Top 8 speakers in each division will receive a ribbon and top speaker will receive a plaque/trophy.

We will recognize the outstanding presiding officer with a gavel and continue our tradition of having a student vote for the James Cavallo Leadership award in Congressional Debate

Bring 1 judge for every 4 entries.

In Congress, please bring 1 judge for every 6 entries.

Some speech events will have FOUR rounds, which will all take place on December 12th. All rounds on December 12th will be live.

All other speech events will run EIGHT total rounds, with the first four being recorded and judged (asynchronously) during the week leading up to December 12th. The remaining four rounds on December 12th will be live. Depending on entry numbers, they will be prelim #5, prelim #6, SEM, and FNL.

Ballots for the 4 asynchronous rounds will be pushed as soon as we have students, judges, and video links. Speechwire's tournament schedule shows a suggested timing to judge these, but as long as they are finished before the deadline in the table below, you may judge at your leisure.

Students may enter as many events as they are capable of undertaking in a single day, with a few exceptions. If a student is competing in one of the four events below, they may not double in another event from those four (though they may enter another event not in this list):

• Broadcasting
• International Extemp
• United States Extemp
• Discussion (no doubling at all if you are in discussion, your full hour will be used in the discussion round).

Please bring 1 speech judge for every 4 speech entries. We ask all judges to be available for asynchronous and synchronous competition. 

1. Congressional Debate
   • The Docket will come out on December 1st.
   • There will be a morning docket with 5 - 7 pieces of legislation regarding "Domestic Politics" and 5 - 7 pieces of legsilation regarding "US foreign policy."
   • Students will set the order in the chamber.
   • We will reset precedence and recency between round 1 and round 2.
   • The award for presiding officer will be determined by the afternoon session only.
      
2. Lincoln Douglas Debate
   • Resolved: The United States ought to provide a federal jobs guarantee.
   • 4 minutes prep.
   • NSDA Speech times will be honored.
      
3. Policy Debate
   • Resolved: The United States federal government should enact substantial criminal justice reform in the United States in one or more of the following: forensic science, policing, sentencing.
   • There are no novice topic restrictions at this tournament.
   • 5 minutes prep.
   • Open cross-examination is approved as are email chains.
   • NSDA speech times will be honored.
      
4. Public Forum Debate
   • Resolved: The United States should adopt a declaratory nuclear policy of no first use.
   • 3 minutes prep.
   • Email-chains are approved.
   • NSDA Speech times will be honored (3 minute summary)
      
5. World Schools Debate
   • Topic will be released on Dec 1st. 
   • We plan to offer two impromptu rounds and one prepared topic
   • No in-round prep
   • NSDA speech times will be honored

• Discussion
• Impromptu
• International Extemp
• United States Extemp
   

Topic areas and discussion artifacts will be released on December 07.

Questions and topics will be provided to the judge when they are assigned each round.

• Broadcasting (info to be released in "files for download")
• Drama
• Duo (memorized or scripted, splitscreen or together; just be safe)
• Humor
• Informative (no digital visual aides)
• Oratory
• Original Performance
• Poetry
• POI
• Prose

The recorded videos should be uploaded to YouTube and then submitted here on Speechwire. We ask that students do not reuse videos from previous competitions.