German Schools Debating Team

WSDC on Achte Minute

dsgteam — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:04:59 +0000

Well, the “update service on a regular basis” suffered a little bit (sorry for that!). We simply found so many online sources sharing results and stories (wsdc on twitter, wsdc blog, DSG webpage, Achte Minute…) that we focussed rather on socialising and prep sessions (!!) than writing.

Find a report by Christopher Sanchez aboutWSDC Dundee on Achte Minute:

http://www.achteminute.de/index.php/20110828/facebook-vs-real-life-chris-sanchez-uber-die-world-schools-debating-championships-2011/

We had a great time in Scotland! A big THANK YOU goes out to all of our supporters. Cheers!

Round 1 and 2 results

dsgteam — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:43:04 +0000

We were defeated by team Wales in R1 (3-0) but won against Nepal(3-0) in R2 on the motion “This House would allow free distribution of music on the Internet”.

So that makes one win, one loss, 3 Judged for team Germany after the first two debates.

All results are available on http://blog.schoolsdebate.com/

We’re up against Croatia and South Africa today. Go Germany!!

Let the games begin…

dsgteam — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:05:32 +0000

WSDC 2011 is officially open now! Today we’ll be debating against Wales (R1, prepared debate on the motion “This house would offer dictators immunity in return for leaving power”) and Nepal!

The official draw can be found here:

http://wsdctournament.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/draw2011headtoheadflags.pdf

Even though the official debating rounds haven’t started yet, we already love the tournament! We’re living in dorms on campus. Team, coach and independent judge Christian Steck are sharing one floor. We cought up on some sleep (well, more or less some might say), did some practice debates yesterday and on Tuesday, attended the city tour ….and met with old and new friends, of course.

First results and all the other “big news”. will be posted here soon. For now, please keep your fingers crossed for team Germany (and for the other teams, of course)! Let the games begin…

The team on the R.R.S. Discovery!

Teams England and Germany

Let’s get it started…

dsgteam — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:38:08 +0000

Hello fans/supporters/spies out there: Ta-dah…we did it! We created our own blog. This is your personal WSDC 2011 update service on how the tournament is going for team Germany. Of course we’ll post general information, too.

We’re leaving for Scotland in two hours (yay! looking forward to meeting part of the Swedish delegation at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam), so it’s time to say “goodbye Germany – Dundee here we come!”

from left to right: Viola Schramm, Kai Ohmstedt, Felix Jiang, Dilek Sevinc, Karoline Schlotthauer, Jana Gilke (coach)

German Delegation:

Debaters:
Felix Jiang, Landesgymnasium Schwäbisch Gmünd
Kai Ohmstedt, Gymnasium in der Taus, Backnang
Karoline Schlotthauer, Max-Born-Gymnasium, Backnang
Viola Schramm, Parler-Gymnasium, Schwäbisch Gmünd
Dilek Sevinc, Max-Born-Gymnasium, Backnang

Coach:
Jana Gilke, University of Mannheim

Judges:
Christopher Sanchez, Max-Born-Gymnasium, Backnang
Christopher Sloan, Schwäbisch Gmünd (independent judge)
Christian Steck, Backnang (independent judge)