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PUCP Debate Society students win two international championships

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The students of EE.GG.LL. José Vergara and Mauricio Jarufe won for the second consecutive time the World University Debating Championship at spanish (CMUDE), organised by the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral of Ecuador under the virtual modality. Our students became the first two-time world champions in the history of this tournament.

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Yuriko Aquino

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6.9.21

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For the second consecutive year, the PUCP Debate Society left the name of the University on a high note by obtaining outstanding achievements in the World University Debating Championship at spanish (CMUDE), which took place from July 25th to August 1st in Ecuador. This competition is organised annually by the World Debating Council in the language spanish using the British Parliamentary format and consists of 9 preliminary rounds.

The PUCP JV team - formed by the students of EE.GG.LL. Mauricio Jarufe and José Vergara - was crowned as the champion team for the second time and managed to position itself as the best out of more than 150 groups. Mauricio was recognised as the best speaker in the whole debating world at spanish and José as the second best. In this way, Mauricio and José are the first two-time world champions in the history of CMUDE, and our country also achieves this recognition.

It was a very different experience to winning the World Cup for the first time, because you know what you're up against and it's a different pressure. The idea we had was to show that we had grown as debaters in this time.

Outstanding participation

Although Mauricio was hesitating whether or not to participate, he decided to do so because debating is something he is passionate about. "It was important to have competed, and to win it with pleasure and fun," he says. His partner José, for his part, adds that his preparation, unlike the first World Cup, was much more individual. However, the last month before the competition they took part in the Champions Cup, a tournament attended by former world champions and teams that have won national championships in their countries. "We won, so that's the way we finished putting together what we've learned over the last seven months," he says.

I feel happier than when I won the first time. This time, both Mauricio and I had higher goals and we were able to qualify first with quite a big gap to second.

Two other PUCP teams qualified for the knockout stages. On the one hand, PUCP EL, formed by Joaquín Linares and Sebastián Ezeta -who was recognised as the eighth best speaker in the world-, reached the quarter-finals, and on the other hand, PUCP NQ, formed by Diego Núñez del Prado and Andrea Quispe, reached the final.

"The consistency of the training sessions and the willingness of the boys have helped us to differentiate ourselves from other institutions. We have tried to ensure that the Society follows a logic of self-demand that has its origins years ago," says Joaquín Linares, captain of Sociedad Debate PUCP.

Regarding the achievements of the judges, three of them qualified to judge the elimination rounds. Also Jorge Godos, José Tipismana and Omar Espinoza, who went as funded independent judges, qualified for the elimination rounds. Finally, Daniela Martuccelli made it to the semi-final stage of the speech competition.

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