Aaron Thomas Memorial Invitational at Mill Valley

2019 — Kansas City, Kansas, KS/US

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Varsity/DCI

Event Description:

This will is the top division of the tournament and our most experienced judges will be reserved in a pool. For Kansas schools, our tournament has been awarded a Kansas Debate Coaches Invitational bid. Bids will be allocated in the following increments: Top 16/Octofinals (with a 50% winning percentage or higher) – 1 bid; Quarterfinals – 2 bids; Semifinals – 3 bids; Finals – 4 bids; Tournament Champions – 5 bids.

For each entry, we request 3 rounds of coverage from a volunteer who is a qualified adjudicator with an active Tabroom account. It is likely we won’t use the entirety of coverage for those judges and we reserve the ability to place those judges in divisions where we believe it is most suitable. If any programme is having difficulties in securing adequate judging, please contact the tournament director.

There will be 6 rounds of competition where we will break to quarterfinals. Rounds 1 and 2 are randomly preset and each subsequent round will be power-matched high-low for each relevant bracket. All elimination rounds will have a panel of three judges.

Tiebreakers will be in the following order: Win-Loss record, single drop high-low speaker points, double drop high-low, ranks, opponent record, and Z score.

All Varsity/DCI participants must sign a media release form in the event that they are to be livestreamed.
Exodus Files will provide livestreaming services and will stream at least one round for each preliminary round and elimination round as well. Finals will also be livestreamed.