{"id":447,"date":"2005-12-05T13:34:21","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T10:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/?p=447"},"modified":"2012-10-03T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:34:43","slug":"xxx-deree-college-invitational-debating-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/2005\/12\/05\/xxx-deree-college-invitational-debating-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"XXX Deree College Invitational Debating Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Deree College Debating Club organized its thirtieth annual Debating Invitational Tournament with 52 teams participating, including a team from Turkey and a hybrid team composed of a Greek and Croatian debater. The winning team of the November 4-5 tournament was &#8220;Equality for men&#8221; with George Krezias and Christos Samelis.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in its history the tournament featured two Masters&#8217; rounds, in which eight of the best Greek debating teams participated. The winners of the Masters&#8217; tournament were Tasos Katehis and Philip Abatzoglou, both Deree College alumni.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The XXX Invitational was a huge success because it brought alumni together with the new generation of debate; it brought together old ideas with new,&#8221; said Maria Avgitidis, an organizer of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the tournament added that with such a successful tournament, Deree College Debating Club forecasts an even bigger and better tournament in Spring 2006.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deree College Debating Club organized its thirtieth annual Debating Invitational Tournament with 52 teams participating, including a team from Turkey and a hybrid team composed of a Greek and Croatian debater. The winning team of the November 4-5 tournament was &#8220;Equality for men&#8221; with George Krezias and Christos Samelis. For the first time in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}