World Universities Debating Championship | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 15/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Universities_Debating_Championship


00:01:20 1 History
00:01:29 1.1 Predecessor Tournaments
00:02:14 2 Format
00:05:19 3 Governance
00:07:22 4 List of Tournaments
00:07:32 5 See also



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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. WUDC is parliamentary debating tournament held in British Parliamentary Debate format (involving four teams of two people in each debate). Historically, the format of WUDC was determined by the host country which allowed for the American Parliamentary Debate format (two teams of two people). Each year, the event is hosted by a university selected by the World Universities Debating Council. The tournament is colloquially referred to as "Worlds" and the winners of the open competition acknowledged as the "world champions". The current world champions are Kevin Lee and Bostan Nurlanov from the University of Sydney. The university with the most world champions is the University of Sydney with 8, and the high school with the most world champions is Sydney Grammar School with 6. 2019 was the first year where both world champions and the best overall speaker, all 3 people, attended the same high school and university, that is, Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney.