American Debate Association

Founded 1985. Intercollegiate debate association. Host of the ADA Fall Championship & ADA National Championship.

[American Debate Association @DebateADA]

🏆 Congratulations to @MSUDebate on winning JV and @GMUDebate on winning novice at the ADA Fall Championship hosted at Wake Forest University. Full recap: https://t.co/YH5Nr4Amm1

[MSU Debate Team @MSUDebate]

MSU DEBATE NAMED ADA FALL JV CHAMPIONS!

Eleazar Asase, a mechanical engineering junior in the Honors College, and Will Sterbenc, a James Madison College freshman, won the division after winning ten straight debates. 🔥🔥🔥

https://t.co/CrQidrWKIm

[American Debate Association @DebateADA]

🏆 Congratulations to @michigandebate on winning Open and @MSUDebate on winning JV at the Jesuit Debates hosted by Gonzaga University! The Jesuit Debates are the third ADA tournament of the season.

Full recap: https://t.co/ArcHW2TTFq

[American Debate Association @DebateADA]

The Minnesota College Invitational results are in! 🏆

Congrats to Wake Forest University on winning novice, @IndianaDebate on winning JV, and the University of Kentucky on winning varsity.

Full recap: https://t.co/PJeaVG6oJy

[American Debate Association @DebateADA]

The JW Patterson Debates results are in! 🏆

Congrats to @emorydebate on winning open, @libertydebate on winning Wildcat, and West Georgia on winning novice!

Full recap: https://t.co/vyAI8hyFBt

Kentucky is the first ADA tournament of the year. Next up is Minnesota.

[Kentucky Debate @Kentucky_Debate]

We've been busy! We qualified THREE teams to the 79th National Debate Tournament! At ADA Nats, AE finished 3-3, GS reached doubles, and both RS & AM reached quarters. AM were the 10th & 6th speakers. RS won the Front Royal Cup, and Lauren received the Julia Burke Award! Go Cats!

[American Debate Association @DebateADA]

The 2025 ADA Nationals is in the books and you can read all about it here 👉 https://t.co/dWuHJOXJD1

Congratulations to all of the participants and winners!

[MSU Debate Team @MSUDebate]

ADA Nats is in the books! Tony Miklovis and Blaine Montford were in the Sweet 16 and finished 2nd for the Front Royal Cup. 🏆

Hina Shehzad and Ephraim Bennett finished 3rd for the Front Royal.

https://t.co/mchqiBQwNB

[MSU Debate Team @MSUDebate]

Congratulations to Carly Watson who won the 2025 Outstanding New Director Award at ADA Nationals! This award is given to a director in their first seven years who demonstrates outstanding achievement in scholarship, service, community building, or competitive success. Go Green!

[Liberty University Debate @libertydebate]

🚀 Houston, we have CHAMPIONS! 🚀

A huge shoutout to the American Debate Association @DebateADA for another amazing tournament and to University of Houston @HoustonDebate for being a fantastic host!

Quick recap—just in case you blinked and missed all the wins! 👀🔥

[Northwestern Debate @NUDebate]

Akash Deo & Veronica Rubin were FINALISTS of the 2025 ADA National Tournament! Thanks to @HoustonDebate for hosting and @michigandebate for a great debate!

Veronica = 2nd Speaker 👑
Akash = 5th Speaker 🔥

Buck Arney/Michael Lee were 29th seed!

Next stop, the NDT! GO ‘CATS! 😸

[Liberty University Debate @libertydebate]

🔥 Huge Congratulations to Liberty CL! 🔥

Shoutout to Liberty CL (Emmalee Layton & Jayden Cunningham) for an outstanding performance at ADA Nationals! They finished with a 4-2 record in the varsity pool and made it to the octofinals!

#LUdebate #goflames #libertyuniversity

[UM Debate Team @michigandebate]

University of Michigan debaters Eleanor Barrett and Jiyoon Park defeat Northwestern University DR on a 3-0 decision to win the 2025 American Debate Association National Tournament hosted by the University of Houston. Go Blue!

[Liberty University Debate @libertydebate]

🔥 ADA Nationals Champions! 🔥

Congratulations to our Novice Division Co-Champions Liberty HF (Ethan & Cole)
and Liberty LT (Landon & Elijah).

Both teams dominated the competition, finishing as the 1st and 2nd seeds and locking out the finals! Flames on top! 🔥

[Kansas Debate @KansasDebate]

AD-yay 2025 is in the books! Thanks @HoustonDebate for the warm welcome and warm weather. ☀️

#RockChalk 💙❤️

[Liberty University Debate @libertydebate]

Congratulations to Liberty KW (Nova & Kalani) for winning the JV division of ADA Nationals, hosted by the University of Houston! 🏆

With this victory, Liberty secures back-to-back ADA Nationals championships! 🔥🔥

Way to go, Nova and Kalani!
#goflames #ludebate

[UM Debate Team @michigandebate]

Michigan debaters Eleanor Barrett/Jiyoon Park are currently Affirmative debating in the final round of the American Debate Association National Tournament against Northwestern University. BP was the #1 seed/undefeated in the preliminary rounds and #4 and #1 Speakers. Go Blue!

[Kansas Debate @KansasDebate]

Owen and Zach bow out in doubles of ADA Nationals to Wake Forest, which ends their impressive season.

Claire and Jared defeat the 8 seed from Emory in doubles! They lose a close octos debate to Kentucky, but will be back in action at CEDA. 🔥

#RockChalk 💙❤️

[Kansas Debate @KansasDebate]

It's been a busy weekend at ADA Nationals! AS, HW, LM, and WW all finish with 3-3 records, with AS and WW clearing to yesterday's doubles!

Congratulations to DL on completing a wonderful first year of college debate and to LM on finishing out their season!

#RockChalk 💙❤️

[UTD Debate @CometDebate]

Congrats to both UTD HR and KP on finishing 4-2 and advancing to the doubles at ADA Nationals. Extra round of applause to Charlie Hale who finished as the 16th speaker for the tournament. See you at CEDA.