World Universities Debating Championship in Spanish
The World Universities Debating Championship in Spanish or Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español (CMUDE) is the world's largest and most important debating tournament in Spanish.
It is a parliamentary debating event, held using the British Parliamentary Debate format. The tournament the winners of the open competition are acknowledged as the "World Champions" of debating in Spanish.
The 2016 tournament was held at Universidad de Córdoba in Spain. The 2017 edition will be held at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.
Format
The Championship is held in the Northern Hemisphere summer.
The competition involves nine preliminary rounds, which become power-paired as the tournament progresses, matching the strongest-performing teams against each other. Two teams form the government (proposition in the UK and North America) and two the opposition in each debate room. The process of scoring and pairing these teams is known as tabbing. The scoring of teams is done by judges, most of whom are students or former students from the competing institutions, who return ballots with their scores to the adjudication team, led by a Chief Adjudicator who is assisted by one or more deputies.
The nine preliminary rounds are followed by a break at which the teams proceeding to elimination rounds are announced. In the current tournament format, 32 teams proceed to the octo-finals, with the best 2 from each debate qualifying for the quarter-finals, and the best 2 of each quarter-final subsequently proceed to the semi-finals, and the best 2 of each semi-final subsequently proceed to the Grand Final.
In addition, a public speaking competition is also open to all participants in CMUDE. Since edition held in México in 2014 a Nation's World Cup and a Spanish As a Second Language tournament were introduced.
Particularities
There are some differences with the English-speaking version of the tournament. One of them is that there is no limit on the number of teams that a university may register to the tournament as long as they fulfill the "n-1" rule, where "n" represents the number of teams they bring to the tournament and "n-1" is the number of judges they need to provide.
México 2014 introduced a Nations World Cup. While in English Worlds usually this competition is not taken on a serious manner, in the Spanish-speaking version it was envisioned for just one team per nation but the format has also evolved each year, and sometimes more than one team per nation have been allowed, or "humor" has been considered one of the evaluating elements in 2015 and 2019.
Composite teams are allowed at times, usually when there is no other way of guaranteeing participation for students from a university.
The "language status" tournament also has a key difference with Worlds. While Worlds' "ESL" and "EFL" tournaments are only for the teams that were not able or decide not to break into the Open tournament, the "Español como Segunda Lengua" (Spanish As Second Language) competition features a break of all teams eligible due to their language condition regardless of their performance on the main break, thus crowning the outright "Spanish As a Second Language" world champions.
Some editions have given focus to social service, including a full day was dedicated to teach debate to local students in 2014,.[1]
Past Champions and Hosts
World Universities Championship
*One speaker was Mexican (Alatorre López) and one US American (Garcia), but both Cornell students.
**Both speakers were Peruvian: one from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Pimentel), and one from Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (Cortijo), and did not have ties to HKUST, but were allowed to participate on representational grounds.
Best Speakers
Performance by country
- Updated until Peru 2019.
| Country | Champions | Runner-Ups | Semifinalists | Quarter Finalists | Best Result Ever | Best Ever Ranked Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Spain |
3 | 14 | 10 | 21 | 1st | 1st |
 Colombia |
3 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 1st | 1st |
 Chile |
2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 1st | 1st |
 Venezuela |
1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1st | 1st |
 Mexico |
0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2nd | 2nd |
 Peru |
0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2nd | 10th |
 United States |
0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5th | 35th |
 Hong Kong* |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5th | None |
 Panama |
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9th | 91st |
 Dominican Republic |
0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17th | 61st |
 Guatemala |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17th | 95th |
 Netherlands |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17th | None |
 Argentina |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28th | 26th |
 Costa Rica |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39th | 67th |
 El Salvador |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43rd | 47th |
 Ecuador |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44th | 63rd |
 France |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78th | None |
 United Arab Emirates |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78th | None |
 Russia |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82nd | 150th |
 Germany |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105th | 64th |
 England |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105th | None |
 Sweden |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117th | 221st |
| France |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 36th |
 South Korea |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 89th |
 United States Virgin Islands |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 100th |
 Romania |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 125th |
 Curaçao |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 211th |
 Austria |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 218th |
 India |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | 218th |
- The students did not have ties to an institution from Hong Kong.
Judges' Cup / Nations Cup
| Year | Hosts | Champions | Runner-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020/2021 (Copa Máster) | Spain Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
Colombia Panama
Diego Duarte, Giza Pavone, Juanita Hincapie |
Peru &  Brazil
Jorge Bullon, Giovanni Begossi, Adriana Barrantes |
Peru & Chile
Sebastián Ezeta, Fabián Yaksic, Fernanda Crousillat Erika Silva, Valeria Hernandez y Daniel Espinosa |
No Quarters Break |
| 2019 (Copa Máster) | Peru Universidad ESAN Lima |
Spain Jorge Álvarez Palomino, Víctor Corpa Rubio & Iñigo Vallejo |
Spain |
Spain
Mixed Team |
No Quarters Break |
| 2018 (Copa de Naciones) | Chile Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Chile |
Mexico
Valeria Hernández, Mariana Morales, David Alatorre López |
Spain Gonzalo Herreros, Aida González, Francisco Valiente |
North America ( United States & Mexico) Carlos Ortega, Roberto Romeu, Oliver Leung
|
No Quarters Break |
| 2017
(Copa de Jueces) |
Guatemala Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala |
Colombia Londoño, Bermúdez, Gutiérrez |
Colombia Ecuador López, Carvajal, Duarte |
Colombia & Mexico Luisa Salazar, Salma Infante Osorio, David Alatorre López
|
|
| 2016
(Copa de Jueces) |
Spain Universidad de Córdoba Córdoba |
Spain Critina Guerrero, Jorge Whyte, de la Virgen, Alberto Buscató |
Mexico Nicholas Ferezin, Alfredo Díaz Barriga, David Alatorre López
|
Spain
|
Spain Mixed Team
Mixed Team Mixed Team |
| 2015 (Copa de Naciones) | Colombia Universidad del Rosario Bogotá |
Spain |
Chile |
Colombia
|
Mexico
|
| 2014[4] (Copa de Naciones) | Mexico Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México Atizapán de Zaragoza |
Peru |
Chile |
Colombia
Central America |
Mexico
Mixed Team |
Judges' Cup Speakers
| Year | Hosts | Best Speaker | Runner-up | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Spain Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
Colombia Juanita Hincapié |
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| 2019 | Peru Universidad ESAN Lima |
Peru
Diego Cabrera |
None awarded | None awarded |
| 2018 | Chile Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Chile |
Mexico
Carlos Ortega |
Spain Francisco Valiente |
Mexico
Mariana Morales |
| 2017 | Guatemala Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala |
Colombia Juan Martín Londoño |
Peru
Ernesto Deza
|
None |
Spanish As A Second Language
| Year | Hosts | Champions | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Peru Universidad ESAN Lima |
United States Cornell University
Luz Dybner & Sara Stober |
United States Colgate University |
| 2018 | Chile Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Chile |
United States Cornell University
Brittany Garcia & Estefanía Palacios |
United States
|
| 2017 | Guatemala Universidad Francisco Marroquín Guatemala |
United States University of Denver
Selene Figueroa & Quinn Seremet | |
| 2016 | Spain Universidad de Córdoba Córdoba |
Germany TU Munich
Reinhold Koch &
|
United States University of Denver
|
| 2015 | Colombia Universidad del Rosario Bogotá |
Netherlands Maastricht University
Felix Plassman & Alexander Wisse |
United States Colgate University (x2)
|
| 2014[4] | Mexico Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México Atizapán de Zaragoza |
United States Willamette University
|
United States Colgate University (x3) |
See also
References
- "Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español 2014". Archived from the original on 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
- "Cmude2019 | Welcome to CMUDE 2019".
- "CMUDE Colombia 2015". Archived from the original on 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- "Resultados por universidad - CAMPEONATO MUNDIAL UNIVERSITARIO DE DEBATE EN ESPAÑOL México 2014". Archived from the original on 2014-08-10. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- "CMUDE 2013 | debatescomplutense". Archived from the original on 2015-07-14. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
- "Home | CMUDE 2012". Archived from the original on 2015-12-20. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
- "Team Tab After Round 9". Archived from the original on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- "CMUDE Guatemala 2017". Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- "CMUDE Córdoba 2016, España" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
- "Debate Central - Since 1994". www.uvm.edu.
External links
- World Debate Website – General World Universities Debating Championship information page
- World Debating Website – General World Universities Debating Championship information page
- Psikolojik Danışman
- CMUDE 2011 Stats - 2011 CMUDE statistics page
- 2011 CMUDE website - 2011 CMUDE website
- Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
- es:Concurso Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español (CMUDE)