WUDC registration update - full in minutes!!! |
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ponedeljek, 22 junij 2009 |
Dear debaters,
We are currently working through the masses
of data that fell out of registration half an hour ago. The system worked fine
but there was unprecedented interest in attending Worlds this year. There are a
few things we want to say on lists so that you can set your minds at rest:
1) Those who registered within the
first 90 seconds or so should be receiving confirmation mails in the next
minutes. Can you check your spam boxes as well?
2) In two hours, confirmation
mails will be sent out again, including to those who get in once we have
removed duplicate registrations from the system. Again, check your spam box as
well.
3) We will publish a list later
today of the first 300 teams to register and the first 24 to register from
nations with slow internet access.
You can continue to get in touch with us
today by mail, facebook, skype or phone. Details are in the last mail we sent
out.
Regards,
Koc Worlds
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torek, 21 avgust 2007 |
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Debate blog or Debate Forum.
This is a site that has cumulated debate motions from the Worlds University Debate championship, European University Debate Championship and debate topics from other tournaments. You can use these motions for your preparation for BP tournaments or for your tournament. Finding a good motion is always important for running a good tournament. This is where we help you. We have the motions organized by tournaments, so that you can get an idea, what tournament uses what motions, and you can use the motions, that were used on tournaments that are similar to your tournament, to the tournament, that you are prepping for.
The calendar that you can click on, shows all the BP debate tournaments in Europe. Jens et all, thanks for allowing me to use it.
The site also features videos from different debates from around the world and different educational videos. You are of of curse invited to help us here, send us links from videos you have uploaded or you just found and think that they would interest the world debate community.
What is a debate topic or debate motion?
Debate motion is the topic or the title of the debate. It is always set by someone else and not the debaters, so that no one in the debate has any specific knowledge about the topic. The topics should not be too narrow, because all debaters should be able to debate the motion, meaning that they have the basic knowledge about the topic.
Well, you can have different ones, for the British parliamentary debate we normally use motions that start with This house would (THW) or This house believes (THB), this house is taken from the British parliament. Open motions are those, where the government has a lot of space to define what they would like to debate about. An open motion would be "THW open the doors", and closed motion would be "THB that the EU should do more to promote condoms to help prevent the spreading of HIV/AIDS in Africa". You will find more articles about "how to debate" on this website, so just browse the menus on the top and on the left.
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