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The US Universities Debating Championship (USUDC) is the largest British Parliamentary debating tournament in the United States, and one of the largest debate tournaments in the world. The event is held for college and university students attending school in the United States, and is hosted by a different university each year.
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]
Dartmouth College 2002–2003: Geoff Garen & Tristan Morales: Northwestern University 2003–2004: Dan Shalmon & Tejinder Singh: 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
Pan-African Universities Debating Championship (PAUDC) is the biggest intercollegiate debate championship in Africa, established in 2008 by the University of Botswana Debate Masters Association. PAUDC is held in the British Parliamentary debate format (involving four teams of two people in each debate). [1] [2] [3]
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 ...
Unlike all other tournaments, debating at Nationals is limited to one team per university, plus any additional teams who “qualified” for Nationals during that debate season. There are several ways to qualify for Nationals: The most common through the 2006–2007 season was to reach the final round of a tournament.
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]
An early pioneer of these styles of debate was the University of Louisville debate team, led by Ed Warner. [27]: 4–5 As debate techniques continued to become more progressive, new debate leagues were formed to accommodate different styles. The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) was established in 1971. Jack Howe, the first president ...