World Class Debates: Recent Episodes
Soufiane Choubani
For educational purposes, listen to some of the best debates in the World Schools style and the BP format.
World Schools Debating Championship in Vietnam 2023 - Zimbabwe vs. Czech Republic - Round 6
This House Prefers a world ruled by a benevolent AI programmed to maximize utility by calculating the actions most guaranteed to reduce the greatest global suffering.Proposition: USAOpposition: CanadaProp won
The topics is: This house prefers parenting models that adultify teenagers (i.e. giving them more responsibilities and autonomy, assuming higher capacity for independence) to those which emphasize their status and treatment as teenagers (i.e. refraining from giving them adult responsibilities, emphasizing they are legal minors).
Hong Kong (proposition) v Singapore (opposition)
Sri Lanka is arguing in favour, China is arguing against.
The topic is: This House opposes academic activism
The info slide is: "Academic activism" refers to a phenomenon where academics take an explicitly political standpoint in their work and outside it with the aim of bringing about social change. Activist academics openly associate with different social and political groups or movements. The scope of academic activism entails being involved in policy debates, advising politicians, writing opinion pieces, etc. It also entails activism taking place within academic work, i.e. when performing research or teaching at the university.
Semi-finals (impromptu): This House believes that rehabilitation should be the only consideration in criminal sentencing.
China won against England unanimously (7:0).
Motion: This House would nationalize the research, development, and distribution of pharmaceuticals.To nationalize means to transfer from private or regional ownership and control to state/government ownership and control. Proposition: Canada, Opposition: Singapore
Quarter final debate of the 2011 World Schools Debating Championships, held in Dundee, Scotland.
Topic: This House Supports Free Immigration
England is proposition and Scotland is opposition. Scotland won.
[Korea WUDC 2021 Final] Topic is: This House supports the creation of an international court with a mandate to prosecute leaders for health crimes.
Info Slide: For the purposes of this debate 'health crimes' are massive violations of the international health codes. For example, the unwillingness to comply with the WHO's regulations on dealing with pandemics, a significant violation of norms on the prescription of antibiotics, breaching the experimentation codes of ethics.
Teams: Opening Government ATENEO 2, Opening Opposition ZAGREB, Closing Government LSE, Closing Opposition, ATENEO 1.
World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) Open Final: THB that the world's poor would be justified in pursuing complete Marxist revolution.
Teams: Harvard, Hart House, Sydney & PEP
World Schools Debating Championship 2017 Finals: England vs Singapore: Topic: This House supports restrictions on free speech to combat the rise of right-wing populism. English was side proposition and Singapore was side opposition
2015 World School Debating Championship - Quarter Finals: South Africa vs. Singapore. Topic was, This House Believes That affirmative action policies are counterproductive in reducing inequalities. South Africa was side proposition and Singapore was side opposition. Singapore won.