Editing Cross Examination Debate Association

{{Short description|US student debating association}}
{{primary sources|date=May 2012}}
{{Infobox company 
| name = Cross Examination Debate Association
| logo = Cross Examination Debate Association Logo.jpg
| type = [[Nonprofit organization]], [[policy debate]]
| foundation = 1971
| location = [[United States]]
| key_people = Phillip Samuels, President<ref name=CEDA>{{cite web|title=Officers|website=Cedadebate.org|url=http://www.cedadebate.org/officers}}</ref>
| homepage = {{url|http://cedadebate.org}}
}}

The '''Cross Examination Debate Association''' ('''CEDA''') ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|iː|d|ə}} {{respell|SEE|də}}) is the largest intercollegiate [[policy debate]] association in the [[United States]]. Throughout the school year, CEDA sanctions over 60 tournaments throughout the nation, including an annual National Championship Tournament that brings together over 175 individual debate teams from across the nation to compete on the basis of research, persuasive speaking, argumentation, and philosophy.

For a number of years, CEDA employed a two-person team [[value debate]] format. CEDA utilized two topics each year, one governing the fall semester and the second governing the spring semester. For the spring 1996 topic, it was voted<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~jonathan/debate/ceda-l/archive/CEDA-L-Dec-1995/msg00254.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025113402/http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~jonathan/debate/ceda-l/archive/CEDA-L-Dec-1995/msg00254.html |archive-date=2016-10-25 |title=Re: Spring 1996 Topic}}</ref> to continue debating the fall topic about Mexico.  Beginning with the 1996–1997 season, however, CEDA has employed a single, year-long [[policy debate]] topic.

== Past Winners ==

'''Year 	Winner''' 

1986	Macalester College (Paul Benson and Molly McGinnis)

1987	Macalester College (Paul Benson and Molly McGinnis)

1988	Southern Illinois University (Mark West and John Lapham)

1989	Gonzaga University (Dave Hanson and Bill DeForeest)

1990	University of Central Oklahoma (then Central State University) (Charles Mallard and Josh Hoe)

1991	Kansas State University (David Filippi and Richard McCollum)

1992	Missouri State University (Jeffrey Jarman and TJ Wolfe)

1993	Kansas State University (Jill Basinger and KJ Wall)

1994	University of Missouri-Kansas City (David Kingston (Genco) and James Brian Johnston)

1995	Michigan State University (Elizabeth Repko and Jason Trice)

1996	Southern Illinois University (Glen Frappier and Bill Shinn)

1997	Northwestern University (Terry Johnson and Brandon Fletcher)

1998	Emory University (Stephen Heidt and Dan Fitzmier)

1999	Whitman College (Jessica Clarke and Adam Symonds)

2000	The State University of West Georgia (Rachel Saloom and Sarah Holbrook)

2001	The State University of West Georgia (Rashad Evans and Sarah Holbrook)

2002	Fort Hays State University (Joe Ramsey and Jason Regnier)

2003	New York University (Richard Garner and Nate Gorelick)

2004	Emory University (Mike Beckley and Henry Liu)

2005	UC Berkeley (Craig Wickersham and Stacey Nathan)

2006	Harvard (Michael Klinger and Nikhil Mirchandani)

2007	University of Oklahoma (Conor Cleary and Blake Johnson)

2008	Towson University (Dayvon Love and Deven Cooper)

2009	University of Oklahoma (R.J. Giglio and Nick Watts)

2010	University of Oklahoma (R.J. Giglio and Nick Watts)

2011	Kansas State University (Beth Mendenhall and Derek Ziegler)

2012	University of Oklahoma (R.J. Giglio and Christopher Leonardi)

2013	Emporia State University (Ryan Wash and Eli Smith)

2014	Towson University (Korey Johnson and Ameena Ruffin)

2015	Towson University (Troi Thomas and Kevin Whitley)

2016	University of Vermont (Khalil Lee and Taylor Brough)

2017	Rutgers University (Nick Nave and Devane Murphy)

2018	University of Iowa (Sam Gustavson and Geordano Liriano)

2019	University of Oklahoma (Jazmine Pickens and Darius White)

2020	Tournament Canceled due to COVID-19

2021	University of Texas (Het Desai and Zachary Watts)

2022	Wake Forest University (Asya Taylor and Dimarvin Puerto)

2023	Wake Forest University (Ana Bittner and Ari Davidson)

2024    Binghamton University  (Eli T. Louis & Akif Choudhury) 

2025    Iowa University (Grey Parfenoff & Spencer Anderson McElligott) 

== See also ==

* [[Competitive debate in the United States]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://cedadebate.org/ CEDA Debate Website]

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[[Category:Student debating societies]]
[[Category:Policy debate]]
[[Category:North American debating competitions]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1971]]
[[Category:1971 establishments in the United States]]