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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
Dear all,
Registration for EUDC is in its final stages. So far our strict team cap
policy, which we have also been criticized for, has served its purpose
well, as we have been able to guarantee participation for as much as 78
different institutions, most of them with more than one team. However,
it seems that by now all the institutions interested in participating
have exhausted the available places and due to several cancellations in
the past few weeks we are left with a few more available places until
the general team cap of 160 is reached.
Therefore, *we will be accepting additional teams to the tournament to
fill the available places*. The institutional team cap of 3 no longer
applies, meaning that even institutions that already have 3 teams are
able to apply for one additional place. The n-1 rule for adjudicators
The available team places will be allocated by lot.
does still apply.
The procedure shall be as follows:
1. This time registration will not happen through our website, like
in earlier phases, but via e-mail.
2. All institutions that are interested in sending one more team to
the tournament (even if it is their 4^th team) must send an e-mail
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The subject
to
line of the e-mail must read: “EUDC additional registration” and
the message contain the name of the institution, name of the team
(if possible, also names of debaters) and a confirmation as to
whether an additional n-1 judge is required and will be registered.
Wednesday at midnight, i.e. 21 May
3. Registration via e-mail opens
at 00:00 GMT.
4. Registration will stay open for 24 hours. We shall accept and
take into account only e-mails received from 21 May midnight GMT
until 22 May midnight GMT.
5. All e-mails that are received will be given an automatic reply by
e-mail. If you do not receive such receipt confirmation, you must
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immediately and
contact
definitely before the end of registration on 22 May midnight. Any
complaints received after this time will not be taken into account.
6. *The available team places will be allocated by lot, not in the
chronological order of receiving e-mails*. This method was chosen
for several reasons. Firstly, in this way the possibility to get a
place is not dependent on the speed of your e-mail server.
Secondly, you will not be deprived of the possibility to get a
place because your computer’s clock happens to be half a minute
behind. Thirdly, it would be quite impossible to choose between 10
teams whose e-mail was sent at exactly 00:00 with a difference of
maybe a few seconds. Fourthly, allocation of places by lot is a
suitable option considering that only very few institutions will
be able to register a fourth team, so it really is a sort of a gamble.
7. On 23 May the organizing committee will print out all received
e-mails with a request for sending another team and put each
e-mail in an envelope. The Representative of the Organising
Committee of EUDC will thereafter blindly choose the appropriate
number of envelopes and the available places will be allocated to
institutions whose e-mail is contained therein.
8. The teams chosen will be announced on 23 May at 10 p.m. GMT
through EUDC and BD lists and on EUDC website, all these teams
will also be contacted individually by e-mail.
9. If your institution has been chosen to send an additional team to
EUDC 2008 you will be contacted by our Registration Coordinator
Liina Naaber, who will instruct you as to payments etc.
10. In case of further cancellations, the available places will be
allocated to institutions according to the same method.
If you should have any questions as to the procedure or any other
aspects, do not hesitate to contact our Communications Director Maarja
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Teder at
Good luck to everyone!
Kind regards,
EUDC 2008 Tallinn team
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