The Chicago Debate Society is the parliamentary debate team of the University of Chicago. We compete on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit and send debaters to tournaments almost every weekend. CDS has consistently met tremendous success on APDA, qualifying teams to Nationals every year and routinely winning Speaker and Team Awards at tournaments. We welcome prospective members of all experience levels to drop by our practices every Wednesday at 6pm and Sunday at 2pm in Cobb. For more information, please browse this website or direct any questions to our friendly officer board.

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Tournament Results

For previous tournament results, please see the "Blog" section!

Rutgers University

8th Varsity Team: Leighton Huch and Kyle Painter
6th Novice Speaker: Kevin Guo

George Washington University 2

5th Varsity Team: Leighton Huch and Chris Riehle
5th Varsity Speaker: Leighton Huch

Brandeis IV

13th Varsity Team: Tinley Melvin & Gordon Lew

George Washington University

5th Varsity Team: Evan Hernandez and Miles Witthaus

American University

3rd Novice Speaker: Katherine Shen
9th Varsity Speaker: Brad Cohn

University of Pennsylvania

12th Varsity Team: Chris Riehle and David Peterson
10th Varsity Team: Brad Cohn and Kyle Painter

William & Mary

5th Varsity Speaker: Leighton Huch
5th Varsity Team: Leighton Huch and Dan Cobos (GW)