World Universities Debating Championship
The World Universities Debating Championship (short: WUDC, colloquially Worlds ( Pl )) is the every year discharged from late December to early January in Debating World Cup and now with about 400 teams, the largest debate tournament in the world. The format of the WUDC is the international tournaments usual British Parliamentary Style, the tournament English. The basic idea is that of a Intervarsity, ie a competition between universities, where exactly a debating is assigned. In fact, however, there are individual cases in which a club covers several institutions, while on the other hand, some universities, such as due to an internal college system, several Societies.
Competition mode
The end of December are first nine preliminary rounds take place according to the usual tournament rules of British Parliamentary Style, at which all starting teams. In the New Year's Eve night, the break will be announced in the final rounds, which are then discharged from the 2nd of January in three language categories:
- To the Main Break all competing teams. The after Tab 32 best teams reach the second round here.
- The ESL ESL Break into the quarter-finals to reach the top 16 teams according to Tab with ESL states that are not already come across the Main Break. ESL stands for English as a Second Language and ESL status receives a team whose members meet certain limiting criteria in terms of their chance to learn English. Non - native speaker is resident for several years in an English speaking country for that status.
- The EFL Break into EFL semifinal reach the tab after eight best teams with EFL states that are not already come upon the main break or the ESL break. Have EFL stands for English as a Foreign Language and is the category for speakers who had even less use of the English language have learned as a speaker with ESL status, so English about only as a second or third foreign language, and never spent an extended period in English speaking countries.