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The Georgia Debate Union won the American Debate Associaiton national championship tournament, held at UGA, this past weekend. More information about the team's historic accomplishment can be found here:  https://www.franklin.uga.edu/news/stories/2019/georgia-debate-union-wins-national-championship Go Dawgs! 

Congratulations to Georgia HH - Alyssa Hoover and Tripp Haskins - for securing a bid as the third UGA team to qualify for the 2019 National Debate Tournament! They are one of only 6 third teams competing at this year's NDT in Minneapolis. This marks the second consecutive year UGA has qualified three teams to the NDT. This is the second time in program history to qualify three teams in back to back years - the first time since the 1996 and 1997…

Seniors Swapnil Agrawal and Advait Ramanan won the Herbert James Debates at Dartmouth College. You can read more about their accomplishment here. Go Dawgs!

UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences has produced a great story about the Georgia Debate Union's successful fall semester and the team's ultimate goals for the spring!  We are very thankful for their continued support for the team - as well as the support provided by Student Affairs, the UGA Foundation, and the Richard B. Russell Foundation.

UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences has recognized the success of the Georgia Debate Union in 2018 - read about it here (along with the other successes at UGA): https://www.franklin.uga.edu/news/stories/2018/year-franklin The Georgia Debate Union finished the first semester ranked first in the varsity division of both the National Debate Tournament and American Debate Association points standings.  The team is ranked third in the…

Gotta love the great press from the local paper!  Go Dawgs!

As of this week, UGA is ranked first in all three college debate organizational rankings - the American Debate Association, the Cross-Examination Debate Association, and the National Debate tournament - ahead of Harvard, Wake Forest, Emory, Michigan, Northwestern, among hundreds of other institutions. Go Dawgs! 

he University of Georgia will be debating at the 2018 Kentucky Round Robin. The rising senior team of Nathan Rice and Johnnie Stupek will be representing UGA and the Georgia Debate Union at the 2018 Run for the Roses at the University of Kentucky, other wise known as the Kentucky Round Robin.  It will take place in late September.   The Kentucky Round Robin features the top 7 returning teams in the nation.  The other 6 teams…

The teams of Advait Ramanan/Swapnil Agrawal and Nathan Rice/Johnnie Stupek both earned first round "at large" bids to the 72nd National Debate Tournament recently held at Wichita State University. The first round voting was recently released and both teams finished in the top 14 teams in the country.  It is the first time in the history of the Georgia Debate Union that two UGA teams have earned first round bids in the same year.The voting…

For the first time in the Georgia Debate Union's history, two teams representing UGA received first-round at-large bids to the National Debate Tournament. For the fourth time in the history of the GDU, a third team representing UGA qualified for the National Debate Tournament. The only other teams to receive two first-round at large bids to the 2018 NDT were Harvard, Emory, and Kentucky. The other teams to receive a third team to the 2018 NDT…