Thank you for your interest in registering for the VIRTUAL Marist Scrimmage Series # 2.  This afternoon debate series is intended for NEW debaters to PRACTICE prior to competitions.  

We will host a third scrimmage on 11/10.  We hope to see your students at all three. 

Divisions Offered

-- GFCA packet novice policy division (restrictions explained below)
-- GFCA packet rookie policy division (restrictions explained below)
-- AUDL middle school *novice* division

We will not be offering public forum or lincoln douglas divisions and instead suggest you attend the NSDA Springboard Scrimmages.

Costs & Platform

There is no cost for you!  Entry is completely free as long as you provide one judge for every two teams or fraction thereof. 

The event will be hosted through a Zoom Room Management System where the zoom link will be provided to coaches and competitors the day of the competition.  We recommend each competitor have the most updated zoom software in order for them to place themselves into breakout rooms.

Schedule

4:00pm EST -- Round 1 of All Divisions (Pairings will be blasted at 3:45pm EST)

Please let Jeffrey know this is too early for your teams. 

Argument Limitations in Novice Policy Debate

Policy Debate will debate the 2021-2022 NFHS policy debate topic. Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase protection of its water resources in the United States.

Our novice policy division is intended for first year policy debaters. We will continue use a spreadsheet prior to the tournament to help identify each team's skill levels to provide everyone quality debates. A sample of that spreadsheet can be viewed here.

This division will use the GFCA Novice Packet with argument limitations, these files are based on the NDCA Novice Packet (the major differences are noted in parenthesis).  The Scrimmages will be limited to the following arguments:

-- Lead Drinking Water Affirmative
-- Lead Drinking Water Case Negative (this does NOT include the State Budgets DA from the NDCA version of the Lead Drinking Water Negative)
-- Fracking Affirmative
-- Fracking Negative (this does NOT include the Energy Security DA, Fracking Economy DA, or Fracking Regulation CP from the NDCA version of the Fracking Negative)
-- Business Confidence DA
-- Federalism DA
-- Midterms DA
-- States Counterplan

A link to the GFCA Dropbox that have these files can be downloaded here.

Argument Limitations in Rookie Policy Debate

Our rookie policy division is intended for first year policy debaters in their first two ever tournaments who need a smaller packet.  As such, this division will use a smaller version of the GFCA Novice Packet.  The Scrimmages will be limited to the following arguments in Rookie:

-- Lead Drinking Water Affirmative
-- Lead Drinking Water Case Negative (this does NOT include the State Budgets DA from the NDCA version of the Lead Drinking Water Negative)
-- Business Confidence DA

A link to the GFCA Dropbox that have these files can be downloaded here.