Tiebreak Procedures

Speech Preliminary Tiebreakers:

1. Ranks score from prelim rounds, truncated to smallest section  

2. Reciprocals score from prelim rounds, truncated to smallest section  

3. Points score from prelim rounds

Speech Finals Tiebreakers (if held):

1. Ranks score from final round plus prelim rounds ("rolling cumes"), except the 1 worst prelim round 

2. Ranks score from final round 

3. Judge Pref score from final round  

4. Reciprocals score from final round  

4. Reciprocals score from prelim rounds, except the 1 worst  

5. Points score from final round  

6. Points score from prelim rounds, except the 1 worst

Debate Preliminary Tiebreakers:

1. Win/loss score from prelim rounds  

2. Points score from prelim rounds, except the 1 best & worst  

3. Points score from prelim rounds, except the 2 best & worst  

4. Points score from prelim rounds  

5. Opp seed score from prelim rounds  

6. Coinflip score from prelim rounds

Debate Elimination tiebreakers (if held):

No tiebreaker necessary.  Winner of round advances.

Congress Preliminary Session Tiebreakers:

1. Ranks score from prelim round(s), truncated to 9

2. Judge pref score from prelim round(s) , truncated to 9

3. Reciprocals score from prelim round(s) , truncated to 9

4. Ranks score from prelim round(s) , truncated to 9 , except the 1 best & worst

5. Reciprocals score from prelim round(s) , truncated to 9 , except the 1 best & worst

6. Parliamentarian ranks score from prelim round(s)

Congress Finals Tiebreakers:

1. Ranks score from final round, truncated to 9

2. Judge pref score from final round

3. Reciprocals from final round, truncated to 9

4. Parliamentarian ranks score from final round