Our 2022 Region 12 Speech & Debate Tournament will be held on Saturday, 2/26, at Carbon High School.

Before we get to the nitty gritty please note, concessions WILL BE AVAILABLE but students need to bring cash. We do not have the capability to take cards. Thank you for your understanding.

Schedule:

7:00-7:55 am Registration

8:00-10:00 am Debate Rd 1 (CX, LD, PF, SC)

10:00-11:30 am IE Rd 1 (Interps, Informative, NX, FX, IM, OO, )

11:30-1:30 pm Debate Rd 2

1:30-3:00 pm IE Rd 2

3:00-5:00 pm Debate Rd 3

5:00-6:30 pm IE Rd 3 6:45 pm Awards

As you finalize judges, please make sure they are set up with a tabroom.com account BEFORE the tournament, and bring an electronic device with them. This is fairly simple and will help everything move more smoothly on the morning of the tournament. Extra judges are ALWAYS appreciated and will help things run more quickly!

We have decided to let Policy students double enter. They will not be allowed to double enter at State; however, the schedule will allow them to double enter at Region. That way if they don't qualify for state in Policy, they may have the chance of qualifying in another event. This is great news, but both coaches and students must understand that IF the student qualifies in two events, he/she will need to choose one or the other for State. Students may not double enter in Policy and another event at State.

Please remember that we will be using March topics.

Public Forum-Resolved: In the United States, the benefits of increasing organic agriculture outweigh the harms.

Lincoln-Douglas-Resolved: In a democracy, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy.

Extemp topics will be coming from NFHS and NSDA topics.

The Student Congress Docket will come from the UDCA “Spring: Region/State” section. The order is as listed below. Students will likely not make it through the entire docket, and this is fine.

A Bill to Implement Free Community College

A Resolution to Amend the Constitution to Establish Congressional Term Limits

A Bill to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage

A Bill to Combat Disinformation Online

A Bill to Eliminate Public University Tuition

A Bill to Reform Pharmaceutical Patents to Ban Evergreening

A Bill to Counter Chinese Expansion

A Bill to Revitalize the US Space Policy

A Bill to Invoke Tariffs on Non-Fair Trade Cocoa

A Bill to Codify Net Neutrality

A Bill to Bolster US Infrastructure

A Bill to Improve Head Start for Middle and Lower Class Families

A Bill to Reimplement and Revise the Bracero Program

A Resolution to Pursue Free Trade Agreement with African Nations

A Resolution to Remove Turkey from NATO

A Bill to Regulate Cryptocurrencies

A Resolution to Repeal the National Organ Transplant Act

A Resolution to Induct Puerto Rico Into Statehood

A Resolution to Ban Smoking Within the United States

A Resolution to Amend the Constitution to Constrain Congressional Spending

A Bill to Criminalize Physician-Assisted Suicide.

We WILL be using internet at Region. Please remind your students that they can use the internet to correspond with their partner in round(PF and Policy) and research, but they may NOT correspond with coaches, parents, or anyone other than their partner during the debate.

For your information: State Qualification Rules

Section 4: 3A/4A/5A/6A State Qualification In 3A, 4A, 5A and 6A regions, all schools in the region shall be rank ordered based upon sweepstakes points at the region tournament. The top 50 percent will qualify a full slate (Full Slate is defined as all 25 participants allowed per the event limits described in Section 6). Regions with an uneven number should round up to determine the top 50%. These schools should list alternates in each event. Alternates will be allowed to compete only in the events they entered at region meet. All individuals or debate teams finishing in the top ten in their event at the region tournament will qualify for the state meet, unless the school exceeds the limitations set forth above. There may not be alternates for these individuals.

Section 5: 3A/4A/5A/6A State Qualification Limits In 3A, 4A, 5A and 6A regions, no school may qualify more than 30 participants for the state forensic tournament. The allocation may not exceed 4 policy teams, Lincoln‐Douglas debaters, public forum teams, student congress participants, original oratory participants, impromptu speaking participants, national extemporaneous speaking participants and foreign extemporaneous speaking participants. Coaches must choose their own entry allocations but cannot exceed the total cap of 30 students, or entry limits within events themselves.

Please see the Handbook for other rules and procedures: https://www.uhsaa.org/Publications/Handbook/ActivitiesSections/SpeechDebate.pdf