The Metro-Hudson League, designed as it is to provide debate opportunities to younger students, is an important part of our overall high school debate program in the northeast. Directors are Jon Cruz of the Bronx High School of Science, Jim Menick of Hendrick Hudson, Militza Diaz of the NJUDL and Joe Vaughan of Scarsdale. We offer novice and JV divisions of Lincoln-Douglas, Policy, and PF.

Each tournament has three or four rounds (depending on starting time); four is the goal, including a short lunch break for everyone. Awards usually start at around 6:30.

The Metro-Hudson League is open to any school interested in debate. Our schools range from New Jersey to Massachusetts; the only geographical requirement of membership is that the Hudson River be within a 6-hour radius of your school as measured by jet airplane, and we'll waive that if you're really interested! If you haven't been a part of the MHL lately, we urge you to come back. If you've never been a part, why not join up? And if you can host one of the open weekends (or even one of the "taken" weekends), please let us know. We want as many schools as possible to compete, and we're happy to take the tournament to where the debaters are. If you're new to debate, come visit us or drop a line at mhldebate@gmail.com.

To get on our mailing list, sign up on tabroom.com and select the Metro-Hudson League circuit.