NYCUDL MS Parliamentary Debates #3  

The Berkeley Carroll School

On behalf of the New York City Urban Debate League & the Berkeley Carroll School, you are cordially invited to the NYCUDL MS Parliamentary Debates #3 on December 5th, 2015 for a day of exciting, fun and intense debate excitement.

We will offer three rounds of Middle School Parliamentary Debate.

Judges’ training will be available for individuals interested in judging parliamentary debate.

 

All questions, concerns and/or issues about the tournament should be directed to:

Program Director: Aubrey Semple –aubrey@debate.nyc

 

Looking forward to seeing you all,

Aubrey Semple – Program Director-Tournament Host / New York City Urban Debate League 

Erik Fogel – Executive Director / New York City Urban Debate League

 

Online Registration

 

Registration will take place on speechwire.com.

If you have any questions or issues regarding registration, please email the program director, Aubrey Semple at aubrey@debate.nyc

ONLINE REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR ALL ENTRIES IS 5PM –DECEMBER 3^RD, 2015

Once registration is closed on Wednesday December 2^nd at 5pm, you may still drop or change the names of your entries and judges, but you may not add any additional names.

RULES ON REGISTERING BEGINNER/ADVANCED TEAMS

The student must be entered in the ADVANCED division if:

1) The student has competed in a previous season of debate

2) The student has three or more times ranked in the top 15 through a team award or individual speaker

3) The student is partnered with 1 or 2 other speakers who qualify as advanced

***By coach discretion, a student can compete in the advanced division without having officially qualified.

However, no student who qualifies as advanced may compete in the beginner division.

First-time debaters start in the beginner division; can move to the advanced division within the year depending on performance, as stipulated above.

This is to ensure competitive equity to all competitors at the tournament.

Registration Guidelines

• Students must be physically present before 9:00am to be registered in the tournament for round 1.
• The composition of individual teams entered in Round 1 may not be changed after round 1. (e.g. A team CANNOT add a late-arriving member in Round 2 and subsequent debates).
• Late arriving teams may be entered in the tournament, starting in Round 2. Late arrivals may be required to participate as maverick if there are not enough debaters to form a partnership (a partnership consists of 2 debaters in Public Forum and Policy Debate. It is understood that late arrival teams will be at a large competitive disadvantage because of the lost points from Round 1.
• For incomplete teams, the coach may choose one of two options:
• Option 1: Forfeit round 1 to allow the team to compete as a full partnership for rounds 2-3.
• Option 2: Have the incomplete in all 3 rounds and the late arrival to compete separately.
• The tournament has the discretion to form a hybrid partnership (debaters composed from different schools).
•  Late-arriving students arriving more than 1 hour after the starting of Round 1 CANNOT BE ENTERED IN THE TOURNAMENT, but are encouraged to observe debates.
• A student who competes in Round 1 but leaves the tournament early receives 0 SPEAKER POINTS FOR THE ROUNDS HE/SHE DID NOT ATTEND, but the team can continue to compete throughout the day.

Important: Late arrivals will be dealt with after Round 1 has begun. Please fill out the enclosed late form and wait in the cafeteria until someone comes to collect the forms. Do not enter the tab room under any circumstances (unless you were contacted by the tab staff to enter). This slows down our tournament.

NOTE REGARDING JUDGES:

There are judge requirements for our tournament. The judge requirement is that a school must bring 1 judge for every 3 teams for each respective division. Each judge is obligated to judge all three rounds. If your school has not met the requirement and we do not have enough judges, we will begin to drop teams in random order from schools that have not provided the required judge quota.

There will be judge training for new/inexperienced judges. Providing a judge for training may also count toward fulfillment of your judging obligation. 

Judges must check in on the morning of the tournament by 9:00am, the latest. 

TOPICS

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE

• This House supports affirmative action in college admissions. (Community Topic) 
• This House would repeal the Second Amendment. 
• This House would end birthright citizenship. 

LATE ARRIVAL POLICY

Once check-in closes (at 9:00am) – late arrivals will forfeit the first round and will debate round 2 (even if only late by a few minutes).  During round 1, late arrivals should observe and flow debates.

We must emphasize this rule in order to have an efficient, timely and well-managed tournament.  Please oblige to this request. 

 

AWARDS

Speaker points will be on the scale of 30 points.

We will provide awards for top speakers, top teams and sweepstakes points for top schools.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

To submit teams into Speechwire: Wednesday, December 2nd by 5PM

Check-in / Day of tournament check-in: Saturday, December 5^th, by 9:00AM
 

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

SATURDAY – December 7th, 2015

 

Middle School Parliamentary

8:00am – Breakfast and Registration

9:00am – Registration ends and judge orientation begins

9:45am - Round 1 Parings and Topic Announced

10:05am - Round 1

10:50am - Round 2 Parings and Topic Announced

11:10am - Round 2

12:00pm - Lunch

12:50pm - Round 3 Pairings and Topic Announced

1:10pm - Round 3 (power matched if possible)

2:00pm - Workshops

2:30pm - Middle SchoolAwards Ceremony

3:00pm - Exit Building

TRAVEL DIRECTIONS TO THE TOURNAMENT

 

Location:  The Berkeley Carroll School 

Address: 181 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn NY 11217

Transportation 

Subways

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