赛制：PF,World Schools,Parliamentary, Original Oratory

日期：2024年11月8日-10日

平台：Zoom（在线）

费用：赛事报名费用880元/人

组别：PF, World Schools, Parli, Original Oratory

Greetings,

This is your formal invitation to the 2024 UC Berkeley Asia Online Invitational Speech & Debate Tournament, to be held November 8-10, 2024.

This tournament is online only. Our intent is to offer robust competition in both debate and speech events, with a schedule and topics friendly to those debating in Asian timezones. Entries are welcome from all countries/schools, but please note that the tournament is being held in China Standard Time, so may not be practical for you depending on your location.

We plan to offer divisions of Public Forum (both US and China topics), World Schools, Parli, and Original Oratory. We reserve the right to cancel divisions/events based on insufficient entries.

All divisions will receive a signed certificate of participation referencing UC Berkeley.

We plan to have special judges provided for final rounds, e.g. debaters from the UC Berkeley debate team, UC Berkeley professors or alumni, etc. Details TBD.

We plan to hold competition on NSDA Campus where possible. If you have specific needs for a different competition platform, please contact us in advance to discuss options.

There will be 6 preliminary rounds of PF and Worlds, and 4 preliminary rounds of Oratory.

Topics

The Public Forum (Asia Topic) division will use the topic:

Resolved: Cities in China should substantially increase their support for the adoption of autonomous vehicles.

World Schools topics will be announced before the tournament.

Tentative schedule (all times China Standard Time)

Friday 5:00p Debate Round 1

Friday 7:30p Debate Round 2

Saturday 8:00a Debate Round 3 / IE Round 1

Saturday 11:00a Debate Round 4 / IE Round 2

Saturday 2:00p Debate Round 5 / IE Round 3

Saturday 5:00p Debate Round 6 / IE Round 4

Sunday 7:30a Elim 1

Sunday 10:30a Elim 2

Sunday 1:30p Elim 3

Sunday 4:30p Elim 4