Because what better way to spend a holiday break than in the privacy of your home while debating your best friends from across the country?

Science Leaves No Room For Free Will.

Tournament will start at 9 am EST on 12/27. Rounds will then run as close as we can to every 90 minutes to allow you time to go to your kitchen to have a snack. Judges are not permitted to give oral critiques or release results. We will do six rounds. 

You can register as a single student or as a team of two. Once your coach registers you - Fill in this google form - https://goo.gl/forms/SEYhXdQHHywwvlFh2

Don't expect your coaches to work on this day!!! Let them have a break!!! - but your coaches need to be the one to register you on Tabroom.   Once your coach registers you - Fill in this google form - 

Information about Big Questions is here (https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Big-Questions-Judge-Primer.pdf) and here is the ballot (https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Big-Questions-Ballot.pdf)

The judging quota is one per one.  Judges can be freshman in college through adults. Judges should watch the video https://www.speechanddebate.org/judge-training/  NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!!!

All ballots will be done in Tabroom. 

All debates should be done on Google Hangouts. You should familiarize yourself with this - and make sure that your judge also knows how to use it!

Rounds will be power paired starting with Round 3.  Judges should enter decisions within a timely manner after each round. (At the end of the round, you should hang up a few seconds later. Say a quick thank you and goodbye, then hang up to allow the judge time to fill in the ballot).

Mrs. Volpe from North Allegheny will live tweet using @BigQuestionsHere  Make a parent or sibling or anyone else in your house take a photo of you debating in front of your computer. Tweet these to her and @speechanddebate.

Email her at svolpe@northallegheny.org

Results will be tweeted after all of the rounds. Trophies will be mailed in early January.

No cost to enter.

No judges for purchase.

Cool trophies.