GLOBAL DEBATE to Report On Site Around the World Through Cork

It is a small world through debate!

There will be slight pause in the global debate news flow for the next few days as I relocate. This relocation is the beginning of a season of on site reporting that will carry us all the way through Cork. Here are some of the locations and some of the events that we will be covering in person:

• Late November - International Debate Academy in Slovenia. 80+ debaters and some of the most impressive debate trainers in the world will gather together for an intensive week of training followed by a major tournament in Maribor. Steve Llano of St. John's and I will keep up a steady stream of news AND videos for you to watch. We plan on at least two videos per day. Videos will also be hosted on the DEBATE VIDEO BLOG at http://debatevideoblog.blogspot.com/ . There will be quite a few social events as well as other trainings in Slovenia.
• Early December - Portland State University tournament in Oregon. One of the major WUDC format tournaments in the USA will take place and we will be there with reports on motions, results and, of course, social activities. We will try to make a video of the final round and perhaps some other debates.
• Mid December - CIMB World Universities Peace Invitational Debates, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We will be here for one of the truly elite tournaments in the world, with an inside look at DCA action, motions, results and of course a look at the ample festivities. Last year's videos from the tournament proved very popular, and we will have them again.
• Late December-Early January - WUDC Cork. We will be there, once again, for a round by round deription of the events. Find out what the motions are, how people are doing and all the related events. Get the news from the Council meeting and find out how the bidding will go for future WUDC sites. Once again, videos of interesting debates and hopefully one for each of the elimination rounds.

Thanks to the Lawrence Debate Union, the University of Vermont, CIMB Group and Z.I.P. for making all of this possible, along with my now depleted retirement account.

And, watch for more global debate coverage in 2010!