University of Rochester Debate Union

BREAKING NEWS: BREAKING 7TH at Social Justice Nats, Konttessa and Zicora!!! Send your yellowjacket vibes everyone!

Nashville, TN has been good to us! Thank you to Vanderbilt University for hosting a wonderful tournament and to all participating teams. URDU is closing out the weekend with a lot of smiles and accolades! Madeleine Fordham (BP Captain): Semi Finalist, 7th Speaker Mindula Suriyabandara (PD Captain): Semi Finalist, 3rd ESL speaker Sabeet Kazmi: Quarter Finalist, 7th ESL Speaker... Charles Ndlovu: Quarter Finalist, 3rd Novice/ESL Speaker See more

BREAKING NEWS: BREAKING 7TH at Social Justice Nats, Konttessa and Zicora!!! Send your yellowjacket vibes everyone!

Crest of the University of Rochester Debate Union.

Madeleine Fordham (BP Captain) and Charles Ndlovu representing URDU at the Finger Lakes Cup: Challenge Debate hosted by Hobart and William Smith College. Thank you to all the teams represented and to HWS for the amazing hospitality and opportunity to celebrate debate in the lovely Finger Lakes region.

Nashville, TN has been good to us! Thank you to Vanderbilt University for hosting a wonderful tournament and to all participating teams. URDU is closing out the weekend with a lot of smiles and accolades! Madeleine Fordham (BP Captain): Semi Finalist, 7th Speaker Mindula Suriyabandara (PD Captain): Semi Finalist, 3rd ESL speaker Sabeet Kazmi: Quarter Finalist, 7th ESL Speaker... Charles Ndlovu: Quarter Finalist, 3rd Novice/ESL Speaker See more

URDU participated in the first ever Finger Lakes Cup last night! Congrats to HWS on being inaugural champions. Thanks to Eric Barnes and the HWS crew for hosting!

Crest of the University of Rochester Debate Union.

Madeleine Fordham (BP Captain) and Charles Ndlovu representing URDU at the Finger Lakes Cup: Challenge Debate hosted by Hobart and William Smith College. Thank you to all the teams represented and to HWS for the amazing hospitality and opportunity to celebrate debate in the lovely Finger Lakes region.

URDU participated in the first ever Finger Lakes Cup last night! Congrats to HWS on being inaugural champions. Thanks to Eric Barnes and the HWS crew for hosting!

Our run at CEDA has come to an end in Octofinals. Thank you to WVU for hosting CEDA Nationals. Thank you to our judges. Thank you to our opponents USC/Kansas hybrid for a great round. Thank you to Ben and Ali for staying on and debating through the years and in this era of zoom. It's been an honor and we've learned a lot.

Rounds at CEDA have begun. It's the last policy tournament of the year. Please send energy to Rochester AM! Follow the action live on tabroom. https://www.tabroom.com/index/tourn/index.mhtml

Our run at the NDT has come to an end. Thank you to Harvard for hosting the NDT, our competitors, adjudicators and lastly, thank you to Ben Morbeck and Ali Abdulla. This was their second time qualifying to this tournament, and it has been an honor and joy working and learning with them over the course of the season.

Round the First! Rochester AM will be competing before too long. You can follow the action here https://virtual.nationaldebatetournament.org/ Please send energy!

Congrats to Madeleine for finishing out her Colgate IV run as a semifinalist! We couldn't be more proud!