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|header1 = General Information<br />
|label2 = Type<br />
|data2 = Debate Competition<br />
|label3 = Location<br />
|data3 = [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]].<br />
|label4 = Host College<br />
|data4 = [[Rajalakshmi Engineering College]], [[Chennai]]<br />
|label5 = Dates<br />
|data5 = 27 December 2013 – 4 January 2014<br />
|label6 = Number of Participating Teams<br />
|data6 = 372<ref>[http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/on-campus/chennai-college-to-host-world-university-debating-championship/article5462974.ece Chennai college to host World University Debating Championship | Business Line<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><br />
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|data7 = [[World Universities Debating Championship]]<br />
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|data10 = [https://twitter.com/chennaiworlds Chennai Worlds 2014 Official Site]<br />
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'''Chennai Worlds 2014''' (CW14) is the 34th [[World Universities Debating Championship]], hosted and conducted by [[Rajalakshmi Engineering College]], [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]] under the aegis of [[Rajalakshmi Institutions]] on 27 December 2013 – 4 January 2014.<br />
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The '''World Universities Debating Championship''' (WUDC) is the world's largest [[Barack Obama|debating]] tournament, and one of the largest annual international [[student]] events in the world.<ref>[http://www.debateforums.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=14 debating.net - WUDC history ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080427051049/http://www.debateforums.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=14 |date=27 April 2008 }}</ref> It is a [[parliamentary debate|parliamentary debating]] event, held using the [[British Parliamentary Style|British Parliamentary Debate]] format. Each year, the event is hosted by a university selected by the World Universities Debating Council. The tournament is colloquially referred to as "Worlds" and the winners of the open competition acknowledged as the "world champions". The event was ultimate won by a team from Harvard University (Josh Zoffer and Ben Sprung-Keyser), who competed in the Grand Final against teams from the Glasgow University Union, Cambridge University, and the University of Sydney Union. The World Champion 2014 in the category "English as a second language" is Berlin A (Dessislava Kirova and Kai Dittmann) and in the category "English as a foreign language" Bandung A (Vicario Reinaldo and Fauzan Reza Maulana).<br />
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==Controversy==<br />
The event was marked by considerable controversy, including:<br />
* Failures by the university administration to meet budgetary obligations to pay independent adjudicators in non-controlled currencies (resulting in strike threats, ultimately jeopardizing the 7th round of the tournament).<ref name=MD>{{Cite web |url=http://mdr.monashdebaters.com/volume-12-2014/how-not-to-run-worlds-advice-from-two-people-who-needed-it/ |title=Monash Debating Review: How (not) to Run Worlds: Advice from two people who needed it - Harish Natarajan and Michael Baer<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=17 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118013854/http://mdr.monashdebaters.com/volume-12-2014/how-not-to-run-worlds-advice-from-two-people-who-needed-it/ |archive-date=18 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
* Difficulties experienced by Pakistani participants upon arrival in the country.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}<br />
* The decision to hold a motorcycle exhibition during Women's Night, an event traditionally held to support and celebrate female participants, in order to appeal to males <ref>[https://twitter.com/Chennai_WUDC/status/417700619349012480 Twitter / Chennai_WUDC: Motorcycle stunt show at<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><br />
* Relocation of the tournament hotel from the ITC Grand Chola to several more distant and lower quality venues, without sufficient room to house all the participants.<ref name=MD /><br />
* Efforts by those hotels to lock participants out of their rooms (as late as 2AM, on multiple occasions, to settle incidental room charges).{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}<br />
* The withholding of passports from participants attempting to catch flights out of the country in an effort to force them to pay funds promised by Rajalakshmi Engineering College.<ref>[http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/chennai-wudc-report-from-afar-and.html Global Debate: Chennai WUDC - A Report from Afar and Inside - Alfred Snider<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Policy debate competitions]]<br />
* {{Portal-inline|India}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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*[http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/college-and-university/worlds-2014-in-chennai/article5486760.ece Worlds 2014 in Chennai]. ''The Hindu''.<br />
*[http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/on-campus/sizzling-debates-mark-the-worlds/article5541945.ece Sizzling debates mark the ‘Worlds’]. ''The Hindu''.<br />
*[http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Harvard-University-Emerges-Debating-World-Champion/2014/01/07/article1986219.ece Harvard University Emerges Debating World Champion]. ''Indian Express''.<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131230232118/http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-14-222242-Briefs Pakistan at Chennai Worlds]. ''The News International''.<br />
*[http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/01/duo-wins-worlds-debate-competition/ Duo wins "Worlds" debate competition]. ''Harvard Gazette''.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://chennaiworlds.com/ Official Website]<br />
* [http://www.achteminute.de/en/20131231/chennai-worlds-2014-adjstrike-und-analyse/ Achte Minute: Adjudicator Strike at Chennai Worlds]<br />
* [https://ashtonc.ca/debate/mdr/Monash_Debating_Review-V12.pdf]<br />
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