World Universities Debating Championship in Spanish
The World Universities Debating Championship in Spanish or Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español is the world's largest and most important debating tournament in Spanish.
It is a parliamentary debating event, held using the British Parliamentary Debate format. The tournament the winners of the open competition are acknowledged as the "World Champions" of debating in Spanish.
The 2016 tournament was held at Universidad de Córdoba in Spain. The 2017 edition will be held at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.
Format
The Championship is held in the Northern Hemisphere summer.The competition involves nine preliminary rounds, which become power-paired as the tournament progresses, matching the strongest-performing teams against each other. Two teams form the government and two the opposition in each debate room. The process of scoring and pairing these teams is known as tabbing. The scoring of teams is done by judges, most of whom are students or former students from the competing institutions, who return ballots with their scores to the adjudication team, led by a Chief Adjudicator who is assisted by one or more deputies.
The nine preliminary rounds are followed by a break at which the teams proceeding to elimination rounds are announced. In the current tournament format, 32 teams proceed to the octo-finals, with the best 2 from each debate qualifying for the quarter-finals, and the best 2 of each quarter-final subsequently proceed to the semi-finals, and the best 2 of each semi-final subsequently proceed to the Grand Final.
In addition, a public speaking competition is also open to all participants in CMUDE. Since edition held in México in 2014 a Nation's World Cup and a Spanish As a Second Language tournament were introduced.
Particularities
There are some differences with the English-speaking version of the tournament. One of them is that there is no limit on the number of teams that a university may register to the tournament as long as they fulfill the "n-1" rule, where "n" represents the number of teams they bring to the tournament and "n-1" is the number of judges they need to provide.México 2014 introduced a Nations World Cup. While in English Worlds usually this competition is not taken on a serious manner, in the Spanish-speaking version it was envisioned for just one team per nation but the format has also evolved each year, and sometimes more than one team per nation have been allowed, or "humor" has been considered one of the evaluating elements in 2015 and 2019.
Composite teams are allowed at times, usually when there is no other way of guaranteeing participation for students from a university.
The "language status" tournament also has a key difference with Worlds. While Worlds' "ESL" and "EFL" tournaments are only for the teams that were not able or decide not to break into the Open tournament, the "Español como Segunda Lengua" competition features a break of all teams eligible due to their language condition regardless of their performance on the main break, thus crowning the outright "Spanish As a Second Language" world champions.
Some editions have given focus to social service, including a full day was dedicated to teach debate to local students in 2014.
Past Champions and Hosts
World Universities Championship
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| 2025 | Universidad del Caribe | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Mauricio Jarufe y Fernanda Crousillat | Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona Andreu Garcia y Luis Felipe Garcia Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Pau Garcia y Manuel Gámez Universidad del Rosario Juan Esteban Triviño y Daniela Leyton | EUNEIZ Isabella Vásquez y Amadeo Gavilano Tec CEM Aranza Valadez y Esteban Valle Tec CEM Manolo Vazquez y Mauricio San Román Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mariana Yáñez y Brandom Pascual | TBA | TBA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana | / IDS / Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Marcela Gómez y Mattias Durán | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Diego Nuñez y Sebastian Ezeta Universidad del Rosario Jessica Zapata y Andres Revelo / Universidad San Francisco de Quito / EID Angelo Saavedra y Carlo Giron | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Fernanda Crousillat y Jorge Godos Universidad de Almería / Universidad CEU San Pablo Jesús Gómez "Capi" y Grego Colao Universidad de los Andes Santiago Ortiz e Isabella Mojica Colegio Mayor Universitario Elías Ahuja Carlos Montero y Mario de la Hoz | Universidad Francisco de Vitoria Álvaro Mora y Álvaro Flores Universidad de Chile Florencia Atria y Noam Vilches Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas Janine Castagnola y Sergio Pérez Universidad Complutense de Madrid Pablo Ponce y Fernanda Roig Universidad Católica Andrés Bello Luis Fernando Narváez y Ellis Alberti Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Manuel Gámez y Pau García Universidad del Rosario Laura Cabrera y Laura Sua BSE / Leuven Luis Felipe García y Pablo Lamiquiz | / Universidad César Vallejo / IFP Angel Moreno Huaccha y Pablo Martinez TEC CEM Mariana Elechiguerra y Javier Márquez Universidad Pompeu Fabra / Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña Ángela Buquet y Bruno Gómez Universidad Central de Venezuela Nelson Pernia y Ana Victoria Ascanio Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra Francisco Javier Ricardo Morrobel y Belén Lobo Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona Andreu Garcia y Horacio Lamela Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín Manu Zapata y David Cardona Duque UdeG Josué Torres y Luisa Velázquez Universidad Central de Venezuela John Parada y Camila Rivas Universidad Nacional de Colombia Cristhian Mora y Gabriel Muriel ITAM / Colegio de México Zaid Cano y Daniel Kelly Universidad Católica Andrés Bello David Varillas y Camila Carballo Universidad del Rosario Juan Esteban Triviño y Daniela Leyton Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá Ana Nari Carrillo Y Emmanuel Domínguez TEC CEM Lino Mialma y Manolo Vázquez Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Nataly Vásquez y Felipe Huerta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá | Universidad Internacional de Catalunya Amadeo Gavilano e Isabella Vásquez | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Mauricio Jarufe Caballero y Arianna Pantoja Romero Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Sociedad de Debates Complutense Pedro Tomás y Raúl Viñas Universidad del Rosario Andrés Revelo y Juan Esteban Triviño | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Joaquín Linares y Andrea Quispe Tec CEM Natalia García y Benjamín Vigueras Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín David Cardona Duque y Manu Zapata Jiménez Universidad de los Andes Santiago Ortiz y Carlo Girón | Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente Valeria Corona y Tlali Olivarez Universidad San Francisco de Quito Arturo Javier Ñamu y Angelo Saavedra Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Juanjo García y Cristina Oñate Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Luis Eduardo Valverde Ramos y Diego Núñez del Prado Velarde Colegio Mayor Elías Ahúja Mario de la Hoz y Carlos Montero Universidad Central de Venezuela Nelson Pernia y Ana Ascanio Tec CEM Lino González y Manolo Vázquez Universidad de Barcelona Luis Felipe García y Mark Ripol | Universidad Católica Andrés Bello Diego Maciel y Luis Fernando Narváez Universidad de Murcia Carmen Puente e Ignacio Fenollar Universidad Santa María la Antigua Diego Rubio y Oscar Prado Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Christian Mundaca y Rose Vento Universidad Católica Andrés Bello Ellis Alberti y Beatriz Tirado Universidad Francisco de Vitoria Álvaro Mora y Horacio Lamela Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Tony Barturen y Fabriccio Luna Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Alvaro Torres y Martín Villanueva Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas Lexie Tello y Sergio Pérez Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Sociedad de Debates Comunicate José Luis Muñoz y Julio Lozano CEU San Pablo Maider Bernabé y Ceres Calatayud Tec CEM Mariana Sandoval y Samantha Rivadeneira CEU San Pablo Rocío Alberola y Marta Guerra Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas Tomás Romero y Marielena Ginez Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sebastián Becerra y Cristhian Mora Universidad Francisco de Vitoria Álvaro Flores y Alejandro Baena | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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