The National Debate Coaches Association

2024–2025 NDCA Novice Packet & Curriculum

This year’s packet contains a comprehensive set of arguments on the topic. It is available for download below.

Here is the Dropbox link.

We also have a novice-friendly demonstration debate that you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-1AXEhHPVQ
You can find the speech documents from the round in a Googledoc under the description of the video.

As always, tournaments are encouraged to offer a packet-specific novice division whenever possible, which enhances educational value. For questions about the packet, or hosting a novice-packet division at your tournament, please contact contact@debatecoaches.org

2024–2025 Tournament Calendar

To view an updated tournament calendar for the current season, please view the Tournament Calendar tab. If you are hosting a tournament and would like your tournament to be added to the calendar, reach out to Maggie Berthiaume: maggiekb@gmail.com

2023 NDCA Professional Development Conference

Thank you to everyone who attended and supported the 2023 conference! We look forward to hosting again in 2024.

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Our theme this year is Work-Life Balance, with the goal of discussing ideas, norms, and suggestions for coaches, and students, to maintain a healthy balance in their debate lives. This will be hosted online May 20-21.

For more information, please see the “Conference” tab.

To further support the NDCA and coaches everywhere, become a member today. We hope to see you there!

2024 NDCA National Championship

We are excited to announce that the 2024 tournament will be hosted by the University of Indiana in Bloomington, IN on April 12th-15th. Please view the National Championship tab for more details.