We at WVU are proud to announce the invitation to participate in JV/Novice Nationals (online) to be held from March 12-14th 2021. This tournament has no entry fees. This year's policy debate tournament will feature six preliminary rounds of competition including two on Friday and four on Saturday with break rounds following on Sunday. We will be debating the 2020-2021 ceda/ndt debate resolution: Resolved: The United States Federal Government should reduce its alliance commitments with Japan, the Republic of Korea, North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states, and/or the Republic of the Philippines, by at least substantially limiting the conditions under which its defense pact can be activated.

The tournament offers competition in three divisions of policy debate: open, junior varsity and novice divisions. We will be using a 30-point scale with a tenth of a point increments (e.g. 27.1, 27.2 etc) on individual speaking scores.
Our tournament is CEDA sanctioned and will comply with CEDA’s Statement on Sexual Harassment and Discrimination and the Statement of Ethical Principles. Time limits for speeches are 9-3-6 with ten minutes of preparation time. Rounds one and two will be pre-determined and rounds three through six will be power matched. Each school is responsible for securing three rounds of judging for every team registered at the tournament. This will be an online tournament and there is no registration fee. Awards will remain the same as in previous years and will be shipped to schools courtesy of WVU Debate.

If you have any questions, please contact me via email at SamanthaEGodbey@gmail.com.

SCHEDULE:

Friday

Pairings for Rds 1&2 3:00pm (all times eastern)

round 1 4:00pm

round 2 6:30pm

Saturday

Pairings for round 3 9:30am

round 3 10:00am

Pairings for rd 4 12:30pm

round 4 1:00pm

Pairings for rd 5 4:00pm

round 5 4:30pm

Pairing for rd 6 7:00pm

round 6 7:30pm

Sunday

Pairings for 1st outround 9:00am

First outround begins 10:00am

Virtual awards and the remaining outrounds will be scheduled as needed