World Schools Debate Academy Concludes in Slovenia





Over 118 people from over 15 countries gathered in Slovenia for another edition of the World Schools Debate Academy, an intensive WSDC format training program for schools students, teachers and trainers.
First Place: USA Blue - Sara Evall, Tiana Menon, Danny DeBois
Second Place: Slovenia/USA - Graham Baker, Urh Lukhman, Egon Persak
Third Place: Team Germany

Final Round Judges: Sergey Naumoff (Russia), Geetha Creffield (Singapore), Matus Huba (Slovakia), Michelle Fennell (England), Julia Mikic (Croatia)

In the tournament at the end of the event it was USA Blue 4-1 over Slovenia/USA in the finals. Third place team was Germany and the other semifinalist was Slovenia.

Top Speaker was Olivia Scalisse Gaspar of Germany.

Tab
http://debate.uvm.edu/tabs/wsda_2014_teams.pdf
http://debate.uvm.edu/tabs/wsda_2014_fulltab.pdf

The faculty included:
Miha Andric, Slovenia
Geetha Creffield, Singapore
Filip Dobranic, Slovenia
Matus Huba, Slovakia
Branka Josimov, Serbia
Julia Mikic, Croatia
Jernej Podgornik, Slovenia
Bojana Skrt, ZIP Slovenia
Alfred Snider, USA
Aaron Timmons, USA
Cindi Timmons, USA
ALSO - Samo Novak, Slovenia (Leiden)
Denis Horvat, Slovenia (Trinity Dublin)
Jure Hederih, Slovenia (Oxford) 
Nena Lejko, Slovenia (Cambridge)
Eva Nike Cvikl, Slovenia (Maribor)
Aljosa Polsak, Slovenia (Ljubljana)














Elective classes were offered regularly, and included:
Monday, 30th June
15.00 Electives.
1. Samo Novak, The ABCs of (international) human rights protection
2. Denis Horvat, What are the fourth speeches for and how to make them
3. Jure Hederih, Third speeches and why they aren't "just rebuttal"
4. Nena Lejko, 1st speeches
5. Filip Dobranic, Winning on Principle
6. Matus Huba, Refutation
7. Branka Josimov, Note Taking.
8. Julija Mikic, The Logical Fallacy Syndrome: Strains, Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention
20.00 Electives
1. Miha Andric, Political Philosophy II: Ideology and Modern political Discourses
2. Samo Novak, From Nürnberg to The Hague: Debating International Criminal Justice
3. Denis Horvat, What the EU cannot do
4. Jernej Podgornik, The question of media autonomy: The difference between public and private media.
5. Jure Hederih, Rationing democracy - should everyone have a right to contribute equally?
6. Filip Dobranic, All your internets are belong to US!
7. Aaron Timmons, Debating issues of race.
8. Cindi Timmons, Political philosophy: John Rawls and John Stuart Mill
Wednesday, 2nd of July
9.00 – 10.00 Electives
1. Alfred Snider, Debating Ecology Issues
2. Samo Novak, From Nürnberg to The Hague: Debating International Criminal Justice
3. Nena Lejko, Condensing 42 minutes into 4: Reply speeches
4. Aaron Timmons, Infusing myriad forms for evidence into debates in the WSDC format.
5. Cindi Timmons, Improving your speech: delivery
6. Matus Huba, Does Democracy come with Elections?
7. Geetha Creffield, Structuring the speech
8. Miha Andric, Political Philosophy I: Social Contract and Modern State
10.00-11.00 Electives
1. Alfred Snider, Language and Persuasion
2. Samo Novak, The ABCs of (international) human rights protection
3. Jernej Podgornik, Religion and modern society: Functions and status of religion in modern society.
4. Denis Horvat, Using philosophy in the debate
5. Miha Andric, Political Economy I: Global Economic Crisis as a Crisis of Capitalism
6. Geetha Creffield, Use of semantics and tone
7. Matus Huba, Does First World Owe the Third World an Upgrade?
8. Cindi Timmons, English idioms and metaphors for non-native English speakers
15.00 Electives
1. Aaron Timmons, Researching Prepred Motions
2. Julia Mikic, Troubleshooting: What to Do When Stuff Goes Wrong, Apart From Playing Dead
3. Eva Nike Cvikl, Feminism I: Introduction - From Mary Wollstonecraft to Jessica Valenti
4. Branka Josimov, Debating About “Futbol”
5. Miha Andric, Political Economy II: Modern World System - between Center and Periphery
6. Nena Lejko, Heroes breaking bad
7. Jure Hederih, Debating the motion and core issues - why it's probably not judge's fault even if you were better speakers and lost.
8. Jernek Podgornik, Social inequality and poverty from different theoretical aspects.
Thursday, 3rd of July
9 AM Electives
1. Staff, Using Your One Hour Prep Time Productively
2. Alfred Snider, Making Your Arguments More Important:
3. Filip Dobranic, How not to lose your debate before it even starts
4. Cindi Timmons, English idioms and metaphors for non-native English speakers
5. Matus Huba, Fortress Western World– Try to get in as an Asylum Seeker
6. Geetha Creffield, Matching content with the motion
7. Branka Josimov, Team Work
8. Eva Nike Cvikl, Feminism II: Fists, pills and magazines
10 AM Electives
1. Julia Mikic, Debating Animal Rights: Speciesism, Sexism, Racism.
2. Alfred Snider, Points of Information
3. Filip Dobranic, - Style for non-native speakers
4. Aaron Timmons, Are you sure I am "speechifying"? Effectively combining style and substance
5. Geetha Creffield, Advanced Rebuttal
6. Eva Nike Cvikl, Debating medicine: From science fiction to science 

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