KU BF and KU LP each win their first elim on 3-0 decisions over Missouri State and Georgia. KU CC drops to Wake Forest.

6 KU teams competed in the University of Minnesota tournament and 3 teams will compete in the elimination rounds tomorrow. Chaudhry/Chidambaranathan 5-1 (7th seed) Blaser/Falin 4-2 (11th seed) Linde/Persson 4-2 (14th seed)

Three more days of our Launch KU fundraiser, and we only need three more donors to reach 130 unique donors! All contributions help ensure coaching and travel support for KU debaters in perpetuity (see: SS and MoState crew showing off the new squad van). ❤️ launchku.org/campaigns/ku-de…

All three KU teams won their octos debates this morning at Kentucky! BB defeated Northwestern, OU beat USC, and SS knocked out the number one seed from Michigan. In quarters, OU dropped to Dartmouth and BB was walked over by SS, who is now debating in semifinals! 🔥 #RockChalk

Five KU teams ended UK prelims 4-2 or better! Brown/Suleman narrowly missed elims as the 35th seed while Ain/Walawender, Bath/Boyle, Owings/Ulven, and Shaw/Suleman all cleared to doubles! 🔥 BB, OU, and SS all win their doubles debates and advance to octos! #RockChalk 💙❤️

One prelim left to go at Kentucky! AV: 1-4 AW: 3-2 BB: 3-2 BL: 1-4 BT: 3-2 BF: 3-2 BS: 4-1 FH: 2-3 HJ: 2-3 LP: 3-2 OU: 4-1 SS: 4-1 #RockChalk ❤️💙🔥

All 12 KU teams are on the board with three prelims to go at Kentucky! AV: 1-2 AW: 2-1 BB: 2-2 BL: 1-2 BT: 1-2 BF: 2-1 BS: 3-0 FH: 1-2 HJ: 2-1 LP: 2-1 OU: 3-0 SS: 3-0 #RockChalk 💙❤️🔥

12 KU teams are traveling to Lexington, KY this weekend for the J.W. Patterson Debates at the University of Kentucky! Join our LaunchKU campaign today! As we continue to travel 10+ teams to majors, every donation counts. 💙❤️ launchku.org/campaigns/ku-de… #RockChalk

KU debaters Owen Owings and Max Ulven have spent the last two days competing against some of the best teams in the country at the Run for the Roses round robin hosted by the University of Kentucky! They finish as the runners-up with only two losses! 🏆🔥 #RockChalk 💙❤️

KU wrapped the MoState tournament in semifinals yesterday! Congratulations to LP and PW on semis runs and to AV, DS, and JH on quarters appearances! Four debaters also earned top 10 speaker awards! Shruti P - 🥈 Ewa A - 6th Aryan V - 7th Cam W - 8th #RockChalk 💙❤️🔥

KU claims the top five seeds going into elims at Missouri State! All five teams also receive a bye through octos tomorrow morning! Adepipe/Verma: 5-1 Dittmar/Shah: 6-0 🔥 Home/Jijo: 5-1 Linde/Persson: 5-1 Parthasarathy/Williams: 5-1 #RockChalk 💙❤️

KU Debate is breaking in the brand new squad van at the MoState tournament this weekend! Immense thanks to our Jayhawk alums and all of the people who have donated over the last year for making it possible. #FOE #RockChalk 💙❤️

KU Debate is already back in action at Missouri State this weekend! We have 5 teams debating and all of them, including 7 first-year debaters, have already notched a win! 🔥 Adepipe/Verma: 2-0 Dittmar/Shah: 2-0 Home/Jijo: 1-1 Linde/Persson: 1-1 Parthasarathy/Williams: 2-0

In addition to the season kick-off at Northwestern, we've also kicked off our fall fundraiser with Launch KU! Every donation helps preserve KU Debate's ability to travel to tournaments across the country! launchku.org/campaigns/ku-de… #RockChalk 💙❤️

SS and OU drop in octos of Northwestern, but all four debaters earn a speaker award to cap off KU's season opener! Max Ulven - 6th Nargis Suleman - 12th Kate'Lynn Shaw - 14th Owen Owings - 22nd #RockChalk 💙❤️🔥

OU (7-1), SS (6-2), BF (6-2), and AW (5-3) all advanced to elimination rounds at Northwestern! BF lost in doubles while AW got walked over, concluding some strong first tournaments of the season. OU and SS are now both negating in the octos! #RockChalk 💙❤️🔥

Only two more prelims to go at Northwestern! AW: 4-2 BB: 3-3 BP: 3-3 BT: 4-2 BF: 5-1 BS: 3-3 CC: 3-3 FH: 2-4 LP: 3-3 LL: 1-5 OU: 5-1 SS: 4-2 #RockChalk 💙❤️🔥

Day one of Northwestern is in the books! 🔥 AW: 3-1 BB: 2-2 BP: 2-2 BT: 2-2 BF: 3-1 BS: 2-2 CC: 2-2 FH: 2-2 LP: 2-2 LL: 0-4 OU: 3-1 SS: 3-1 #RockChalk 💙❤️

12 KU teams are preparing to kick off the season at the Owen L Coon Memorial Debates at Northwestern! Wish them luck this weekend! #RockChalk 💙❤️

The KU Debate 2026 Run It Back reunion is well underway and we are thrilled to have so many familiar faces back on campus! Thanks to @KUCollege Dean, Dr. Jennifer Roberts, and @KUEndowment as well as to the COMS department for celebrating with us this afternoon!