Tournament
Students from Acadia, Mount Allison and St. Francis Xavier will join Bishop's counterparts to compete in a debate tournament that follows the Canadian University Parliamentary debate format. The topics will be focused on various aspects of undergraduate education ranging from serious to more playful or irreverent topics.
Debate Competition Rules
Judge's Evaluation Sheet
Schedule
The debates will take place in McGreer and St. Mark’s Chapel starting at 8:30 a.m.
The final debate is scheduled to being at 11:30 a.m. and will take place in St. Mark's Chapel.
All are welcome to attend!
Winners will be announced at a reception on the evening of February, 9th.
Members of the inter-university debate teams
Acadia University
Callie Latham, Kyle Power, Matt Rios, Darcy Shea
with Faculty Advisor Dr. Barry Moody, Acting Dean of Arts
Bishop's University
William Crooks, Andrew-Phillipe Debaronnet, Christine Heuvelink, Adam Peabody, Dana Sciuto
Mount Allison
Mariana Carrera, Janel Comeau, Graham Muise, Norman Nehmetallah
St. Francis Xavier
Jessica Berube, Megan Dewey, Patrick LeClair, Stefan Martin
Participants
• Each university is represented by four students divided into two teams.
• Each university will compete in debates against every other university twice.
• Each university assumes the role of the government and the opposition three times.
• Judges for each debate will not be affiliated with the universities in that debate.
• Judges will be drawn from faculty members, guest speakers invited to TEDxBishopsU and, administrators attending the event.
