debating in greece

World Universities Debating Championships

When the English as a Second Language ranking was introduced in Sydney Worlds in 1988, Deree College ranked at the top, with George Vassilaras being 11th in the World. Lana de Beer-Heard and George Vassilaras were at the top of the ESL rank in 1991 in Toronto.

ESL finals were introduced in Princeton in 1995 and Maria Stafylarakis and Jeanie Paizis participated in the final representing Deree. The following year Machalis Zaharatos and myself made the ESL finals in Cork and the year after that Stephanos Issaias and George Vassilaras were in the ESL finals in Stellenbosch.

In 1998, Deree hosted the World Universities Debating Championships in Athens, the first ever continental European host of the competition. During that competition, ESL semi-finals were introduced for the first time.

In 2010, Manos Moschopoulos won the best ESL speaker trophy and made the ESL quarter-finals with Kimon Ioannides representing the University of Athens at Koc Worlds (Antalya).

European Universities Debating Championships

Manolis Polychronides and Irene Kamba (Deree) won the ESL trophy in EUDC 1999, held in Rotterdam. In 2004, Effie Giannakouri and Irianna Kouri (Athens) made the EUDC main break quarter-finals and the ESL semi-finals in Durham. In 2010, Manos Moschopoulos and Kimon Ioannides (Athens) made the ESL final in Amsterdam.

Full Tournament List

These are the tournaments Greece has been represented in at the university level

2010/11

Zagreb Open 2010 - Manos Moschopoulos made the final with Maja Cimerman (Ljubljana).

UCU Open 2010 - Three teams from the Deree Debating Club, Chris Papadopoulos and Sophia Simunec made the semi-finals. The other teams were Eirini Damianaki with Kimon Ioannides and Dimitris Kaplanis with Panagiotis Semitekolos. Arina Voytenko was judging for Deree, while Manos Moschopoulos was the tournament's Deputy Chief Adjudicator. 

Istanbul Open 2010 - Manos Moschopoulos and Petros Papalianos, made the semi-finals. Eirini Damianaki and Elita Koukouraki were judging.

2009/10

Serbia Summer Debate Academy 2010 - Petros Papalianos made the finals with Fabian Farkas (Germany). Manos Moschopoulos served as a trainer.

European Universities Debating Championships 2010 - Two University of Athens teams and one Deree Debating Club team - Manos Moschopoulos and Kimon Ioannides (Athens) made the ESL final. The other teams were Arthur Khotenovsky with Vassilis Boukas (Athens) and Dimitris Kaplanis with Chris Papadopoulos (Deree) 

Newcastle Mixed Doubles 2010 - Three Deree Debating Club teams (Eirini Damianaki / Chris Papadopoulos, Dimitris Kaplanis / Elita Koukouraki, Raif Ataya / Angelina Giovani) with Miltiadis Chtouris judging 

Durham Open 2010 - Three Deree Debating Club teams (Dimitris Kaplanis / Chris Papadopoulos, Angelina Giovani / Raif Ataya, Elita Koukouraki / Miltiadis Chtouris) with Eirini Damianaki judging

Berlin IV 2010 - Manos Moschopoulos made the semi-final with Milan Vignjevic, debating for Open Communication Serbia

London Australs 2010 - Manos Moschopoulos won the ESL competition with Milan Vignjevic (Belgrade) and Filip Dobranic (Ljubljana)

Belgrade Open 2010 - Vassilis Boukas and Arthur Khotenovsky (Athens) made the finals 

World Universities Debating Championships 2010 - One University of Athens team and one Deree Debating Club team - Manos Moschopoulos (Athens) won the best ESL speaker trophy and made the ESL quarter-finals with Kimon Ioannides

International Debating Academy Slovenia 2010 - Manos Moschopoulos (Athens) made semi-finals with Milan Vignjevic (Belgrade)

2008/09

European Universities Debating Championships 2009 - One University of Athens team (Manos Moschopoulos and Manolis Polychronides) and one Deree Debating Club team (Kimon Ioannides and Vassilis Boukas)

Communique 2009 - Manos Moschopoulos and Vassilis Boukas won the tournament for the Deree Debating Club

Belgrade Open 2009 - Manos Moschopoulos and Matt Simunec (Deree) made the final

World Universities Debating Championships 2009 - Three Deree Debating Club teams (Manos Moschopoulos / Matt Simunec, Vassilis Boukas / Dimitris Zacharias, Jim Kotzias / Oliver Bailey) with Kimon Ioannides and Thanos Vranos judging

Cambridge IV 2008 - Manos Moschopoulos and Matt Simunec (Deree) made the ESL final. Two more Deree teams participated (Jim Kotzias and Tatiana Kaufman, Arthur Khotenovsky and Dimitra Sayas)

Belgrade International Games 2008 - Matt Simunec and Kimon Ioannides (Deree) won the tournament

2007/08

European Universities Debating Championships 2008 - Two Deree teams (Manos Moschopoulos and Matt Simunec, Eirini Damianaki and Arthur Khotenovsky)

Prague Open 2008 - Four Deree teams (Arthur Khotenovsky and Panagiotis Semitekolos, John Vlastaras and Christina Petropaki, Manos Moschopoulos and Jim Kotzias, Eirini Damianaki and Matt Simunec)

Belgrade Open 2008 - Manos Moschopoulos and Matt Simunec (Deree) won the tournament

Edinburgh Open 2008 - One Deree team (Manos Moschopoulos and Eirini Damianaki)

Strathclyde Cup 2008 - One Deree team (Manos Moschopoulos and Eirini Damianaki) 

ESU European Parliament IV - Manos Moschopoulos and Eirini Damianaki, representing Greece, made the final.

Leiden Open 2007 - Three Deree teams (Manos Moschopoulos and Eirini Damianaki, Arthur Khotenovsky and Panagiotis Semitekolos, Christina Petropaki and Jim Kotzias)