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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 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 ...
Year Host city Hosting institution Winning institution Winning open team Open finalists Best speaker Topic of Open Grand Final 2027 Ottawa, Canada English Debating Society (UOttawa) & Carleton Undergraduate Debating Society & Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debaters. 2026 Sofia, Bulgaria Bulgarian Debate Association: 2025 [12]
That year, the event was called the World Debating Championships. Seven teams took part in the 1990 competition, with first-time participants Scotland emerging as champions. In 1991, the championships were held in Edinburgh, and the event took on its present name of the World Schools Debating Championships. Since then, the championships have ...
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.
Public Forum Debate is a form of competitive debate where debaters use their evidence and impacts to outweigh the benefits and harms of the opposing side. The topics for public forum have to do with current-day events relating to public policy. Debaters work in pairs of two, and speakers alternate for every speech.
Over 1,600 schools participate in the event each year making it 2nd largest debate tournament in India after Indian Debate League. [1] [2] [3] The Debate competition is spread over three levels – Regional, Zonal and National Levels. Each school sends two students from each group mentioned above.
NSDC uses the World Schools Debating Championship format, which is a variation of Australian-Asia Debating and Parliamentary Debate formats. Each state’s and territory’s affiliate body sends one team of 4 high school students, for a total of 8 teams. [2] The competition starts with 7 preliminary rounds in a single round-robin. The top four ...