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It is awarded to the speaker who makes the best contribution to the evening's debate. The Society of Cogers (/ ˈ k oʊ dʒ ər z /) is a free speech society, established in 1755 in the City of London. It is the oldest debating society in the world and one of the oldest speaking gatherings of any kind.
The L&H has won a number of international debating competitions and has won The Irish Times and Mace debating competitions as well as international and national intervarsities. The society has attended the World Universities Debating Championship , in Asia , Australia , Africa and North America , reaching the grand final in both 2000 and 2002.
Debate is a process that involves formal discourse, discussion, and oral addresses on a particular topic or collection of topics, often with a moderator and an audience. In a debate, arguments are put forward for opposing viewpoints.
Public Forum debates tend to focus on current events issues and require debaters to defend either the status quo or a specified change to the status quo. [46] [47]: 1–8 Big Questions is a 1v1, 2v1, or 2v2 style of debate with a year-round
The HWS RR was started in 2007 by the HWS Debate Team, with the intent of designing an annual tournament of champions for BP debate. While the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) had already long been established at the time, its open nature meant allowing a significant variation in skill among teams. [13]
The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) (/ ˈ s iː d ə / SEE-də) is the largest intercollegiate policy debate association in the United States.Throughout the school year, CEDA sanctions over 60 tournaments throughout the nation, including an annual National Championship Tournament that brings together over 175 individual debate teams from across the nation to compete on the basis of ...
Intercollegiate debates have been held since at least as early as the 1890s. History records there were debates between teams from Wake Forest University and Trinity College (later Duke University) beginning in 1897. [5] Additionally, a debate between students from Boston College and Georgetown University occurred on May 1, 1895, in Boston. [6]
The competition was founded in 1954 by the journalist Kenneth Harris of The Observer newspaper, [1] and was sponsored by the newspaper until 1995. It was then renamed the John Smith Memorial Mace in honour of British Labour Party leader John Smith, who won the tournament as a member of the Glasgow University team in 1962, and died in 1994.