_.___
2 April 2007
Australs 2007 Registration Opens
Dear All,
It is our great pleasure to announce that pre-registration for UT MARA
Australs 2007 opens today!
Just as a reminder, pre-registration will stay open from April 1 - 30,
2007. You can register up to three teams at this point and if you'd like to
send more than 3 teams, send us an email of your intention after you have
pre-registered and we will put your request on the waiting list. We will let
you know as pre-registration ends, the availability of additional spots you
can fill.
After you have submitted your pre-registration, we will send you an email
within 24 hours to verify your registration and to provide you with our bank
account details.
All inquiries and correspondence involving registration should be
forwarded to: registration@australs2007.com
To register, please visit: http://australs2007.com/registration
Best Wishes
Busu & Maketab
Registration Directors
Organizing Committee
UT MARA Australs 2007
It is our great pleasure to announce that pre-registration for UT MARA
Australs 2007 opens today!
Just as a reminder, pre-registration will stay open from April 1 - 30,
2007. You can register up to three teams at this point and if you'd like to
send more than 3 teams, send us an email of your intention after you have
pre-registered and we will put your request on the waiting list. We will let
you know as pre-registration ends, the availability of additional spots you
can fill.
After you have submitted your pre-registration, we will send you an email
within 24 hours to verify your registration and to provide you with our bank
account details.
All inquiries and correspondence involving registration should be
forwarded to: registration@australs2007.com
To register, please visit: http://australs2007.com/registration
Best Wishes
Busu & Maketab
Registration Directors
Organizing Committee
UT MARA Australs 2007
1 April 2007
EUDC 2007 Announcement
It gives me great pleasure to announce that pre-registration for the European Universities Debating Championships 2007 at Koç University, Istanbul will open at 9am (current summer CET) on 2nd April 2007.
Our website is http://www.eudc2007.com, which is now open for your general perusal. As you will see, the registration tab is there but we would ask that you don’t pre-register before the hour we have given. If you do, those registrations will not count. The reason is fairly simple: we want to ensure that everyone has heard that registration is opening so that everyone has a fair chance.
We would advise that you read through to the end of this mail if you are interested in joining us in August. We would also advise, without making anyone panic, that you should pre-register as soon as possible. There appears to be quite a lot of interest from across Europe so make sure you get your institution on the list.
Our website is http://www.eudc2007.com, which is now open for your general perusal. As you will see, the registration tab is there but we would ask that you don’t pre-register before the hour we have given. If you do, those registrations will not count. The reason is fairly simple: we want to ensure that everyone has heard that registration is opening so that everyone has a fair chance.
We would advise that you read through to the end of this mail if you are interested in joining us in August. We would also advise, without making anyone panic, that you should pre-register as soon as possible. There appears to be quite a lot of interest from across Europe so make sure you get your institution on the list.
Registration General Rules
All registration must be done at our website (www.eudc2007.com).
If you have difficulty with this website, the registration page is at http://www.eudc2007.com/pre-register.html.
Total team cap is 132 teams.
The n-1 Rule applies to all institutions.
The institution cap is 4 teams
How Registration Works
Registration will be done in 3 phases:
Pre-registration commences on 2nd April 2007 at 9am (current time in Germany, France etc, so 8am for IONA and 10am for Turkey).
The second phase of registration is payment and lasts from 15th April to 20th May 2007.
The third phase is from 21st May to 1st July 2007. In this phase, those teams that have paid should let us know their details on a form provided at this website.
Payment
We will accept payment only by credit or debit card. If this is a problem, contact the Convenor, who will find an alternative route for payment. Registration is €140 per person.
If you have any queries regarding registration or the information on our website, feel free to contact me. I’m looking forward to seeing you on August 5th 2007 at Koç, the only tournament where two continents meet.
Rýza Iþýk
Convenor, European Universities Debating Championships 2007
5th-11th August 2007, Koç University, Istanbul
University of Pisa win 2008 World Championships
In a shock development today the University of Pisa became the first Italian and ESL team to win the World Universities Debating Championships.
The tournament will be held from 28th December 2007 to 4th January 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. However the closing date for initial registration was reached on March 31st with only the University of Pisa having entered the competition. Thus the 3 teams of the University will battle it out over 9 preliminary rounds, Octo Finals, Qtr Finals, Semi Finals and a final.
A source close to the World Championships said that while they were disappointed with the level of interest in the tournament they had to accept the communicated deadline. "We had hoped for around 100 times more teams but we were clear about the registration deadline and have to stick to that out of fairness to the team who registered on time. At least a swing team will get to be the first Thai team to speak in the final which is a fantastic achievement."
When asked to comment on the University of Pisa’s impending victory and the surprisingly low turn out for the competition Colm Flynn, founder of the blog “World Debating News” responded, "Oh God! I forgot to post that registration e-mail. Lising is going to kill me! Oh Bugger no!".
When contacted for comment a clearly delighted member of University of Pisa Debating Society responded “Che cosa? Non parlo inglese. È questo il primo aprile?"
Update: At this stage it is past midday in most time zones that hit on the site so yes in case anyone didn't guess that was an April Fools post. Hope some people found it funny. And now back to our regular humour packed programming....
The tournament will be held from 28th December 2007 to 4th January 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. However the closing date for initial registration was reached on March 31st with only the University of Pisa having entered the competition. Thus the 3 teams of the University will battle it out over 9 preliminary rounds, Octo Finals, Qtr Finals, Semi Finals and a final.
A source close to the World Championships said that while they were disappointed with the level of interest in the tournament they had to accept the communicated deadline. "We had hoped for around 100 times more teams but we were clear about the registration deadline and have to stick to that out of fairness to the team who registered on time. At least a swing team will get to be the first Thai team to speak in the final which is a fantastic achievement."
When asked to comment on the University of Pisa’s impending victory and the surprisingly low turn out for the competition Colm Flynn, founder of the blog “World Debating News” responded, "Oh God! I forgot to post that registration e-mail. Lising is going to kill me! Oh Bugger no!".
When contacted for comment a clearly delighted member of University of Pisa Debating Society responded “Che cosa? Non parlo inglese. È questo il primo aprile?"
Update: At this stage it is past midday in most time zones that hit on the site so yes in case anyone didn't guess that was an April Fools post. Hope some people found it funny. And now back to our regular humour packed programming....
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