Welcome to the 2021 Bingham Invitational. We hope you consider this tournament when planning your spring ToC Bid schedule. The tournament is Feb 12-14, 2021. This tournament will be featuring only a Public Forum and Policy debate bid division. The tournament features a silver bid in quarterfinals and gold bid in semi-finals of Public Forum and a finals bid in Policy. All times are in MST.

The tournament will be held on NSDA Campus

We are offering an entry fee waiver to all Urban Debate League teams.

Public Forum Important information

It is our intention to single flight all rounds of Public Forum. This means that it is critically important that you have your judging covered and if you need to request hired judging that you do it ahead of time.  

Public Forum will debate the February NSDA Topic.

Schedule

Friday Feb 12

Round 1 4:00 pm

Round 2 5:15 pm

Round 3 6:45 pm

Saturday Feb 13

Round 4 9:00 am

Round 5 10:30 am

Round 6 12:00 pm

Elim #1 1:45 pm

Elim #2 3:15 pm

Elim #3 4:45 pm

Elim#4 6:15 pm – If Necessary

Policy Debate Important Information

It is our intention to create a diverse judging and competition pool. We will be seeking to hire judges with a wide range of literature bases and argumentative backgrounds. If you need hired judging, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can make sure that we have an appropriate number of hired judges. Pairings will come out 30 minutes prior to the round start time.

Schedule

Friday Feb 12

Round 1 4:00 pm

Round 2 6:30 pm

Saturday Feb 13

Round 3 9:00 am

Round 4 11:30 am

Round 5 2:30 pm

Elim #1 5:00pm

Sunday Feb 14

Elim #2 10:00 am

Elim #3 12:30pm

Elim #4 3:00pm – If Necessary