Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship

Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship The Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship (PIDC) is the premier national Asian Parliamentary debate tournament in the Philippines.

The second online installment of the Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship is happening this August 12-14 and 20-21, 2022.

Come one, come all! 🏰Continue your journey this AP season with our CAP Lecture series — continuing with Ady Balimbingan'...
30/05/2026

Come one, come all! 🏰

Continue your journey this AP season with our CAP Lecture series — continuing with Ady Balimbingan's gendered media lecture! 👸

Understand the tales and stories that shape narratives ⚜️ and learn how to apply these in your next media debates! Check it out through this link: [https://youtu.be/LAhIfP-vkww]

🛡️ Take a look at our Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/pidc2026

🤺 Phase 3 registration is now OPEN until June 5, 2026! Register your tab details here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-Tab
🍀 Missed Phases 1 and 2? Not to fret — for Late Registration & Observers Registration for this year’s PIDC is also now OPEN here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-LateObserver


Hear ye, hear ye! 📯⚜️ Judge Tests for this year's PIDC 2026 are now out! Please answer this link by JUNE 5, 2026: https:...
29/05/2026

Hear ye, hear ye! 📯

⚜️ Judge Tests for this year's PIDC 2026 are now out! Please answer this link by JUNE 5, 2026: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-JudgeTest.

🛡️ Take a look at our Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/pidc2026

🤺 Phase 3 registration is now OPEN until June 5, 2026! Register your tab details here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-Tab
🍀 Missed Phases 1 and 2? Not to fret — for Late Registration & Observers Registration for this year’s PIDC is also now OPEN here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-LateObserver


Come one, come all! 🏰Continue your journey this AP season with our CAP Lecture series — continuing with El Laudico's Par...
26/05/2026

Come one, come all! 🏰

Continue your journey this AP season with our CAP Lecture series — continuing with El Laudico's Participatory Development lecture! 🪎

Listen in to tales of trade and gold ⚜️ and learn how to apply these in your next econ debates! Check it out through this link: https://youtu.be/qqGb4O96iRk

🛡️ Take a look at our Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/pidc2026

🤺 Phase 3 registration is now OPEN until June 5, 2026! Register your tab details here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-Tab
🍀 Missed Phases 1 and 2? Not to fret — for Late Registration & Observers Registration for this year’s PIDC is also now OPEN here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-LateObserver


Come one, come all! 🏰Continue your journey this AP season with our CAP Lecture series — starting with Gelo Largo’s Econo...
23/05/2026

Come one, come all! 🏰

Continue your journey this AP season with our CAP Lecture series — starting with Gelo Largo’s Economics and Finance lecture! 🪎

Listen in to tales of trade and gold ⚜️ and learn how to apply these in your next econ debates!

🌻 Check it out through this link: https://youtu.be/dp1lodw6qOA

🛡️ Take a look at our Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/pidc2026
🤺 Phase 3 registration is now OPEN until June 5, 2026! Register your tab details here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-Tab

🍀 Missed Phases 1 and 2? Not to fret — for Late Registration & Observers Registration for this year’s PIDC is also now OPEN here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-LateObserver


A new chapter awaits. 📖Wave 2 IA/SA Results for this PIDC 2026 are now out — check your emails and see what role you’ll ...
23/05/2026

A new chapter awaits. 📖

Wave 2 IA/SA Results for this PIDC 2026 are now out — check your emails and see what role you’ll be playing this AP Nationals. 🐉

🛡️ Take a look at our Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/pidc2026

🤺 Phase 3 registration is now OPEN until June 5, 2026! Register your tab details here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-Tab
🍀 Missed Phases 1 and 2? Not to fret — for Late Registration & Observers Registration for this year’s PIDC is also now OPEN here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-LateObserver

This tournament is hosted by the University of the Philippines Debate Society (UPDS).


Legends are being passed down - come and hear for yourself! 📖We're proud to introoduce our CAP Lecture Series for this y...
22/05/2026

Legends are being passed down - come and hear for yourself! 📖

We're proud to introoduce our CAP Lecture Series for this year's PIDC! Come, as we with this LEGENDARY 🐦‍🔥 set of lectures:
⚔️ Economics and Finance by Gelo Largo
⚔️ Participatory Development by El Laudico
⚔️ Gendered Media by Ady Balimbingan
⚔️ The Anatomy of Bad Health Arguments by Verse Abellaneda
⚔️ Skills Lecture by Lia Denise Tan

🛡️ Take a look at our Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/pidc2026

🤺 Phase 3 registration is now OPEN until June 5, 2026! Register your tab details here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-Tab
🍀 Missed Phases 1 and 2? Not to fret — for Late Registration & Observers Registration for this year’s PIDC is also now OPEN here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-LateObserver

This tournament is hosted by the University of the Philippines Debate Society (UPDS).


Every tale starts with their set of characters — meet the ones leading the story this PIDC 2026! ☀️✍️ Meet our 5th CAP m...
20/05/2026

Every tale starts with their set of characters — meet the ones leading the story this PIDC 2026! ☀️

✍️ Meet our 5th CAP member, Verse, with this bionote by Theo Jan Isaac!

Verse made me realize the true wonders of capitalism and the good things that come from skipping showers (iykyk, if not, watch Korea WUDC 2021 Master's Grand Final [greatest OG of ALL TIME]).

On a serious note, the Philippine Debate Union could not be luckier to have the one and only Verse Abellaneda. As a debater and judge, her accolades already speak for themselves. However, she makes sure that debate is bigger than just a sport. More than the skills and the artistry she displayed in her speeches and oral adjudications, she truly is one of a kind, as she helps build the debate community through her voluntary coaching work, democratizing knowledge and making the real-world impact all debaters exclaim in their speeches.

On a personal level, I was lucky to attend the workshops of Verse and receive very detailed constructive feedback after every round. Not only did I learn so much about the world (from IR to religion to med to pop culture), but I also learned so much about how to win debates. Additionally, I am a first-hand witness to just how much she cares about the growth of the people she trains, always making sure her messages are open if we have any concerns. This level of care is only rivaled by her pure love of the game, as even if she does claim she has a life, I think we’re all witnesses that she is omnipresent in varying debate tournaments (sorry).

Given this is nationals, I don’t need to advertise the tournament since people will join it anyway. I’m just here to reiterate the obvious: why Verse Abellaneda will be a great CAP, and why people will see the expertise, the passion, and the humor in the motions she will set.

Join Verse, along with the other members of CAP, in this year’s Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2026 — make new stories and develop narratives with the motions they plan on crafting this PIDC 2026. 🐦‍🔥

⚔️ Phase 2 Registration is still ongoing! Register here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-IASAApps-Wave2

🛡️ Take a look at our Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/pidc2026
🛡️ For a closer look, check out our invite here: canva.link/PIDC26-TournamentInvite
🛡️ For questions or inquiries, reach out to us via our page or through [email protected].

This tournament is hosted by the University of the Philippines Debate Society (UPDS).


Every tale starts with their set of characters — meet the ones leading the story this PIDC 2026! ☀️✍️ Meet our fourth CA...
19/05/2026

Every tale starts with their set of characters — meet the ones leading the story this PIDC 2026! ☀️

✍️ Meet our fourth CAP member, Lia Denise Tan, with this bionote by Neackle Ayen Mempin of UP Debate Society:

Lia Denise Tan aspires for a peaceful, hassle-free, and convenient life with her cat and a ridiculous amount of coffee. Unfortunately for her, that is almost never the case in the trajectory of her career in debate. Somehow, despite her attempt to swear off drama and live a low profile life, she always ends up in the middle of trouble. That’s how I’ve come to know her at least, as the person who ends up being the most emotionally invested in things and fixing problems that she technically did not cause. Whether it’s somehow being pulled into CA-ing NDC, being convinced to walk over 20k steps in 12 hours in Hong Kong, or being cornered to give feedback very gently to visibly upset kids. It’s a a bit funny how often it happens but I think that it’s a testament to how deeply Lia cares about debate and her friends in this sport despite her grumbling and very obvious annoyance at times.

Beyond taking care of her mostly four-legged patients, Lia is a very reliable judge, partner, CA, senior, and friend. It took 2 Vietnam trips to unlock that Lia really likes Haikyuu! which (among other things) fueled her to rise to become a Nationals Champion, Asia’s 7th Best Speaker, and a WUDC 2024 ESL Semifinalist. If you look past her acolades, Lia also manages the incredible feat of waking up a minute before check-in closes one too many times and sending full sentences made up of typos.

And so with Lia on CAP, you should definitely read up on two things. (1) Why Hinata’s receive in the Inarizaki game is the best thing to ever be animated and (2) the regulation (or lack thereof) of animal eyeballs. Without a doubt, PDU made the right choice of having Lia on Nationals CAP for the second time. We’re incredibly lucky that Lia’s debate retirement isn’t real and even luckier to know her as a friend.

Legends are slowly turning into reality right before our very own eyes! 👀🐉🤺 Phase 3 registration is now OPEN until June ...
18/05/2026

Legends are slowly turning into reality right before our very own eyes! 👀🐉

🤺 Phase 3 registration is now OPEN until June 5, 2026! Register your tab details here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-Tab

🍀 Missed Phases 1 and 2? Not to fret — for Late Registration & Observers Registration for this year’s PIDC is also now OPEN here: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-LateObserver

☀️For institutions who have any unresolved balances or payments under Phases 1 and 2, please check your emails as well!

🛡️Take a look at our Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/pidc2026
🛡️For a closer look, check out our invite here: canva.link/PIDC26-TournamentInvite
🛡️For questions or inquiries, reach out to us via our page or through [email protected].

This tournament is hosted by the University of the Philippines Debate Society (UPDS).

The door to your next journey remains open! 📖Scholarship Applications for PIDC 2026 have been extended until May 25 at 1...
18/05/2026

The door to your next journey remains open! 📖

Scholarship Applications for PIDC 2026 have been extended until May 25 at 11:59 PM GMT+8!

Join us in crafting stories of greatness at this year’s AP nationals!

For those who have already applied, kindly check your emails for the results.

🌻Send in your applications through this link: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-ScholarshipApps
🛡️Take a look at our Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/pidc2026
🛡️For a closer look, check out our invite here: canva.link/PIDC26-TournamentInvite
🛡️For questions or inquiries, reach out to us via our page or through [email protected].

This tournament is hosted by the University of the Philippines Debate Society (UPDS).

Make haste, adventure awaits! 📖Scholarship Applications for PIDC 2026 close TODAY, May 17, at 11:59 PM GMT+8! Join us i...
17/05/2026

Make haste, adventure awaits! 📖

Scholarship Applications for PIDC 2026 close TODAY, May 17, at 11:59 PM GMT+8!

Join us in crafting stories of greatness at this year’s AP nationals!

🌻Send in your applications through this link: https://tinyurl.com/PIDC26-ScholarshipApps
🛡️Take a look at our Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/pidc2026
🛡️For a closer look, check out our invite here: canva.link/PIDC26-TournamentInvite
🛡️For questions or inquiries, reach out to us via our page or through [email protected].

This tournament is hosted by the University of the Philippines Debate Society (UPDS).


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