Urban Debate National Championship

2022 — Online, IL/US

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Junior Varsity Policy Debate

Event Description:

We're excited to announce that as a result of some very productive conversations the 2022 Virtual
UDNC will include an evidence-limited JV division for the first time! The goal of this division is to
reward diligent JV debaters who have persisted in debate during the last two seasons. It is designed
to be an educational experience where debaters will have a limited evidence set to improve argument
understanding and clash within the division. It will also serve as an opportunity for more debaters to
see themselves as part of the broader urban debate community.

In addition to the two varsity teams that each league is invited to enter at the Virtual UDNC, all
leagues will be invited to enter up to two junior varsity teams. Leagues who bring additional entries
will be expected to cover that additional judging obligation as well.

Based on league input the JV division will be open to the following students:

*Debaters who are not yet varsity-level either because they have never participated in a varsity or
open division, OR because they have only participated in league varsity divisions due to JV
divisions being collapsed into varsity due to division size.
* Debaters who attend the same school
* Debaters must represent an active school in your league , however, due to the difficulties many
students have faced in attending multiple events we are waiving the minimum tournament
requirement for 2022.
* There will be no mission-alignment requirement in either division in 2022.

The Junior Varsity division will be a packet plus division, meaning:

* All affirmatives must be submitted by Feb 21st
* Negative positions will be informed by the NDCA packet and will be posted by Feb 28th
* There will be a two-week window after negative positions are posted where leagues may slightly
augment negative positions to ensure link quality and argument responsiveness
* All alternative, counterplan and other related texts will be final as of March 15th

Affirmative disclosure may be submitted any time before the end of the day on Feb 21st.