Ben Davis Debate Tournament

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General information

This is a High School tournament in Indiana.

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Registration is now open!  

Dear Coach and Speakers,

Welcome to the all inclusive Ben Davis Debate Tournament I on October 14, 2023. The meet will be held at Ben Davis High School located at 1200 N Girls School Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46214.  We are looking forward to providing your students and judges with an awesome competition experience.  This year we will be offering all debate events.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING

• Buses must drop off at the front of the building  @ Enter through Door 1. 

• Cars may park in the parking lot in front of Door 1.

COVID POLICY

Masks are optional.  Please respect the choices of others.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

All Registration will be done on www.speechwire.com. No emails, faxes or paper entries will be accepted. We strongly encourage that entries be made as early as possible (like right now, so you don’t forget) Registration will be locked (meaning no adding of entries can be added) on Thursday, October 12th, 2023 at 5:00 PM.  Coaches will be able to make name changes and such until Friday, October 13th, 2023 at Noon.  

DROPS will be open in Speechwire until 8:00 AM, October 14th, 2023.  You may call in drops to (317) 988-7188 as well.

TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE

This tournament will have novice and varsity divisions for Lincoln Douglas.  All other events will be open.

• Tournament will start @ 9:00 AM. 

• Entry Per Team: 36 entries per team

• Event Entry Limitation: None. 

NOVICE DEFINITION

For our tournament, we are defining a novice debater/speaker as a first-year debater/speaker who has no or limited debate experience and no more than 35 NSDA points.

ROUNDS: 

• LD, PF, BQ will have 4 rounds.  Policy and WSD will have 3 rounds (changed on 9/18/2023). 

• Congress - 4 - 1 hour sessions (All bills we be debated) 

TOURNAMENT RULES & EVENTS OFFERED:

We will use ISSDA Event Rules outlined in the ISSDA Tournament Manual as well as ISSDA ADA guidelines.

SEE INDIVIDUAL EVENT GUIDELINES ON SPEECHWIRE.

BALLOT 

THIS IS AN E -BALLOT TOURNAMENT. 

All judges should score ballots and at the end of each round electronically.  All judges MUST bring a device i.e. laptop or tablet for judging.  We will not have devices to loan.  ALL JUDGES SHOULD LOG INTO SPEECHWIRE UNDER THE EMAIL YOUR ACCOUNT IS REGISTERED.

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 available.

JUDGE REQUIREMENTS - (NO STUDENT JUDGES)

Each school MUST bring judges for their entries.  Judge requirement will be 1 to 3 ratio i.e. 1 judge per 3 debaters (examples: 2 policy teams = one judge or 1 judge per 2 Congress and 1 LD)

If you are bringing Congress students, please mark a Congress judge as Congress Parliamentarian & Debate judge code.  This will indicate to the office as we assign judges, that this judge is willing to be a parliamentarian.  Please make sure that your Parliamentarian is trained in Robert’s Rules of Order.

JUDGE TYPE

Please select the correct judge type for your judges:

• ALL DEBATE

• CONGRESS PARLIAMENTARIAN & DEBATE

• CONGRESS ONLY

JUDGES LOUNGE

Judges lounge will be available at the tournament and will serve breakfast and lunch.

AWARDS

HIGH SCHOOL - We will give individual ribbons and team trophies (1-8).

TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS

Tournament Manager: Fred Douse, Ben Davis Tournament Host: Gary Peters, Ben Davis

Questions: If you have any questions please email fred.douse@wayne.k12.in.us. 

We want to thank you for coming to the Ben Davis GIANT SPEAKERS SPEECH AND DEBATE Tournament.

Warmly,

Fred and Gary

Manager contact information

Fred Douse
Email address: fred.douse@wayne.k12.in.us
Phone number: (317) 260-3777

Mailing address

1200 N Girls School Rd
Indianapolis, IN 46214