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The host is selected by the member schools of the US Universities Debate Association. The event determines the National Champions for the year. [1] Most recently the tournament was hosted by Hobart and William Smith Colleges in October 2023. The current National Champions are Xiao-ke Lu and Jacquelynn Lin from Princeton University.
The World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) is the world's largest international debating tournament and one of the largest annual international student events. WUDC is held in the British Parliamentary format (involving four teams of two people in each debate). [1]
The North American Debating Championship is one of the two official university debate championships of North America. It is sanctioned by the national university debating associations in the United States and Canada, the American Parliamentary Debate Association and the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. It has been held ...
University of California, Berkeley 2004–2005: Tristan Morales & Josh Branson: Northwestern University 2005–2006: Michael Klinger & Nikhil Mirchandani: Harvard University 2006–2007: Brent Culpepper & Kevin Rabinowitz: University of Georgia: 2007–2008: Jacob Polin & Michael Burshteyn: University of California, Berkeley 2008–2009: Matt ...
Students in urban debate programs participate in tournaments sponsored by local urban debate leagues or by the National Association of Urban Debate Leagues, which annually hosts a national championship in Chicago. The National Debate Coaches' Association hosts an annual tournament at the end of the year, with a qualification process based on ...
The Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. [1] The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. [2]
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 ]
It was one of the first international competitions to individually rank high school-level students in debating and public speaking. [3] The tournament was founded the same year as the World Schools Debating Championships to respond to the desire for an equivalent competition for public speaking at the international level.