Senior Debating League 2006/2007

Intention of Senior League is to encourage debaters and offer a platform to practise debating. Participating students should be in Years 11 to 13. Open to all schools in their first year, afterwards to Society members only. Some schools have already registered. For conditions and further details:
rules (pdf) code of conduct (pdf)

Final (will be announced soon):
Landesgymn. f.Hochb. vs Königin-Olga-Stift

Semi-Finals:
Landesgymn. f.Hochb. vs Salier-G. = 3:2
Taus-G. vs Königin-Olga-Stift = 1:4

ranking (rounds 1-8, pdf)

Debating-Weekend 23rd-25th March 2007
at Jugendherberge Lindau

schedule (pdf)

draw - rounds 5-8 (pdf)

Motions for the prepared debates:
R5: THBT nuclear power is the answer to our current energy crisis.
R7: THBT only democracies should have a vote in the UN General Assembly.

draw (pdf)

Participating Schools:
St. Benno- Gymnasium, Dresden
Bildungszentrum Nord Gymnasium, Reutlingen
Dillmann-Gymnasium, Stuttgart
Ferdinand-Porsche-Gymnasium, Stuttgart
Friedrich-Abel-Gymnasium, Vaihingen/Enz
Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium, Winnenden
Goethe-Gymnasium, Gaggenau
Gottlieb-Daimler-Gymnasium, Stuttgart
Gymnasium am Hoptbühl, Villingen-Schwenningen
Gymnasium in der Taus, Backnang
Hegel-Gymnasium, Stuttgart
Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium, Frankfurt
Hölderlin-Gymnasium Stuttgart
Karls-Gymnasium, Stuttgart
Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, Stuttgart
Königin-Olga-Stift, Stuttgart
Landesgymnasium f. Hochbegabte, Schw.Gmünd
Lessing-Gymnasium, Winnenden
Max-Born-Gymnasium, Backnang
Mörike-Gymnasium, Esslingen
Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium, Ludwigsburg
Parler-Gymnasium, Schw.Gmünd
Pestalozzi-Gymnasium, Biberach
Salier-Gymnasium, Waiblingen
Schubart-Gymnasium, Ulm
Remstal-Gymnasium, Weinstadt
Taunusschule, Bad Camberg
The Berlin British School, Berlin
Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Esslingen
Wirtemberg-Gymnasium, Stuttgart

Dear English Colleagues, dear friends,
the new school year has begun all over Germany at last and I hope all of you are back and enthusiatically waiting for our activities this year.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to our new Senior League 2006/07! This year promises to be highly successful and exciting with even more schools debating all over the country than ever before.
The intention of Senior League is to encourage debaters to meet and practise, we want to offer a platform to everybody, old hands and beginners to learn from each other.
We hope that lots of new schools in Berlin, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Nordrhein-Westfalen and elsewhere will take the opportunity to meet and practise with old and experienced teams as well as other novice teams. We are looking forward to having many debaters from all parts of Germany, just like the popular sports and football clubs. This will also include the pleasure of travelling, meeting and making new friends, which is the heart and soul in our work.
Let me now give you some important information regarding the events of this coming Senior League.
When will we meet? The dates of the rounds have been determined as follows,
11th November - Round 1+2
3rd February - Round 3+4
23rd - 25th March - Senior League Weekend, Lindau, Round 5+6+7+8
7th July - Semi finals and final.
This year the closing registration date for SL is October, 21st, 2006. Teams must register through a teacher or adult coach, debates will be in the Worlds format (adapted British parliamentary)with teams consisting of 5 debaters.
Where will we have the debates? We are not yet able to tell you where the debates will take place, but that information will hopefully be available very soon. If you think you could host a number of debates at your school we would be very delighted to hear from you.
Similarly, we cannot tell you who your opponents will be, we will sort this out as quickly as possible. We will try to make it easy for beginners in particular in order to help promote competence and confidence in the fascinating world of debating.
Now I hope you feel encouraged to register and I wish you good luck in the coming debates! We are looking forward to meeting all of you!
Angelika Höness

This year the closing registration date for SL is October, 21st, 2006. registration (pdf)

Anyone wishing to take part in the Senior League 2004-2005, please contact Angelika Höness or Birgit Trefz before October 7th. In case of doubt, please, consult us by mail, or phone AH at 07151-34945.

To everyone participating in the Senior Debating League:
It has been decided that, to cover the administrative costs of running the league, it is necessary to levy a fee of 20 Euros per school for the year. 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 Wolf.