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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.
University of Iowa: 1: 2001 University of Louisville: 1: 1982 University of Miami: 1: 1953 University of Michigan: 1: 2024 North Texas State College: 1: 1948 Ohio State University: 1: 1962 University of the Pacific: 1: 1964 University of Pittsburgh: 1: 1981 Rutgers University-Newark: 1: 2017 Southeastern State College: 1: 1947 United States ...
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.
Competitive debate, also known as forensics or speech and debate, is an activity in which two or more people take positions on an issue and are judged on how well they defend those positions. The activity has been present in academic spaces in the United States since the colonial period.
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 Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) (/ ˈ s iː d ə / SEE-də) is the largest intercollegiate policy debate association in the United States.Throughout the school year, CEDA sanctions over 60 tournaments throughout the nation, including an annual National Championship Tournament that brings together over 175 individual debate teams from across the nation to compete on the basis of ...
There is some dispute over what constitutes the "national championship" in the United States per se, but two tournaments generally compete for the title: The Tournament of Champions held at the University of Kentucky, and the National Speech and Debate tournament sponsored by the National Forensic League (now known as the National Speech ...
The National Debate Tournament (NDT) began in 1947 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. [1] Twenty-nine schools competed at the first NDT debating: "Resolved: That labor should be given a direct share in the management of industry".