Washburn Rural Debate Invitational

2019 — Topeka, KS/US

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Varsity Debate

Event Description:

The Varsity Division at the Washburn Rural Invitational is for your most experienced debaters who are seeking collegiate style debates in front of highly qualified judges. Debates in this division will span a course of 3 days, with late elimination rounds on Sunday. Any school who enters teams in this division will be required to submit a qualified judge or enter a request to hire a qualified judge from our available pool of alumni. Judge hires will cost 25 dollars a round. The varsity division this year will also be doing judge preferences, which will be opened the Monday (9/16) of the tournament and will be due by Friday (9/20) at noon. There is no cap on the number of entries that you place in this division, but you will be required to submit qualified judges for each team competing. Every team in the division will require 3 rounds of judging. All judges will be obligated for the first elimination debate, and any team clearing will have judges obligated one round past their elimination.

We are proud to announce that the finalists of this year's varsity division will receive a bid to the to the Tournament of Champions, to be held in Lexington, KY in April of 2020. Along with the TOC bids granted to the finalists, Washburn Rural is also designated as a qualification tournament for the Debate Coaches Invitational in early January.

The entry fees for this division are higher than during previous years. The entry fees will cover two meals for each debater to be served on Saturday, as well as awards for speakers and all teams qualifying for elimination debates. Food options will be available for your choice for both lunch on Saturday and dinner on Saturday, which will also be when the awards ceremony is held.

Rounds will begin a bit later this year due to our homecoming parade, so we will only hold two debates on Friday. As such, we will not be providing a meal on Friday night since rounds will be completed earlier in the evening.