IV Participations
Tilbury House participates in many national and international debating tournaments. Tilbury House is the by far most active German debating society on the international scene.
| Year | Month | Tournament | Partcipants | Achievements |
| 2011 | 6 | German Championship in Heidelberg | Amadeus Peters & Holger Böhne & Leonard M., Lukas Haffert | Amadeus & Holger & Leonard ranked midfield in their first OPD tournament ever. Leonard made the break to the eighth final. Lukas made it to the semi-final with his team and to the final as freier Redner. Lukas was awarded the price for best speaker of the final. |
| 2 | Rheingötter-Debattierwettstreit in Bonn | Bianca Sterly & Véronique Lorenz & Esther Reinert; Lukas Haffert | Bianca & Véronique & Esther slightly missed the break as a team. Esther as well as Lukas made the break to the semi-final. | |
| 2 | London School of Economics and Political Science Open | Mai Menzel & Lukas Haffert, Bianca Sterly & Tilmann Schrammel, Esther Reinert & Véronique Lorenz | All Tilbury Teams were among the best ESL teams of the tournament. | |
| 2010 | 7 | EUDC Amsterdam | Lukas Thiel & Fabian Platz, Bianca Sterly & Sebastian Hagemann | Lukas and Fabian ranked midfield. Bianca and Sebstian made the break to the quater finals. |
| 6 | German Championship | Bianca Sterly & Sebastian Hagemann, Assen Kochev & Tillmann Schrammel | Bianca and Sebastian topped the tab after the preliminary rounds and made it to the quater finals. Assen and Tillmann made it to the semi finals. | |
| 4 | Berlin IV | Charly Stollmann & Amadeus Peters, Nike Lorenz & Lukas Thiel, Lyuba Ilieva & Sebastian Hagemann | All Tilbury teams only sligthly missed the break. | |
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| 2008 | 6 | German Championships | Bianca & Marco Sterly | Marco & Bianca topped the team tab of the national championships. Marco was awarded the best speaker of the preliminary rounds. |
| Yeditepe Open | Yana Zhakhouskaya & David Lamouroux | Yana & David made it to the grandfinal. | ||
| 5 | Amsterdam Open | David Lamouroux & Karolin Piatkowski; Johannes Norrenbrock & Rob Doll | Karolin & David miss the break by two team points; Johannes & Rob rank midfield | |
| Westgerman Championships | Hannah Raible & Assen Kochev; Bianca & Marco Sterly | Hannah & Assen make it to the final. Bianca & Marco Sterly break to semifinals as third on the team tab | ||
| 2 | LSE Open | Assen Kochev & Dan James (MDU); Joanna Gajewska & Gabor Vozari; Robert Doll & Tobias Hauck | Assen Kochev & Dan James (MDU) rank 47th in a field of 88 teams | |
| 1 | WUDC 2007 | Assen Kochev & Kai Menzel | Assen & Kai make it to the Worlds' ESL Final ranking 8th on the ESL tab (best European ESL team) | |
| 2007 | 12 | KCL Graveson Cup IV 2007 | Yana Zhakhouskaya & Panagiotis Dodos | Yana & Panagiotis rank 11th of 60 as a team; Panagiotis ranks 12th of 107 speakers at his 1st tournament |
| 11 | SSE Riga & LMT IV | Hannah Raible & Eva-Maria Wühlst | Hannah & Eva-Maria rank 19th | |
| 10 | Leiden Open 2007 | Sarah Holton (Ireland) & Felix Lamouroux; Yana Zhakhouskaya & David Lamouroux; Assen Kochev & Kai Menzel; Lyuba Llieva & Robert Doll; Sebastian Hagemann & Benjamin Smale; Joanna Gajewska & Gabor Vozari Dirk Harlacher & Johannes Norrenbrock judged. | Sarah & Felix made it to the Grand final; Yana & David make it to a break room | |
| 08 | Koc Euros 2007 | Assen Kochev & Jan Schmitz (White); Kai Menzel & Felix Lamouroux (Blue); Yana Zhakhouskaya & Dirk Harlacher (Red); Bianca Sterly & Marco Sterly (Gold) | Three of four teams break to ESL quarter finals: Assen & Jan (1st on the ESL tab), Kai & Felix (4th on the ESL tab), Jana & Dirk. Assen & Jan make it to the ESL Final. Kai & Felix rank in the top five of the ESL speaker tab. Bianca & Marco rank midfield beating several native speakers. | |
| 05 | Paris IV | Assen Kochev & Andrew Marshall (Oxford); Hannah Raible & Christine Vossen; Tim Bonus & Leonard M.; Maren Hegewald & Lyuba Ilieva. | Assen & Andrew win the Paris IV Final. Felix makes the judges break to the Grand Final. | |
| 04 | Amsterdam Open | Assen Kochev & Usama Rehmann (Manchester), Gabor Vozari & Joanna Gajewska | Assen & Usama (Manchester) make it to a break room. Gabor & Joanna participate at their first international tournament. | |
| 04 | Rotterdam Open | Felix Lamouroux & Tillman Schrammel, Johannes Norrenbrock & Usama Rehmann (Manchester) | Johannes & Usama (Manchester) make it to the Final. Tillman & Felix break to the Semi-Finals as best ESL team. Felix is best ESL speaker. | |
| 03 | LSE Open | Felix Lamouroux & Dan Bradley (Manchester) | 22nd of 92 teams. Felix is the best ESL-speaker on the tab ranking 46th among 184 speakers | |
| 03 | Manchester IV | Yana Zhakhouskaya & Dirk Harlacher, Assen Kochev & Johannes Norrenbrock, Ralph Breuer & Felix Lamouroux | Yana and Dirk break to EFL-Semi-Finals as fifth team of the tab. Assen is best ESL-Speaker of the tab and breaks to the ESL-Final with Johannes. Ralph and Felix (with fever) also break to the ESL-Final. | |
| 02 | IUB Open | Dirk Harlacher & Matthias Winkelmann | ||
| 01 | Trinity IV | Assen Kochev & Jan Schmitz, Kai Menzel & José Gavilanes, Tillman Schrammel & Johannes Norrenbrock | ||
| 2006 | 12 | Graveson Cup IV | Bianca & Marco Sterly | Bianca & Marco rank 38th among 68 native speaking teams. Bianca ranks 97th of 136 in the speaker tab of her first international tournament. |
| Cork IV | Johannes Norrenbrock & Tobias Raschke | Johannes & Tobias come in 56th of 64 teams. | ||
| 11 | Cambridge IV | Johannes Norrenbrock & Robin Wuchter | ||
| 11 | Oxford IV | Assen Kochev & Felix Lamouroux, Marco Sterly & Ralph Breuer, Jan Schmitz & Kai Menzel | Assen & Felix win the ESL Final! Marco & Ralph make it to the Final, too, and Jan & Kai breake to semis. Felix is the best ESL speaker ranking 61st in a field of 280 debaters, Kai ranks third in the ESL tab. Assen & Felix also top the ESL team tab of 39 teams. | |
| 11 | Vice President's Cup Dublin (UCD) | Benjamin Smale & Tobias Karmann | Benjamin and Tobias make it to the Grand Final of the Novice Cup! The Tilburies are the only non-native debaters. | |
| 08 | Istanbul | Assen Kochev & Dirk Harlacher | Assen Kochev & Dirk Harlacher perform extremely well ranking 6th in an international field of 52 teams, they are the best ESL team. Assen is the 2nd best ESL speaker, Dirk ranks 5th. | |
| 05 | Grand École IV Paris | Assen Kochev & Jan Schmitz, Johannes Norrenbrock & Tillman Schrammel | Assen and Jan win the first IV for Tilbury House, beating the French National Champion in the grand final. They also rank third and second in the speaker tab. Johannes and Tillman miss the final by a single team point. | |
| 03 | European Debating Championship Berlin | Kai Menzel & Axel Waldecker, Jose Manuel Gavilanes & Assen Kochev, Felix Lamouroux & Yana Zhakhouskaya, Antje Gajewski & Jörg Ziemann, Marco Sterly & Ralph Breuer, Kai Wiesmann & Tillman Schrammel, Fabian Dittrich, Jörg Hegewald, Birte Fidel, and Maren Hegewald adjudicating | Tilbury House shows the strongest team performance of any ESL (English as Second Language) society. 5 teams rank in the top 71 out of 164 teams, including over 70 EFL teams. All five teams miss the ESL semi final by a single team point only! | |
| 03 | Manchester IV | Antje Gajewski & Axel Waldecker, Felix Lamouroux & Marco Sterly, Mathias Dolls & Michael Tomaschewski, Fabian Dittrich adjudicating | Antje and Axel break to the grand final of England’s fourth largest IV. Antje ranks 6th out of 88 and wins the Cup for the best non-native speaker ahead of Axel in 12th place. | |
| 01 | Trinity IV Dublin | Jörg Ziemann & Kai Wiesmann, Felix Lamouroux & Liang Ge | Jörg and Kai rank 40th out of 78 teams. The Tilburies are the only non-native debaters. | |
| 01 | IUB Open Bremen | Kai Menzel & Axel Waldecker, Jörg Hegewald & Johannes Norrenbrock, Fabian Dittrich adjudicating | Kai and Axel break to semis ranking 4th in the team tab. In the speaker ranking they do even better: Axel ranks 2nd, beeing the best non-native speaker, Kai ranks 4th. | |
| 2005 | 11 | Paris-Centrale IV | Assen Kochev & Jan Schmitz May Elsayyad & Marite Klavina Marco Sterly adjudicating | Assen and Jan miss the cup narrowly. They rank first in the team tab, Assen is the best speaker of the tournament. |
| Cork IV | Liang Ge & Johannes Norrenbrock | The Tilburies beat 23 Irish teams at their first IV. | ||
| Cambridge IV | Assen Kochev & Marco Sterly | Assen and Marco rank 46th out of 80 and reach a strong 4th place in the non-native tab. Kai and Jan are only one point behind. | ||
| Vice President's Cup Dublin (UCD) | Kai Menzel & Fabian Dittrich Lyuba Ilieva & Daniel Weiss | Kai and Fabian Dittrich rank 9th in a field of 60 teams. The Tilburies are the only foreign debaters. | ||
| 07 | Dubrovnik International | Kai Menzel & Fabian Dittrich | The Tilburies rank second in the grand final, only loosing to a British team. | |
| 07 | Durham Open | Matthias Kehrig & Assen Kochev, Meike Fischer & Matthias Winkelmann | The Tilburies are the only foreign debaters. | |
| 04 | Nottingham IV | Jan Schmitz & Kai Menzel, Yana Zhakhouskaya & Jörg Ziemann | The Tilburies are the only foreign debaters. Kai and Jan break to semis. | |
| 04 | Prague Debate Tournament | Jan Schmitz & Fabian Dittrich, Marco Sterly & Alexander Krämer | Jan and Fabian make it to the grand final in the Czech senate. | |
| 04 | Utrech International | Aljona Nemyrovska & Matthias Winkelmann | The Tilburies rank fifth, missing the grand final by a few speaker points only. | |
| 04 | Berlin Open | Bahira Dakroury & Assen Kochev, Jörg Hegewald & Matthias Winkelmann, Jan-Philipp Büchler & Axel Waldecker, Jose Gavilanes adjudicating, Thomas van Lith adjudicating | Bahira & Assen make it to the quarter final as strongest newcomer team. | |
| 03 | EUDC Cork, Irland | Matthias Kehrig & Kai Menzel | The Tilburies miss the semi final by a single team point. The strongest Tilbury House performance at Europeans ever. | |
| 02 | IUB Open Bremen | Matthias Kehrig & Kai Menzel | The Tilburies make it to the grand final and miss the cup only by a margin. Lord mayor Henning Scherf sees Tilbury House ahead. | |
| 01 | Trinity IV Dublin | Matthias Kehrig & Kai Menzel | The Tilburies rank 16th in a starter field of 64 as the only non-English team. Kai is ranked 18th of 128 in the speakers tab, Matthias in 32nd place. | |
| 2004 | 11 | Oxford IV | Jan-Philipp Büchler & Jose Gavilanes, Jörg Hegewald & Thomas van Lith, Fabian Dittrich adjudicating | |
| 08 | Istanbul | Ralph Breuer & Fabian Dittrich | Ralph Breuer & Fabian Dittrich rank second as the best non-British team in an starter field of 26 teams. They narrowly miss the cup in the grand final. Fabian is the second best speaker of the tournament. | |
| 04 | EUDC Durham, England | Matthias Kehrig & Ralph Breuer | ||
| 02 | Inner Temple IV | Jose Manuel Gavilanes & Fabian Dittrich | The Tilburies are the only foreign debaters. | |
| 2003 | 04 | EUDC Zagreb, Croatia | Axel Waldecker & Peter Weiss | |
| 03 | CEET Berlin | Jan-Philipp Büchler & Fabian Dittrich | ||
| 01 | Trinity IV Dublin | Thorsten Bast & Peter Weiss | The Tilburies are the only foreign debaters. | |
| 2002 | 12 | Birmingham IV | Laura Lembke & Timo Keller | The Tilburies are the only foreign debaters. |
| 11 | Oxford IV | Antje Gajewski & Hartmut Zahel, Holger Flier & Philipp Menny | ||
| 11 | Cambridge IV | Matthias Kehrig & Jan-Philipp Büchler, Jörg Hegewald & Jens Clausen | ||
| 04 | CEET Berlin | Peter Weiss & Dirk Harlacher | The Tilburies break to the grand final. | |
| 03 | EUDC Haifa, Israel | Peter Weiss & Joel Malan | ||
| 03 | Münster Invitational | Fabian Dittrich & Fabian Groene, Peter Weiss & Joel Malan | Fabian Dittrich & Fabian Groene make it to the grand final, rank third overall and beat all German teams but one. Peter Weiss & Joel Malan break to semis. | |
| 2001 | 11 | Oxford IV | Axel Waldecker & Philipp Menny, Christoph Buss & Torsten Rode | |
| Cambridge IV | Jan-Philipp Büchler & Dirk Harlacher, Fabian Dittrich & Matthias Kehrig | Best non-native speaker Jan-Philipp Büchler. | ||
| 04 | EUDC Ljubljana, Slovenia | Fabian Dittrich & Sergej Okolesnov, Dirk Harlacher & Torsten Rode, Christoph Buss adjudicating | Tilbury House represents the German Universities at the European championship. | |
| 03 | Limmerick IV | The Tilburies are the only foreign debaters. | ||
| Inner Temple IV | Fabian Dittrich & Sergej Okolesnov | The Tilburies are the only foreign debaters. | ||
| 2000 | 03 | Inner Temple IV | ||
| 1999 | 04 | Inner Temple IV | Christoph Buss & Torsten Rode | Tilbury House beats 30 English teams at its first Intervarsity participation ever. |