This tournament, often abbreviated as NorthAms, is not to be confused with the North American Universities Debating Championship, abbreviated as NAUDC, which is hosted separately in the fall of each year as a British Parliamentary Style tournament.
The two events are coordinated such that each is hosted by a different country, the United States or Canada, in a given year.
Three people have won the top individual debater award twice: Casey Halladay of the University of Ottawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012.
Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship.
No individual ever repeated as North American Public Speaking Champion.