THE TEAM

LUCÍA ARCE
CO-CHIEF ADJUDICATOR

Lucia is the reigning double best speaker in Europe and was the DCA for Thailand WUDC. She has been in the Open finals of the LSE Open, the open and ESL semifinals of the Oxford IV, and has been top-10 open speaker at both tournaments.  Also, she has won the 2018 Worlds Masters Champion, as well as the winner and/or best speaker of 13 other competitions and featured in 19 other finals.

She has been in 40+ CA ships including: Cambridge and Lund IVs, Oxford Women’s, Newcastle Mixed Doubles, and the Istanbul and Prague Opens. And judged the ESL semifinals and quarterfinals at Mexico WUDC, ESL and open finals at Cambridge IV, and chaired the open finals at China BP.

HADAR GOLDBERG
DEPUTY CHIEF ADJUDICATOR

Hadar Goldberg is a WUDC ESL Champion, and an EUDC ESL Grand Finalist. As an adjudicator, she judged the Astana EUDC ESL Grand Final, as well as Chaired Doxbridge2 Open Semifinal and judged the Oxford IV 2019 Open Final. She has been on multiple CA teams, including the Oxford IV 2020, Cambridge Wom*n's 2020, and the Israeli Nationals.

JASON XIAO
DEPUTY CHIEF ADJUDICATOR

Jason is a recent law graduate from the University of Oxford. He is currently studying for his law conversion to be eligible to practice in Canada. During his time at Oxford, Jason was a prolific debater and won WUDC 2020, the HWS Round Robin 2019, and LSE Open 2019. In addition, Jason was a top ten speaker at all the aforementioned tournaments and EUDC 2019. Jason has also built up an extensive CA and judge CV around the world, having CAed tournaments such as IUB Ascension, NAUDC, and Amsterdam Open. When Jason isn’t speaking of judging, he coaches WSDC Canada, which won Online WSDC in 2020. However, in his eyes, his most impressive debate accolade was surviving the weekend he convened the 2018 Oxford IV.

Outside of school and debating, Jason has a passion for research and has been part of a team commissioned by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and the Canadian Parliament to research about the treatment of minorities in Iraqi Kurdistan and the prospects of investing in Iraqi Kurdistan respectively. Jason is also well-known for his membership of a mediocre group of debaters who sing together, compensating for his awful singing voice with his moderate ability to play the guitar.

GIGI GIL
CO-CHIEF ADJUDICATOR

She has been involved as CA at 40+ CA ships including DCA EUDC 2018, CA LSE Open 2018, CA Oxford IV 2018. She also has won 15+ wins or top speaker positions including Cape Town WUDC (top ESL speaker, 12th Open), Cambridge IV 2018
(ESL, 2nd Open), Berlin IV and Paris Open. An has achieved 50+ speaking breaks including the
Cambridge IV Open final 2018.

SARAH TAY
DEPUTY CHIEF ADJUDICATOR

Sarah reached the Open Finals of Novi Sad EUDC 2018 in her final year at LSE. She has also reached the finals of several other competition, including the Cambridge Women’s 2018, UCL IV 2017, and Indonesia Debate Open 2017. She won the Singapore Debate Open in 2015 and LSE Women’s 2019. Further speaking breaks include the Cambridge IV 2017, LSE Open 2019, and SIDO 2017. 
Sarah’s more recent judging career spans continents. She was on the panel of the EFL Final at Bangkok WUDC 2020, and the ESL Finals of Athens EUDC 2019, Astana EUDC 2020, and Bangkok UADC 2016. She was the chair of a WUDC ESL Semi in 2020, an ESL Final at Oxford IV 2019, and an Open Semi at Cambridge IV 2019. She has over 20 further judge breaks, including the 2018 LSE Open Final. 
As a Chief Adjudicator, Sarah has been on the Adjudication Core of more than 10 tournaments, such as the Helsinki Open 2020, Singapore Debate Open 2018, and Cambridge Women’s 2018. Despite being based in Singapore, which feels acutely distant from Europe, Sarah has remained committed to CAing competitions in Europe and the UK, including Astana Open, UCL President’s Cup, and KCL Pro-Am.

LOVO ŠPREM
DEPUTY CHIEF ADJUDICATOR

Lovro has judged the Open Finals of Astana EUDC, as well as the ESL Finals and Open Semifinals of Thailand WUDC. He has been an IA at a number of tournaments including Shanghai International Debate Open 2019, Herzen Open 2019 and Bogazici Open 2019. 

As a chief adjudicator, Lovro has been to over 20 competitions ranging all over Europe such as Budapest Open 2019, Poznan Open 2019, Kiev Open 2019, Ljubljana IV 2019, Amsterdam Open 2019, UCD L&H VP Cup 2019 and Leiden Open 2019. In the online era he has CAed Trinity and Delft Opens amongst others. 
He has experience with organising and coaching at different developmental and training events such as: Meditterainean Debate Academy 2019, Porto Debate Academy 2019 and Serbian Summer Debatint School 2019. 
As a speaker Lovro has reached the Open Finals of Athens EUDC and Cape Town WUDC, as well as ESL Finals of Novi Sad EUDC and Athens EUDC where he became the ESL Champion. Besides that he won Oxford ESL 2018, Athens pre-EUDC Open and  Central European Cyberspace Open. 
Aside from debating Lovro likes watching sports and playing most of them, as well as cooking, travelling and fixing things.

THE APPLICATION PROCESS

Nominations open
​15th of June​

 Via a google form, the community will have the opportunity to nominate individuals for a DCA position. Every person suggested over 5 times will get an email from us prompting them to apply. To clarify: being nominated does not guarantee acceptance, and not having been nominated does not mean you cannot submit an application or that your application will be declined. This is merely a tool to nudge people who the community thinks would be good additions to the team. 

Applications open  
18th of June

 The application form will be released. Interested applicants must download and fill in the form, before sending it alongside a debating and judging CV, and a list of past motions they have set, by the 8th of July at 23:59 Madrid time. The application form is one of the main ways in which we gain insight into our applicants, so we encourage candidates to fill it in carefully and take appropriate time to do so. 

Open feedback by the community
​9th of July

We will publish a list of applicants, and the debating community will be invited to submit feedback on our potential DCA candidates, which may be non-anonymous or anonymous, but will in all cases be treated with the utmost discretion. Any feedback you send will be read and discussed only by Gigi Gil and Lucía Arce Cubas. Open feedback is very important - we can hardly be everywhere at once, and we see this as an invaluable tool to gather data on an applicant’s track record and potential. Feedback will close on the 19th of July at 23:59 Madrid time

Deliberation and online interviews
​20th of July

Once we have collected most of our data, we will begin deliberating over our applicants. During this time, we may choose to approach some of the candidates to schedule an online interview with Gigi and Lucía. Getting an interview or not getting an interview is not in any way indicative of the possibility of getting the position, we merely see it as another tool to obtain information on our applicants. 

DCAs announced
​26th of July

Our chosen DCAs will be announced to the community! Yay!

EUDC MADRID 2021

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