December 1, 2015

Dear Forensics Colleague,

On behalf of the forensics program and Department of Communication, we invite you to join us for the first International Public Debate Tournament held at Kishwaukee College to be hosted on December 11, 2015 on the Kishwaukee College campus.  Please review the enclosed invitation carefully.

ELIGIBILITY

Any regularly enrolled college student with less than four years of college debate experience is eligible to participate. 

For the purposes of this tournament, there will be no division between Varsity and Novice.

ENTRY DEADLINES

This tournament will be run on Speechwire and entries should be submitted via Speechwire @www.speechwire.com

• Initial Entry:  Tuesday, December 8, 2015
• Adds:   Without charge until Noon on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015
• Drops: Without charge until Noon on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015

Judges

Schools are required to provide one judge for every:

• Two competitors

FEES

• International Public Debate:                     $15 per entry
  • Uncovered IPD Debate:               $25 per entry
• All drops after Thursday at 12p:              $10 per entry
• Entry Drop at Registration:                        $25 per entry
• Judge Drop at Registration:                        $50 per judge

 

DEBATE RULES

This tournament follows the spirit of the International Public Debate Association’s bylaws but is NOT sanctioned by IPDA. The tournament director will be making debate tournament decisions based upon the spirit of the IPDA bylaws. You can find the IPDA bylaws at http://www.ipdadebate.info.

Note: Kishwaukee College students will compete in the tournament and can advance to finals.

 

Final Rounds

The goal of this tournament is to host as many rounds as possible. While the general running of the tournament will follow IPDA regulations, breaking for the tournament will generally follow the Phi Rho Pi break system with Bronze, Silver, and Gold. There will be a Bronze Round (Semi-Final Rounds), and a Gold Round (Final Rounds). We will break the top 30% of the debate field into the Bronze Round. Thus, there will be multiple Bronze Rounds occurring simultaneously. The winners of the Bronze round will advance to the Silver/Gold round. Winners of the Silver/Gold round will be Gold Medalists and losers of the Silver/Gold will be Silver Medalists.

 

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

8:30 Registration

9:00 Round 1 Prelim

10:15 Round 2 Prelim

11:30 Lunch Break

12:00  Round 3 Prelim

1:30  Round 4 Prelim

2:45 Bronze/Silver Round

4:00 Silver/Gold Round

ASAP Awards  

 

Please note that the lunch break is extremely brief and does require a bit of planning ahead. Restaurants in DeKalb won’t deliver to Kishwaukee in Malta so the Kishwaukee cafeteria will be open during the lunch break and there is also a Subway nearby at the local gas station in Malta, IL.

 

Yours in forensics,

Chase Budziak                                                                                 

Director of Forensics                                                                   

Kishwaukee College                                                                      

(vr)