JUDGING WSDC STYLE

At the end of the debate, the judges will total the scores allocated to each speaker without conferring and decide whether they believe the Proposition or the Opposition team has won. The winning team is the team that wins a majority of the judges (usually 3 judges). In the rare event that there is an even number of judges voting for each side, the chair judge will have a casting vote and decide the winner of the debate. Teams will then receive both the result and an explanation of why the team in question won the debate. Each substantive speaker (speaker’s 1-3 for each team) can theoretically be awarded a maximum of 100 points. 40 points for content, 40 for style and 20 for strategy. The reply speech is worth a maximum of 50 points, 20 for content, 20 for style and 10 for strategy. However the actual World Schools speaker scale runs from 60 – 80 as depicted in the table below.