M. Jack Parker Parliamentary Debate Tournament

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This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a College tournament in Illinois.

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On behalf of the Northern Illinois University Parliamentary Debate Team and Staff,

you are invited to attend the

M. Jack Parker Parliamentary Debate Invitational

hosted on the campus of

Northern Illinois University

on October 3, 2015.

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce the Northern Illinois University Forensics Team will be hosting our annual debate tournament.  The NIU Debate Team and coaching staff would like to honor the legacy of our former Director of Forensics, debate coach, and colleague Dr. M. Jack Parker.  Dr. Parker created NIU’s debate tournament with the goal of constructing a space where new debaters are able to learn the process of debate, and older debaters have the chance to hone their debate skills.  It is in this spirit that we offer a debate tournament where novices can start their debate careers, and varsity debaters can begin their debate season. 

The tournament will consist of four preliminary rounds, a quarter, semi, and a final debate round. Based off of the number of entries, the tournament director can add to or take away from the number of out rounds. This decision will be announced by Friday evening. The top two novice teams (who are not in the varsity out rounds) will qualify for the novice final.

This year we will be using SpeechWire to run the tournament. Please go to www.speechwire.com to complete your entry. Entries due on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Please email (lroth1@niu.edu) or call (309-264-0933) Lisa Roth with any questions.

Looking forward to seeing you on NIU’s campus.

Sincerely,

Lisa Roth                             Alex Aebly                                     

Director of Forensics           Debate Graduate Assistant

Tournament Director           Asst. Tournament Director

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Lisa Roth
Email address: lroth1@niu.edu
Phone number: (309264-0933

Mailing address

Watson Hall 237, Department of Communication
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL