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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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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.
CDC LD Debater Wins First at Three Rivers Tournament!
On February 14, CDC2025 camper Joyce Xiao won the final round with a decisive 5-0 decision at the Three Rivers Tournament hosted by Upper St. Clair High School near Pittsburgh. Other CDC campers who advanced to elimiation rounds included Sahas Chhabra (quarters), Jeffery Zhang (octas), and Evelyn Turner (octas).
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 Releases a NEW LD Brief on the March-April Topic (Non-Intervention)!
Special thanks to CDC instructors Greta Wedel, Wes McGovern, Abraham Paik, and Rich Kawolics for doing all the writing, researching, and editing needed to produce the brief. We hope that all LD debaters who are competing in March and April will find the brief helpful. Access the brief here. Enjoy!
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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