| Above: | Chennai Worlds 2014 |
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| Header1: | General Information |
| Label2: | Type |
| Data2: | Debate Competition |
| Label3: | Location |
| Data3: | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. |
| Label4: | Host College |
| Data4: | Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai |
| Label5: | Dates |
| Data5: | 27 December 2013 – 4 January 2014 |
| Label6: | Number of Participating Teams |
| Data6: | 372[1] |
| Label7: | Focus |
| Data7: | World Universities Debating Championship |
| Label8: | Website |
| Data8: | http://chennaiworlds.com/ |
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| Data9: | Chennai Worlds 2014 Official Site |
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| Data10: | Chennai Worlds 2014 Official Site |
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| Data11: | Chennai Worlds 2014 Official Blog |
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Chennai Worlds 2014 (CW14) is the 34th World Universities Debating Championship, hosted and conducted by Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India under the aegis of Rajalakshmi Institutions on 27 December 2013 – 4 January 2014.
The World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) is the world's largest debating tournament, and one of the largest annual international student events in the world.[2] It is a parliamentary debating event, held using the British Parliamentary Debate format. Each year, the event is hosted by a university selected by the World Universities Debating Council. The tournament is colloquially referred to as "Worlds" and the winners of the open competition acknowledged as the "world champions". The event was ultimate won by a team from Harvard University (Josh Zoffer and Ben Sprung-Keyser), who competed in the Grand Final against teams from the Glasgow University Union, Cambridge University, and the University of Sydney Union. The World Champion 2014 in the category "English as a second language" is Berlin A (Dessislava Kirova and Kai Dittmann) and in the category "English as a foreign language" Bandung A (Vicario Reinaldo and Fauzan Reza Maulana).
The event was marked by considerable controversy, including: