2025 New York - New Jersey Interstate Championship

February 15, 2025

 

Queens College, City University of New York

Flushing, New York 11367

 

Colleagues and friends,

 

Queens College, CUNY, and the alumni and students of the Queens College Speech and Debate Society are pleased to invite you to the 2025 New York/New Jersey Interstate Championship Tournament on Saturday, February 15th, 2025. This one-day tournament will crown a NY/NJ state champion in each event and determine each state’s two Interstate Oratorical Association representatives. The tournament will be held at Queens College, CUNY, in the Kew Garden Hills neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens.

 

The Interstate Championship Tournament will feature all 11 AFA-NST events alongside IPDA Debate. All points and tabulations will be conducted according to AFA-NST procedures. Finals of the top six contestants will follow two preliminary rounds of individual events. We will offer an Individual Speaker Award to the top three individuals who enter at least four events in two genres of forensics. Sweepstakes awards will be given to the top three schools.

 

Below, you will find all the information you need to enter the tournament. Should you have any questions, please get in touch with Randy Perez at qcspeechteam@gmail.com or 516-858-3156. 

 

Best,

 

Randy Perez, Tournament Director

Nathan Badin, Team President & 

Adelise Felix, Team Vice President

 

Alumni and Students of the Queens College Speech and Debate Society

 

 

 

Entry Rules:

 

1. Schools may enter an unlimited amount of students in each event.

 

2. Students in IPDA debate may only cross-enter in ONE other event in each pattern. Students in the IPDA debate may NOT enter Extemp.

 

3.  Fees

Invoices will be sent out via PayPal unless instructed otherwise.

 

If checks are your preferred payment method, make all checks payable to the Queens College Association (QCA) and write “QC Speech & Debate Society” in the memo section.

 

Entry fees will be assessed as follows:

 

• Team entry fee: $20 (Every participating team will be charged the standard school entry fee)

• Individual Entry slot fees: $10 for I.E., $25 for IPDA Debate

• Uncovered IE slot fee: $12 each (one judge covers 6 IE slots)

• Uncovered IPDA slot fee: $35 per debater (one judge covers two debate slots)

 

• NOTE: All teams must cover a minimum of 50% of their entry. 

• No exceptions unless negotiated well in advance and at the director's discretion.

 

4.  Students may enter up to 3 events per pattern. Two duos count as two events.

 

5. Please provide a qualified judge for every 6 slots or two debaters.

 

6. The deadline for entry (via Speechwire) is Tuesday, February 11th at 1pm.

 

7. Invoices will be assessed on Tuesday, February 11th at 3pm. Add/drop fees will be assessed as follows:

 

• Add/drops on Wednesday, February 12th: $15 per change plus entry fee

• Drops on Thursday, February 13th: $20 per drop plus entry fee – no adds permitted

• Drops on Friday, February 14th: $30 per drop plus entry fee – no adds permitted

• Drops on Saturday, February 15th: $50 per drop plus entry fee – no adds permitted.

• Judge drops through Friday, February 14th: $80 per drop

• Judge drops on Saturday, February 15th: $125 per drop

 

 

Judging

 

Each judge can cover 6 slots or 2 debaters. Judges will be used in both IE and IPDA pools unless otherwise noted. All judges are obligated for one round past their students’ elimination. Failure of a judge to pick up their ballots will result in their students being ineligible for elimination rounds.

 

 

Competition Rules

 

1.  We will use the current standing event definitions and time limits as published by the American Forensics Association.  We will offer a semi-final round for any event with 40 or more entries competing in both preliminary rounds of competition. As per AFA-NST language, Internet use is allowed in Extemp Prep. Queens College guest wi-fi access is available. 

 

2. We will offer one division of Individual IPDA debate. Students in IPDA debate may enter one other event in each pattern except for Extemp. IPDA debaters who are double entered must complete their IPDA round before their IE round.

 

3. In IPDA debate, students will be presented with 5 resolutions (2 policy/2 fact or value/1 metaphorical). WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ROUND 1, TOPIC DRAW WILL BE IN THE ROUND!!!! The 30 minute preparation time will commence with the first negative topic strike. Both affirmative and negative debaters will alternatively strike topics until one resolution is left for the round. As per IPDA rules, students ARE allowed to access any written or electronic materials during prep. Students are also allowed to transcribe and use notes during the round. Students can also use their phones as a timekeeping device provided it is on “silent” or “airplane” mode. However, IPDA rules prohibit access to electronic materials during the debate round. 

 

4.  Awards will be presented to all elimination round participants, the top 3 IPDA debate schools, top 3 overall teams, top 3 debaters and top 3 individual speakers.

 

5.  The final round of Persuasive Speaking will determine the two student representatives for the Interstate Oratorical Association contest. The top two students from New York and the top two students from New Jersey will represent their respective states at IOA. The next two students from each state will serve as the alternative representatives for that state. If there are not enough representatives in the final round from New York or New Jersey, we will turn to ranks in prelims to determine the representatives.

 

6.  Students must be entered in at least 4 individual events to be eligible for speaker awards.

 

 

7.  Awards:

Awards will be given to all elimination round competitors in all events. IPDA will feature two elimination rounds. 

 

Individual events sweepstakes points will be awarded as follows: 12 points for first place, 10 points for second, 8 points for third, 7 points for fourth, 5 points for fifth, and 3 points for sixth. 

 

In debate, sweepstakes points will be awarded as follows: 5 points for each prelim win, 10 points for reaching Semis, 15 points for reaching Finals.

 

Top speakers and schools will be recognized. Students must be entered in four events to be eligible for individual sweeps.

 

8. For IPDA school sweeps, each school’s top 3 debaters will be counted as follows: 5 points per win in prelims; 10 points for reaching semifinals; 15 points for reaching finals.

 

9. Schools must be entered in both IPDA and IE to be in overall sweeps.

 

10. Judges will be placed in both the IPDA and IE pool unless otherwise noted.

 

 

 

Pattern A – Extemp, POI, Duo, Persuasive, Informative, Prose, IPDA

 

Pattern B – Impromptu, Drama, ADS, CA, Poetry, IPDA

 

 

 

 

SCHEDULE for Saturday, February 15th, 2025

 

 

 8:00am        Registration – Kiely Hall 2nd floor (by Kiely Hall 270)

 

 8:30am         Extemp Draw/Round 1 IPDA

(Extemp Draw in Kiely Hall 244; IPDA Draw in Kiely Hall 270)

 

 9:00am         IA (Extemp/POI/Duo/Per/Info/Pro) 

 

 10:30am       IB (Imp/DI/ADS/CA/Poetry) – Round 2 IPDA

 

 12:00pm       Extemp Draw/ Round 3 IPDA @ 12:15pm

 

 12:30pm       IIA 

 

 2:00pm         IIB – Round 4 IPDA

 

 3:30pm         Extemp Draw/ Semifinals IPDA

 

 4:00pm         Finals A 

 

 5:15pm         Finals B/Finals IPDA

 

 6:45pm         Awards (Benjamin Rosenthal Library 230)

 

*Schedule will be accelerated/adjusted if entries/judges warrant.

 

 

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