Resources

International Debating Community

• Debating Seriousposting – Group for general discussions about debating. A lot of interesting material and advice can be found here!
• Achte Minute (English) – The German debating circuit's magazine has recently started publishing articles and news about competitions in English.
• Europe and IONA Debating – Mostly tournament announcements
• WUDC Chat – General discussions, mostly related to WUDC, and tournament announcements
• Debating Shitposting – Debating Memes
• Extensive list of debating-related groups

Rules & Materials

There is no central entity governing the BPS rules, but the documents published for EUDCs and WUDCs have a strong influence and are usually very well-written.

• Cape Town WUDC 2019 Rules
• Novi Sad EUDC 2018 Rules – Judging Manual, Speaker Manuel, and Speaker Scale used at EUDC 2018.
• European Debate Training Platform – A large number of instructive videos about debating techniques and related topics, produced by experienced debaters in preparation of the Scottish EUDC 2018.
• Eh Priori – Debating materials, written by debating coaches.

Competitions

There is no central source for finding out about international competitions. Most competitions are announced on Facebook, so it helps to join a few debating-related groups and mark upcoming competitions as "interested," which will usually lead to Facebook suggesting other upcoming tournaments.

The largest international competitions are the World University Debating Championships (WUDC), and, in Europe, the European University Debating Championship (EUDC). Both are generally open for anyone to attend, but require registration a considerable time in advance.

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German-Speaking Debating

• Achte Minute – Magazine of the german -peaking debating scene. Articles about debating, competitions as well as past results. Interesting discussions to be found in the comments.
• VDCH Verteiler – All important german-speaking competitions as well as VDCH announcements are published here.
• VDCH Teampartnerbörse – to trade spots at competitions
• Debattentheorie – General debating discussion
• Further groups
• Verband der Debattierclubs an Hochschulen (VDCH) – Umbrella Organisation of the german-speaking debating scene
• Deutsche Debattiergesellschaft (DDG) – Alumnis of the german-speaking debating scene

Rules

• OPD-Portal – The OPD format is developed by Streitkultur Tübingen, who have provided an extensive ruleset as well as judge forms.
• Regeln des VDCH – The BPS format isn't developed centrally, but the VDCH has created a german version of the rules.

Competitions

Most competitions are organised by invidivual clubs and announced in the Achte Minute and the VDCH-Verteiler. More centrally organised are the regional championships as well as the yearly german-speaking debating championships.