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Each competitor is judged by 40 to 50 judges by the end of the competition. The top seven to twelve competitors in each event advance to final rounds, and the top two (or four for debate) competitors in the finals advance to the grand finals. Categorical rankings are decided on performance in the grand finals and finals.
Competitive debate, also known as forensics or speech and debate, is an activity in which two or more people take positions on an issue and are judged on how well they defend those positions. The activity has been present in academic spaces in the United States since the colonial period .
Here are other rules and guidelines of the debate, which will take place at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City. CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell and Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan will ...
This led to walk-outs during the debate, including 30 Chinese students and teachers. [6] After the live-stream, all recordings of the debate were deleted, but the motion was still present on the tabulation software. [7] Many participants had names removed from the public record retroactively once the competition was over.
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.
The English-Speaking Union Schools' Mace is an annual debating tournament for secondary schools in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The competition was founded in 1957 by the journalist Kenneth Harris of The Observer newspaper, [ 1 ] and was initially known as The Observer Schools' Mace .
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The first round of the debate in 2016 was on July 15. The National Round was held on September 25. Loyola School, Jamshedpur was the only school to have qualified for both the category 1 and Category 2 of the debate. The National Winners for Category 2 were Nitya K Nair and Megha N Nair from L'ecole Chempaka, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.