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Before 2015, foreign schools were allowed to compete in playoffs, resulting in a 2012 championship where separate tournament champions and national champions were crowned. Each team consists of two students from the same college or university. In a given debate they will compete against three other teams simultaneously.
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]
University of California, Berkeley 2008–2009: Matt Fisher & John Warden: Northwestern University 2009–2010: Stephen Weil & Ovais Inamullah: Emory University 2010–2011: Stephen Weil & Ovais Inamullah: Emory University 2011–2012: Ryan Beiermeister & Layne Kirshon: Northwestern University 2012–2013: Andrew Arsht & Andrew Markoff ...
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 ...
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]
2018: Camilla Maionica - NSU University School (FL) 2019: Caitlyn Woitena - J. Frank Dobie High School (TX) 2020: Elizabeth Lopez-Aguilar - Alief Early College High School (TX) 2021: Prem Ganesan - Wayzata High School (MN) 2022: Abigail Canalejo - American Heritage Broward (FL) 2023: Rachel Senn - Mercer Island High School (WA)
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 championships were first held in August 1988 in Australia, as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. Members of the Australian Debating Federation were aware that the World Universities Debating Championship was to be hosted by the University of Sydney in January that year, but no similar event for high school students existed at the time.