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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.
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 of CEDA, described the association as being "a reaction against a prevailing style of debate that both participants and ...
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 University of St Andrews Union Debating Society is a student debating society at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.Tracing its origins back to 1794 and established under the current name in 1890, [1] it is the oldest continuously operating debate society of its kind in the English-speaking world (predated only by the College Historical Society at Trinity College Dublin which ceased ...
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Special awards have been introduced for the highest-ranked teams made-up of English-as-a-second-language (ESL) and English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) speakers. To show that debate is universal, hosts in non-English-speaking nations have often showcased demonstration (non-competition) debates in their own language during the championships.
All debates are carried out in English only. Each team consists of 3-5 debaters who each make 8-minute speeches either as side proposition or side opposition for or against a motion respectively. AWSDC emphasizes world-class debates and adjudicating in order to provide a platform for young student debaters to improve and achieve their full ...
At the end of the debate season, APDA gives awards to the top ten teams, speakers, and novices of the year. APDA is an entirely student-run organization. The APDA board members are students from various host institutions, and most of the tournaments are completely organized by the host school's debate team.