King Round Robin
2021 — Online, TX/US
Worlds Specific Information
Worlds Rules & Information
· Motions will be released in late February/early March.
· The tournament will consist of a variety of impromptu and prepared motions
· There will be two judges in each preliminary round. At the end of the round, each judge will disclose and give a reason-for-decision, as well as turning in an online ballot
· Speaker points will be assigned on the international scale (average speaker you expect to see at the tournament should receive a 70), moving up or down from there.
· Each team will be assigned a pod, based on mutual-rankings. This pod of 6 teams will each debate each other, guaranteeing 5 rounds of top-quality competition.
· We will not break the bracket.
· To determine who advances to the semi-finals rounds, teams in each pod will be ranked in this way:
o Total number of ballots
o If tied, then head to head record (if more than two teams are tied, the ballot counts against the other teams will break the tie)
o If the debaters split the ballot, then total number of sweeps
o If still tied, high-low speaker points, followed by total speaks will break the ties
· Coaches and participants of the tournament are welcome in rounds as long as the platform allows.