JV/Novice State Championship
 Eagan High School
December 1 – 2, 2017

Welcome to the 2017 JV/Novice Debate Championships. Eagan High School is happy to host the state of Minnesota’s up and coming students of debate. This year’s JV/Novice Championships will feature Junior Varsity Policy, Novice Policy, Junior Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, Novice Lincoln-Douglas, Junior Varsity Public Forum, Novice Public Forum Debate and Congressional Debate. 

Congressional Debate: All participants in Congress must be in their 1st or 2nd year of debate competition.  Congress competition will take place on Friday December 1st and Saturday December 2nd and feature 2 full 3-hour preliminary sessions and a Final Super Congress. The number of chambers we run will be based upon entry numbers. Every 20 entries will add a chamber. The top 6 in each chamber will advance to the Final Super Congress. Up to 2 pieces of legislation should be emailed to Ross Eichele at ross.eichele@district196.org and received no later than Monday November 20th at 4:00 PM. All legislation will be posted here on Tabroom.Com no later than Wednesday November 22^nd.

General Debate Information: In Policy, LD and PF the first two rounds will be pre-set and all subsequent rounds will be powered high-low within brackets. Brackets in elimination rounds will not be broken so if two debate entries from the same school are matched up in elimination rounds, the decision of which debater will advance will be left to the school’s coaching staff. 

Policy Debate will have 5 preliminary rounds with the first 2 rounds being pre-sets and the rest being powered high/low within brackets. JV Policy Debate will break to quarterfinals and Novice Policy Debate will break to Octofinals. We will be using the national policy topic - Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its funding and/or regulation of elementary and/or secondary education in the United States.

All MDTA novice topic and argument limits will be in effect throughout this tournament. Judges must abide by all MDT novice topic and argument limits. The tab room reserves the right to enforce the novice topic limits.

Lincoln-Douglas Debate will have 6 preliminary rounds with the first 2 rounds being pre-sets and the rest being powered high/low within brackets. In LD all 4-2 records will clear to elimination rounds. LD Debate will be single flighted at this year's JV/Novice State Tournament. In order to accommodate this action we are going to have to utilize a handful of creative competition spaces. In LD we will use the November/December Topic - Resolved: Wealthy nations have an obligation to provide development assistance to other nations.

Public Forum Debate will have 6 preliminary rounds with the first 2 rounds being pre-sets and the rest being powered high/low within brackets. In Public Forum all 4-2 records will clear to elimination rounds. Public Forum Debate will be single flighted at this year's JV/Novice State Tournament. In order to accommodate this action we are going to have to utilize a handful of creative competition spaces. In Public Forum we will use the November Topic - Resolved: The United States should require universal background checks for all gun sales and transfers of ownership.