Welcome to the Speech and Debate Discord Season Championship Sponsored by CrowdPrep Institute

We're offering the highest quality and certificate awarding. Participants will compete for legitimate prizes, be judged by only the best of the best judges personally recruited by tournament organizers, receive in-depth educational criticism post-round, and contribute to a worthwhile cause if they can. . Put quite simply: this is the best way to warm up for next year’s tournaments! So what are you waiting for? Sign up now!

The link to the discord on which the tournament will be held is here

The Link to the Tabroom Site is here

FEES

FREE

Hosts

Hanming Sun and Dan Viderman

EVENTS

We are hosting: Public Forum, Lincoln Douglas, Extemp Debate (Supplemental), and Extemp Speech

AWARDS

Thanks to the generous contribution from CrowdPrep Institute, we are now providing FREE DISCORD NITRO for the competitor that wins the Extemp Debate division.

TOPIC

Open Public Forum

On balance, the benefits of urbanization in West Africa outweigh the harms.

Open LD

Resolved: States ought to ban lethal autonomous weapons.

Extemp Debate

Will be sent during Extemp Prep

Extemp Speech

Will be sent during Extemp Prep

ENTRY ELIGIBILITY 

 · Mavericks are allowed to compete. 

· There is no hybrid teams

· Independent entries are allowed

JUDGE ELIGIBILITY

· You must be at least 10th grade to judge. This is so we can guarantee the best judging experience for all debaters. (Exceptions may apply if the Tournament Director permits it)

·If you want to judge and don't meet the requirements, then email anyone on the contact list with the following information- Name, Age, PF/Debate experience, We'll still add you in if we believe you are qualified.

LOGISTICS/TOURNAMENT INFORMATION

· This tournament will be run through prefs

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

Schedule!

OTHER INFORMATION

Trigger Warning for sensitive topics are mandatory, and any practice a majority of the community would find abusive should be warranted in a speech for the judge's discretion.

·We will be running this tournament through discord, with the option of switching to Zoom at the discretion of the judge and members of the round.

· We will be putting prep time at 3 minutes

· This tournament has a no-tolerance policy towards any harassment or discrimination. We will automatically kick and remove any violators. 

· We will be giving NSDA Points for this tournament.