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CDC LDers Win Top 6 Places at Hathaway Brown Tournament in OH!

On January 10, at Hathaway Brown in Ohio, CDC Lincoln-Douglas debaters closed out 1st place through 6th place: Rory Rohde won 1st, Claire Witalec won 2nd, Vasakan Thambi-Pillai won 3rd, Grace Voudris won 4th, Anshul Sharma won 5th, and Sahas Chhabra won 6th! Also at HB, Matthew Lewis won 1st place in Congress, and Gabriela Perez and Coco Sethi won 3rd in Public Forum. 
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At Beavercreek, CDC LDers won 5 of the top 6 places: Abbie Saxen won 1st, Will McClimon won 2nd, Camryn Harris won 3rd, Ben Kurian won 5th, and Akshay Madala won 6th. Also at Beavercreek, Reese Dunnington and Maze Li Kudera won 1st in Public Forum. 
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At Stow-Monroe Falls, in Public Forum, Anushka Doshi and Sanvi Jha won 1st place, Alara Ozcan and Ava Flansburg won 2nd, and Cameron Stansifer and Ellie D'Intino won 6th. In LD, Neil Heckman won 1st, Sophie Gehring won 3rd, and Amelia Butler won 6th. And in Congress, Andrew Hetrick won 2nd, and James Page won 4th. 
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In New Jersey, at the Hunterdon Central Invitational, Rosalyn Ma won 3rd place in Lincoln-Douglas debate. 
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On January 3, in Oakwood, in LD, Ben Kurian won 1st place, Vasakan Thambi-Pillai won 2nd, and Venya Gulati won 5th. In Public Forum, Lyla Yi and Varsana Ravisubramani won 3rd, and Lucy Orsello and Adie Castle won 5th. 
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At Canfield, Arjun Tuli won 1st place in Congress, Hannah Rosenfeld and Aleka Dodla won 3rd in Public Forum, and Rida Tahir won 4th in Lincoln-Douglas.  
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More results and pictures will be posted as we receive them. Campers, please email us your good news and your photos from your tournaments! We love to hear from you!
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Classic Debate Camp Provides Its LD Brief on the January-February Topic for Free to All!

Big shout out to Greta Wedel, Olivia Lowry, and Tristan Williams! They were the three instructors in LD Lab 3 last summer, and they collaborated again to produce this resource to help not just our campers but all LDers as you prepare for your January-February tournaments. Also, thanks to Rich Kawolics, LD Curriculum Director, who edited the brief. Access the brief here. Enjoy!
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Watch the Final LD Round of the CDC2025 Camp Tournament on the Jan-Feb Topic!

The topic of the final round was Resolved: The possession of nuclear weapons is immoral, which is the reolution that will be debated in January and February 2026.  Joyce Xiao of Lewis House was on the AFF, and Amelia Butler of Edith House was on the NEG. Enjoy the round!
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CDC PF Instructor Abraham Paik Finishes the Appalachian Trail in 4 months and 2 days!

After graduating from college and attending the 2025 NSDA national tournament, Abraham started the Trail on June 23 and finished it on October 25. He hiked all 2197 miles of the Trail. Abraham said his only regret was missing CDC2025. He is committed to returning to Classic Debate Camp in 2026 for his fifth year as a PF instructor. Two of the students he coached at CDC have become CDC instructors themselves, Bohan Pan and Matthew Walton. See Abraham's bio here.  
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Classic Debate Camp Is Moving to Oberlin College! 

 
We have decided to make this move to Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, for two main reasons. First, we believe it will make our camp geographically more accessible to the majority of debaters in Ohio, who are concentrated in the OSDA districts that are in the northern part of the state. Second, the move brings us a lot closer to a larger airport, the Cleveland Hopkins Airport, which will make transportation to camp easier for out-of-state students and staff members. While we will certainly miss some things about Miami University, we believe that the Oberlin College campus and facilities will fulfill all the needs of our program and our campers very well. We hope you will join us at Oberlin College in July 2026!
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