Leagues, Tournaments, Competitions

NSDA

The major speech and debate league in the U.S. for the past 100 years.

WSDA

A big debate league in China and online with many speech events too.

TOC Asia

A speech and debate league based in Chengdu.

IPPF

This debate competition is written and open to any high schoolers in the world.

Tabroom

A major resource for many tournaments, partnered with NSDA.

John Locke

Not exactly debate, but an essay competition available for students across the world.

Other Debate Sites

some other debate sites based with many debate resources.

Dog of War

I first heard about them when they had a livestream and offered an evidence packet for the FTC topic in Winter 2026. You can see if there’s more useful materials there.

Atlanta Urban Debate League

lots of good resources for debaters and coaches of all levels, from elementary school to varsity policy debaters.

DebateTrack

Joel made a lot of debate content mostly for PF topics. He’s quite tech-savvy too so his content looks much more professional.

debatedata.io

This site has a LOT of previous motions for World Schools format.

international debate education association

they have a lot of resources, most notably the ‘debatabase’ collection of 700+ topics.

Tech Resources

Here are some useful tech software or websites to help you debate better.

Verbatim

This is a Microsoft Word plugin that helps you organize all your debate research better.

Cite Creator

This plugin for Google Chrome (or Firefox, Brave and other browsers) automatically generates the cite for online research.

Flexcel

This is a downloadable software to help you flow during debates.

Linkar

This is a new software to help you organize all your debate research and information for PF.