For either, let along both, to attend was unusual normally the Oxbridge people would only compete with each other. About 50 teams attended, including Oxford (who won) and possibly Cambridge. International tournaments find their beginnings in the spring of 1976, when the first Trans-Atlantic University Speech Association (TAUSA) tournament was held in London, England, hosted by the University of London and organized by John Telfer. More than once, the school that actually hosted the Worlds was the one that kindly offered to step in when the successful bidder’s organization fell apart. Hosting a world tournament has sometimes been an unsought honor.
In that respect, debating is the same wherever you do it.
The past years of multilateral competition are rife with tales of people who spent a great deal of time cold, wet, broke, lost, tired, making great friends in the adversity and generally having the time of their lives (in retrospect). However, these tournaments laid a solid foundation for later adventures into the rest of the world. While strictly speaking these were international competition, they were not terribly exotic. Until then, women could be accompanied to formal debates, but they had to sit in the gallery and were not allowed to speak.Ĭanadians and Americans have competed with each other regularly for many years. This was actually more egalitarian than hart House at the University of Toronto, which did not admit women as members until 1972.
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While not allowed to join the Glasgow Union, women could and did participate full in the debates there. One woman won a place on a 1954 tour representing the Queen Margaret Union at Glasgow, only to be rejected by higher authorities for reasons of gender. Women took part to the extent permitted by their institutions.
Later, in the 1950s, debaters were sent from England to tour in India, among other places, as well as the United States. International parliamentary debating goes back to at least the early 20th Century, when teams from Oxford toured the United States. But it is the flashes of brilliance, moments of laughter, lightning wit, and sustained participation of debaters drawn to the competition from around the world is what makes the Worlds possible - and worth holding - today. The Worlds would certainly not have been possible without the strong McGill initiative and Glaswegian involvement in the early 1980s. North Americans remember the University of London’s hospitality in the mid-to-late 1970s. Many countries share the credit for the survival and growth of world university debating over the past 15 years. The history since 1991 has been compiled by Colm Flynn, Chair of Worlds Council 2002 and DCA 2003 and Steven Johnson, current Chair of Worlds Council. At the start of the section on Worlds in 1981 is an extract from an e-mail by Clark McGinn, Convenor of Debates, GU Union 1980 - and Convenor of the First World Debating Competition, 1981.
Who wrote it isn't known but it was provided by Randal Horobik. From 1976 to 1990 it is taken almost word for word (with the exception of a section on the 1972 Sydney claim and the 1978 World Debating Festival both by Colm Flynn) from the 1991 Toronto WUDC Tournament booklet. This History of the World Universities Debating Championships comes in 3 parts. The tournament started over 35 years ago and has grown both in terms of diversity and in magnitude. The tournament is colloquially referred to as "Worlds". Each year, the event is hosted by a university selected by the World Universities Debating Council. It is a parliamentary debating event, held using a variant of the British Parliamentary Debate format. 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.
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