About Tabroom.com

Goals

The goal of Tabroom.com is to provide a tournament management system to debate and speech tournaments worldwide, for as many formats of debate as possible.  Hosting and support is provided by the National Speech & Debate Association.

The Tabroom system can pair IE and debate events, including Congressional debate. It handles public pairings, enables judges to enter decisions and scores online, and publishes and track results all online. You can also run a tournament totally offline with Tabroom; online features are optional. Tabroom also supports World's Schools format debates and World's University (British Parliamentary) format debates.

If you have a format of debate that isn't on our list, please let us know at help@tabroom.com. Please also test your format if you do not know that Tabroom has run your format or rules successfully before. There are a lot of settings in Tabroom but we cannot promise it will run your particular form of speech or debate without testing before your tournament

History

The Tabroom system began as two projects; the CAT (Computer Assisted Tab) and Tabroom.com.

The new integrated tabulation system and features were supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.  Tabroom support is now being supported and sponsored by the National Speech & Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League).

How-to Guides

Tabroom Online Manual Tabroom Support Forum

Need help?

If you're a student, coach, or parent and have a question about a particular tournament, email them directly - they're more likely to be able to help you. Contact information can usually be found in the tournament invitation.

If you're having trouble using the Tabroom software itself, post a new question here:

Tabroom Support Forum

Posting on the public support forum is the best way to get quick help with using Tabroom, or to leave feature requests or ideas.

Multiple people watch the forums, especially during weekends in season. Please do not email individual people on the project directly or call the NSDA office; that will only delay word getting to the folks who can help you.

If your question deals with something private (e.g. personal student info), or if you're a coach needing access to an existing school on Tabroom, email:

help@tabroom.com

To run a tournament on Tabroom, log in and hit "Request a tournament" on the right hand toolbar. The how-to guide is available from the question mark icon on the top right corner. No approval, pre-notification or cost is required to register or tabulate a tournament on Tabroom.

If you're looking for information about the CAT or TRPC, visit the CAT/TRPC info page.