Berlin Humboldt IV 2011

Tab: http://goo.gl/9eQKx
Photos: http://goo.gl/KWKYR
Article (in German): http://goo.gl/5IWSt

Break to semis:

1. University College Cork (UCC) Law B (Becky West and Gearoid Wrixon)
2. Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz (Marcus Ewald and Marietta Gädeke)
3. University of London Union (ULU) A (Samantha Neville and David Jones)
4. Utrecht Debating Society (UDS) A (Lucien de Bruin and Tomas Beerthuis)
5. University of London Union (ULU) B (Lucas Issacharoff and Siodhbhra Parkin)
6. Leiden Debating Union (Rogier Baart and Suus Kingma)
7. University of London Union (ULU) C (Carlo Cabrera and Micha Beekman)
8. Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz (Andrea Gau and Daniil Pakhomenko)

(finalists are in bold)

Winners: Becky West and Gearoid Wrixon from UCC Law!

Berlin IV 2011 Break

The teams breaking to semis are...

17 points:
1. UCC Law B (Cork; West/Wrixon)

14 points:
2. Mainz (Ewald/Gädeke)

13 points:
3. ULU A (London; Neville/Jones)
4. UDS A (Utrecht; de Bruin/Beerthuis)

12 points:
5. ULU B (London; Issacharoff/Parkin)
6. Leiden (Baart/Kingma)
7. ULU C (London; Cabrera/Beekman)
8. Mainz (Gau/Pakhomenko)

Back on top

Applying FDL rules to the current ZEIT DEBATTEN season (up to Regios), BDU is back to the top position it obtained after last season.

(includes bonuses for convening societies; Regios weighted 0.8 of regular ZEIT DEBATTEN)

Berlin Punk: The Guest List

On January 8th-9th, 2011, BDU will host its Punk Tournament once more. These are the debating societies honouring us with their participation:

5 teams: Halle

4 teams: Magdeburg, Marburg, Münster

3 teams: Eichstätt, Jena

2 teams: Streitkultur Berlin, Frankfurt, Greifswald, Karlsruhe, München, Potsdam

1 team: Bremen, Hannover, Ilmenau, Paderborn

...plus two composite teams and, of course, quite a few BDU teams.

Berlin Invitational: The Guest List

On January 7th, 2011, BDU will host its Invitational for the second time. These are the twenty teams that accepted the invitation extended by BDU's board:

HDU/Münster: Manuel Adams und Julian Schneider

Greifswald: Sarah Jaglitz und Rafael Heinisch

Jena: Moritz Niehaus und Clemens Lechner

Berlin/Magdeburg: Jonas Werner und Jan-Dirk Capelle

Frankfurt: Willy Witthaut und Marion Seiche

München: Marco Witzmann und Valerio Morelli

Halle: Simeon Reusch und Thomas Wach

Leipzig: Teresa Peters und Tom-Michael Hesse

Berlin: Dessislava Kirova und Filip Bubenheimer

Jena: Friederike Meyer zu Wendischhoff und Jonathan Scholbach

Potsdam: Jana Bachmann und Sebastian Hahn

München: Almut Gräbsch und Lukas Windhager

St. Gallen: Lukas Haffert und Christian Funk

Potsdam: Florian Umscheid und Moritz Kirchner

Tübingen: Philipp Stiel und Christoph Krakowiak

Mainz: Andrea Gau und Juliane Mendelsohn

Berlin/Jena: Hauke Blume und Severin Weingarten

Berlin: Niels Schröter und Matthias Winkelmann

Berlin: Annette Kirste und Julian Ohm

Berlin: Johannes Häger und Georg Sommerfeld