We are excited to announce the 2023 New Jersey Speech & Debate League (NJSDL) Middle School State Championship! The tournament will be held in-person on Friday May 17, 2024 at Long Valley Middle School! Thank you to Ms. Christa Smith and Long Valley Middle School for hosting and thank you to Ms. Katie Burke from Randolph High School and Mr. Dave Yastremski from Ridge High School for helping coordinate a pool of NJSDL high school judges without whom this tournament would not be possible!

 

TOPICS

• Public Forum Debate **UPDATE 5/8/24** After discussing with league coaches, we will be using the April NSDA Public Forum Debate Topic.

  RESOLVED: The United Nations should abolish permanent membership on its Security Council.

• Congressional Debate will use a docket inspired from the Young Genius Association's 2024 Spring Tournament & legislation submitted to the House Judiciary Committee: 2024 NJSDL Middle School Championship Congress Docket 

REGISTRATION

Registration is due by 12:00pm (noon) on Thursday, May 16, 2023 on Speechwire.com.

 

JUDGES

We are asking each middle school to supply as many judges as they reasonably can but please do not limit students from competing due to a lack of judges. We will do our best to use the pool of NJSDL students to cover judge obligations where needed. Please email rshay@princetonacademy.org if you are short on judges and if we have enough student judges we will remove the “Judge Fees” in Speechwire once registration closes. If we are able to keep the head coaches free from judging during at least one of the time slots, we would like to hold a planning meeting for next year.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND IMPORTANT INFO

A “Live Doc” for this tournament will be created a shared shortly.

 

 

 

 

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