West Lafayette Debate Tournament

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General information

This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a High School tournament in Indiana.

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Dear Coach,

You and your debate team are cordially invited to the West Lafayette Debate Tournament to be held on October 25, 2014.  I anticipate a great day of competition in the following categories:  Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, and Congress.  The tournament will be held at West Lafayette Jr./Sr. High School, 1105 N. Grant Street, West Lafayette, Indiana.  Registration will begin at 7:30 in the school media center.  Round one will begin for all events at 8:30 a.m.  I have designed this meet to have 5 rounds, the first two randomly assigned and the following three power-matched.  I reserve the right to cut the last round if judge shortages demand it; however, I hope to give our students a fifth round of experience. 

Food will be available throughout the day; please dine with us.  There will be a judges’ lounge near the cafeteria for your coffee-drinking pleasure.

Judges: 

Please bring at least one judge for every four students or fraction thereof (Two policy teams = 1 judge).  Expect your judges to be assigned to judge any category you enter.  Varsity students who are not competing may judge novice rounds. 

Events: 

• This tournament will offer Policy Debate in Varsity and Novice divisions.  Novice teams are limited to the four prescribed case areas as listed on the IHSFA website. 

• L/D will be divided into two divisions, Varsity and Novice.  Novice and varsity debate will be on “Resolved:  A just society ought to presume consent for organ procurement from the deceased.”

• Public Forum will be divided into novice and varsity divisions.  Both divisions will debate the NFL October resolution, “Resolved:  On balance, public subsidies for professional athletic organizations in the United States benefit their local communities.”

• Novice is defined as having no high school PF, LD, or Policy debate experience prior to this school year.  

• There will be Congress for novice and varsity students.  Students will be debating B/R 1, 3, 5, 7, and 13.  Please let me know if you have a candidate for P.O.  I plan to cycle five judges through the chambers, each ranking all participants.  Final placing will be determined by the cumulative total of the five ranks.

• There will be ribbons for the top 8 in each category and trophies for the top two in each category.  No sweepstakes trophies will be awarded.

If you have any questions, you may contact me at smitha@wl.k12.in.us or call me at 765-746-0400.

Manager contact information

Aaron Smith
Email address: smitha@wl.k12.in.us
Phone number: 765-746-0400

Mailing address

1105 N. Grant Street
West Lafayette, IN 47906