Invitation

You are cordially invited to The Meadows School’s Invitational Tournament, October 31st – Nov 2nd, 2014. We will provide competition in Varsity Policy and Lincoln Douglas debate on the 2014 Policy and September October LD topics. For Policy this is Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its non-military exploration and/or development of the Earth’s oceans.

There is no entry deadline – we will accept entrants until we are full. Fees will be frozen on Oct 17^th; entries that drop after that time will still be obligated to pay entry fees. We can accommodate up to approximately 56 teams and 80 LDers.  Entry will be through the Tabroom.com site. Hired judge requests must be sent to timalderete@yahoo.com by Sept 19^th. We must receive payment for hired judges prior to Sept 20th. Directions, announcements and judging preference instructions will be sent out in the weeks prior to the tournament through Tabroom.com.

Both Divisions will consist of six preliminary debates. We will break to at least Octofinals. Power matching in Policy will be based on Wins, High Low Points + Opponents Wins, Total Points and Judge Variance. Round Three will be matched High High, with the remaining rounds being powered High Low within brackets. Power matching in LD will be based on Wins, High Low Points + Opponents Wins, Total Points and Judge Variance. Up to 16 teams/debaters in policy with winning records will advance.