You and your team are invited to the Penn High School Invitational Debate Tournament to be held Oct. 18, 2014. 

Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. and Rd. 1 will begin at 8:30.  Penn High School is in the Eastern Time Zone.

The entry deadline is 3:00 p.m. Wednesday Oct. 15th. Entries are to be made through SpeechWire.

Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate and Student Congress competitions will be offered. There will be a Varsity and a Novice division in each. A novice debater is a student who has never debated competitively before. Any previous debate competition experience makes that student a Varsity debater regardless of the event.

 

Public Forum will debate the October topic concerning public subsidies for professional athletic organizations.

Lincoln Douglas will debate the Sept.- Oct. topic concerning organ procurement.

Both Divisions of Congress will debate IHSFA Bills # 3, 4, 5 and 12.

Policy Debate will use the "Earth's Oceans" resolution with Novice debaters limited to the IHSFA recognized restrictions.

 

Penn High School will provide Congress Presiding Officers for the tournament.

 

****Judges****

One judge is required for every 4 debaters or portion thereof. 5 debaters = 2 judges. One Policy or Public Forum team = 2 debaters. Please try to bring judges who can judge all events. Notre Dame plays FSU that day and I will not have many (if any) extra judges on hand. We will be in need of debate event judges more than we will need Congress type judges. In fact, I will not need any Congress judges as Penn will supply them all.

 

Ribbons will be provided to the top debate entries in each event. No Sweepstakes awards/trophies will be awarded.

 

Lunch concessions will be available for students. The money generated from the concessions help fund our program. Please plan on having your students patronize it. There will be a coaches/judges lounge. PLEASE PLAN TO STAY AT THE TOURNAMENT AND NOT LEAVE THE BUILDING. 

 

Questions? My cell is 620-228-3551

Dave Dutton

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