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The North American Public Speaking Championship is organized by the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate and the American Parliamentary Debating Association. It is run in parallel with the North American Debating Championship, and alternates between host schools in the USA and Canada.
Competition
The event brings together the top university English-language public speakers in North America. The format of the competition consists of three preliminary rounds of competition after which all competitors are ranked by total score. The grand final brings the top five competitors to compete against each other. A judging panel representing both CUSID and APDA judges then decides the final ranking order and the first-place speaker is named North American Public Speaking Champion. The event is dominated by universities from Canada and the USA; only a few universities from Mexico have ever competed. Since its inception, Canada has won eight times out of twelve. Since 2002, it has been held biannually.
North American Public Speaking Champions
| Year | Host | Winner | Team |
| 2005-2006 | University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario) | Jason Rogers | McGill University |
| 2003-2004 | Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) | Stuart Savelkoul | Dickinson State University |
| 2001-2002 | McGill University (Montreal, Quebec) | Aiden Johnson | University of Toronto |
| 2000-2001 | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) | Jeremy Holiday | Middlebury College |
| 1999-2000 | Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) | Mark Bigney | McGill University |
| 1998-1999 | Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts) | Michael Podgorski | Queen's University |
| 1997-1998 | McGill University (Montreal, Quebec) | Jordan Mills | University of New Mexico |
| 1996-1997 | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) | Shuman Ghosemajumder | University of Western Ontario |
| 1995-1996 | University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario) | Marika Giles | Concordia University |
| 1994-1995 | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) | Jake Irving | University of Ottawa |
| 1993-1994 | Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | Michael McKneely | Colgate University |
| 1992-1993 | Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) | Awanish Sinha | University of Ottawa |
| 1991-1992 | McGill University (Montreal, Quebec) | Chris Moore | University of Ottawa |
See also
External link
"North American Public Speaking Championship"