2008 Press Releases

World Debating Championships for UCC
03.09.2008

Plans for the 29th World Debating Championships, to be hosted by UCC, are well underway. To date, almost 150 institutions from over 40 countries are registered to attend the Championships which will run from December 27th 2008 to January 4th 2009.
Universities who have confirmed their attendance range from Oxford University, to Harvard University, to the University of Sydney and Beijing Foreign Studies University.
 
"We have been simply blown away by the interest in attending Cork Worlds 2009.  The Championships are set to be one of the most diverse ever, in addition to bringing the world's best debating teams together to compete.  We look forward to welcoming all our delegates to UCC, Cork and indeed Ireland and showing them all that we have an offer" said Mark Collins, Director of Registration & Communications.
 
The 149 institutions who have confirmed a place at the Championships will send 308 teams in addition to adjudicators so that over 1000 students will be in UCC to compete to be crowned World Debating Champions 2009.  
Delegates compete over an eight-day period to be crowned Debating Champions. There are nine preliminary rounds, followed by Octofinals, Quarterfinals, Semifinal and the Grand Final. The Grand Final will be held in Cork City Hall on January 3rd 2009.

The World Championships are held annually in a University selected by the World Council.  The Law and Philosophical Societies of UCC first won the rights to host the Championships in January 2007, confirmed earlier this year by unanimous vote of the World Universities Debating Council, in Bangkok, Thailand.

Worth over €2million to the local economy, the Championships will provide a welcome boost to conference tourism, to the Cork region as well as an excellent opportunity to promote Irish education abroad.
 
Enquiries: Mark Collins, Director of Registration & Communications, mobile 086 3738177.

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