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The Cambridge Union Society

Cambridge Union Society Competititve Debating is kindly sponsored by Citi. Thanks, Citi!The Cambridge Union is the globally renowned debating society of Cambridge. Debating at the Union offers you the chance to improve your public speaking skills, represent Cambridge at national and international competitions and become part of a global debating community. You do not need any previous debating experience to join us and so, if you are interested, why not have a go?

For find out more about Cambridge debating, look at the pages in this section, which you can find at the top or under the 'Where you are' section on the left hand side. You can email the Debating Officers, Richard Lau and Mary Nugent: dod@cus.org.

We are very kindly sponsored by Citi.

Cambridge are the 2009 English debating champions!

Doug Cochran and Uven Chong won this year's ESU Mace, the English debating championships. In a competition involving over 60 teams from across England, Doug and Uven won the final, debating whether or not citizen initiated referenda for elections should be introduced. Uven, a PhD student studying Engineering said "I am very happy that we were able to win the English Mace for the Cambridge Union. This win is a result of the support of all the wonderful debaters and coaches at the Union, who make debating such a pleasure." They now go on to represent England at the International Mace at Cardiff in April.

Worlds 2010

Congratulations to our teams and judges who took part at the World Universities Debating Championship 2010, a competition involving 388 teams. Many congratulations go to Harish & Richard who reached the semi-finals, Jack & Jack and Jo & Charlotte, who reached the octo-finals and to Doug, Mhairi, Michael & Nick, who all judged in the outrounds.

We will be sending more teams to international competitions soon.

Euros 2009

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Joining Cambridge Debating

You can join Cambridge Debating for free if you are a Union member. We offer free workshops, opportunities to debate for Cambridge at domestic and international competitions and chances to meet new people from Cambridge, the UK and the world.

You don't need any previous debating experience and the majority of our debaters learnt their skills through our workshop program.

If you're interested in joining, have a look at the 'How to Join Cambridge Debating' section, where you can find instructions to join our mailing list or the Cambridge Union Competitive Debating Facebook group.

Schools Competition 2009

Congratulations to all the schools who participated in this year's Cambridge Schools Debating competition. This year's competition involved 750 school teams from 400 different schools, which made it one of the largest schools debating competitions in the world.

Special congratulations goes to Cheney School, who were this year's champions and all the teams who attended our Finals Day.

Our thanks go to the convenors, Sam Dobin & Andrew Chapman, the chief adjudicator, Nick Long, the regional convenors and everyone who helped out by judging or managing the competition.

Cheney School