WIDPSC

The World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship is an annual international debating a

The World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship is an annual international English language debating and public speaking tournament for individual high school-level students representing different countries. The Championship is represented by a diverse mix of high schools from countries as far reaching as the Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, the United States, England, South Africa, Lithuania, Pakistan, Cyprus, Argentina, Botswana, Israel, India, South Korea, Zimbabwe and Germany. The Championship is an innovative five day event which requires students to interact and collaborate with like minded peers from diverse and different schools, cultural backgrounds and countries. Each participant must compete in four different events: Debate, Impromptu Speaking, Persuasive or After Dinner Speaking and Interpretive Reading. The challenging environment provides an avenue for individual students not only to practise and test their oratorical skills but to value the importance of the art of expression; the ability to communicate and gain recognition and respect for our ideas and opinions is vitally important. The Championship is aligned with the ideals of excellence, identity, and the art of expression, ie the ability to communicate and gain recognition and respect for ones ideas and opinions. It targets tomorrow's leaders - students in a global market who must learn to interact and collaborate with peers from diverse schools, cultural backgrounds and countries.

09/03/2026

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!

We welcome applications to join WIDPSC 2027 from countries around the world. In order to be eligible to participate, students should be enrolled in high school or equivalent level in the country they seek to represent.

At this stage, we are just gathering expressions of interest from the WIDPSC community. We highly welcome applications from countries that have not joined WIDPSC before, but do note that places at the tournament are limited and so we will prioritise returning schools and nations in this initial phase.

Following the closing of pre-registration on September 25, we will contact interested parties to let them know their team allocation for WIDPSC 2027.

The world's premier high-school speech & debate championship.

06/19/2026

04/23/2026

Some highlights from our wonderful time at WIDPSC 2026!

We hope you’ve genuinely enjoyed yourselves and made fun memories which will stay with you for the years to come.

Thank you so much to for hosting us for the week!

See you in 2027 :)

Video and photo credits: .film

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The Country Day School
King City, ON
L7B1A3

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/worldindividuals/home, https://widpsc2027.org/

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