Junior Debating League 2007/2008

24 teams took part. The winner was the Parler-Gymnasium Schwäbisch Gmünd, and the runners-up were the Hölderlin-Gymnasium Stuttgart.
The best speaker was Viola Schramm of the Parler-Gymansium.
We also congratulate the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Leonberg on being the most successful of the new teams and on even reaching the semi-finals.

The finals were held in the Musiksaal of the Max-Born-Gymnasium, Backnang. This debate was an impromptu (2 hrs. prep time) between the two best teams at the end of the semis.

Semi-Finals:
Mörike-Gymn. Esslingen, Max-Born-Gymn. Backnang, Johannes-Kepler-Gymn. Leonberg, Parler-Gymn. Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Hölderlin-Gymn. Stuttgart, Gymn. Zittau

dates & venues for finals (pdf)

dates & venues (pdf)

results (preliminary rounds) - BW (June 1st)

Dear all,
Welcome back to the new look Junior-League Baden-Württemberg. We're 24 teams this year, ranging from Lahr to Ulm and Nürtingen to Gaggenau. Let us welcome the new schools in this year's JL - Hölderlin Nürtingen, Johannes-Kepler Leonberg, Taus Backnang and Hölderlin Stuttgart. A warm welcome to them and the best of luck.

The groups are arranged differently this year to how they were in the past. They are now not wholly geographical, but are also arranged on the performance of the school JL teams over the last two years. This gives the schools who have not done so well in recent years a chance to practice and improve and the heavyweight schools to fight it out amongst themselves. But never fear! All the groups have an equal chance of qualifying into the quarter-finals. We cannot as yet tell you where they or the finals will be, but we let you know as soon as we ourselves know!

We are coupled with the Senior League for some of the dates in the coming year and the finals will be together with Senior Leagues. This has been done to reduce the number of debating days both for students and for teachers, as we all know how hectic things can get!

As with SL, there will also be no participation fee for JL this year for those schools and coaches who are members of the Debating Society Germany e.V.

Schools not as yet members are required to invoice 20 Euros.
The accounts of Debating Society Germany to which you should pay are LBBW (Sort Code 600 501 01), A/C no. 820 46 64 or Deutsche Bank (Sort Code 600 700 24), A/C no. 132 02 90. Transfer reference: Please say from which school the payment comes, as it is not always easily to piece things together! If you should need a receipt for your school, please tell our treasurer Tanja Ferraro-Wolf.

Well that's it from us for the moment. Best of luck in the debates!

Michael Pates and David Whitehead