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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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Best of Luck to All the CDC Campers at NSDA Nationals This Week!
We especially want to wish good luck to Izayah Christopher who is a Finalist for NSDA Student of the Year! Izayah attended CDC in 2024, and he competes for Battle High School in Missouri.
CDC Campers, please send us your own pictures from Nationals! And keep us posted on your results!
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Congratulations to TOC Congressional Debate Runner-Up!
On April 11-13, CDC camper Arjun Tuli won 2nd place in Congressional Debate at the Tournament of Champions in Louisville, Kentucky. Arjun attended CDC2025 and did some cross-training Linoln-Douglas debate.
CDC LD Debater Wins Pennsylvania States!
On March 20-21, CDC LD debater Avigail Wus won the 2026 Pennsylvania High School Speech League Championship. Avigail attended CDC in 2024. Also in LD, Rosalyn Ma made it to the semifinals and won 3rd place. In policy debate, Jack Laderman advanced to the finals and won 2nd place. Congratulations!
CDC LD Debater Wins Cleveland City Club!
On March 13, CDC camper Anshul Sharma won the 2026 City Club of Cleveland High School Debate Championship. Anshul attended CDC in 2023 and 2024. He is the 5th CDC camper to win the City Club championship. Previous CDC City Club winners were Isaiah Paik (2018), Tia Speece (2019), Allie Dettelbach (2020), and Ella Jewell (2022). Anshul's round was televised and recorded, and it can be watched here. It was on the current March-April LD topic about military nonintervention. Anshul was on the Negative.
CDC Congressional Debater Wins Ohio State Tournament! PF Debaters Are Runners-Up!
CDC camper Andrew Hetrick advanced to the final session of Congressional debate at the Ohio state tournament on March 6-7, and he won 1st place! Andrew attended CDC in 2025. Three other CDC campers also advanced to the final chamber: Grace Swihart (6th), Arjun Tuli (10th), and Matthew Lewis (14th). And three other campers made it to semis: James Page, Arya Tangirala, and Calvin Wisnewski. Two CDC campers, Jasmeet Kaur and Lilya Zhang, also competed in Congress at states this year, but did not advance. Altogether 8 out of the 9 campers in our Congress division in 2025 competed at the OH state tournament in 2026, and 5 of those 8 made it to semis or beyond.
In PF, the team of Hannah Rosenfeld and Aleka Dodla advanced to the final round and won 2nd place. Two PF teams with CDC campers made it to the quarters, the team of Jack Shein and Ben Lyndall and the team of Zaid Anwar and Nolan Samuels, and three PF teams reached the octafinals: Sanvi Jha and Anushka Doshi, Ben Sayer and Maverick O'Hara, and Charlie Martin and Sahand Maleki. And two more broke to the double-octa round: the team of Ava Flansburg and Alara Ozcon and the team of Cameron Stansifer and Ellie D'Intino.
In LD, altogether 17 out of the 32 debaters who advanced to elimination rounds were CDC campers. Amelia Butler made it to the semifinals. Adhya Duggal, Reese Dunnington, Neil Heckman, and Abbie Saxen made it to quarters. Shaashwatiyaa Balamurugan, Sahas Chhabra, Sebastian Istnick, Rory Rohde, and Anshul Sharma made it to octas. And Thomas Daly, Camryn Harris, Radha Kontamwar, Benjamin Kurian, Akshay Madala, Grace Voudris, Shrinidhi Vaitheeswaran made it to double-octas, the first elim round. And here are all the CDC campers who competed in LD at states but didn't advance to elims: Reagan Carnes, Lindy Cosgrove, Arush Duggal, Salma Fareed, Adwita Gandhi, Sophie Gehring, Shobhit Goel, Stephen Kirwan, William McClimon, Annie Noser, Rida Tahir, Vasakan Thambi-Pillai, and Claire Witalec.
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 hope you will join us at Oberlin College in July 2026!
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