- Format
- Particularities
- Past Champions and Hosts World Universities Championship Best Speakers Performance by country Judges' Cup Judges' Cup Speakers Spanish As A Second Language
- Chile 2012 controversies
- See also
- References
- External links
{{Distinguish|World Universities Debating Championships}}{{criticism section|date=January 2014}}The World Universities Debating Championship in Spanish or Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español (CMUDE) 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. FormatThe 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 (proposition in the UK and North America) 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 quarter-finals, with the best 2 from each debate qualifying for 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. ParticularitiesThere 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. Since the edition in México 2014 a Nation's World Cup has been held. While in Worlds this competition is not taken on a serious manner, the debating formats change year after year and anyone can represent any country or even fictional countries, in the Spanish-speaking version just one team per nation is allowed and the debaters must represent a nation from which they are a national, with the team being formally registered by the representatives of each nation at the tournament. Another difference is that composite teams can only exist when it is impossible that those debaters could represent their country due to lack of representation. 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 to break into the main tournament, the "Español como Segunda Lengua" (Spanish As Second Language) 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 and not the best of the teams that didn't break. Finally, since the 2014 edition, a new focus was given to social service, where a full day was dedicated to teach debate to local students,[1] becoming the first debate tournament in the world that includes events of direct social impact as part of its agenda. Past Champions and HostsWorld Universities Championship Year | Hosts | Winners | Finalists | Semifinalists | Quarter Finalists |
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2018 | {{CHI}} Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso | {{ESP}}Fundación Cánovas Cánovas A (Málaga) María García & Carmen Vallecillo | {{ESP}} Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (B) Pablo Molins & Carlos Pérez {{COL}}Universidad del Rosario (C) Juanita Hincapié y Jorge Portocarrero {{ESP}}Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICAI-ICADE (B) Javier Alberite & Luis Ignacio Belzuz | {{ESP}} Universidad Autónoma de Madrid(A) Juncal León y Enrique Marchán{{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia de ComillasICAI-ICADE (D) César Yéboles y Álvaro Salazar {{MEX}} Universidad de Guadalajara Virtual (A) Tonatiuh Xiuhcoatl Bravo Rosas y José Francisco Salazar Peña{{MEX}} Universidad de Guadalajara CUCEA (A) Julio César Aguilar Balderas y Alberto Gutiérrez González | {{ESP}} Universidad Carlos III Diego Rubio y Marta Hernani {{ESP}}CMU Loyola Javier Sánchez y Carmen Sánchez {{ESP}}ISIPA Angela Portocarrero y Guillermo Serrano {{MEX}} Universidad de Guadalajara CUCSH (A) Itzcoatl Ilhuicatl Bravo Rosas y Daniel Cuauhtli Aguilar Yáñez{{PAN}}Universidad Santa María La Antigua Manuel Calvo y Rogelio Paredes | 2017 | {{GUA}} Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala | {{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE (A) Antonio Fabregat & Javier De La Puerta | {{ESP}} Universidad de Córdoba Álvaro Ortega & Gonzalo Herreros{{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE (B) Javier Alberite & Didier Martín Díaz{{COL}} Universidad del Rosario Ángela Parra Rojas & Paula Ovalle | {{ESP}} Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM){{ESP}} UMA - CÁNOVAS Beatriz Picardo Gross y Antonio de la Cruz España{{COL}} Universidad del Rosario{{USA}} Cornell University | {{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey (Campus Estado de México){{PER}} Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú (x2){{COL}} Universidad de los Andes{{ESP}} SICODI{{PER}} Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos{{ESP}} Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia{{COL}} Pontificia Universidad Javeriana{{ESP}} Universidad Francisco de Vitoria | 2016 | {{ESP}} Universidad de Córdoba Córdoba | {{ESP}} Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Aida González Vázquez & Atenea Luana | {{MEX}} Universidad de Guadalajara Ricardo Acosta & Julio César Aguilar{{PER}} PUCP Fernando Tincopa & Diego Mera{{ESP}} UAM Juncal León & Guillermo Serrano | {{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México{{COL}} Universidad del Rosario{{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia Comillas{{ESP}} Escuela de Finanzas | {{COL}} Universidad del Rosario{{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia Comillas{{CHI}} Universidad Andrés Bello{{MEX}} Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México{{ESP}} Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales{{PER}} Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú{{ESP}} Universidad de Córdoba{{ESP}} Universidad Francisco de Vitoria | 2015[2] | {{COL}} Universidad del Rosario Bogotá | {{COL}} Universidad del Rosario Santiago Vásquez & Daniel Cardona | {{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México Mariana Morales & Valeria Conde{{ESP}} Universidad Autonóma de Madrid Irene Miguelsanz Villanueva & Mariella de la Cruz Taboada {{ESP}} Universidad de MurciaPilar Rodríguez Losantos & Sergio Melero | {{MEX}} Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México{{COL}} Universidad Nacional de Bogotá{{PER}} Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú{{ESP}} Universidad de Comillas | {{PER}} Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú{{COL}} Universidad de Medellín (x2){{ESP}} Universidad de Córdoba{{MEX}} Universidad de Guadalajara CUCSCH {{COL}} Universidad del Rosario{{COL}} Universidad Nacional de Bogotá{{COL}} Universidad de Tolima | 2014[3] | {{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México Atizapán de Zaragoza | {{COL}} Universidad del Rosario Arturo Vallejo & Daniel Cardona | {{ESP}} Universidad de Córdoba Gonzalo Herreros Moya & Jorge Lucena Pérez{{ESP}} Universidad Autonóma de Madrid Irene Miguelsanz Villanueva & Javier Moreta Llovet {{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia ComillasAntonio Fabregat & Alberto de Unzurrunzaga Rubio {{COL}} Universidad del Rosario{{ESP}} Universidad de Murcia{{COL}} Universidad de Tolima{{ESP}} Universidad de Córdoba | {{PER}} Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú{{CHI}} Universidad de Chile{{COL}} Universidad Nacional de Colombia- sede Medellín{{COL}} Universidad Nacional de Bogotá (x2){{CHI}} Universidad Andrés Bello{{COL}} Universidad del Rosario{{MEX}} Universidad de Guadalajara | 2013[4] | {{ESP}} Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid | {{CHI}} Universidad Andrés Bello Ricardo Gómez & Nicole Hansen | {{ESP}} Universidad Francisco de Vitoria David Ferrete Camarzana & Jorge White García {{VEN}} Universidad Central de Venezuela María Gabriela Vincent Allende & Andrés Ávila {{ESP}} Universidad de Extremadura Carlos Seseña & Gonzalo Alonso Pinto | {{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México{{COL}} Universidad del Rosario (x2){{VEN}} Universidad Central de Venezuela{{VEN}} Universidad Central de Venezuela (x2){{CHI}} Universidad de Chile{{COL}} Universidad de Colombia{{COL}} Universidad del Rosario{{ESP}} Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Simón Caaveiro Fraga & F. Adrián Fernández Tojo{{CHI}} Fuerzás Aéreas de Chile{{CHI}} Universidad Santo Tomás Viña del Mar | 2012[5] | {{CHI}} Universidad Andrés Bello Santiago | {{CHI}} Universidad de Chile Santiago Daniel Iribarren Abarca & Nicolás Palma | {{CHI}} Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso César Miranda Reyes & José Meza {{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México David Alatorre López & Rodolfo Flores Méndez{{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México José Alberto Ramírez & Valeria García | {{CHI}} Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello (x2) {{COL}} Universidad del Rosario (x2){{PER}} Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú{{CHI}} Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María {{CHI}} Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello{{VEN}} Universidad Católica Andrés Bello{{CHI}} Universidad de los Andes (x2){{CHI}} Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile{{CHI}} Universidad del Desarrollo | 2011[6] | {{VEN}} Universidad Central de Venezuela Caracas | {{VEN}} Universidad Simón Bolívar Jesús Gorrín & Alain Herrera | {{CHI}} Universidad Católica Andrés Bello Nicole Hansen & Marcelo Rivera {{VEN}} Universidad Central de Venezuela Howard Ávarez & Rafael Bullones{{COL}} Universidad del Rosario Ingrid Rodríguez & Luisa Salazar | {{CHI}} Universidad San Sebastián {{CHI}} Universidad de Chile{{COL}} Universidad del Rosario{{VEN}} Universidad Central de Venezuela{{COL}} Universidad Nacional de Colombia{{VEN}} Universidad Central de Venezuela (x3){{VEN}} Universidad Simón Bolívar{{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México{{COL}} Universidad del Rosario{{ESP}} Universidad Complutense de Madrid | |
Best Speakers Year | Hosts | Best Speaker | Runner-Up | Third place |
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2017[7] | {{GUA}} Universidad Francisco Marroquín Ciudad de Guatemala | {{ESP}} Escuela de Finanzas Aida González | {{ESP}} Escuela de Finanzas Iván Olmos Ferreiro {{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia ComillasJavier Alberite | None | 2016[8] | {{ESP}} Universidad de Córdoba Córdoba | {{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia Comillas Antonio Fabregat | {{ESP}} CEPC Irene Miguelsanz Villanueva | {{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia Comillas Javier de la Puerta | 2015[9] | {{COL}} Universidad del Rosario Bogotá | {{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia Comillas Antonio Fabregat | {{ESP}} Universidad Pontificia Comillas Alberto de Unzurrunzaga Rubio {{ESP}} Universidad de MurciaPilar Rodríguez Losantos | {{ESP}} Universidad Autonóma de Madrid Irene Miguelsanz Villanueva | 2014[10] | {{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México Atizapán de Zaragoza | {{ESP}} Universidad de Extremadura Gonzalo Alonso Pinto | {{ESP}} Universidad de Extremadura Carlos Seseńa Vaquero | {{CHI}} Universidad Andrés Bello Fernando Vera | 2013[11] | {{ESP}} Universidad Complutense Madrid | {{VEN}} Universidad Central de Venezuela María Gabriela Vicent Allende | {{ESP}} Universidad de Extremadura Carlos Seseńa Vaquero | {{CHI}} Universidad Andrés Bello Ricardo Gómez | 2012[12] | {{CHI}} Universidad Andrés Bello Santiago | {{CHI}} Universidad de Chile Santiago Daniel Iribarren Abarca | {{VEN}} Universidad Central de Venezuela Rita Sleiman | {{CHI}} Universidad de Chile Santiago Nicolás Palma | 2011[13] | {{VEN}} Universidad Central de Venezuela Caracas | {{ESP}} Universidad Complutense de Madrid Camila Salazar-Simpson | {{CHI}} Universidad Andrés Bello Nicole Hansen {{MEX}} ITESM Campus Estado de MéxicoDavid Alatorre López | None |
Performance by countryCountry | Wins | Finalists | Semifinalists | Quarter Finalists | Best Result Ever | Best Ever Ranked Speaker | {{ESP}} | 3 | 12 | 9 | 16 | 1st | 1st | {{COL}} | 2 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 1st | 5th | {{CHI}} | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 1st | 1st | {{VEN}} | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1st | 1st | {{MEX}} | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2nd | 2nd | {{PER}} | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2nd | 13th | {{USA}} | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5th | 38th | {{DOM}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17th | 61st | {{PAN}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17th | 91st | {{GUA}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17th | 95th | {{NLD}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17th | None | {{ARG}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28th | 26th | {{CRC}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39th | 67th | {{ESA}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43rd | 47th | {{ECU}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58th | 83rd | France=}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78th | None | {{UAE}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78th | None | {{RUS}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82nd | 150th | {{GER}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105th | 64th | England=}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105th | None | {{SWE}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117th | 221st | {{KOR}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 89th | {{ROM}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 125th | {{CUW}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 211th | Austria=}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 218th | India=}} | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 218th |
Judges' Cup Year | Hosts | Champions | Runner-Up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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2017 | {{GUA}} Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala | {{COL}} Londoño, Bermúdez, Gutiérrez | {{COL}} {{ECU}} López, Carvajal, Duarte | {{COL}} {{MEX}} Salazar, Infante, Alatorre{{PER}} Deza, Ruiz, Lozano{{MEX}}{{ESP}}{{COL}} | 2016 | {{ESP}} Universidad de Córdoba Córdoba | {{ESP}} Guerrero, Whyte, de la Virgen, Buscató | {{MEX}} Ferezin, Díaz Barriga, Alatorre {{CHI}} Hansen | {{ESP}} {{ESP}} | {{ESP}} Mixed Team Mixed Team Mixed Team | 2015 | {{COL}} Universidad del Rosario Bogotá | {{ESP}} | {{CHI}} | {{COL}}{{PER}} | {{MEX}}{{PAN}} | 2014[14] | {{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México Atizapán de Zaragoza | {{PER}} | {{CHI}} | {{COL}} Central America | {{MEX}} Mixed Team | |
Judges' Cup Speakers Year | Hosts | Best Speaker | Runner-Up | Third |
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2017 | {{GUA}} Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala | {{COL}} Juan Martín Londoño | {{PER}} Ernesto Deza {{MEX}}David Alatorre López | None | |
Spanish As A Second Language Year | Hosts | Champions | Runners-up |
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2017 | {{GUA}} Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala | TBD | TBD | 2016 | {{ESP}} Universidad de Córdoba Córdoba | {{GER}} TU Munich{{ENG|England=}} Warwick Reinhold Koch & {{AUT}} Katrin Fallmann | {{USA}} University of Denver{{RUS}} HSE{{NLD}} Wageningen University | 2015 | {{COL}} Universidad del Rosario Bogotá | {{NLD}} Maastricht University{{GER}} Felix Plassman & Alexander Wisse | {{USA}} Colgate University (x2){{RUS}} HSE | 2014[15] | {{MEX}} Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México Atizapán de Zaragoza | {{USA}} Willamette University{{MEX}} Shamir Cervantes &{{USA}} Andrés Oswill | {{USA}} Colgate University (x3) |
Chile 2012 controversiesThe first criticism of Chile 2012 targeted the motions. Many debaters alleged that some motions were ridicule and hard to debate without tautological definitions, such as "the devil knows better for devil than for old". During the tournament many observers and teams suspected that the local teams from Universidad Andrés Bello already knew the motions since their arguments had specific information and facts for special cases deemed impossible to know under a 15-minute preparation without the chance to use devices. As well, in the final round many people said the motion wasn't good as a thesis for the great final, nevertheless, all teams from the hosting university, separately, gave the same approach on how they would have addressed the motion and define the concepts of the thesis given after the debate. As well, there were some discrepancies between the rulings and the actions of certain judges, especially regarding the participation of swing teams in the absence of any team, where the judges applied different criteria in different cases, which represented an injustice to certain universities, considered those cases by the organizers as "the margin of error". In addition to these reviews, there was controversy over cases not covered in the rules, justified as positivised in the operating rules and procedures by the organizers, which later turned out not to be specified in the regulations manual. Moreover, the competition did not follow a "Power matching" format but rather randomized pairings. The editions held in Spain and Mexico have been exempt from such controversies. See also- World Universities Debating Championship
- European Universities Debating Championship
- North American Debating Championship
- Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships
References1. ^http://www.debatecem.org/cmude2014.html 2. ^http://www.urosario.edu.co/CMUDE2015/CMUDE2015/ 3. ^ 4. ^https://debatescomplutense.wordpress.com/cmude-2013/ 5. ^http://mundialdebate.unab.cl/ 6. ^ 7. ^https://www.tabbie.org/gaeilge/cmude-guatemala-ronda-0-/#speaker-tab 8. ^http://www.uco.es/cmude2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Oradores-puntos-acumulados-y-promedio.pdf 9. ^http://www.urosario.edu.co/CMUDE2015/CMUDE2015/ 10. ^ 11. ^ 12. ^ 13. ^ 14. ^ 15. ^
External links- World Debate Website – General World Universities Debating Championship information page
- World Debating Website – General World Universities Debating Championship information page
- CMUDE 2011 Stats - 2011 CMUDE statistics page
- 2011 CMUDE website - 2011 CMUDE website
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