WSC Online Team Challenge
Rounds
- First Round: June 14 (Sunday)
- Second Round: July 18 (Saturday)
Notes: Choose only one round.
Team Requirements
- Form a team of three yourself. All students are welcome.
Scoring and Advancement
- Scoring: Collective score in Collaborative Speech amounts to the total of individual scores and that in Scholar's Bowl will be based on the accumulation of right answers.
- 50%: Each part takes up 50% of the overall collective score.
- 50%: Those whose overall collective performance are ranked top 50% in
each division will be quali ed for the 2020 WSC Global Round.
Details
- Form: Team-based competition among junior and senior students respectively
- Language: English
- Constituents: Online Collaborative Speech + Online Scholar's Bowl
Online Collaborative Speech
15 minutes' group discussion after on-spot announcement of 6 speech topics and 2 minutes' independent speech on any of the three different topics chosen.
Online Scholar's Bowl
Work with your team members to finish challenging questions in a set time. Each question should be submitted just once. The questions highlight the 2020 WSC theme, covering 6 subjects: Science and
Technology, Social Studies, History, Art and Music, Literature and Media and Special Area.
Notes: Excellent teams in Collaborative Speech will be invited to participate in the Debate Showcase. The rest can serve as judges.
3 Highlights
Form a Team
Meet Team Challenges
Have Fun
WSC Online Individual Challenge
Rounds
- First Round: 15th March (Closed)
- Second Round: 29th March (Closed)
- Third Round: 12th April (Closed)
- Fourth Round: 25th April (Closed)
- Fifth Round: 17th May (Closed)
- Sixth Round: 31st May
Notes:Transfer to another round or refund is acceptable until one week before the opening of the round you have chosen.
Scoring and Advancement
- 50%: Online Scholar’s Challenge and Speech Challenge account for 50% of the total score respectively
- 50%: Those ranked top 50% in each division will be qualified for the 2020 Global Rounds
Details
- Form: Individual-based competition among junior and senior school students respectively
- Language: English
- Constituents: Online Scholar's Challenge and Online Speech Challenge
Online Scholar’s Challenge
Complete 90 multiple-choice questions within 90 minutes that revolve around the 2020 WSC theme and cover 6 subjects: Science and Technology, Social Studies, History, Art and Music, Literature and Media and Special Area.
Online Speech Challenge
Make a 90-second video record of personal speech.
Letter from the Founder
The artist Austin Kleon once advised his students, "Draw the art you want to see, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use."
In designing the World Scholar's Cup, my team and I have always kept something similar in mind: to design a program we wish we could have attended when we were students.
That's why the World Scholar's Cup may look like a competition, but isn't one at all. It's a celebration of learning. (Just ask the "ninjas" who raided the Taiwan Round in 2012 to demand more guides to study.) It brings together many subjects, because before we can begin to specialize, we need to see the big picture. It challenges teams to work together, because there's nothing harder or more inspiring than knowing that someone else depends on you. And it deals with serious global issues without taking itself too seriously, because I'm convinced that before we can fall in love with learning, we have to find the fun in learning.
Whether you join us just for just a regional round or continue with us all the way to the Tournament of Champions at Yale University, you're becoming part of a community of scholars and leaders that will last a lifetime.
Daniel Berdichevsky
Founder and Alpaca-in-Chief
