[university-l] Invitation to the international highschool tournament, Slovenia

Tue Jan 23 07:07:13 CST 2007

INVITATION TO THE  INTERNATIONAL HIGHSCHOOL DEBATE TOURNAMENT, ORMOŽ, 13th to 15th of April 2007

On behalf of Slovenian national debate organisation  ZIP, Za in proti, zavod za kulturo dialoga  I kindly invite you to the International Highschool Debate Tournament, which will be held in Ormož from 13th to 15th of April 2007. This event  is one in the series of tournaments sponsored by Slovenian governmental Office of information and EU. 

We will be running two parallel tournaments:  
-	Worlds School Debate Tournament,  we strongly encourage the teams which are going to participate at the Worlds School Debate Championship in Seul to come to the Ormož tournament to practice for Worlds, however other teams are welcome as well. 
-	Karl Popper Debate Tournament. 

Both tournaments are going to have 6 rounds, 3 of them will be on prepared motions, 3 of them on impromptu,  semi finals on impromptu motions, finals on prepared one. The language of the tournament will be   English, the topic area the EU enlargement.The motions will be announced in two weeks, after the voting of the topics in  the Slovenian debate clubs is finished. 

Ormož debaters are offering home stays and everybody is welcomed to come a few days  prior to the tournament being guests of Ormož debaters, who will be announcing the events planned for you in the next weeks.   The participation fee per a  debater is 15 EUR and it covers  accomodation in home stay, food and of course the tournament. The participation fee for judges is also 15 EUR, however they will stay in the Hotel Ormož.

Ormož is a small town at the Croatian border 140 km from Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia and 70 km from Maribor, easy accessible by train. For the ones who need to fly  there are lots of low far airlines flights  to Ljubljana, but check also Graz in Austria, Trieste or Venice in Italy, Zagreb in Croatia, if you combine it with trains you are all set. More about Ormož www.ormoz.si 

Teams need to be accompanied by a judge, the rule is one or  two teams one judge, three   teams two judges, of course nothing wrong if you bring more judges.  The number of teams from other countries is limited to 25,  2  or maximum 3  three member teams per country for both tournaments.  We are going to close the registration when we reach the number, so please do apply as soon as possible.  
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All the inquiries about the tournament please, adress to me, all the questions about Ormož, school, home stays … to Nina Cerkvenik, the coach of the Ormož English Debate Club at the nina.cerkvenik at guest.arnes.si  At the end of this message please, find enclosed the tentative schedule and the application form. Please, fill  the application form  and send it to bojana.skrt at siol.net not later than   15th of March.

Best, 
Bojana Skrt
Director ZIP, Slovenia 

The schedule is the same for both tournaments, however everything will be run separatly, for each tournament. 

TOURNAMENT TENTATIVE SCHEDULE  
Friday, 13th of April
12.00 – 13.00 Team registration 
13.00 – 14.00 Overview of the formats for debaters  and judges 
14.00 Openning of the tournament 
14.15 Announcement of the 1st round: impromptu motion 
14.15 – 15.00 Judges meeting 
15.15 1st round: impromptu 
17.00 2nd round prepared
19.00 Dinner in Hotel Ormož  
20.00 Country exhibition in the Hotel Ormož, open for public. 

Saturday, 14th of April 
9.00 3rd round: prepared motion 
11.00 Announcement of the 4th round: impromptu 
12.00 4th round: impromptu 
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch 
14.30 Announcement of the 5th round: impromptu 
15.30 5th round: impromptu 
17. 30 6th round: prepared 
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner 
20.00 Kitsch party 

Sunday, 15th of April 
10.00  Announcement of the semi finals motion: impromptu 
11.00 Semi -  finals: impromptu 
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch   
14.00 Finals in the mayor castle 
14.30 Karl Popper finals 
15.30 Worlds School Debate Finals 
16.30  Award ceremony 

APPLICATION FORM 
Country:  
NAME OF THE DEBATE TEAM: 
1st speaker.  
2nd speaker: 
3rd speaker:   

NAME OF THE DEBATE TEAM: 
1st speaker: 
2nd speaker: 
3rd speaker:   

NAME OF THE DEBATE TEAM: 
1st speaker: 
2nd speaker: 
3rd speaker:   

Judges: 

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