The phrase "debate tournament" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a competition or series of debates between individuals or teams. Example: The high school's debate team competed in the regional debate tournament, facing off against other schools in a series of intense debates on various topics.
They were at a high school debate tournament in Lexington, Ky., -- she was a debater and he was a coach and a judge -- and struck up a conversation in a hallway while waiting to hear who had won the tournament.
The authorities have also clamped down on less obvious threats, canceling events as diverse as a St . Patricks Day parade and a collegiate debate tournament this weekend.
Without a specific goal — a G.P.A. to reach, a debate tournament to win, a college to get into — everything has started feeling a little aimless.
It is my clothing, I thought, as I tenderly refolded my brown Brooks Brothers skirt, worn for an undistinguished performance at a high-school debate tournament.
The couple met in 1993 at a collegiate debate tournament where Ms. Goldstein was dating a member of Mr. Rubinstein's team.
The canceled debate tournament was to have drawn students from 16 universities to the Beijing Institute of Technology, where they were to have wrangled over the topic of China's 1911 revolution.
During long drives to debate tournaments, Rosemary Lawlor Genberg, a former debater, recalled, "he would talk about the nature of time, the progression of life.
Growing up in Illinois and Indiana, I went to Dairy Queen after softball games, choir concerts, and debate tournaments.
He went on to win debate tournaments, and even impress girls, all over the English-speaking world.
The event, like most of the other debate tournaments I've gone to as a high school student, was miserable.
By Elizabeth Weiss May 27, 2014 Growing up in Illinois and Indiana, I went to Dairy Queen after softball games, choir concerts, and debate tournaments.
