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http://debatemotioncentral.blogspot.com/ Many of these from European Debating  http://europeandebating.blogspot.com/  so thanks to them for their good work! Here are the tournaments we are sharing motions from, and links to each: Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft (German Language D... TechOpen, Haifa, Israel, May 30-31 2014 Neckarwiesen Cup, Heiderlberg, Germany, May 17 201... Helsinki Open, Helsinki, Finland, May 16-18 2014 French Language World Championships Debating, Pari... IDEA League of Young Voters European Cup, Strassbo... Zeit Debatte Mainz, Mainz, Germany, 2-4 May 2014 Copenhagen Open, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2-3 May 2014... South German Regional Championships, Stuttgart, Ge... West German Regional Championships, Münster, Germa... North-East German Regional Championships, Magdebur... Hull Open, Hull, England, 26 April 2014 VUAS Debate tournament, Valmiera, Lithuania, 26-27... Paris Open, Paris, France, 25-26 April 2014 Aberdeen Open, Aberdeen, Scotland, 19 April 2014 Kent...

Thepparith Senamngern posted a list of attending countries and a copy of the schedule. Download the tentative schedule here   http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/Thai%20WSDC_schedule_June27,2014.pdf -Editor Dear WSDC Community,  We would like to first thank all 42 nations which has confirm their participation to Thailand WSDC, we are hoping to get confirmation from a few more nations which still await for parents and ministries to confirmation. We will inform you as soon as possible when we can do the draw for WSDC 2014.   The list is below;  01. Argentina 02. Australia 03. Bangladesh Bermuda (only judges) 04. Barbados 05. Canada Chile (Pending) 06. China 07. Chinese Taipe 08. Denmark 09. England 10. Estonia 11. Germany 12. Greece Hong Kong (only judges) 13. India 14. Indonesia 15. Ireland  16. Israel Japan (Pending) 17. Kuwait 18. Lithuania 19. Macau 20. Malaysia 21. Mexico 22. Morocco 23. Netherlands, the 24. New Zealand 25. Nigeria 26. Pakistan 27. Philippine...

From Cindi Timmons, USA Debate Team Manager: Hello, The USA Debate team is currently creating its 2014-15 training and competition schedule. In the process of compiling information we have failed to find a unified calendar anywhere. We are operating by word of mouth and through the new friendships we are forming. It is our goal to have a preliminary calendar in place before our application process concludes in August. To that end, we would appreciate anyone offering an international WSDC-style event for high school students between September 1, 2014 and the WSDC-Singapore in 2015, to contact us with your name/date/contact info/website as soon as possible. While USA Debate will not be able to attend many of the events, we would like to be able to direct American teams to these events as the format grows here. Thank you so much! Cindi Timmons - USA Debate, Team Manager cktimmons@AOL.COM

Also add: USA. Scotland, Argentina and Mexico. -Editor Dear the WSDC Community, I would like to first thank the nations which have already email their confirmation in participating in Thailand WSDC, from our current confirmation we have the following on the list;  Received confirmation Email:  01. Barbados 02. China 03. Wales 04. England  05. Germany 06. Australia  07. Sweden 08. Nigeria  09. UAE 10. Philippine  11. Thailand  12. South Africa  13. Slovenia  14. Romania  15. Taiwan  16. Macau 17. Bangladesh  18. Swaziland  This additional list; was from the forum which stated their intention to participants, we do hope to get a confirmation from them as well.  Still waiting confirmation Email:  19. Indonesia  20. Malaysia 21. Kuwait 22. Sri Lanka 23. New Zealand  24. Mexico 25. Greece 26. Israel  27. Netherlands  28. Denmark 29. Slovakia  30. Pakistan  We do hope other nations w...

While Canada never offered to host a "second" tournament, people not going to Thailand treated it like that. This letter makes Canada's position clear as they withdraw their bid. -Editor Dear TJ, the Thai Org Com and the WSDC community, On behalf of the Canadian Students Federation (CSDF) and in response to the email thread that has occurred throughout the day (and emails that we have received behind the scenes), I would like to confirm that the result of the vote to keep Thailand the official host of WSDC 2014 does mean that the Canadian bid has been withdrawn. We did say at the outset, when we offered it, that it was intended to provide an alternative to the prospect of there being no WSDC this year (when it looked like the option was to cancel). We did not envision a situation where there would be two Worlds in one year - the concerns raised in the forum about what that would do to the competition and the reputation of WSDC are most definitely shared by Canada. We beli...

http://www.cedadebate.org/forum/index.php/topic,5947.0.html Below are the resolutions approved to be on the ballot for the 2014-2015 academic debate year, with some minor editing. We will put in thematic/size order (as we perceive them) and alphabetize areas within each resolution for the official ballot. 1. Resolved: The United States should legalize all or nearly all of one or more of the following in the United States: marihuana, prostitution, online gambling, the sale of human organs, physician assisted suicide. 2. Resolved: The United States should legalize all or nearly all of one or more of the following in the United States: prostitution, online gambling, the sale of human organs, physician assisted suicide, marihuana, cathinone, heroin, peyote, LSD, cocaine, MDMA, methamphetamine. 3. Resolved: The United States should eliminate all or nearly all legal prohibitions or criminal penalties on one or more of the following in the United States: marihuana; prostitution; online gambli...

Michigan won the debate 5-0 http://www.cnas.org/event/debate/war-with-iran#.U5s7f5RdUSe The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the Civis Institute invite you to attend a public debate on June 13, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Two of the country's top collegiate debate programs - Georgetown University and the University of Michigan - will square off on one of the most contested foreign policy issues of our day. The teams will debate whether or not the United States should use military force against Iran if nuclear diplomacy fails. The debate will be followed by comments from Dr. Colin Kahl , senior fellow and director of the Middle East Security Program at CNAS, and a moderated Q&A with the debate teams. CNAS is excited to host this event to support our mission to elevate and shape the debate on this key national security issue and promote the next generation of national security leaders.

Dear Friends of iDebate Rwanda, Greetings from Kigali. It’s a great pleasure to be able to write to you to share some of the updates of iDebate Rwanda. As you might know, we started iDebate Rwanda in October 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for young Rwandans to share their ideas and debate about issues that affect them. For the past two years, we have been busy working at setting up the first ever Kigali Debate League and also working with our partners in the Region to set up the East African Debate League which brings together schools from Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. The growth and the development of our students has been tremendous and if you want to hear more about it please do not hesitate to check out our website and please do check out our promotional Video  which explains what we do ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snvhw0Odf4c ) At the Occasion of the 20 th Commemoration of the Genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda, iDebate Rwanda is hosting a tour of the USA in the fa...

The results of the Tournament Committee ballot are now in and the WSDC event in Thailand this August will be going ahead. Congratulations to the organisers in Thailand who have been doing the best job they can under very dificult circumstances and have won the backing they needed to proceed. Nevertheless, the recent online forum has made it very clear that a number of nations who are valued members of the WSDC community will not be able to send their teams to the WSDC tournament in Thailand this August because of genuine concerns about the national security situation in Thailand or problems getting the appropriate travel insurance - and in a couple of cases even being told by their nation's Ministry of Education that they will not be allowed to take a group of school students to Thailand under the present circumstances despite the team management's desire to bring their team to WSDC. If Thailand is the only WSDC event which happens this year, it will - through no fault of the T...