  Both Helm and Ostwald, apparently, anticipated that they would have the opportunity to discuss their views on energetics in an open-minded atmosphere. But at the meeting Boltzmann surprised them with devastating criticism. According to those who were present Boltzmann was the clear winner of the  debate.[4]   Yet the energeticists experienced the confrontation as an ambush (Höflechner 1994, I, 169), for which he had not been prepared. Nevertheless, Boltzmann and Ostwald remained friends, and in 1902 Ostwald made a great effort to persuade his home university in Leipzig to appoint Boltzmann (cf. Blackmore 1995, 61–65).