North American Debating Championship

The North American Debating Championship is the official university debating championship of North America, 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 on an alternating basis between the United States and Canada since 1991. The host university arranges all judging and is not allowed in the competition. The North American Public Speaking Championship is often held in parallel with the debating competition.

Results

In 20 championships from 1991 to 2011, a team from a university in the home country has won 15 times. The most successful university overall has been the University of Toronto, with five championship victories. It is followed by Yale University, with four victories, notably all in the last six years. After that, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 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 2005-2007. 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.

Two people have won the top individual debater award twice: Casey Halladay of the University of Ottawa in 1997-1998 and 1999-2000, and Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004-2006.

No individual has ever repeated as North American Public Speaking Champion. McGill University and the University of Ottawa have each had three public speaking champions, the most of any university.

Few universities outside Canada and the United States have ever competed, and none has ever won. The most frequent host has been McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, which has hosted the championship three times. Bates College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, Queen's University, and the University of Toronto have each hosted twice.

List of winners

Year	Host	Top Team	Top Debater	Public Speaking Champion
2010-2011	Fordham University	Nate Blevins & Pam Brown[1] Yale University	Kate Falkenstien Yale University	not held
2009-2010	York University	Adam Goldstein & Bill Magnuson[2][3] MIT	Richard Lizius University of Toronto	not held
2008-2009	Amherst College	Grant May & Andrew Rohrbach Yale University	Mark Samburg Harvard University	not held
2007-2008	Carleton University	Jon Laxer & Jason Rogers University of Toronto	Josh Bone Yale University	Vinay Kumar Mysore McGill University
2006-2007	Bates College	Dylan Gadek & Matthew Wansley Yale University	Ian Freeman Carleton University	not held
2005-2006	University of Toronto	Ben Eidelson & Matthew Wansley Yale University	Rory Gillis Yale University	Jason Rogers McGill University
2004-2005	Cornell University	Joanna Nairn & Melanie Tharamangalam[4] University of Toronto	Rory Gillis Yale University	not held
2003-2004	Queen's University	James Renihan & Gordon Shotwell McGill University	Greg Allen University of British Columbia	Stuart Savelkoul[5][6] Dickinson State University
2002-2003	Johns Hopkins University	Phil Larochelle & Patrick Nichols[7] MIT	Emily Schleicher New York University	not held
2001-2002	McGill University	Rory McKeown & Aaron Rousseau[8] University of Toronto	Ranjan Agarwal[9][10] University of Ottawa	Aidan Johnson University of Toronto
2000-2001	Cornell University	Storey Clayton & Adam Zirkin Brandeis University	David Silverman Princeton University	Jeremy Holiday Middlebury College
1999-2000	Queen's University	Casey Halladay & Robert Silver University of Ottawa	Casey Halladay[10] University of Ottawa	Mark Bigney McGill University
1998-1999	Smith College	Nathan MacDonald & Averill Pessin University of Guelph	Jason Goldman Princeton University	Michael Podgorski Queen's University
1997-1998	McGill University	Nathan MacDonald & Robert Silver University of Western Ontario	Casey Halladay[10] University of Ottawa	Jordan Mills University of New Mexico
1996-1997	Johns Hopkins University	John Oleske & Niall O'Murchada Princeton University	John Oleske Princeton University	Shuman Ghosemajumder University of Western Ontario
1995-1996	University of Toronto	Matt Cohen & Jamie Springer McGill University	Ron Guirguis University of Guelph	Marika Giles Concordia University
1994-1995	University of Pennsylvania	Jeremy Mallory & Neal Potishman Swarthmore College	Michael D'Abramo University of Toronto	Jake Irving University of Ottawa
1993-1994	Dalhousie University	Randy Cass & Avery Plaw University of Toronto	Avery Plaw University of Toronto	Michael McKneely Colgate University
1992-1993	Bates College	Jason Brent & Thomas Meehan University of Toronto	Marc Givens Queen's University	Awanish Sinha University of Ottawa
1991-1992	McGill University	Marc Givens & Elicia Maine Queen's University	Ted Cruz Princeton University	Chris Moore University of Ottawa

References

1. ^ http://www.apdaweb.org/results/tournament/308
2. ^ http://meche.mit.edu/news/mechenews/index.html?id=60
3. ^ http://www.yorku.ca/mediar/archive/Release.php?Release=1811
4. ^ http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/life-on-campus/world-university-debating-championship-2006-u-of-t-award-winners/
5. ^ http://www.dickinsonstate.edu/uploadedFiles/News/Signal_Butte/2009FallSignalButte.pdf
6. ^ http://www.ndbusinesswatch.com/business-news/stuart-savelkoul/
7. ^ http://vimeo.com/9486670
8. ^ http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/life-on-campus/rory-mckeown-aaron-rousseau-u-of-t-north-american-debating-championship/
9. ^ http://www.scribd.com/doc/10944237/Fulcrum-091108
10. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.commonlaw.uottawa.ca/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=156

External links

• CUSID Summary of Past Championships