GIANT Speakers - Debate Your Heart Out

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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 and Speakers,

Welcome to the BEN DAVIS GIANT SPEAKERS Debate Your Heart Out Tournament on December 3^rd, 2016.  The meet will be held at Ben Davis High School located at 1200 N Girls School Road, Indianapolis, IN 46214.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

All Registration will be done on www.speechwire.com. No emails, faxes or paper entries will be accepted. Entries must be received by Wednesday, November 30^th by 5:00 PM EST.  Please make sure you included your email address with your entry so I can send you confirmation of your entry.  You will be allowed to make names changes and drops only until Friday. December 2^nd, 2016 NOON.

TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE

This will be an open division tournament with four rounds of competition.

Entry Per  Category:  LD, PF, Policy – 5 entries, Congress – 6 entries, World School Debate – 3 teams only

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE (PF AND LD WILL BE DOUBLE FLIGHTED)

FINAL REGISTRATION 7:00 AM – 7:30 AM

ROUND ONE      8:00 AM

ROUND TWO     10:00 AM

ROUND THREE  12:00 AM

ROUND FOUR    2:00 AM

CONGRESS – FIRST SESSION - 8:30 AM - -10:30 AM

CONGRESS – SECOND SESSION - 12:30 PM --2:30 PM

TOURNAMENT TOPICS:

LD:

Resolved: The United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers.

POLICY

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and/or diplomatic engagement with the People’s Republic of China.

Public Forum

 Resolved: The United States should end Plan Colombia.

WORLD SCHOOL DEBATE

Round 1- This house believes that the feminist movements have achieved their primary objective.

Round 2- Impromptu

Round 3- This house believes that law enforcement officials should not be able to use social media to track individuals.

Round 4- This house believes that the next president of the United State should prioritize our relationship with Latin America.

CONGRESS BILLS

AM SESSION

#4 Congressional Redistricting

#11 Social Media Ban

#5 Indian Free Trade

PM SESSION

#13 Japan Military

#6 Iran Embassy

#1 Mandatory Sentences

BALLOT RETURN

All judges should return their signed and properly scored ballots and completed critique sheets at the end of each round to the ballot table located in the S HALL.  Judges are expected to stay for the entire meet and the entire round.  COACHES: Scores will not be posted.

CONCESSIONS

There should be no leaving the building as food for students will be served in the cafeteria. Complimentary food for judges, coaches and bus drivers will be Le Gallery.

JUDGE REQUIREMENTS

Each school MUST bring one judge for every 4 debaters and every fraction thereof i.e. two policy teams = 1 judge).  Teams that do not bring enough judges may have entries dropped at the discretion of the tournament director.

AWARDS

Ribbons will be given to the top 10 in each category.

QUESTIONS/UPDATES

We will continue to update the tournament details and will send out information via Speechwire.

If you have any questions please email Gary Peters, Director of Debate at gary.peters@wayne.k12.in.us or Fred Douse, Director of Speech,  at fred.douse@wayne.k12.in.us. 

We want thank you for coming to the Ben Davis Giants Speech Invitational.

Warmly,

The Ben Davis GIANT SPEAKERS COACHING STAFF

Manager contact information

Gary Peters
Email address: gary.peters@wayne.k12.in.us
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Mailing address

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