Debate Tools are designed to help conduct an Oxford debate (pl. debata oksfordzka).
Oxford debate (pl. debata oksfordzka) is a debate format popular in Poland. It was popularized by Zbigniew Pełczyński, a Polish political philosopher and academic affiliated with Oxford University.
- Debate clock adjustable to rules of any tournament,
- Generator of motions used in past tournaments with filtering by type and language,
- Usable logos of tournaments that used Debate Tools,
- Submitting custom logos,
- Sharing debate configurations via links.
Debate Tools were first used and tested in ZSK Poznań, during the 2023/2024 edition of the school's debate league. They were then used in several tournaments, the most notable ones being listed below:
- Musketeers of Words – Polish Oxford Debates Championships in English 2024,
- Poznań Debate Night (pl. Poznańska Noc Debaty) 2024.
- Debate configuration wizard,
- Tournament planner,
- Adding locales in more languages.
- Oskar
TezowiczTurowicz from Educational Projects Foundation – for sharing motions used by the Foundation and continuous feedback on the project
Copyright © 2023-2025 Jakub Mańczak & Mateusz Dobrzyński
Unless stated otherwise in LEGAL.md regarding specific files, Debate Tools are distributed under AGPL-3.0-only.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.