National Debate Tournament
{{Short description|American national championship of intercollegiate policy debate}}
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The National Debate Tournament is one of the national championships for collegiate policy debate in the United States. The tournament is sponsored by the American Forensic Association with the Ford Motor Company Fund.
History of the NDT
The National Debate Tournament (NDT) began in 1947 at the United States Military Academy at West Point.{{cite web |title=The West Point National Tournament |url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Articles/ndtart2.html |access-date=26 April 2012}} Twenty-nine schools competed at the first NDT debating: "Resolved: That labor should be given a direct share in the management of industry". It remained at West Point through 1966, at which time the Tournament Director met with the district chairs and advised them that at the tournament banquet of the Military Academy's decision to discontinue hosting the NDT in the ensuing years in part because of the increased demands on space and money that the United States' growing involvement in the Vietnam War was placing on the Academy.{{cite web |last=Ziegelmueller |first=George |title=Selected Personal History of the NDT |url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Articles/ziegelmueller.html |access-date=26 April 2012}}
Since then the tournament has moved to different member schools each year and only three schools have hosted it twice.{{cite web |title=An Introduction to the National Debate Tournament |url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Articles/ndtintro.html |access-date=26 April 2012}}
Selection of the 78 teams participating at the NDT involves a three stage process.{{cite web |last=Parson |first=Donn |title=W(h)ither the NDT?|url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Articles/dwparson.html |access-date=26 April 2012}}
Winners
{{main|List of National Debate Tournament winners}}
Past Resolutions
The National Debate Tournament currently debates the topic selected by the Cross Examination Debate Association, but used to debate its own, separate, topic. Wake Forest University maintains a list of earlier resolutions used at the National Debate Tournament.{{cite web|title= National Debate Tournament Topics |url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/HistoricalLists/topics.html|access-date=11 April 2016}}
References
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External links
- [https://nationaldebatetournament.org/ National Debate Tournament Home Page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060310050106/http://www.cstv.com/cstv/programming/debate/debate1.html 2005 NDT on CSTV]
- [http://www.americanforensicsassoc.org/national-debate-tournament/ NDT Champions on AmericanForensics.org]