North American Debating Championship

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 each winter on an alternating basis between the United States and Canada since 1992. The host university arranges all judging and is not allowed in the competition. The most frequent hosts have been the University of Toronto and McGill University, which have each hosted the championship three times. Bates College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and Queen's University have each hosted twice. This tournament, often abbreviated as NorthAms, is not to be confused with the North American Universities Debating Championship, abbreviated as NAUDC, which is hosted separately in the fall of each year as a British Parliamentary Style tournament. The two events are coordinated such that each is hosted by a different country, the United States or Canada, in a given year.

The most recent iteration was held by the University of Western Ontario in January 2023. The current North American champions are from Harvard University.

Results

Since 1992, the most successful universities overall has been Yale University with eight championship victories. Following them is the University of Toronto with seven wins. After that, Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and McGill University have two championships each, and no other university has won more than once.

No team has ever repeated as the top team at the championship. Three individuals have won the top team award twice: Matthew Wansley of Yale University won back-to-back championships from 2005 to 2007. Prior to that, Nathan MacDonald and Robert Silver won first together for the University of Western Ontario in 1997–1998, then MacDonald for the University of Guelph in 1998–1999, and Silver for the University of Ottawa in 1999–2000. Three people have won the top individual debater award twice: Casey Halladay of the University of Ottawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012.

YearHostChampion TeamCollegeTop DebaterCollege
2023 Canada Western Ye Joo Han & Matt Mauriello United States Harvard Matt Mauriello United States Harvard University
2022 United States Brandeis Cameron Chacon & Matthew Song United States Yale Devesh Kodnani United States University of Chicago
2021 United States Penn David Edimo & Eva Quinones United States Yale Eva Quinones United States Yale
2020 Canada Waterloo Gautier Boyrie & Chris Pang Canada Toronto Samuel Arnesen and Shreyas Kumar United States Princeton
2019 United States Rutgers William Arnesen & Xavier Sottile United States Yale Sophia Caldera United States Harvard
2018 Canada Toronto Harry Elliott & David Slater United States Stanford Christopher Taylor United States Yale
2017United States MiddleburyMegan Wilson & Kyle HietalaUnited States YaleNathan RaabUnited States Princeton
2016Canada Queen'sAnirudh Dasarathy & Brian LitchfieldUnited States PrincetonDenizhan UykurCanada McGill
2015United States NYUJuliana Vigorito & David IsraelUnited States HopkinsShomik GhoshUnited States Michigan
2014Canada Ottawa & CarletonKaya Ellis & Louis TsilivisCanada TorontoMichael Barton and Veenu GoswamiUnited States Yale and Canada Toronto
2013United States SyracuseCoulter King & Josh ZofferUnited States HarvardCoulter KingUnited States Harvard
2012Canada TorontoSimon Cameron & Romeo MaioneCanada CarletonKate FalkenstienUnited States Yale
2011United States FordhamNate Blevins & Pam BrownUnited States Yale[1]Kate FalkenstienUnited States Yale
2010Canada YorkAdam Goldstein & Bill MagnusonUnited States MIT[2][3]Richard LiziusCanada Toronto
2009United States AmherstGrant May & Andrew RohrbachUnited States YaleMark SamburgUnited States Harvard
2008Canada CarletonJon Laxer & Jason RogersCanada TorontoJosh BoneUnited States Yale
2007United States BatesDylan Gadek & Matthew WansleyUnited States YaleIan FreemanCanada Carleton
2006Canada TorontoBen Eidelson & Matthew WansleyUnited States YaleRory GillisUnited States Yale
2005United States CornellJoanna Nairn & Melanie TharamangalamCanada Toronto[4]Rory GillisUnited States Yale
2004Canada Queen'sJames Renihan & Gordon ShotwellCanada McGillGreg AllenCanada UBC
2003United States HopkinsPhil Larochelle & Patrick NicholsUnited States MIT[5]Emily SchleicherUnited States NYU
2002Canada McGillRory McKeown & Aaron RousseauCanada Toronto[6]Ranjan Agarwal[7][8]Canada Ottawa
2001United States CornellStorey Clayton & Adam ZirkinUnited States BrandeisDavid SilvermanUnited States Princeton
2000Canada Queen'sCasey Halladay & Robert SilverCanada OttawaCasey Halladay[8]Canada Ottawa
1999United States SmithNathan MacDonald & Averill PessinCanada GuelphJason GoldmanUnited States Princeton
1998Canada McGillNathan MacDonald & Robert SilverCanada WesternCasey Halladay[8]Canada Ottawa
1997United States HopkinsJohn Oleske & Niall O'MurchadaUnited States PrincetonJohn OleskeUnited States Princeton
1996Canada TorontoMatt Cohen & Jamie SpringerCanada McGillRon GuirguisCanada Guelph
1995United States PennJeremy Mallory & Neal PotishmanUnited States SwarthmoreMichael D'AbramoCanada Toronto
1994Canada DalhousieRandy Cass & Avery PlawCanada TorontoAvery PlawCanada Toronto
1993United States BatesJason Brent & Thomas MeehanCanada TorontoMarc GivensCanada Queen's
1992Canada McGillMarc Givens & Elicia MaineCanada Queen'sTed CruzUnited States Princeton

North American Public Speaking Championship

Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event at US tournaments. No individual ever repeated as North American Public Speaking Champion. McGill University and the University of Ottawa each had three public speaking champions, the most of any university.

YearWinnerCollege
2007Vinay Kumar MysoreCanada McGill University
2005Jason RogersCanada McGill University
2004Stuart Savelkoul[9][10]United States Dickinson State University
2001Aidan JohnsonCanada University of Toronto
2000Jeremy HolidayUnited States Middlebury College
1999Mark BigneyCanada McGill University
1998Michael PodgorskiCanada Queen's University
1997Jordan MillsUnited States University of New Mexico
1996Shuman GhosemajumderCanada University of Western Ontario
1995Marika GilesCanada Concordia University
1994Jake IrvingCanada University of Ottawa
1993Michael McKneelyUnited States Colgate University
1992Awanish SinhaCanada University of Ottawa

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