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New York City Area Debate Tournaments Fit for the Best and Brightest
The Tri-State Debate League is a community of committed educators curating high-quality middle and high school debate tournaments to serve students in the metropolitan area. We proudly host tournaments at premier settings with experienced and academically focused judges while providing unique and impressive awards. Our tournaments are a local option for programs and debaters looking to advance toward national circuit success.
In addition to providing the region's best debate tournament competition, the Tri-State Debate League offers instructional tutorials and lectures from some of the best collegiate debaters, instructors, and coaches in the country. As these instructors typically work at expensive summer debate institutes, the Tri-State Debate League brings those lessons to tournaments.
The Tri-State Debate League is also interested in fostering a community of coaches who provide mutual support and professional development. League directors are available to provide professional development, instructional training, as well as seminars on logistics, Tabroom management, and a myriad of other coaching competencies regarding speech and debate events.
Next Year's Tournament and Workshoppe Calendar
Sept
9/13 - Saturday: Tri-State Debate League Workshoppe at Collegiate. We'll have a CX, LD, PF, and Congress track with some sessions that overlap (like Flowing, for example)
9/27 - Saturday: Tri-State Debate League Workshoppe & Warm Up at Poly Prep. Much like the same but if NYC NSDA is interested in having me do something for IEs, I'd be willing! We'll also have rounds for Open debaters.
Oct
10/11 - Saturday: Tri-State Debate League at Poly Prep
10/16 -17 - Thursday/Friday: New York University Round Robin (CX & LD)
Nov
11/15 - Saturday - Archbishop Molloy (Queens)
Feb
2/7 - Saturday - Berkeley Carroll (Brooklyn)
2/28 - Saturday - Riverdale is a possibility depending on NSDA National Qualifiers for NYC NSDA
March
We may need to see what the NCFL and NSDA Qualifier Calendar look like - but if there's a desire to have a tournament, we can/should put something together.
May
5/16-17 - Saturday & Sunday Tri-State Speech & Debate Championship
tournament divisions
tournament divisions
Our tournaments typically offer the following events and divisions at each tournament we host. While we try our best to keep divisions from collapsing, division integrity is contingent on entries and host rooms:
Cross-Examination/Policy Debate (Click Link to Learn More about the TSDL Policy Initiative)
High School (Rookie, Novice, Open)
Middle School (Rookie, Open)
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
High School (Novice, Open)
Middle School (Novice, Open)
Public Forum Debate
High School (Novice, Open)
Middle School (Novice, Open)
Congressional Debate
High School (Novice, Open)
Middle School (Rookie, Open)
upcoming tutorials
upcoming tutorials
At our Tri-State Debate League tournaments, we pride ourselves on the mantra of "Tournaments that Teach" - while that includes the instruction inherent in the activity itself, we also host lectures, tutorials, and even instructional modules for students and coaches to learn more about their respective formats and how to achieve success at the highest of levels from knowledgeable collegiate debaters, coaches, and instructional staff from all over the nation.
Tri-State Debate League Tournament at Poly Prep, October 5th
Flowing in CX, PF, and LD - Sonnie Picallo (Binghampton University Debate)
Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Copyrights Affirmative and Case Negative - Shreeram Modi (NYU Debate)
Public Forum September/October Topic Lecture - David Levine (Houston Debate Workshop)
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