Intention of Senior League is to encourage debaters and offer a platform to practise debating. Participating students should be in Years 10 to 13. Open to all schools in their first year, afterwards to Society members only. For conditions and further details:

rules (pdf)

Senior Debating League 2010/2011

--- Final rounds 2011 ---

Please check this page for updates.

contact: sanchez@schoolsdebate.de

--- End of preliminary rounds 2011 ---

After debating rounds 5-8 at the Senior League Weekend in Würzburg 2011, the preliminary rounds of this school year are over and we congratulate the following teams who have broken into the quarterfinals, from first to eigth:

Parler-Gymnasium, Schwäbisch Gmünd
Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, Leonberg
Landesgymnasium für Hochbegabte, Schwäbisch Gmünd
Taus-Gymnasium, Backnang
Max-Born-Gymnasium, Backnang
Scheffel-Gymnasium, Lahr
Friedrich-Abel-Gymnasium, Vaihingen/Enz
Burghardt-Gymnasium, Buchen

With 5892 points, there should be a notable mention of St.Agnes-Gymnasium, Stuttgart who did not break by one point (!) and ended in ninth place.

We're suggesting 7th MAY 2011 (SAT) to be the day to hold the quarter-
and semifinals.

The venue will be announced at a later time as well.

Thanks to all teams for participating and congratulations to those
debating in the final rounds. We invite all people involved to visit and
watch the final rounds.

Best regards
Chris Sanchez

ranking - after round 8 (pdf /tentative ranking)

individual speaker ranking (pdf /after round 8)

---- Senior League weekend in Würzburg (25-27 FEB 2011) ----

WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB: last payment date (65 EUR per speaker and/or judge)

UNIVERSITY STUDENT JUDGES: please let us know if you need/want to apply for financial assistance! Signing up doesn't automatically do this! Thanks for helping us out in Würzburg!! Through your participation and
support it looks as if we'll have enough judges to fill all debates with
three of them and make the event run smoothly, fair and professional for all 250 participants! Your participation fee is 30 EUR. We cannot go as far as waiving the total sum (65) for you, but hope this will still help you out a little.

You won't need linen or sleeping bags, but bring towels. In case you forget, towels can be borrowed from the hostel for a price.

FRIDAY, 28 JAN: Last sign-up date and confirmation of number of attendees per delegation. Dropouts must be aware of losing money, the rooms will be charged by the hostel and the decision over amount is out of our hands. Expect to lose the full costs of 65 Euros.

We also need the exact number of speakers/judges only staying for one night.

Any signups past this date are open to availability at the hostel.

Best regards,
Chris Sanchez

draw + motions (pdf /rounds 5-8)

schedule (pdf /Würzburg, rounds 5-8)

Dear debating coaches,
Rounds 3 and 4 of Senior League will take place on SAT, 15 JANUARY 2011.
The motion for the prepared ROUND 4 is:
>>> THW BAN ARRANGED MARRIAGES <<<
Thanks again to our "motioneers" Christopher Sloan, Klaus-Peter Heil and Martin Sauer.

ranking - after round 4 (pdf /tentative ranking)

individual speaker ranking (pdf /after round 4)

draw (pdf /rounds 3+4)

The schedule will be the usual, as follows:
12-12.30 pm: Teams arrive and welcome
12.30 Round 3 (impromptu): Motion announcement / judge's briefing
13.30 Round 3: Impromptu debate
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30 Round 4 (prepared): Debate
ca. 17-17.30: End/Teams leave

Dear debating community and interested newbies! This year's rounds of Senior League debates begin unusually early with SAT, 9th OCT already as the first meeting day for rounds 1 & 2.

ranking - after round 2 (pdf /tentative ranking)

individual speaker ranking (pdf /after round 2)

draw (pdf /rounds 1+2)

Rounds 1+2:
12-12.30 pm: Teams arrive and welcome
12.30 Round 1 (impromptu): Motion announcement / judge's briefing
13.30 Round 1: Impromptu debate
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30 Round 2 (prepared): Debate
ca. 17-17.30: End/Teams leave

Motion Round 2:
TH WOULD PROLONG THE USEFUL LIFE OF GERMANY'S NUCLEAR REACTORS

Hello everybody!

This is just a small update of the draw for rounds 1 and 2. I'm happy to announce Nellenburg-Gymnasium from Stockach to fill the empty slot in Ulm. So now there are 34 teams competing in Senior League this year.

I'd also like to catch up on thanking the venue managers who are hosting quite many teams at their schools on October 9th, namely Florian Caspar from Copernicus-GYM Philippsburg, Susanne Pongratz and Julia Maetze from AEG in Böblingen and Patrick Vins from Schubart-GYM in Ulm!! Thanks for having us!

I also missed out on welcoming two new teams to Senior League:
Einstein-GYM from Kehl and Goethe-GYM, Karlsruhe with Simone Herter and Melanie Lucks as coaches! Please give them a hearty welcome in Philippsburg!

I wish you all good rounds and a successful start into the league season.

Best regards,
Chris Sanchez

REGISTRATION Online (*.docx via email)

registration (pdf / print-version)

Please download and fill in the enclosed registration file and send it back to me by SUN, SEP 19th, 6PM.:

chris.sanchez@gmx.de
or
sanchez@schoolsdebate.de

PLEASE TICK THE BOX ABOUT PAYMENTS ;)

Further meetings are scheduled for the following days:

SAT 15th JAN 2011: Rounds 3&4
FRI-SUN 25th-27th FEB 2011: Rounds 5-8 @ Würzburg Youth Hostel

Final rounds: TBA

Hoping to see you all soon and have a nice start into the next round of school work!

Best regards,
Chris Sanchez