ESSDC Squared

WELCOME NOTE:

European Standard School Debate Club is aiming to set new standards in Bangladesh debating. Therefore, we present to you, Bangladesh Schools Debating Championship. This is a championship where we plan to deliver an experience similar to WSDC to the local debaters in Bangladesh.

With the success of hosting the 5th BDC Pre-World Schools Debating Championship, which is the biggest English debating stage in all-over Bangladesh, we are looking forward to host a debating tournament that surpasses our previous achievements and reaffirms the club’s position in the debating fraternity, as far as organizing is concerned. Therefore, ESSDC presents to you, it’s own annual debating championship,  ESSDC Squared: Bangladesh Schools Debating Championship (BSDC) 2012.


This tournament is like no other. We are determined to set a new trend in this society, as to how debate tournaments should be conceived and implemented, and how much more educational can this can be.And also, we are aiming for the bigger goal of bridging the linguistic barrier of our country, as much as possible, through this competition.

We acknowledge and appreciate the efforts that has already been taken by Bangladesh Debating Council (BDC) in order to ensure quality WSDC format debating in the country, which like other debating schools, ESSDC wants to extend it further by incorporating and replicating the core principles, along with the other rules of WSDC to set-up an elite tournament. Along with organizations like BDC and North South University (NSU), we hope to deliver an experience, similar to World Schools Debating Championship for the first time in Bangladesh.

Coming down to why ESSDC Squared: BSDC 2011 is special because for the first time in Bangladesh:

1. 16 Teams

We would be having the top 16 institutions from all over Bangladesh participating in BSDC 2011, making it the only national-level interschool tourney having most of the WSDC formats and rules implemented in Bangladesh. We would like to have more schools but it would only down if the grid allows new schools to join in.
     
2. Pre-tournament match-up:

We would be having for the first time, a pre tournament ranking, based on the past 6 National-scale Interschool English debating competitions. A grid would be announced based on the rankings and the draw.

3. The Adjudication Core:

For the first time in Bangladesh, we are looking forward to have an well-known international debate personnel to be our Chief Adjudicator, along with 3 Deputy Chief Adjudicators.

4. The Adjudicators

We would ensuring proper debating and quality adjudication by keeping the adjudication “Invitational”, where we would be inviting only the good adjudicators, with 3 adjudicators judging each debate.

             
5.   8 Preliminary Rounds of debating

We would be holding for the first time in Bangladesh, 8 rounds of preliminary debates. [4 rounds impromptu and the rest being prepared]

 6.   Ballot wins.

The wins to all rounds would be decided as a ballot system that the adjudicators would be casting, similar to WSDC, thus ensuring for the first time equal number of judges in every room.

7. International Workshop

For the first time in Bangladesh, the International Workshop would be taken after the prelim rounds, so that we can have the best insights from the CA, as these would allow him and the debaters to relate the workshop with the debates done during the BSDC 2012 Prelims. We are trying hard to ensure that the workshop is open for all schools and free for all, something that is also for the first time.

8. Master Round

The demo debate would showcase Top 3 breaking judges vs. Top 3 debaters of BSDC.


That’s why, to set a new way of hosting a debate competition brewing the debaters up for the international challenge, we have taken it as our responsibility to ensure proper methods of WSDC debating.