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 24, 2015.  I anticipate a great day of competition in the following categories:  Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, Congress and World Schools Debate.  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 (except WSD) at 8:30 a.m.  This meet will have 4 rounds, the first two randomly assigned and the following two power-matched. 

Please enter on SW by 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 21.  Thanks!

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, five LDers = 2 judges, etc…).  Expect your judges to be assigned to judge any category you enter.  Varsity students (200 or more NFL points) 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 (not the NFHS) website. Any affirmative novice team that offers a plan not listed here will receive a loss for that round. The restrictions regarding topicality, counterplans, and kritiks are to be followed. 

• L/D will be divided into two divisions, Varsity and Novice.  Novice and varsity debate will be on “Resolved: Adolescents ought to have the right to make autonomous medical choices.”

• Public Forum will be divided into novice and varsity divisions.  Both divisions will debate the NSDA October resolution, “Resolved: The United States Federal Government ought to pay reparations to African Americans.”

• 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/1, 2, 11, 12, and 13.  Please let me know if you have a candidate for P.O.  I plan to cycle four judges through the chambers, each ranking all participants.  Final placing will be determined by the cumulative total of the four ranks.

• Schools may also bring World Schools Debate entries.  There is one open division.  The tournament will follow the guide labeled, “An Introduction to World Schools Debate” on the NSDA website.

Round 1 will be an impromptu topic.  WSD teams will receive the topic & side in the draw room at 8:00.

Round 2 will be a prepared topic on the following resolution:  This house supports the death penalty.

Round 3 will be a prepared topic on the following resolution:  This house believes the United States should raise its minimum wage.

Round 4 will be an impromptu topic. WSD teams will receive the topic & side in the draw room.

• There will be ribbons for the top 8 in each category and medals for the top three 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