Update on Euros Registration

It is only a couple of weeks since the end of Koç Worlds and we are sure you are still just as thrilled by the experience as we are. We would like to thank the people from Koç for their hard work and great achievement. We would also like to congratulate our CA team for their good work at the tournament: Jonathan Leader Maynard for topping the team tab and reaching the final and Ross Reid McGuire and Doug Cochran for judging that same final.

We hope that your presence, or absence, at Worlds has convinced you of the need to be present at another once-in-a-lifetime experience: Amsterdam Euros. For anyone who wishes to register for EUDC 2010, here's some important information:

Registration will open on Monday the 1st of March, noon (12:00) Central European Time (GMT +1).

Registration will take place through our website: http://www.amsterdameudc.org/

Registration closes on March 8 at noon.

We will keep you updated regularly on the registration results and publish the final list of registered institutions and waitlisted institutions on March 8. We will then ask every registered institution to pay their registration fee, or an advance of 50 Euros by March 19. Institutions failing to pay by that date will be removed from the list and waitlisted institutions will get an opportunity to register one team.

The team cap for Amsterdam Euros is 200 teams. The institutional cap will be 3. Team spots will be granted on the basis of the order of registration, however, we will reserve team spots for all countries eligible to participate in Euros during the first phase of registration.

Further details on the registration procedure can be found on our website.

We hope that this email reaches everyone who is interested in participating in Euros. We would therefore like to ask all of you to send this information on to anyone who you know is interested but not subscribed to any of the email lists. We apologise to anyone receiving this email several times. This will only happen as we publish registration dates. For any queries, please contact us through info@amsterdameudc.org.

Amsterdam Euros 2010, spread the love!

Kind regards,

Reinier de Adelhart Toorop
deputy-convenor Amsterdam Euros 2010.

Amsterdam EUDC
http://www.amsterdameudc.org/
info@amsterdameudc.org
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South Africa bids for WSDC 2012

South Africa is bidding to host World Schools Debating Championships 2012. The bid is the only one received for 2012 and will be voted on by the World Schools Debating Council at the Annual General Meeting in Doha.

The bid documents can be found here
Members of the South African organising committee will be present at Doha, will be happy to answer any queries and will make a presentation of their bid on the evening of 16 February 2010 before the vote takes place on 18 February 2010.

Haiti Appeal

As regular visitors to this blog will know I generally don't post about non-debating related issues.  So when I do you can be fairly sure it's for an exceptional circumstance.

I'm sure most of you will be aware of the devastation in Haiti after the recent earthquake.  Relief is trickling through but by all reports demand is far out stripping supply and the country is fast descending into anarchy around the survivors.

The chances are if you are reading this then you are in a better position than the inhabitants of Port-au-Prince.  Given the multinational nature of visitors to this site I'm not going to recommend any one relief organisation but if there is one in your country currently appealing for donations to help their work in Haiti then I urge you to contribute what you can.

Thanks in advance,
Colm