Madrid UCM OPEN 2020

Dear debaters,

We hope you and your loved ones are doing well.
Due to the tournament's cancellation, we have just sent you an email that explains the way to be refunded. This email should have been received by all the participants that had already paid.
In case you did pay the fee but haven't received the email, please get in contact with us sending an email to [email protected]

Thank you so much for your patience and we hope to see you all next year in Madrid :D

Dear debaters,

As many of you may already know, the government of Spain declared a state of emergency on March 14th, which was set to last 15 days. Based on this information we decided to hold off on cancelling the tournament, because in theory, the dates of the tournament would not be affected. However, this Monday it was announced that the state of emergency would be extended until April 12th. In light of this, and given that more difficulties may arise, we have decided to cancel the Madrid UCM Open 2020.

We are now looking into rescheduling the tournament for a different time of year. We are dependent on the use of university facilities to run the tournament, but at the moment, one option is to move the tournament to sometime at the beginning of the next school year (october), in the hopes that those of you who have already bought flights can arrange to change them, provided that this option satisfies most debaters. Once we know whether this option is plausible, we will send around a survey to take your opinion into consideration.

For our refund policy we will adopt a policy similar to that applied by other European tournaments. For those who do still wish to attend, we will transfer the original fee and you will not have to pay any additional cost. For the rest of debaters, in the case that the tournament is postponed, or for the whole of debaters, if the tournament is finally cancelled, (i.e. we are unable to find another suitable date this year), we will refund every debater as much as we can while trying to minimize our losses; the exact figures will be publicly available as soon as we have them. Pre-paid drinks tickets will be completely refunded. You will also receive a 15% registration fee discount for the next edition of the tournament in 2021 as a gesture of reward for all the inconveniences.

Thank you for your interest in this first Madrid UCM Open. We are so glad that the tournament received so much attention and we look forward to hosting it as soon as we can. I would also like to take this opportunity to personally invite you to Open when it takes place. We would be so happy to have you!

Sincerely,

Raúl Viñas
Madrid UCM Open convenor

Summing up our incredible judge pool! Remember you are still on time to register until February 29th!!! Are you going to miss it??

- Milos Marjanovic: WUDC 2020 Open Finalist, DCA EUDC19 & WUDC Korea & +20 judge breaks
- Hadar Goldberg: WUDC 2020 ESL Champion, EUDC ESL grand finalist & 10 judge breaks
- Catríona Ní Bhriain: +20 judge breaks, 14 speaking breaks & CA'd 4 times
- Dan Klein: +15 judge breaks, 3rd breaking team at Novi Sad EUDC & +10 speaking breaks
- Doireann O'Brien: +20 judge breaks (including WUDC19, Oxford and Cambrigde) & 8 speaking breaks
- Nicole O'Sullivan: +25 judge breaks (including EUDC18), 14 speaking breaks & CA'd 10 times.
- Przmek Stolarski: +15 judge breaks (including EUDC19), +10 speaking breaks & CA'd +10 times.
- Klaudia Maciejewska: +10 judge breaks & +25 speaking breaks (8th best ESL speaker in WUDC20)
- Yair Har-Oz: +30 judge breaks (including WUDC17 final) & CA'd 18 times (including Novi Sad EUDC)
- Simón Martina-Pérez: +15 speaking breaks, +20 judge breaks, CA'd +15 times (including Spanish Worlds)
- Ángela Portocarrero: 15 speaking breaks, breaking judge at EUDC19 and WUDC20 & CA'd 8 times
- Antonio Fabregat: WUDC EFL Champion and Best Speaker, +50 speaking breaks (including WUDCx4, EUDCx3), CA’d +25 times.
- Lucy Murphy: +40 speaking breaks, +50 judge breaks (including x4 EUDC) & CA'd 14 times
- Teck Wei: 50+ speaking breaks, WUDC 2021, CA'd 15 times
- Gigi Gil: +50 speaking breaks, +15 won or best speaker tournaments & CA'd +45 times.

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Finally, we'll end our publications with the 10th and last IA: Milos Marjanovic!!!

His speaking achievements include winning Oxford IV 2019, reaching the Open finals of Thailand WUDC, semi-finals of Novi Sad EUDC 2018, being an ESL finalist of Mexico WUDC 2018 and winning Dutch WUDC in the EFL category!

Milos has also broken as a speaker at over 30 different tournaments and has served as a CA at numerous tournaments including being a DCA of Athens EUDC 2019, DCA of the upcoming Korea WUDC and has broken as a judge at over 20 tournaments.

Remember INSCRIPTIONS ARE OPEN until February 29th!!
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Last thing the Spanish circuit knew about our next IA is that he almost changed a flight just to come to our national tournament in february. It seems like he regreted not coming and now he is going to help us at the Madrid Open rising up the judge pool's level even more!!

Simon started his debate career at WSDC 2015 for the Netherlands, where he ranked 2nd EFL speaker. Since then he has spoken, judged and CA’d at over 60 tournaments in 16 different countries. Among other things, he has been DCA of Spanish Worlds 2019, ESL finalist of Warsaw Euros and broke at LSE Open 2019. Some further CA ships include Dutch Nationals, the Hugill Cup (Edmonton), BP UAM 2019 and other competitions in Canada, Germany, Romania, Slovakia and Peru.

Simon is very excited to return to Madrid!

Our priority is not to let you down, so we are going to keep publishing the amazing IA that are coming in April to Madrid!

I present you Hadar Goldberg!

Hadar has 10 judge breaks, including 3 times chairing outrounds (LSE Open Semi, Oxford wom*ns Open final, and Paris Open Open Semi).

She is the WUDC 2020 ESL Champion, EUDC ESL grand finalist, and has 12 additional breaks including Budapest Open, Amsterdam Open, PEP IV, Lund IV and the Israeli National Championships in both Hebrew and English.

I couldn't be wrong if I'd say that we already have an incredible judge pool, but there are 2 IA more to be announced... Do you want to know who they are?

~~ACCOMMODATION ANNOUNCEMENT~~

Good evening debaters!

Less and less time is left for the Madrid Open, and as couldn't be otherwise, the desire, the excitement and the occasional doubt are growing. But don't be worried, we are here to try to solve them!

We know that one of your main concerns is accommodation.
Accommodations is NOT included in the price, because booking such a big place for everybody was way more expensive for you than getting different places by your own.

We have been requested about CRASH, unfortunately, we are a small club and we are not able to provide accommodation for all of you.
However, there is no need to worry, because if there is something everybody knows is that Complutense University is situated in the heart of Madrid!

The School of Philosophy (Facultad de Filosofía), where the tournament will take place, is located in Ciudad Universitaria, which is an area very close to Moncloa-Argüelles, with great transport and accommodation facilities.
That's why we consider that the most affordable option for all budgets could be renting an Airbnb, hostels, etc.

The most recommended areas near the university, that will allow you to be one step away from the tournament and the center, are Moncloa (with many restaurants and University environment in the area), Argüelles, Vicente Aleixandre, Guzmán el Bueno, Príncipe Pío, Islas Filipinas and Ventura Rodríguez.

However, any place in Madrid will be fine, the capital has a large transport network at your service to move from anywhere. The main points of connectivity are:
Ciudad Universitaria: underground (line 6).
Moncloa: underground (lines 3 and 6). There is also a bus link to the school of philosophy: G, 132, 133, 82 ...

We hope that accommodation doesn't mean an impediment for you to come, so if you have any questions or need any kind of information, do not hesitate to ask us! We will try our best to help!
[email protected]

We are looking forward to seeing you soon in Madrid!

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In April we'll also count with Caitríona as an IA!!

She is studying Applied Linguistics in Trinity College Dublin and as a judge she’s broken at over 20 competitions including Cambridge IV, Trinity IV, Barcelona Open, Glasgow Ancients and Glasgow Women’s. She has CA’d four competitions, including Trinity Women’s (twice) and has been on equity team for four competitions, including Oxford IV. As a speaker, Caitríona has 14 speaking breaks, including reaching the quarter finals of Malaysia WUDC, winning UCD IV and reaching finals of Cork IV, Law Soc IV and the Irish Mace.

Ella tiene muchas ganas de volver a España. Estudió francés y español en la universidad (hace unos años) y vivía en Granada (un año) y Madrid (un verano) mientras estudiar. Después de terminar la licenciatura, empezó a estudiar la adquisición del idioma y ahora investiga el uso de la lengua de signos (irlandesa) en familias con hijo(s) sordo(s). ¡Disculpase para cualquieres errores en castellano, sabe que hay algunos!

Non stop with the IA publications!!! We present you Dan Klein!

Dan's vast judging career has meant that they have broken at Oxford and Cambridge IVs as well as Athens EUDC as a judge. Chairing the final of the Liverpool IV, the semifinals of Nottingham Open and Sheffield IV, the Pro-am Final of the KCL Open and has judged the finals of several other competitions including Glasgow Ancients, Edinburgh Cup, and the trinity IV as well as breaking at more competitions than Dan now chooses to remember.

As a speaker Dan was the 7th best speaker in Europe in 2018 and part of the 3rd breaking team at Novi Sad EUDC - all the best Sheffield teams crash out in the quarterfinals - domestically Dan has also broken to the semifinals of the Oxford IV (5th breaking team) finals of the Durham IV, Edinburgh Cup, Hull Open, SOAS Open, and Nottingham Open. Dan finally won a competition at the Birmingham Open in late 2019 this young whippersnapper still has a bright future ahead of them.

There are more ahead, can you figure out some of them?

Doireann O'Brien will also join us in April as an IA!

Doireann has broken as a judge at over 20 competitions, including at WUDC 2019, Oxford IV 2018 and Cambridge IV 2018. She has previously CA’d the UCD Novice IV 2019 and will be DCA of Rotterdam Open 2020. As a speaker she has 8 breaks, including reaching the finals of the Cork IV and Earlsfort Open and has been a top 10 speaker of 5 competitions.

Do you want to know the IA left? We will publish all of them soon! Stay tunned :D

We are back with more IA announcements!! This time with Nicole O'Sullivan!!!

Nicole is a Maths and Economics student at Trinity College Dublin. She has judged outrounds at over 25 tournaments as a judge - including Novi Sad EUDC 2018 (where she judged an open quarterfinal), the Oxford IV, and the Trinity IV. She has also been a CA or DCA of 10 competitions, including the Amsterdam Open,Trinity Women's Open, and the UCD LawSoc IV.

As a speaker, she has 14 speaking breaks, including the Durham Open, Trinity Open, and the UCD IV.

Fun fact: This will be her first trip to Spain!!

What about you? Have you ever been in Spain?

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We keep going with the IA publications, this time with Przemek Stolarski!!!

Przemek judged an impressive number of competitions. He is a Euros breaking judge as he recently broke at Athens EUDC 2019. He also broke at Oxford IV, Cambridge IV and judged the final of European Round Robin as well as chaired the pre quarters and was a panelist of the final of IUB Ascension in Bangladesh - one of the biggest competitions in Asia. In addition to this he chaired quarters at Budapest Open, semis at Estonian Open and broke at many other competitions such as Durham IV, Munich Open or Galway Open. He was a part of numerous CA-teams, including at: KCL Pro-Am, SOAS ESL, Warwick IV (final chair), Helsinki Pro-Am, LSE Schools, SOAS Schools, DAPDI in Rotterdam, Moscow Open (semis chair), Saint Petersburg Open (final chair), Central European Debate Academy and others. His record in the Polish debating circuit is also impressive with loads of CAships, including Polish Nationals.

As a speaker, Przemek broke at a number of tournaments. He is a semi-finalist of Oxford IV (ESL), LSE Open (ESL) and London Open (open) where he was also a part of the best ESL team at the competition. Przemek also broke at Imperial Open (best ESL speaker), UCD IV, Belgrade Open, Kiev Open, Cracow Open and Poznań Open where he was also the second best speaker. He also won Prague Open and, most importantly, got a win at home at Białystok Open where he had a small (and friendly) IONA invasion. He is also a former Polish National Champion.

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We are happy to announce the second incredible IA: Klaudia Maciejewska!

As a speaker Klaudia broke in Thailand WUDC 2020 in EFL category being also 8th best speaker. In last year she spoke in 6 finals, including Vienna IV, UCD IV, Oxford Wom*ns. She also broke as a speaker at competitions such as Belgrade Open, twice at Lund IV, Herzen Open, Kyiv Open and 15+ times at polish conpetitions.

As a judge she have more than 10 international breaks, such as Amsterdam Open, Belgrade, Open , Helsinki Open; she was judging finals in Rotterdam, Paris, Delft or Tallin, chairing 6 polish finals and recently chairing masters final at Thailand WUDC.

She was previously CAing or DCAing Poznan Open, CEDA and around 10 polish comps.

As we said, more IA announcements are coming!!

REMEMBER THAT INSCRIPTIONS ARE STILL OPEN
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Hello there!!

Given the excellent judge pool and some debaters' requests, we would like to extend the registration process till 29.02.2020 so that as many teams as possible come to the competition.

As well, we would like to publish the IA that are coming to Madrid on april and the first one is Yair Har-Oz!!

Yair was a DCA at Novi Sad EUDC. He judged the Open Grand Final at Dutch WUDC 2017, where he also chaired the octo-finals. He also broke at Tallinn EUDC, at Thessaloniki WUDC 2016, and has broken as a judge at over 30 other competitions all around the world. He has been on the adjudication team of 18 competitions, including the Vienna IV and Berlin IV. As a speaker, Yair has won eight competitions, including the Tilbury House IV. He has reached the finals of multiple other tournaments including Riga Open, Budapest Open and Red Sea Open. He was the best speaker at the Israeli-university Sports Association Debate Tournament and at the TECHopen.

I hope you have more than enough reasons to come to the first Open in Madrid but, in case you need even more, stay tuned because more incredible IA are to be announced :D

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Hi everyone!

There are some teams that requested visa's invitation letter. In case you need one because you're coming from an non-EU country, write us to [email protected] as soon as possible.

We'll soon get in contact with all of the registered teams!

Last train to Madrid is about to leave! Don't lose the opportunity to take part in the first Open in Madrid.
Incredible weather and even better CA team (Gigi Gil, Lucy Murphy, Teck Wei & Antonio Fabregat), we'll be waiting for you!!!

Inscriptions close in 5 days!!
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REMEMBER!

Just 10 days left for you to register!!!
Don't wait any longer and come to join us in the first Madrid Open ever :D

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Hello everyone!

Just 15 days left till the inscriptions close, but before, here you have the dossier with all the info about the tournament.
Don't wait any longer if you want to come!

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Dossier - Madrid UCM Open 2020.pdf