2005 - 9th European Schools Debating Championship - Saturday 25th November to Saturday 3rd December 2005
The whole week was full of sightseeing in the mornings and exciting debates in the afternoons. It was fascinating to see how the debating standard of all teams, especially the inexperienced new teams from South Eastern Europe improved considerably throughout the competition. It was a pleasure to watch debaters make friends and overcome all the borders from Canada to Serbia, outgrow the prejudices against each other in Europe, mingle and socialize.
The final at Wilhelmspalais saw an overwhelming audience of students, teachers and parents who had come from as far as Villingen and Heidelberg to see and enjoy the final between the USA and Canada. The American team won and proudly received their prizes donated by Readers Digest. But after such an incredible tournament it was hard to say good bye to each other and there were many promises to come back for the European Championship next year again.
final:
USA vs. Canada = 3:2
semi-finals:
Saxony vs. Canada
USA vs. Germany2
results/ranking - rounds 1-8 (pdf, 38 KB)
draw (pdf, 36 KB)
programme + motions (pdf, 53 KB)
invitation (pdf, 57 KB)
registration (pdf, 61 KB)
Expected teams: Canada, Czech Republic, England, Israel, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, USA.
Dear colleagues, dear friends,
as the Europeans are coming closer and we would like to throw ourselves into organizing the event, I'd like to ask all the teams who will join us on November 25th, to register and send the names of the team members by November 12th so that we can arrange everything, esp. inform hosts in time.
We are hoping for a considerable number of participants from all over Europe including some very new countries such as Serbia, who we are particularly glad to welcome at Stuttgart.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you soon here in Stuttgart!
Best wishes Angelika
In past years we have hosted teams variously from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain, and the USA. In 2002 14 German and visiting teams competed.