If you would just shift your gaze to the left side of your screen, you would see an ever-increasing list of links to the the official websites of the many debate institutions from all over the country. A quick look would give you a sampling of institutions from Northern Luzon, National Capital Region, Southern Luzon, [...]

2006-2007 is interesting for two reasons - it was a very competitive season and a lot of the senior debaters of that time chose to sit out one of the major tournaments. Top speakers of the 2006 NDC and the 2007 PIDC - Claudia Poon and Leloy Claudio, respectively — chose to not participate as [...]

Thanks to the support of our *ehem* elder statesmen *cough*Sir Martin*cough*Carl*cough* we are now ready to launch our comprehensive tabs page! We have tabs for all National Debate Championships from 2002 to 2008. We also have all of the IIDC/PIDC tabs from the same period of time.
If you have tabs of tournaments before the age [...]

This is your opportunity of a lifetime! Well, not really, but you stand a chance of getting your very own e-mail address @phildebate.com. Wouldn’t that allow you to wear your debater pride on your sleeve - or at least on your business cards?
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According to speaker scores, that is. Since the National Debate Championship and Philippine Inter-collegiate Championship all had preliminaries lasting seven rounds, both tournaments had equal weight. Obviously, only speakers who competed in both competitions had a shot in getting in the top ten. Total speaker points from both tournaments were simply added to come [...]

Thanks mainly to our new contributor Michael Manangu (Colegio de San Agustin), we now have a section dedicated to high school debate tournament results. The High School Tournaments Results page would be permanent fixture on our sidebar.

The AUDC will be hosted by International Islamic University Malaysia from May 14 to 22. The organizers are now in the process of confirming the institutions who have already paid for their registration. The full list of registered teams may be accessed here. The Philippine delegation to the AUDC include debaters and adjudicators from Ateneo [...]

The team cap for the 2008 Australs has been met. If you still want to go to Australs, sign up for the waitlist. If you were smart enough to pre-register or lucky enough to have filled out the registration form made available between February 29 and March 6, please make your payments by April [...]

I just posted the results of the tournaments held this academic year. Each entry includes the tournament, hosts, champion and top speaker. Again, if you think we missed any tournament wherein a team from the Philippines competed (international, local, regional or intervarsity), kindly drop us a line by leaving a comment.

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