Awards and Speaker Points

We will provide awards for the top 20 speakers in all events, participants of elimination rounds as well as certificates for teams with winning records that did not advance to elimination rounds.

We will utilize the following tiebreaker structure to determine teams advancing to elimination rounds:

o   1st – Preliminary win/loss records

o   2nd - Total points

o   3rd – Ranks

o   4th – Opponent wins

We will utilize the following tiebreaker structure to determine top speakers:

o   1st – Total points

o   2nd – Ranks

o   3rd – Preliminary win/loss records

o   4th – Opponent points

o   5th – Opponent ranks

o   6th – Opponent win/loss records

Finalists in Policy debate will receive an invitation to debate at the 2018 NAUDL National Championships in Washington, DC. The tournament has the right to select the next highest ranked team from a school different from the one receiving the invitation to attend the tournament, if necessary.

Finalists in Public Forum debate will receive an invitation to debate at the 2018 National Debate Coaches Association National Championships in Atlanta, Georgia. 

If two teams from the same school are scheduled to debate each other, we will ask the coach to select a team to advance to the next round.

Speaker points will be on a scale of 25-30 points in Public Forum and Policy debate. Half points are allowed but 1/10th points are NOT allowed. Ranks will be on the scale of 1-4 in Public Forum and Policy Debate. Debaters cannot have the same rank but can have the same speaker points.