National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence

The National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence (NPTE) is one of the three national intercollegiate parliamentary debate organizations in the United States. The other is the American Parliamentary Debate Association and the National Parliamentary Debate Association. The primary difference between the NPTE and its sister circuit (the NPDA) is that to get to the NPTE you must attain a certain amount of points throughout the year at sanctioned tournaments making the number of teams at this tournament more limited.

The Rules of NPTE Debate

In the NPTE teams of two debate head-to-head. Teams are encouraged to write topic papers and the top 5 are voted on and will be selected. However it is unknown which round uses which topic so teams still get 20-30 minutes of prep at the tournament. For the first several years final rounds were voted on by the spectators and not by the panel but due to controversy this was changed to a panel. The standard time limits for an NPTE debate are:

• Preparation Period: 20 Minutes
• First Proposition Speaker: 7 minutes
• First Opposition Speaker: 8 minutes
• Second Proposition Speaker: 8 minutes
• Second Opposition Speaker: 8 minutes
• Opposition Rebuttal: 4 minutes
• Proposition Rebuttal: 5 minutes

There is a ban on quoted evidence. This simply means that the debaters may not bring in printed, published evidence and consult it during the round. It is expected that debaters will use their own pre-existing knowledge and research conducted prior to the start of the actual round to back their arguments with reasoning and empirical data. This places parli in stark contrast to the other common intercollegiate debate format, policy debate, where debaters may utilize quoted evidence.

NPTE National Champions

Every year since 2001, the organization has held a national championship tournament. Winning teams include:

Year	Team	School
2023	Co-Champions: Tristan Keene & Brenna Seiersen* and Holden Carrillo & Arjun Banerjee	Parliamentary Debate at Berkeley
2022	Alex Li & Gabe Graville	University of Oregon
2021	???	???
2020	Amanda Miskell & Brian Yang	Parliamentary Debate at Berkeley
2019	Henry Tolchard & Tom Kadie*	Parliamentary Debate at Berkeley
2018	Henry Tolchard & Brian Yang	Parliamentary Debate at Berkeley
2017	Ryan Kelly & Kaitlyn Bull*	Washburn University
2016	Sam Cook and Steven Hullum	University of Texas at Tyler
2015	Josh Rivera and Zach Schneider	Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2014	Emily Halter and McKay Campbell	Lewis and Clark College
2013	Josh Rivera & Mike Selck*	Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2012	Lauren Knoth & Josh Ramsey*	Washburn University
2011	Hank Fields & Matt Gander*	University of Oregon
2010	Than Hedman & Will Van Treuren	University of Colorado at Boulder
2009	Max Alderman & David Pena*	University of Nevada, Reno
2008	Kevin Calderwood and Kyle Dennis	Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2007	Kevin Garner and Luke Landry	William Jewell College
2006	Josh Anderson & Rachel Safran*	University of Puget Sound
2005	Ian Samuel and Marie Tenny*	University of South Carolina
2004	Glenn Prince and J. D. Shipman*	University of South Carolina
2003	Michael Owens & Joshua Wilkerson*	University of Wyoming
2002	Ben Garcia & Chris Richter*	California State University
2001	Heidi Ford and Alan Tauber	University of Oregon

• Also won NPDA that year

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