WHO 2015 news – WHO

WHO 2015 Final tab and winners announcement!

HDD_Admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:19:55 +0000

Dear everyone, WHO 2015 is over! Thank you for participating in staggering 256 debates that took place in a course of three days!

Team USA Red took home the champions title, team Komba from Croatia took second place and Logos A from Slovenia third.

In the speakers category we had the best speaker Marija Jarnjak (CRO) followed by two members of team USA Nikolas Angelopoulous and Amit Kukreja in second and third place.

Once again there is no way we can thank you enough and to all for this great experience so we are just gonna say see you next year and here are the full results!

WHO 2015 prelims concluded – These are the breaking teams

HDD_Admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:04:05 +0000

After intense 6 rounds of debating from 88 teams that started the tournament we are down to the best 16!

Congratulations to all participants, especially the teams listed below

Octofinal pairs in order of breaking positions (sides are in brackets):

01 – Bežigrad Red Stars (P) vs 16 – Czech Red (O)

02 – USA RED (P) vs. 15 – Romania Red (O)

03 – Germany B (P) vs. 14 – Team Turkey 1 (O)

04 – Romania Gold (P) vs. 13 Team Turkey 2 (O)

05 – Bušmani 1 (O) vs. 12 – USA BLUE (P)

06 – Logos A (P) vs. 11 – MIJOC 2 (O)

07 – Romania Blue (P) vs. 10 – Germany C (O)

08 – Komba (O) vs. 09 St.Benno Green (P)

Getting around Zagreb and WHO

HDD_Admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00:42 +0000

Teams have started arriving! Please visit our WHO map section for instructions on how to move around Zagreb and WHO.

See you soon!

WHO 2015 info pack

HDD_Admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 21:12:04 +0000

You can view and download the WHO 2015 info pack by clicking on this link

Here you can find all the relevant information about the tournament, our plans, some general info about social events, accommodation locations etc.

Final tally – 93 teams

HDD_Admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:21:16 +0000

It is 10 days untill the tournament and at this moment we have 93 teams registered and confirmed to attend with teams from 18 and adjudicators from 25 countries attending .

We are looking forward to seeing you all and would like to remind you to take a look at our info pack!

Motions announced

HDD_Admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:20:26 +0000

Here are the results of your votes – enjoy the preparations and see you soon.

Vote for the prepared motions

HDD_Admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 23:47:13 +0000

Since you’ll (hopefully!) be spending a lot of time preparing for the tournament, you should have a say in what you’ll be preparing for. You can vote for the two prepared motions at WHO 2015 here. The motions will be announced on September the 21st. Enjoy the suspense!

Registration opened

HDD_Admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:06:07 +0000

The registration for WHO is now open and will close on the 20th of October.

There is no team CAP per coutnry so feel free to register as many teams as you wish.

You can find registration form here – WHO 2015 team registration form and find out more about registration here and fees here

Also consider participating in “Train for WHO” event that will take place prior to the tournament!

Come to Zagreb earlier and train for WHO

HDD_Admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 09:29:34 +0000

We are inviting all the teams interested in training and prepping for WHO to arrive to Zagreb earlier and participate in trainings and organised sparring debates as a part of preparation for WHO.

Training sessions and debates will be offered from 14.12 to 18.12. for advanced and beginner teams and will take place in Croatian debate society offices in Zagreb on two locations easily reachable from your accommodation.

The costs of extra nights of accommodation are as listed in the invitation letter and are the only extra costs you will have to cover.

All teams are invited to participate and trainings will be offered on a daily basis so you can arrive to Zagreb any of these days and participate in 4, 3, 2 or 1 days of prep.

You can apply for “Train for WHO” through WHO registration form.

WHO invitation letter

HDD_Admin — Thu, 14 May 2015 22:21:28 +0000

Dear friends,

we are happy to invite you to our tournament.

Everything you will ever need to know about WHO 2015 is in this document. WHO invitation