Posts Tagged ‘WSDC 2014’
3rd Thailand World Schools Debating Championships
The 3rd Thailand World Schools Debating Championship will be held from August 22nd – August 28th at the Anglo Singapore International School in Bangkok, Thailand. Very little information has yet to be released about the competition, although the facebook group is currently advertising for a logo competition. Registration is expected to be somewhere between 8,500 bahts and 9,500 bhats.
From the list of the organizing committee made available on the facebook group, it appears that the competition will at least be partly organized by Thai students, some of who are former or current members of the Thailand National Debate Team. It should be remembered that Thailand will be hosting WSDC 2014 and TWSDC may serve as important precursors both for the organizing committee to gain experience and for WSDC teams to gain high-level competition experience.
Visit their facebook group https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/groups/359291920771999/ or email twsdc2012@gmail.com for more information.
Hopefully more information will be released shortly. I will update this post as and when that information comes in.
WSDC 2014 – Peruvian Bid
This must be my first WSDC 2014 related post. Peru, hosts of WSDC 2003 have made a bid to host WSDC 2014. WSDC 2012 will beheld in Cape Town, South Africa shortly and WSDC 2013 will be in Turkey. Peru began attending WSDC in 1993, the Peruvian Debate Association in 2002 and hosted WSDC 2003. At present, Peru appears to be the only nation bidding for 2014. We will wait to see if any other countries will ultimately submit bids for WSDC 2014.
The bid is led by Asociación Peruana de Debate (Peruvian Debate Association). The bid is supported by Universidad del Pacífico as well as Hotel El Pueblo. The proposed dates are Saturday, August 16th – Tuesday, August 26th. This is intended to “guarantees that all debates at schools and universities will count with audience”.
The Convenor is Sixto Ramos, who has attended WSDC since 1993, acted as convener of the 1st and 8th Pan American Debating Championships (2001 and 2008) as well as convener of WSDC 2003 amongst other achievements. Chief Adjudicators: Christopher Erskine (Australia) and Effie Giannakouri (Greece)
The Team Cap is anticipated to be 50 teams (assuming 8 member delegations). Registration fee for initially 8 members will be US$1,150. Any additional team members can register for US$1,900. Registration will include:
There will be two tours included to Pachacamac and Mamacona. There will also be optional tours to Huacachina, Paracas National Park and Islas Palomino.
Sixto Ramos will make a short presentation about the bid at the start of the Tournament Committee meeting on 24 January, during WSDC 2012, and there will be an opportunity for delegates to ask questions afterwards.
The full bid document can be found here.
Corrections
Page 6 of the bid document currently reads ‘Why the WSDC 2914 in Peru?’ but it ought to say ‘Why the WSDC 2014 in Peru?’
