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PBCFL #1
General information This is a High School tournament in Florida. View manager contact information Palm Beach Catholic Forensic League Tournament Invitation PBCFL #1 - The Earlybird DATE: Saturday, September 19 @ Suncoast High School, 1717 Avenue S, Riviera Beach, FL 33404 TOURNAMENT GUIDELINES:
IMPORTANT - NEW PROCEDURES FOR CONGRESS LEGISLATION:
ENTRY PROCEDURES and REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
PREPARATIONS BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT:
REGISTRATION ON SATURDAY:
RULE REMINDERS:
JUDGE QUOTAS:
JUDGE TRAINING WORKSHOP: Judge Trainee Workshop participants do NOT need to be regisatered in advance. However, you do need to order lunches for them. JUDGES ENTERED FOR THE JUDGE TRAINING WORKSHOP DO NOT COUNT TOWARD A SCHOOL'S REQUIRE JUDGE COUNT. YOU MUST ENTER TRAINED JUDGES TO MEET YOUR QUOTA! ENTRY FEES: Each school's PBCFL membership fees ($75) and league registration form must have been received by PBCFL Treasurer Paul Gaba by Friday, September 11, in order to compete at the tournament. Schools that do not achieve both of these will be ineligible to compete, and any registered students and judges will be dropped from the tournament. $20 per student, includes meals MEALS: $10 for adult meals. Coaches must order meals for all entries, adult judges, judge trainees, and coaches. Once registration closes that Friday at 3 p.m., schools are responsible to pay for all meals. STUDENT LUNCHES: Cheese or pepperoni pizza ADULT LUNCHES: Buffet DROP FEES: NEW: Friday, September 11, at 3 p.m. is the deadline for registering students. NEW: Monday, September 14, at 3 p.m. is the last opportunity to drop students before the website shuts down. NEW: Drops Between Monday September 14 at 3pm and Wednesday September 16 at 3pm will forfeit their $20 Entry Fee ($10 Entry Fee + $10 Student Lunch) NEW: Drops After Wednesday September 16 at 3pm will incur a $40 Drop Fee (The forfeited $20 Entry Fee + $20) NEW: After Wednesday September 16 at 3pm, any event changes (moving one already registered student from one event to another) will incur a $10 Nuisance Fee $100 - judge drop fee for any no-show judge on Saturday morning. In addition, you will be required to drop students until the team meets the judge quota. $50 - missed judge rounds (hidden judges). TOPICS: EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING TOPIC AREAS: Europe; Southwest Asia and North Africa; US Health, Immigration, and Social Issues; US Politics & Elections IMPROMPTU TOPIC AREAS: YA Book titles, Prominent Figures in Politics, Famous Movie Quotes, Back to School SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATE: Resolved: Outer space colonization is a moral imperative. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE: Resolved: The United States federal government should enact a moratorium on hyperscale data center construction. CONGRESS-SPECIFIC INFORMATION: PRESIDING OFFICERS: The following is required of all Novice Chamber Presiding Officer candidates: Coaches must register varsity students as novice chamber Presiding Officer Candidates in advance of the tournament. The PO candidate MUST be trained properly in advance by their coach. All presiding officers MUST be able to adequately control the chamber. They MUST be VERY familiar with parliamentary procedure. They MUST use a FAIR system of RECENCY. They MUST understand how to document a speaking system on a seating chart. They MUST know all rules of Student Congress. Do NOT put students unfamiliar with the event in this position. THE NOVICE CHAMBER PRESIDING OFFICERS ARE LITERALLY TEACHERS IN FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM, AND AS SUCH,REALLY NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING! Varsity serving as Novice chamber presiding officers WILL be assigned to a novice House chamber for the entire tournament and preside both sessions. They are not allowed to be ranked by the judges or win any trophies. League officers reserve the right to designate POs for novice chambers from the designees. There is no guarantee PO candidates will be used to preside over novice chambers. Coaches do not need to designate POs to preside in varsity chambers. CHAMBER REMINDERS: Direct Questioning is now required as part of chamber proceedings. Varsity will set an agenda on the day of the tournament; the novice chambers will be preset with odd numbered chambers going in alpha order, and even chambers going in the reverse order. For example, Novice Chamber 1 would have the legislation in order by their ordering in the packet (which is alphabetical), while Novice Chamber 2 would have the legislation in the reverse order (if Wellington were the last school alphabetically in September, their legislation would be first). Extending the questioning period is not allowed, nor are two-part questions. All authorship/sponsorship and first-negative speeches have a mandatory two-minute questioning period. All other speeches have a mandatory one-minute questioning period. Each legislative item must go through at least one complete cycle (three speeches). Recency resets for Session 2. Recesses are allowed under PBCFL rules, with a maximum of 10 minutes of recess per session. At least 2 hours of debate must take place each session. Recess time is included in this total. The 2 hours begins once the first speech of a session begins. There is 30 minutes prior to the morning session that should be used for electing presiding officers, setting dockets, etc. "MODIFIED" WORLD SCHOOLS DEBATE (WSD): World Schools Debate is a three-on-three format. While a given team may consist of five members, only three students from a team participate in a given debate. Teams are assigned one of two sides in each round - either the “government team” proposing the motion, or the opposition team advocating the rejection of the motion. Resolutions come in two types: prepared motions and impromptu motions. All topics needed to be debated from a global perspective, meaning teams needed to stay away from United States-specific argumentation. The PBCFL will be running a modified WSD format. The first two rounds will be a prepared motion, where each team will debate both the proposition and opposition sides. The third round will be an impromptu motion, with 60 minutes of "prep" time before the round. No internet access is allowed during World Schools Debate rounds or during prep on impromptu motions; the only tools that can be used during impromptu prep are a hard-copy dictionary and a hard-copy almanac. The PBCFL will allow three-person non-hybrid teams. Normally, between 3-5 students from multiple schools can comprise a team, but for purposes of the PBCFL, this will not be the case. THE SEPTEMBER WORLD SCHOOLS DEBATE PREPARED MOTION: This House believes that the Great American Experiment has failed. (Prepared motion to be used the first two rounds; the impromptu motion will be announced 60 minutes before Round 3 begins.) Times for each speech are as follows:
The first full minute of a substantive speech and the last full minute of a substantive speech are considered "protected time;" no Points of Information (POIs) may be given during this time. In addition, no POIs may be given during the rebuttal speeches. DEMO VIDEO - THE USA DEBATE TEAM SHOWCASE (Motion: This House Believes That the School Choice Movement Jeopardizes Civil Rights): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUF5BI1-1Ek Important tournament rooms Extemp Prep - 133 TRACI LOWE Mailing address Palm Beach Catholic Forensic League SpeechWire Tournament Services - Copyright 2004-2026 Ben Stewart. All Rights Reserved. Terms of use - Privacy and Security Policy
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