What is the AUDC?

The Asian Universities Debating Championship (AUDC) is the premier debating championship in Asia. Being the largest debating competition in the region, it has attracted more than 200 teams from across Asia since its inception.

Beginning in 2005, the Asian debating community decided to create a flagship tournament that ensures transparency in all areas, is highly competitive and provides top grade adjudication and tabbing processes.

With these principles in mind, the founding institutions convenened in Singapore and decided to form the AUDC to decide the "CHAMPIONS OF ASIA".

Five reasons why you should be apart of AUDC'08

  1. AUDC crowns the "Best Debating Team in Asia"
  2. AUDC has award winning adjudication
  3. AUDC is where all the best teams in Asia meet
  4. AUDC uses (what we'd like to call) the best tabbing system around
  5. IIU AUDC has strong backing from the Malaysian Government, our University and Sponsors

Interesting trivia about AUDC

  • A few teams that did well in previous AUDC's, later went on to break at Worlds & Australs. So it comes to show that teams can learn a lot from each other and from adjudicators at AUDC
  • The adjudicators attending this year's AUDC has also adjudicated the breaking rounds of Worlds and Australs (a few even went all the way and judged the recent Australs grand finals), ensuring the quality of adjudication in this tournament remains solid as ever
  • AUDC is the ONLY flagship debating tournament that not only ranks the debate teams, but also enforces the teams to rank their adjudicators
  • Because of the above mandatory rule, power-matching not only occurs to the teams, but also to the judges as well. This means teams that did well in previous rounds will get better judges in preceeding rounds.
  • In the later preliminary rounds, the better ranked judges will then judge the bubble rooms where they are needed the most.
  • Institutions that have participated in AUDC include East Asian, South-East Asian and some South Asian Universities

Past year hosts and winners

Hosts: NTU, Singapore 2005, Winner: ADMU, Runner-Up: NTU

Hosts: ADMU, Philippines 2006, Winner: ADMU, Runner-Up: ADMU

Hosts: ITB, Indonesia 2007, Winner: ADMU, Runner-Up: NUS

Hosts: IIU, Malaysia 2008, Winner: ? , Runner-Up: ?

This year's focus

Traditionally, debating powerhouses of Asia has always originated from the South-East Asian region. What IIU AUDC would like to focus on are more participation and involvement from institutions from the regions of the Middle East and the Subcontinent (South Asia).

The Org. Comm. is actively seeking out the contact details of institutions from these regions and highly encourage them to come and participate in IIU AUDC.