National Parliamentary Debate League

Organizing High School Parliamentary Debate in the United States

 

Head-Royce in Oakland to host NPDL-TOC April 4-6, 2025

The Head-Royce School, located in Oakland, California, will host the 2025 NPDL Tournament of Champions. The tournament will be held over three days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) this year, with the first two preliminary rounds to be held on Friday, April 4th.


NPDL Fall October 12-13, 2024

NPDL Nationals March 7-9, 2025

NPDL-TOC April 4-6, 2025

NPDL Fall October 12-13, 2024 – NPDL Nationals March 7-9, 2025 – NPDL-TOC April 4-6, 2025 –

“Debate is meant to be a place for disagreement ... this is only possible if we listen to and communicate with each other.”
— Sophie Rukin & Riyana Srihari, in "Reflections on the Lay Kritik"

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Austin Gordon (Dalton) & Zoe Manges (Horace Mann) win NPDL Fall ‘24

Congratulations to 2024 NPDL Fall Champions, Austin Gordon & Zoe Manges, from Dalton & Horace Mann. They prevailed on a 5-0 decision over Nueva’s Eli Wee & Ritika Savla, affirming the topic, “Government benefit programs should offer extra benefits to people for being parents.” The NPDL would also endorse extra government benefits to people for being parent judges!

 

Isaac Grolnic-McClurg & Jacob Goldman from
Berkeley High School win NPDL-TOC ‘24

Congratulations 2024 NPDL-TOC champions, Isaac Grolnic-McClurg & Jacob Goldman from Berkeley High School, coached by Joel Jacobs! Additionally, congratulations to our runners-up, Syon Patel & Logan Ramanathan from the Nueva School, coached by Julie Herman. Isaac & Jacob prevailed on a 4-3 decision. The tournament was hosted April 5-7 at Bard High School Early College Queens, with 65 teams competing.