American Debate Association

🏆 Congratulations to @MSUDebate on winning JV and @GMUDebate on winning novice at the ADA Fall Championship hosted at Wake Forest University. Full recap: bit.ly/adafall25

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. 🔥🔥🔥 debate.msu.edu/adafall25

🏆 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: bit.ly/ADAGonz25

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: bit.ly/MinnesotaTourn…

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: bit.ly/UKTournament25 Kentucky is the first ADA tournament of the year. Next up is Minnesota.

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!

The 2025 ADA Nationals is in the books and you can read all about it here 👉 bit.ly/adanationals25 Congratulations to all of the participants and winners!

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. debate.msu.edu/ada25/

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!

🚀 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! 👀🔥

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! 😸

🔥 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

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!

🔥 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! 🔥

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

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

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!

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 💙❤️

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 💙❤️

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.