Epigram Debating

The arena for argument, pressure, and public reason.

Tournaments, workshops, motion prep, formats, adjudication, speaker training, and the debates people keep talking about after the room empties.

ICDLInter-Class Debate League
IUDCNationals pathway
BP/APCore formats
200Rules and articles
Calendar

Debate events and training rooms.

Flagship debates, liaison rounds, workshops, and structured speaker-development sessions.

Full Calendar
Training System

Speaker development, not just event hosting.

Good speakers are not made by one good event. They need formats, drills, feedback, and adjudicators who explain the room clearly.

Format

British Parliamentary

Opening and closing half roles, extensions, clash mapping, burden setting, and principled weighing.

Clinic

Rebuttal Under Pressure

Listening for assumptions, answering strongest claims, and converting rebuttal into comparative wins.

Adjudication

Reasoned Ballots

Decision quality, oral adjudication discipline, equity norms, and transparent feedback cycles.

Motion Archive

A living library of argument.

Old motions are practice material. They show what the society has been thinking about, and what new speakers should be ready to face.

Showing all motion records.
Recaps

Debate memory becomes editorial memory.

Recaps, analysis, and essays from people who were in the room.