Pakistani Students win Karl Popper Debating Championship

Three 15-year-old Pakistani Students clinches the final of the Karl Popper Debating Championship (KPDC), one of the largest high school tournaments in the world, in Mexico. Pakistan Zindabad


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The Karl Popper Debating Championship is one of the largest high school tournaments in the world, bringing together teams from all five continents to debate on a mix of prepared and impromptu motions connected to the topic of the Youth Forum. The tournament features six preliminary rounds and a break to octo-finals.

The format of the competition is the Karl Popper format, which involves two teams of three speakers. Direct clash between the speakers is provided through a total of four cross-examination periods that take place after the first two speeches for each side. For more information related to the format,

If you cannot find a complete 3-member team, but you would still like to participate, please contact the Forum Coordinator as soon as possible. It is possible to pair incomplete teams together to form an international team competing in the KPDC.

There are two prepared motions (topics) for the competition:

“State-sanctioned torture is justifiable in exceptional circumstances.”

“Guantanamo Bay prison should be closed down immediately” 

This is the structure of the competition:

The second topic will be announced by mid December.
The schedule for competition will be like this:
Round I  – prepared topic I
Round II – prepared topic I
Round III – limited-time prep
Round IV– limited-time prep
Round V – prepared topic II
Round VI – prepared topic II
Octofinals – limited time prep
Quarterfinals – prepared topic I
Semifinals – limited time prep
Finals – prepared topic II

Round I is randomly drawn. Rounds II-VI are power-paired – i.e., teams face opponents that are as competitively successful in the competition as they are at that point.

We are happy to release the full speaker rankings from this year's Karl Popper Debating Championship. These were also the results that were used to determine the pairing of teams for the Mixed Teams Tournament, which sees experienced and novice speakers from different countries put together to create a peer-driven learning environment.

Rank	Team	Speaker Name	Total	High	Low	Final
1	Pakistan	Zainab Hameed	501.61	30	26	445.61
2	Pakistan	Azeem Liaquaat	500.4	30	26	444.4
3	USA AHL	David Yoo	500	30	26	444
4	USA AHL	Brian Chang	497	30	25	442
5	Pakistan	Ahmed Shujjan	496.8	29	26	441.8
6	Lithuania	Simonas Bartulis	495	30	25	440
7	Korea	Yoonjoe Sul	491	29	25	437
8	Team Senorita	Christina Seong	488	29	25	434
9	Korea	Helen Song	486	29	24	433
10	Mexico A	Lucia Arce	485	29	24	432
11	Korea	Peter Kim	483	29	23	431
11	Team Senorita	May Lim	485	29	25	431
13	Japan	Masahiro Kusunoki	482	29	23	430
13	USA AHL	Linda Shin	483	29	24	430
15	Estonia	Kristin Parts	483	29	25	429
16	YOLO	David Lee	479	28	24	427
17	Estonia	Katriin Bachmann	478	29	24	425
18	Estonia	Deivi Ois	477	29	24	424
18	Lithuania	Egle Kavaliunaite	476	28	24	424
20	Team Senorita	Soomin Choi	473	28	25	420
21	Lithuania	Justinas Cirtautas	472	28	25	419
22	Team Sunly	Sunmin Park	469.2	28	23	418.2
23	Tunisia	Iheb Jemel	466	28	22	416
23	Zimbabwe	Nicola Hove	466	28	22	416
25	YOLO	Julie Joosong Kim	466	29	24	413
25	YOLO	Caleb Seungyeon Choi	466	29	24	413
27	Belarus	Alexander Korpechkin	464	29	23	412
27	Zimbabwe	Charmaine Nyakonda	464	28	24	412
29	Belarus	Rammi Dgham	462	28	23	411
29	Macedonia	Sara Kajevikj	463	28	24	411
31	Team Sunly	Danny Choo	459.6	27	23	409.6
32	Mexico B	Monica Martin del Campo	460	28	24	408
32	Slovakia - Tisovec	Andrej Batyas	458	27	23	408
32	Tunisia	Mohamed Ourir	459	28	23	408
35	Palestine	Faiq Habash	457	29	21	407
35	Team BoA	YunAh Ko	459	28	24	407
35	Tunisia	Ons M'Saad	457	28	22	407
38	Mexico A	Jesus Isaac	456	27	23	406
39	Team Panda	Nima Olumi	454	27	22	405
40	Japan	Kazuki Yoshii	455	28	23	404
41	Korea NLCS A	Eun Seo Choi	451	26	22	403
41	Team Panda	Carter Sheffield	453	27	23	403
43	Belarus	Vladimir Volkov	452	28	23	401
43	Palestine	Dina Toubasi	450	27	22	401
45	Japan	Masaaki Nando	450	27	23	400
45	OPPA	Eric Kang	450	27	23	400
45	Slovakia	Peter Blaha	450	27	23	400
45	Team Panda	Paul K Lee	450	28	22	400
49	Korea NLCS B	Othello Hong	447	26	22	399
49	Mexico A	Guillermo Tamayo Romero	449	27	23	399
49	Team BoA	Paul Jung	448	27	22	399
52	Team Sunly	Ally Jung	447.6	27	22	398.6
53	Korea NLCS A	Tac Hwa Hong	448	27	23	398
53	OPPA	Heesoo Lee	449	28	23	398
53	OPPA	Hyunho Jeon	449	28	23	398
53	Palestine	Dina Amro	448	28	22	398
53	Slovakia - Tisovec	Zuzana Szalaiova	448	27	23	398
58	Macedonia	Nikola Zhivkovikj	447	29	21	397
58	Mexico B	Greta Angel Hernandez	447	27	23	397
58	Team BoA	Harry Kim	448	28	23	397
61	Ingsoc	Harry Go	444	27	21	396
61	Rositam	Ana Maria Diez	444	28	20	396
61	Slovakia	Zuzana Butonova	446	27	23	396
64	Korea NLCS C	Sam Ha	444	27	22	395
64	Rositam	Carolina Fajardo	442	27	20	395
66	Slovakia - Tisovec	Milica Majorcikova	442	27	22	393
67	Korea NLCS B	Danny Kim	441	27	22	392
67	Korea NLCS C	Neil Song	441	27	22	392
69	Korea NLCS C	Dyan Jeong	441	27	23	391
70	Rositam	Ana Paula Rojas	438	28	20	390
70	Russia	Sergei Dmitriev	439	28	21	390
72	Ingsoc	Maria Salazar Alfaro	436	26	22	388
73	Korea NLCS A	Seung Heon Oh	436	27	22	387
73	Korea NLCS B	Ted Cho	435	26	22	387
75	Slovakia	Marek Engel	436	28	22	386
76	Russia	Daria Khutoryanskaya	431	26	20	385
77	Zimbabwe	Task Ohmori	430	26	20	384
78	Macedonia	Dobromir Aleksik	432	27	22	383
78	New York City	Anastacia Netrunenko	432	27	22	383
80	New York City	Hanna Sperver	429	27	20	382
81	Haiti	Sachernka Anacassis	431	28	22	381
82	Russia	Evgenii Aferin	428	29	20	379
83	New York City	Gabriella Ven Hutta	424	27	22	375
84	Guatemala	Susana Mesia	419	26	21	372
84	Haiti	Fabiola Jean-Charles	419	26	21	372
86	Guatemala	Rodrigo Marroquin	416	25	21	370
87	Mexico B	Luz Adriana Valtiera Nieto	414	27	20	367
88	Guatemala	Yohan Mesia	410	25	21	364
89	Haiti	Mirlene Blanchard	406	25	20	361
90	Ingsoc	Aboubakr Oraby	402	25	20	357