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Crown Point Debate Tournament
General information
This is a High School tournament in Indiana. View manager contact information
Crown Point Debate Tournament
Saturday, November 14, 2026
Crown Point High School - 1500 S. Main Street, Crown Point, IN 46307
Tournament Director - Heidi Marek
Please email Heidi Marek (hmarek@cps.k12.in.us) with any questions.
Crown Point High School is on Central time zone.
Events available:
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Debate- Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, Policy, World Schools Debate and Congress in novice and varsity divisions.
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This tournament is 4 straight rounds. Rounds 3 & 4 will be power matched (if numbers are permitting.)
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We will offer trophies for team sweeps of top 5 teams and medals and ribbons for placements 1st-8th place.
Registration:
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Entries are due in Speechwire by Sunday, November 8th
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Drops may be made via Speechwire until midnight on Friday, November 13th.
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After that time, please text 219-323-5263 or email Heidi at hmarek@cps.k12.in.us.
Judges:
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Please bring one judge for every 2 debaters or fraction thereof (3 PF teams=2 judges). Congress=1 judge per 4 entries/fraction thereof.
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Varsity competitors that have 250 NSDA points and can write constructive critiques are eligible to judge novice only.
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We are using e-balloting, please bring an electronic device. Please help judges activate Speechwire accounts.
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Coaches are responsible for training judges to be able to judge all debate events.
Location/Building/Parking:
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Please check in at the main entrance lobby from 7:00-7:30AM.
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Student area is in the cafeteria.
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Tab Room and judges lounge are in the Library (Learning Commons)
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World Schools Prep is D109/119.
Schedule:
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Click on Tournament Schedule
Concessions/Food:
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Concessions are available for students in the cafeteria. Cash only please. Please NO FOOD DELIVERY!
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Judges will be provided breakfast, lunch snacks and drinks.
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Please bring water bottles. Our fountains have been switched to bottle fillers.
Debate Resolutions / Motions / Bills: We will follow all ISSDA rules and restrictions.
Lincoln-Douglas - Resolved: De-extinction is unethical.
Public Forum - Resolved: European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Congress - Look in the files for download for docket. Chambers should attempt to debate 3 bills within each session.
World Schools
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Round 1 - Impromptu - No use of electronics allowed for prep or during rounds. Students should write out notes and speeches on paper. Each team may use up to 2 reference books during prep.
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Round 2 - Prepared: This House would ban private corporate ownership of freshwater sources.
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Round 3 - Prepared: This House would criminalize the commercialization of human genetic data.
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Round 4 - Impromptu - No use of electronics allowed for prep or during rounds. Students should write out notes and speeches on paper. Each team may use up to 2 reference books during prep.
Policy - Novice/Varsity topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should establish national health insurance in the United States.
Novice Case Limits
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Medicare for All — this affirmative is a single-payer, government-run system eliminating private insurance to cover everyone. It would be based on the current Medicare model.
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Revise/Expand the Affordable Care Act — this affirmative would strengthen the 2010 Affordable Care Act, likely by strengthening the individual mandate and restoring federal subsidies for marketplace health insurance plans.
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Single Payer Option to Replace Private Health Insurance — this affirmative is also a single-payer, government-run system eliminating private insurance to cover everyone, but it would not necessarily be based on the existing Medicare model.
Manager contact information Heidi Marek
Email address: hmarek@cps.k12.in.us
Phone number: 574-323-5263 Mailing address 1500 S. Main Street
Crown Point, IN 46307
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