The Org Com of Chennai Worlds 2014 has announced the date for the registration: Registration will open on Monday May 20, 2013, at 10am GMT. Registration will remain open for 24 hours. Three weeks prior to registration, on Monday, April 29, 2013, the Org Com will post a document with all of the institutions who have attended any of the prior 3 WUDC competitions and the number of teams those institutions have broken, in any language category, during those 3 years.  Since Chennai allocates Team spots according to the success of an institution at prior Worlds this is important. If you find any mistakes you can infom the Org Com about mistakes, the deadline will be Friday, May 17, 2013.
Initial registration results will be announced no later than June 1, 2013.

All institutions will be required to create a FastRego account by Monday, June 11, 2013 at 10am. Failure to do so will result in institutions forfeiting their place. All institutions will be required to pay a deposit of Rs.10,000 per debater or adjudicator (approx 140 Euros, US$183) and Rs. 25,000 per observer (approx 350 Euros, US$460) by Monday, July 8, at 10am. Institutions can pay the full balance on that date. Any institution that has not paid their deposit will forfeit any unpaid places.

Any institution allocated a place after July 8 will have until Monday, August 5 to pay their deposits.

Full payment will be required by Monday, September 9, at 10 am. Any institution that has not paid in full will forfeit any of their unpaid places and may lose their deposits.

Any institution allocated a place after September 9 will have until Monday, September 30 to pay the full payment.

Team Allocation

When registration opens on May 20, institutions will be allowed to request up to 3 teams. There will be 354 team slots initially. Pending confirmation, the Org Com plans to allocate another 30 slots through a ‘Scholarship Scheme’ at a later date. Details will be released soon.

We may also increase the team cap to 400 at a later date. We first want to fully assess our financial position, judging resources and have some room to adapt to any unforeseen circumstances.

Institutions that have not sent a team to any of the previous 3 WUDCs will only be able to register a maximum of 1 team this year.

After registration closes, all institutions that have requested teams will be ordered on a “Registration Priority List.” Institutions on that list will be prioritized as follows:

• Institutions will be grouped according to the average number of teams from that institution that have made the break in any language category over the past 3 WUDCs. E.g. an institution that broke 2 teams in 2011, 0 teams in 2012, and 1 team in 2013 will have an average of 1.00.  This is equally true if those teams competed in the open break, ESL break, EFL break, or a combination thereof. An institution with an average of 1.00 will be ranked higher than institutions with an average of .667.
• Institutions with the same average will be ordered within that group by random. If institutions A, B, and C all have broken an average of 1.00 teams over the past 3 WUDCs, a random number generator will determine their order in the Registration Priority List. Regardless of how they are ranked within the “1.00 group,” all of them will be ranked higher than every institution with an average of .667 teams, and all of them will be ranked lower than every institution with an average of 1.33.
• The Registration Priority List will be the source of the mechanism by which teams are allocated.

For institutions that have hosted WUDC during one of the previous 3 years, their average will be for the 2 years they did not host. We believe this a fair way to use the same time window that applies to everyone else but not punish an institution for choosing to host Worlds.

Teams will then be allocated in the following manner:

Allocation Step 1:  Each registered institution will be allocated a team, starting with the highest ranked institution on the Registration Priority List and proceeding until there are no institutions remaining that have not been allocated a team. Note, as mentioned above, institutions that have not attended any of the past 3 WUDCs will only be allocated 1 team.

Allocation Step 2: A second team will be allocated to every institution that has an unresolved team request AND has an average of better than 0.00 (i.e. has had at least one team break in the past 3 years), starting with the highest ranked institutions and proceeding down the list. This will proceed until all institutions that have unresolved team requests and have an average of better than 0.00 are allocated a second team.

Allocation Step 3: A third team will be allocated to every institution that has an unresolved team request AND has an average of 1.50 or greater. This will proceed until all institutions that have unresolved team requests and have an average of 1.50 or greater are allocated a third team.

Allocation Step 4: A second team will be allocated to every institution that has an unresolved team request AND has an average of 0.00 (i.e. has not had a team break, in any language category, in the past 3 years) until all institutions requesting a second team have been allocated one.

Allocation Step 5: A third team will be allocated to every institution that has an unresolved team request AND has an average of below 1.50 until all requests for a third team are resolved.

Waiting List: Any institution with outstanding team requests will be placed on a waiting list. Teams will be allocated from the waiting list in accordance with the procedures outlined above. We expect teams to make it off the waiting as institutions decide not to attend Worlds and/or fail to meet payment deadlines. Institutions that have not attended any of the past 3 WUDCs may request extra teams, though they will be placed at the bottom of the waiting list.