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5 unusual facts about World Schools Debating Championships


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Qatar hosted the 2010 World Schools Debating Championships in February 2010, becoming the first country in the Arab World to host the competition, and attracting over 50 countries to the competition.

Qatar is currently listed as a 'B' Grade country on the World Schools Debating Championships A - D scale.

The team attended the 2008 World Schools Debating Championships in Washington DC in September 2008, winning 4 of their 8 debates, and in doing so setting a new world record for the best performance by a new entrant country in the competition.

World Schools Debating Championships

A notable example was in Lima in 2003, where the teams from Argentina and Peru gave a demonstration debate in Spanish (but in the World Schools style) in the Congress of Peru chamber.

WSDC

World Schools Debating Championships, a high profile annual English-language debating tournament for high school-level teams representing different countries



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