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The host is selected by the member schools of the US Universities Debate Association. The event determines the National Champions for the year. [1] Most recently the tournament was hosted by Hobart and William Smith Colleges in October 2023. The current National Champions are Xiao-ke Lu and Jacquelynn Lin from Princeton University.
The World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) is the world's largest international debating tournament and one of the largest annual international student events. WUDC is held in the British Parliamentary format (involving four teams of two people in each debate). [1]
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 ...
The National Debate Tournament is an American inter-college debate competition, held annually since 1947. The Rex Copeland award, inaugurated in 1989 for the team with the best performance over the whole season, is presented on the same occasion.
Unlike all other tournaments, debating at Nationals is limited to one team per university, plus any additional teams who “qualified” for Nationals during that debate season. There are several ways to qualify for Nationals: The most common through the 2006–2007 season was to reach the final round of a tournament.
2018: Camilla Maionica - NSU University School (FL) 2019: Caitlyn Woitena - J. Frank Dobie High School (TX) 2020: Elizabeth Lopez-Aguilar - Alief Early College High School (TX) 2021: Prem Ganesan - Wayzata High School (MN) 2022: Abigail Canalejo - American Heritage Broward (FL) 2023: Rachel Senn - Mercer Island High School (WA)
The high school debate tournament generally considered to be the national circuit championship is the Tournament of Champions held at the University of Kentucky. For non-national circuit debaters the national championship is generally considered to be the national tournament of their sponsoring organization. The main tournaments being the ...
The Harvard College Debating Union (previously known as the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society) is Harvard University's only internationally competitive debate team. The union has won the most American Parliamentary Debate Association National Championships and the 2014, 2016 and 2018 World Universities Debating Championships.