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October 8, 2012 Dear, Professor South Central University for Nationalities (SCUN) in partnership with the University of Puget Sound, the International Debate Education Association (IDEA) and the China Debate Education Network (CDEN) is pleased to invite you to the SCUN/CDEN—Central China Debate Competition to be held on the campus of South Central University for Nationalities on December 14-16, 2012. We invite you to come to Wuhan, Hubei, PRC for one day of British Parliamentary Debater and Adjudicator training in Mandarin and English followed by two days of competition. Debate experts both from the United States and China will present the training sessions for both debaters and adjudicators. Students and adjudicators will learn about British Parliamentary debate with sessions from Debate Format to sessions on argument development, specific speeches of the debate, and judging. We hope this training will bring in many new students and adjudicators to this form of debate. The tournament will consist of four rounds of preliminary debates followed by a semifinal and finals round if the size of the tournament dictates. Certificates will be given to all students and adjudicators that participate. Awards will be given to all finalists. SCUN along with University of Puget Sound will offer limited travel and lodging subsidies for expenses associated with travel to and lodging in Wuhan. Please see the following Tournament Information for more specific details regarding subsidies. To make this training and tournament a success, we ask that you arrive at SCUN no later than 10am on Friday December 14, 2012. Please let us know as soon as possible if you are able and willing to attend because if you are not, we would like to be able to give your space to another deserving university. Over the last decade, IDEA has organized and sponsored debate competitions and education development across China. Debate education and practice develops student communication skills, l