Proof, not projections.
What's actually happening at SuperDebate. A live league, an international championship, five signed advisors, an AI topic of the year, and an open pre-seed round on standard SAFE.
A live league, not a deck
Live competitive debate already runs in multiple cities. The format is locked, the rounds are recorded, and the room shows up.
An international championship
SuperDebate hosted an international tournament with competitors from seven countries. Cross-border. Cross-format. Real.
A 200-person community
Chicago is the home market: a 200-person active community with a 250-person Meetup audience. The first community-run event already shipped without the founder present.
AI as the topic of the year
Nine questions. Every town. All year. AI is the announced topic of 2026 and the framework for every debate, club, and content piece this year.
A complete playbook
The Debate Guide is published. The chapter playbook is documented from real Chicago experience. New ambassadors get the full kit on Day 1.
A platform that works
superdebate.org runs end-to-end: events, ticketing, video rooms, judge ballots, brackets, recaps. Founder Arena is live. The product is not the bottleneck.
A national league, opening city by city.
Chicago, Portland, Boston, Austin, New York, Atlanta, San Francisco, Washington — each with named warm contacts and an opening move from the operating plan. Pages for the next 100 US cities are already indexed.
See open cities- Chicago, IL — home market
- Portland, OR — recurring rhythm
- Boston, MA — investor + anchor
- Austin, TX — UT alumni network
- New York, NY — highest density
- Atlanta, GA — Emory AUDL
- San Francisco — tech + law alumni
- Washington, DC — policy alumni
Five signed advisors
Founder of Esposito Intellectual Enterprises (over 100 companies in his network). Strategic capital, partnership, and media path.
LinkedIn →SVP of Partnerships and Events at Real American Beer. Fortune 500 partnerships. Real American Freestyle parallel.
LinkedIn →Founder of Authentalk, COO of ModernBrain, and the all-time IPDA professional record holder for both speech wins and debate wins.
LinkedIn →CEO and Co-Founder of DebaterHub. NSF SBIR PI. Scaling debate to thousands of students across Title 1 schools.
LinkedIn →Former VP of Lifestyle Marketing at Liquid Death. Former Sports Marketing Manager at Red Bull. Cultural-moment activations.
LinkedIn →$500K SAFE round.
Adults pay to compete — Tough Mudder, CrossFit, bar trivia all proved it. Toastmasters built $60M on speaking clubs alone. Nobody has done either for live intellectual competition. We are.
See it live.
The next debate night ships this month. Come to the room. Or lock in founding status before the wall fills up.