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The US Universities Debating Championship (USUDC) is the largest British Parliamentary debating tournament in the United States, and one of the largest debate tournaments in the world. The event is held for college and university students attending school in the United States, and is hosted by a different university each year.
Northwestern University 1999–2000: Kristen Langwell & Andy Ryan: University of Iowa: 2000–2001: Randy Luskey & Dan Shalmon: University of California, Berkeley: 2001–2002: Alex Berger & Ben Thorpe: Dartmouth College 2002–2003: Geoff Garen & Tristan Morales: Northwestern University 2003–2004: Dan Shalmon & Tejinder Singh: University of ...
An early pioneer of these styles of debate was the University of Louisville debate team, led by Ed Warner. [27]: 4–5 As debate techniques continued to become more progressive, new debate leagues were formed to accommodate different styles. The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) was established in 1971. Jack Howe, the first president ...
The American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States. APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April.
The North American Debating Championship is one of the two official university debate championships of North America. It is sanctioned by the national university debating associations in the United States and Canada, the American Parliamentary Debate Association and the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. It has been held ...
Colleges and university with policy debate programs at the collegiate level also often host tournaments for this circuit. Another elite form is the TOC ( Tournament of Champions ), in which qualification is required by winning bids from at least two large-scale, participating tournaments by advancing to a certain stage depending on the size of ...
The WPDU employs two full-time directors and numerous graduate teaching assistants working with debate therefore making it one of the largest and most experienced debating coaching staffs in the United States. The current WPDU faculty includes the following: [29] Current Director of the William Pitt Debating Union: Calum Matheson 2015–Present
The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually at WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, [14] and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. [2]