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General information

This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a College tournament in Illinois.

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College of DuPage Forensics cordially invites you to join us for International Public Debate Tournament held at College of DuPage on Friday, December 9th.  As this is a new tournament for College of DuPage and a fairly new event, there may be a few changes the week of the tournament based upon entry size. We hope you will join us on Friday, December 9th.

Please review the invitation and let us know if you have any questions. We will be using SpeechWire for our tournament so please register via SpeechWire at www.speechwire.com.

Lauren Morgan – morgan@cod.edu

Kacy Abeln – abelnk@cod.edu

Brandon Wood – woodb66@cod.edu

TOURNAMENT 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 is no distinction between novice and varsity. 

ENTRY DEADLINES

· Initial Entry:  Tuesday, December 6, 2016. Registration can be done through SpeechWire.

·      Adds:  Without charge until Noon on Wednesday, December 7, 2016

·      Drops: Without charge until Noon on Thursday, December 8, 2016

JUDGES

Schools are required to provide one judge for every two entries.

FEES

·      Covered International Public Debate:   $12 per entry

·      Uncovered IPD Debate:                               $30 per entry (flat fee—NOT 12 + 30)

·      All drops after Thursday at 12p:            $10 per entry

·      Entry Drop at Registration:                      $25 per entry

·      Judge Drop at Registration:                      $50 per judge

EVENT 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 tournament decisions based upon the spirit of the IPDA bylaws. You can find the IPDA bylaws at http://www.ipdadebate.info.

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

FINALS

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

9:30 Registration

10:00 Round 1 Prelim

11:10 Round 2 Prelim

12:20 Lunch-- Campus Cafeteria will be open and there are numerous restaurants near campus. Jimmy Johns also delivers to campus.

1:00 Round 3 Prelim

2:10 Round 4 Prelim

3:20 Bronze/Silver Round

4:30 Silver/Gold Round

ASAP Awards  

* Please note this is a single-flighted tournament schedule and the schedule may change if the tournament becomes large enough that it requires double-flighting. In the event that the schedule changes, coaches will be notified but registration will remain at 9:30am.

Manager contact information

Kacy Abeln
Email address: abelnk@cod.edu
Phone number: 6309016900

Mailing address

425 Fawell Blvd.
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137

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