World Universities Debating Championship

The World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) is the world's largest debating tournament, and one of the largest annual international student events in the world. [ [http://www.debateforums.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=14 debating.net - WUDC history ] ] It is a parliamentary debating event, held using a variant of the British Parliamentary Debate format. Each year, the event is hosted by a university selected by the World Universities Debating Council. The tournament is colloquially referred to as "Worlds".

Past champions and hosts

English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Competition Winners

Public Speaking Competition Winners

World Universities Debating Ranking

World Universities Debating Ranking is prepared by the World Debate Website, [ [http://flynn.debating.net/colmmain.htm World Debating Website] ] based on a cumulative ranking methodology. Although not officially recognized by the World Universities Debating Council, currently this is the only method in the debating arena that ranks all the institutions which have participated in the World Universities Debating Championship over the last five years. These rankings have also been used to determine the institutions invited to compete in the World Universities Peace Invitational Debate tournament held in Kuala Lumpur in 2007. [ [http://www.wupid.hngsc.com World Universities Peace Invitational Debate - Official Site News] ]

Methodology

* The ranking is calculated by adding together the points (i.e. 3 points for winning a debate, 2 for a 2nd place, 1 for 3rd, and 0 for 4th) earned by each team representing an institution at the championships over the previous 5 years.
* Where an institution hosted the championships in the last 5 years, and was therefore limited from entering competitive teams that year, their score is calculated over the past 6 years. This special consideration offsets the disadvantage of a hosting university, but does nothing to equalise the difficulties of universities who are disadvantaged by lack of subsidies and punitive costs or distance, which would also assumedly interfere with the ranking system.

* Where teams are tied on the same number of points, these ties are broken based on the total known points (i.e. all points that institution has earned since Cork '96).

Top Twenty

Currently, the top 20 universities out of 429 institutions are ranked by Colm Flynn as follows: [ [http://www.debating.net/flynn/colpoint.htm Complete Ranking] ]
*01. University of Sydney, Australia
*02. University of Oxford, England
*03. University of Cambridge, England
*04. Monash University, Australia
*05. University College Dublin, Ireland
*06. Yale University, United States
*07. University College Cork, Ireland
*08. Ateneo de Manila University, PhilippinesUniversity of santo tomas
*09. University of Queensland, Australia
*10. University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland
*11. University of Toronto, Canada
*12. International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
*13. University of Melbourne, Australia
*14. University of New South Wales, Australia
*15. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
*16. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
*17. Nanyang Technological University , Singapore
*18. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
*19. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
*20. University of La Verne, United States

ee also

* European Universities Debating Championship
* North American Debating Championship
* Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships
* List of debaters

Notes and references

External links

* [http://flynn.debating.net/Colmmain_wudc.htm World Debate Website – General World Universities Debating Championship information page]
* [http://flynn.debating.net/Colmmain_summ.htm World Debate Website – World Universities Debating Championship past results page]
* [http://www.assumptionworlds.com Assumption Worlds 2008 website]
* [http://www.corkworlds2009.com Cork Worlds website]
* [http://www.kuworlds2010.com Koc University Worlds website]