Dublin was a great place to spend last weekend. Apart from all the fun, our delegation achieved considerable success. Gigi, Nina and Lennart all broke as judges. Nina even judged the final at her first international judging break! Lisa and Simon made us exceptionally proud since they managed to make […]
Tournament Results
This weekend, the Paris Open took place. Both Leiden teams (ESL) made it to the Open break! Devin van den Berg & Gigi Gil broke 1st and Lisa Schallenberg & Simon Martina-Perez broke 5th. On top of that, Gigi became best ESL ánd Open speaker! Last but not least, Daan […]
Leiden does an amazing job at the Paris Open 2016!
This weekend, the annual (Dutch) Kalliope Debattoernooi took place in Groningen. Congratulations to Emma Lucas and Gigi Gil who won the tournament and Devin van den Berg who became best speaker! Lennart van Laake & Daan Welling and Lisa Schallenberg & Devin made it to the final as well. Wieger […]
Leiden wins the Kalliope Debate Tournament!
Yesterday the Dutch Trivium Debate Tournament took place in Nijmegen. After four rounds, Gigi Gil & Alex Klein (UDS), Simon Martina-Perez & Devin van den Berg, Nina Ramaswamy & Ybo Buruma, Remy Visser & Lennart van Laake and Sarah Rust & Jordy van Rijsingen made it to the break! We […]
Leiden wins the Trivium Debate Tournament!
After a high quality tournament, Daan Welling and Emma Lucas won the final! Roel Becker became best speaker and a few other teams made it to the break: Roel and Ben Shaw (to finals), Devin van den Berg and Sonia Veltkamp (to finals), Lennart van Laake and Nina Ramaswamy (to semis) and […]
Maastricht Open is over and Leiden did amazingly well!
This weekend, Dutch Nationals took place in Leiden. We would like to congratulate Jeroen Ginjaar and Sjoerd Stikvoort for winning the novice final! Besides that, we want to congratulate Gigi Gil & Bionda Merckens and Rob Honig & Ali Al Khatib (alumni) for making it to the open final! Roel […]
Leiden wins the novice final of Dutch Nationals 2016!
Today the annual Dutch DTU debating tournament took place in Utrecht. We would like to congratulate Roel Becker & Devin van den Berg for winning the tournament, Gigi Gil & Daan Welling for becoming shared best speaker, and Sjoerd Stikvoort for becoming best novice speaker. Also, we’d like to congratulate […]