Worlds Info/Schedule (update 12/6/20)

World Schools Debate - 2020 John Edie Tournament hosted by The Blake School

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Special Announcement:

So, we are offering two sessions with Miha Andric (please see his bio below) during the impromptu prep times of the Octo finals and Semifinals of the Worlds schools tournament. Miha is amazing to listen to and looks to make every debate the best they can be!

Even if you are not a worlds debater, you may find these sessions very useful.

They will be in the Worlds Assembly room tomorrow.

Octos prep is approximately 10-11AM

He will speak on the following topic: Strategy in WSDC: Workshop will focus on specific ways to analyze the motion to be able to find the clashes before the debate starts and to create efficient comparatives/counterfactuals and construct arguments accordingly. This will help debaters to plan their strategy for the rounds and to fully adapt to the WSDC debate format.

Semis prep is approximately 3-4 PM

He will speak on the following topic: Debating principles & principled arguments: in WSDC debate format we highly value principled arguments, but debaters often struggle to develop and analyze principled grounds in debates without simply referring to the philosophical sources. In this workshop we will show different models for efficient principled arguments and will discuss what is the most efficient use of principles in debates.

Schedule (Update 12/6/20 added partial octos)

Thursday 12/17 - Virtual Registration 5-9 PM -- All times CST

Friday 12/18 - 

10:00 AM -- Roll Call, Judge Training, Student Training

Rd 1 - 10:45 AM - THW ban opinion polls before general elections.

Rd 2 - 12:30 PM - THW ban opinion polls before general elections.

Break 2-3PM

Rd 3 - Roll Call and Motion drop 3PM -- Round approx 4:15 PM

Saturday 12/19

Rd 4 - 9:30 AM  -- Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 11AM

Rd 5 - 1PM-Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 2:15 PM

Rd 6-  4PM - Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 5:15 PM

Sunday 12/20

Partial Octo - 9:30 AM  -- Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 11AM

Quarters - 1PM - Roll Call, Flips and Prepared Debate

Semi Finals 3:30PM  -- Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 4:40 PM

Finals 6PM Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 7:15 PM

Virtual Debates

-- Judges should always have their camera on when a speech is happening

-- Students are asked to have cameras on for the debates -- tech issues can alter this but one should try

-- POI should be done via a hand or better is a note card which says POI.  The speaker can request verbal but otherwise the assumption is non-verbal POI given two people speaking on Zoom can create issues.

-- Blank google documents can be used during impromptu prep for team members to communicate in the impromptu prep room. 

-- Naming conventions should be used by all persons. Students - Side -Team-Name (Judge-Team-Name or Coach-Team-Name)

Observers Policy and Entourage Judging Rule:

Observer Policy -- We will be adding a separate event where for no cost teams can add observers.  This must be adults out of high school. They can be coaches or parents, but only one per round per team, if a parent is watching then a coach cannot watch.  Our plan in all events is to allow two observers which would be one observer per team involved to observe in your own team's rounds.  We truly believe watching your debaters is critical for education and coaching. This policy will run thru prelims and elims.  We hope to live stream a good deal of rounds for debaters to observe.  To be an observer you must have signed up in the "observer" event and have a tabroom account. 

Entourage -- If you are an observer and not a parent, we expect you to be in the judge pool for that event for 2 prelim rounds or 1 prelim round and the first elim round.  A flighted round (we are only doing a couple early PF and LD elim rounds) means you could judge two debates to cover this one round.

Elim Rounds

Plan is to break all 4-2 teams to a partial octofinal. If teams from the same school debate each other they will be given the choice of having a debate or allowing the coach to determine the advancing team per that school's normal policies.

Motions

Round 1/2 -- THW ban opinion polls before general elections. (Debate both sides)

2nd Elim - THBT social movements should use the direct shaming of individuals to encourage change.