Predecessor Tournaments
The Trans-Atlantic University Speech Association held tournaments in London (1976 and 1978) and at McGill University, Montreal in 1977. Chicago was to hold a tournament in 1979 but this was postponed and then abandoned. A World Debating Festival, sponsored by Honeywell was held in Sydney in 1978. The TAUSA event attracted mostly Northern Hemisphere tournaments, the Honeywell was largely Southern Hemisphere.
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