NOTE: Unfortunately, this tournament has been cancelled. Hopefully it can happen in future years!

Welcome to the second W.in Debate Tournament! W.in is a mentoring organization that aims to increase participation of non-cismen in Lincoln-Douglas debate. 

Logistics:

This is an entirely non-cismen LD debate tournament. Any gender minority is welcome to compete, and judging will be provided by W.in Debate mentors and other gender minority judges. 

The tournament will be on the NSDA JanFeb LD Topic: Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.

The tournament will be run on Discord. Link: https://discord.gg/k5SmbP3JsP

Registration:

When registering, please enter your school name as either a fake school name or your own name unless you have your school’s permission to use their name. If you have any trouble creating a new school or registering, please reach out to us.

Schedule:

The tournament will be 3 days and aims to have 6 prelims and will break to elims depending on the number of entries. Pairings will be released at least 30 minutes prior to each round and flight 2 should start 1 hour and 15 minutes after flight 1. The schedule can be viewed at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rfMZtpS1uY03A38R1h-Qauis9j6JRGsmJJevoFJtNDU/edit?usp=sharing

Payment:

This tournament is completely free for all participants.

Judging:

To further increase accessibility, there is also no judging obligation. However, if you know a gender minority upperclassman or adult that could be interested in judging, please have them fill out the judging form: https://forms.gle/hgminGmwA9rw5MUA8