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Classic
Debate Camp
July 11-19, 2026 New Location: Oberlin College
At Classic Debate Camp you can...
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work closely with former champions and outstanding coaches
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connect with other kids who love debate
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gain the skills you need to succeed at tournaments and in life
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join a supportive and nurturing community in which you can have a career-changing experience with debate
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November Tournament Results Are Coming In!
In Missouri, CDC2024 camper Izayah Christopher won 1st place in both Varsity LD and Informative Speaking at the Clayton Fall Classic tournament. Also in Missouri, CDC2025 camper Jojo Zhang won 3rd in LD at the Parkway West Fall Classic, and Jojo and his partner won 2nd in PF at Clayton.
In Hawaii, at the Roosevelt tournament in Oahu, CDC2025 camper Kenji Wetherell placed 2nd in LD.
CDC LDer Zachary Thies won 2nd place at the Bob Jones Invitational in South Carolina in October and 3rd place at the Corona Rostrensis tournament at the Charlotte Latin School in North Carolina in November.
In Virginia, at the Williamsburg Revolutionary Rhetoric Invitational, Evelyn Turner won 2nd place in LD and Venya Gulati won 2nd place in Informative Speaking. Venya also won 4th place in LD at the Washington Arlington Speech and Debate League (WASDL) LD and Congress tournament.
Two-year CDC camper Rosalyn Ma has already qualified for the Pennsylvania state tournament in LD. She earned her bids by advancing to the semis at Dallastown and at Villiger and making it to the quarters at Bucks County. At the Villiger tournament, Rosalyn also won 2nd place in LD Speaker Awards.
In Ohio, at the Edison tournament, CDC campers won 5 out of 6 places in LD: Camryn Harris won 1st, Ben Kurian won 2nd, Thomas Daly won 3rd, Rory Rohde won 4th, and Grace Voudris won 6th. Matthew Lewis won 1st in Congressional Debate, and the team of Ben Lyndall and Jack Shein won 2nd in PF.
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!
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 are grateful to Paula Green and the staff at Miami University who provided us with a wonderful setting for our camp from 2021 to 2025. We hope you will join us at Oberlin College in July 2026!
Watch the Final LD Round of the CDC2025 Camp Tournament!
The topic of the final round was Resolved: The possession of nuclear weapons is immoral. 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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