Entry and Fee Information

Entry and Fee Information

Entries must be made by Coaches or Administrators for schools. Student Accounts May Not enter the tournament. We have been forced to delete entries found to be made from student accounts.

COMPETITORS:

In both varsity divisions, there is an initial entry limit of Three (3) entries per school. Additional entries from a school will be placed on a waiting list.

We can accommodate up to approximately 60 teams in each division. We typically reach capacity early, so please register early.

JUDGES:

Judge Requirements:

In policy, one judge can cover up to two teams. In LD, one judge can cover up to three entries

As our tournament attempts to provide national circuit level competition, we ask that all judges be have national experience and be qualified in their event, subject to our approval. Please do not enter Parent or lay judges. Please do not make us ask you to replace your judge.

Varsity debaters can judge Novice and JV divisions, provided they are experienced Juniors or Seniors.

Judges in the JV and Novice Divisions may be used in both divisions.

All Judges will be required to have a judging philosophy sheet available on Tabroom.com. You MUST enter one on Tabroom to judge at the tournament.

An Extremely limited number of hired judges will be available for $400 each. Please contact us at timalderete@yahoo.com by Sept 18 if you need to hire judges. Hired judges are first come/first served – we have not always been able to fulfill late requests.

All judges are committed one round beyond their school’s elimination.

ENTRY FEES:

Fees will be $55 for a Policy Team

Fees will be $35 an LD Competitor

There are No extra Late, Drop, Hotel or School fees or Nuisance Fines added on.

Please make checks payable to The Meadows School, NOT to Tim Alderete or Malcolm Gordon.

You may send checks to Tim Alderete, Meadows Debate, 8601 Scholar Lane, Las Vegas NV, 89128. We do not have the capability to accept credit cards payments online.