Bethany Christian Debate Tournament

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General information

This is a High School tournament in Indiana.

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Hello Coaches,

Welcome to our tournament.  Debate rounds begin at 8:30 Eastern time. 

Please bring one judge per two main event entries (CX, LD, PF, WSD, BQD) and one per five Congress entries. 

Please note that the physical size of our school necessitates restrictions on total size of entries. Those overall limits are 10 for CX, 20 entries for BQD, LD and PFD, 10 for WSD, and 50 for Congress.  I apologize for those of you with large programs.  I realize this may put you as a coach in a difficult position in terms of deciding who competes and who does not, but I cannot simply add more rooms to our school. When you complete your entry, please enter names and don't just place-hold entries without names.  In fairness, I am limiting individual school entries to 5 for BQD, PF and LD, two for WSD, and 15 for Congress.  Once the registration picture becomes clearer, I will allow you to add more entries in events that can handle them.  

​The Policy debate topic is : Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly increase its exploration and/or development of the Arctic.

Novice Policy debate case limits will be applied.  

The PFD resolution will be Resolved: The United Kingdom should rejoin the European Union.

Big Questions Debate: Resolved: Moral systems rooted in theism are preferable to non-theistic moral systems.

Congress bills to be debated are from the ISSDA September/October docket: Bills 2 (gambling), 4 (student mental health), 6 (organic farming), and 11 (nuclear JCPOA re: Iran).

The Lincoln-Douglas topic will be the same for both novice and varsity divisions: 

Resolved: In the United States criminal justice system, plea bargaining is just.

WSD prepared motion -- teams will debate AFF/NEG for the following, and have two impromptu motions:

This House would significantly reduce international arms transfers.

Blessings,

Michael

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Michael Yeakey
Email address: mayeakey@bethanycs.net
Phone number: 574.333.1196

Mailing address

2904 S. Main Street
Goshen, IN 46526