International high level. The Shanghai International Debate Competition publicly stated that the Shanghai International Debate Competition continued to maintain a high international level in terms of the scale of the competition, the quality of the jury, the quality of the contestants and the international influence, attracting 168 teams from 20 countries and more than 420 top debaters and senior referees. It is also one of the largest international British parliamentary English debating competitions in China and even Asia, with the largest number of teams and the highest level of players.