The Debating Society, IITR

The Debating Society brings to you a series of matter sessions. Follow our Twitch Channel to watch the online stream. The sessions will take place on Tuesdays and Fridays starting 25th March'22.

P.S.- This workshop can also be attended by students that are not in the soc who wish to gain a greater perspective on these themes.

The Debating Society is pleased to announce the list of students who have been selected to participate in debates and represent IIT Roorkee in the various upcoming Inter varsity debating tournaments. Congratulations to all the selected students.

The Fresher's Debate was successfully conducted. We are happy to have had an overwhelming response to the event. The top speakers will be contacted individually and get a direct pass to the Interview Round.
The Fresher's Debate was just a taste of what the world of debating has to offer. For those interested in more, we invite you to the Freshers' Recruitments.
Fill out the attached form and join the discord server for all further communications.

https://forms.gle/a4DtR5oVNMEQ1u629
https://discord.gg/5KEsEdYK

Friday, 11 February 2022
6:30 PM Onwards
Discord + Meet

With the overwhelming response over at First Shots Fired, here are the top speakers from all the debates. These speakers will be contacted individually and get a direct pass to the recruitment interviews.
We thank everyone for coming to the debate. While we are forced to release a narrow list of winners, we thoroughly enjoyed watching all of you debate and hope to see you imbibe our love for debating. We hope everyone had fun and turns up at our other events throughout the year!
Clarification: First Shots Fired was not recruitment to the DebSoc. Volunteer recruitment will be held at a later date and will be open to all.

The Debating Society IITR presents to you it's first online event for the year, 'First Shots Fired', the fresher's debate. Your first chance to bring forth the words that drown in the sea of discussions, at the only place where everyone shuts up, listens and takes notes.

The debate will be held in teams of two. You can register as a team of two, or as individuals, in which case we'll team you up. The rules of the debate will be explained on the day itself.

While this is in no way the volunteer recruitment to the group, those who perform well in the debate will get an edge in those to anyone who performs well.

PS: The debate is open to all freshers. No prior experience is required.
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Date: 27th January 2022
Time: 6:30 PM Onwards
Platform: Discord

Fill the form below:
https://forms.gle/ZzJEC4jFRUdxQCBM9
The deadline to fill the form is 26th January 2022 6 PM.

Join the discord server:
https://discord.gg/jfeFzQym

Hey Freshers!

Come join us on Webex for a glimpse into the world of University Debating.

Date: 22nd Jan (Saturday)
Time: 7 pm Onwards

Event address for attendees:

https://iitroorkee.webex.com/iitroorkee/j.php?MTID=mc76ec80875fe9bac1c90fa0730f781c2

For any communication contact:

Tanmay: 9958271147
Kushagra: 7065913541

The Debating Society gladly presents an Open Debate, on the occasion of 75 years of independence.
The debate will be in teams of two. You can form your own team or apply as an individual and we will form the team for you. The rules of the debate will be explained on that day itself.
Time: 4 PM
Date: 18th December 2021
Register By: 17th December 2021, 9 PM
Location: LHC Room 108
https://forms.gle/W9Aq3qFbMAXorDXG7

The Debating Society participated in the Worlds University Debating Championship for the first time in the recently concluded WUDC 2021. While this in itself is a big achievement for us, the team of Deep Behal and Aditya Ramkumar weren't just going for the sake of participation, and in the process of honing their skills for the tournament, have had amazing performances at other tournaments as well.

- ESL Finals, Acropolis Open'21
- ESL Finals, Imperial IV'21
- ESL Semifinals Doxbridge 4
- Open Pre-Quarterfinals, Trinity Open'21

Apart from these, Deep broke as a Judge at the Australian BP Championship (Sydney Mini) & judged Semifinals

At WUDC 2021, seeing a participation of ~400 teams globally, they ended up as a reserve breaking team in the ESL category and missed the Open break on a 2-1 split in the 9th in-round (where they were pulled up) with the dissenting judge giving them the 1st.

Their efforts and exploits in recent tournaments have been nothing short of special. They've exceeded all our expectations and set the bar high. We intend to use their performance as inspiration for our future debating endeavors.

Design credits: Janani R G

The Fresher's Debate was successfully conducted. We are happy to have had an overwhelming response to the event. These are the top speakers for the Fresher's Debate

Kashvi Singh
Arpan Goel
Yash Gupta

The top 16 speakers will be contacted individually and get a direct pass to the Interview Round.

The Fresher's Debate was just a taste of what the world of debating has to offer. For those interested in more, we invite you to the Freshers Recruitments.

Fill the attached form and join the discord server for all further communications.

https://forms.gle/T6JL9tSsENEPXqZB6

https://discord.gg/tWK4eQrn

Friday, 16 April 2021
6:30 PM Onwards
Discord + Meet

EDIT: The discord link had expired and has now been updated.

The Debating Society gladly presents 'First Shots Fired', the Annual Freshers' Debate of IITR!

The debate will be in teams of two. You can form your own team or apply as an individual and we will form the team for you. The rules of the debate will be explained on that day itself.

Those who perform well in the debate will be directly called for the recruitment interview.

No prior debating or elocution experience required!

Date: 14th April 2021
Time: 4 PM Onwards
Platform: Discord & Google Meet

Fill the form below:

https://forms.gle/wYUEo857VgbHBa7LA

Join the discord server:
https://discord.gg/VgAHWV6K

The Debating Society IITR is pleased to announce the results of the National Youth Day Elocution Competition.
Winners:
1st Prize: Kritika (20117071)
2nd Prize: Aastha (20114002)
3rd Prize: Rishabh Lodha (20121020) and Racherla Geetika (19118064)
Special thanks to Prof. Soumitra Satapathi, Prof. Ram Manohar Singh and Prof. Anil Gourishetty for judging the competition.
Winners can drop a message on this page for your prizes.