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 November 5, 2016.  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 near the school office and end at 8:00.  There will be a mandatory judge meeting at 8:15.  Round one will begin immediately after the judge meeting.  This meet will have 4 rounds, the first two randomly assigned and the following two power-matched. 

Register via SpeechWire by the end of your school day on Wednesday, November 2.

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 below.

o    Cooperation with China in Outer Space

o    Signing a Bilateral Investment Treaty With China

o    A grand bargain on Taiwan: Repealing the Taiwan Relations Act in exchange for Chinese concessions in the South China Sea

o    Eliminating the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Installations in East Asia in exchange for China’s assistance in stopping North Korean nuclearization.

§   Any affirmative novice team that offers a plan not listed here will receive a loss for that round. The restrictions regarding 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: The United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers.”

• Public Forum will be divided into novice and varsity divisions.  Both divisions will debate the NSDA November resolution, “Resolved: On balance, the benefits of the Internet of Things outweigh the harms of decreased personal privacy.

• Novice is defined as having no high school PF, LD, Policy, or WSD debate experience prior to this school year.  

• There will be Congress for novice and varsity students.  Students will be debating B/R 3, 9, 11, and 14.  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.

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 regrets the creation of the Eurozone.

Round 3 will be a prepared topic on the following resolution:  This House believes that affirmative action policies are counterproductive in reducing inequalities.

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