Harvard College World Schools Invitational 2025 - Korea Contingent

This is the Official Registration Channel for debaters and institutions from South Korea who wish to attend HCWSI 2025.

The tournament will be held April 4-6, 2025, in-person on Harvard’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We hope to see you there!

Our tournament offers:

• High-Quality Judging: 

The majority of our judge pool is composed of former WSDC Champions, WSDC National team members, out-round WSDC judges, highly successful British Parliamentary collegiate debaters, and other members of the Harvard College Debating Union who come from highly successful domestic and international backgrounds.

• High-Quality Competition: 

We frequently have multiple national teams attend our tournament as they prepare for the upcoming World Schools Debating Championship in the summer.

The tournament will be in the World Schools format. All rules and formats on tournament procedure will follow the WSDC handbook unless otherwise stated. Teams comprise 3-5 students, and students do not need to attend the same school/institution in order to be on the same team.

General eligibility

• All speakers in a team must be 19 years of age or younger in April 2025.
• All speakers must neither be enrolled in a university or equivalent post-secondary learning institution nor be attending university varsity debating training in April 2025.
• An eligibility check will be done on each team interested in competing for a berth at HCWSI in the month prior to the event.

Novice eligibility

• Has broken at fewer than two (ie. one or zero) World Schools or Parliamentary (British, American, Canadian, etc.) debate tournaments.
• Breaking is defined as advancing to elimination rounds. Please reach out if you would like further clarification on this.

Technology policy

• Debaters should not be using their phones (other than to time their speeches) or laptops during prep or the round. For prepared rounds, they should print out any materials they would like to use.
• If you would like to request an exemption to this policy, e.g. for educational access arrangements, please reach out to [email protected].

Host or Publisher Harvard Korea Nationals