 The championship was one of two major annual regional debating tournaments for Asian universities, the other being the All-Asian Intervarsity Debating Championships, both of which have now been joined together, for a combined and United Asian Debating Championships to take place in Assumption University, Bangkok.The AUDC was first held in 2005 as an alternative tournament to the All-Asian Championships, thus starting a schism in Asian debating.The Asian Universities Debating Union was the executive body formed to govern the Asian Universities Debating Championship.