Important Tournament Announcements will be posted at https://www.facebook.com/ParliDebateAtBerkeley.

Please check frequently.

Logistics update, all your questions answered:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/parliamentary-debate-at-berkeley/npdi-logistics-1111/1544867789090847

Topic Area Released: We will have 1 topic area covering rounds 2 and 5: The US Federal Government should significantly increase efforts to combat violent non-state actor groups.

The National Parliamentary Debate Invitational at Berkeley

November 15 - 16, 2014

Hosted at the University of California, Berkeley, CA

Point of Information and Parliamentary Debate at Berkeley cordially invite you to participate in the fall semester’s premier parliamentary debate tournament: The National Parliamentary Debate Invitational at Berkeley on November 15 and 16, at the University of California, Berkeley. 

The tournament will feature an open division and a junior varsity division with each division guaranteed six single-flighted preliminary rounds. All rounds will be adjudicated by individuals holding a background in high school and/or college parliamentary debate. Following the conclusion of each round will be a constructive oral RFD of no more than 20 minutes in length and disclosure of the victor. This tournament places a premium on providing a unique educational experience for all participants. 

The tournament reserves the right to collapse the open and junior varsity divisions if required by tournament logistics. Judging requirements are the same for both divisions.

The tournament will break the top-third of the field to elimination rounds.

Junior Varsity Eligibility: Debaters are considered eligible to compete in the junior varsity division if they meet the following requirement they have no more than maximum of two years of parliamentary debate experience.

Judge Requirements: Each school will be required to provide 1 qualified judge for every two entries or fraction thereof.

Open:

A qualified judge is at least a high school graduate or equivalent AND a coach or former open debater. Experience in events outside of parliamentary debate is accepted.

JV:

Anyone who satisfies above Open requirements, in addition to a those who are at least a high school graduate or equivalent and have at least 2 tournaments of experience judging debate. 

ALL judges will be required to provide a paradigm before the competition begins and are highly encouraged to give an oral Reason For Decision after the round. Schools who have difficulty meeting these requirements should contact us at calparli@gmail.com. Fee breaks and exceptions will be made on a per-case basis.

Judge Fee: Schools may choose to pay a hired judge fee of $120.

Judge Penalty: If a team's judge misses a round, the team will be charged $50 for each missed round. This does not apply to teams that have hired judges.

Tournament Fees: The cost of competing in the 2014 NPDI will be $65 per team.

Parliamentary Debate at Berkeley is firmly committed to expanding accessibility of debate. If this fee is financially prohibitive, please contact us at calparli@gmail.com. We cannot help you if you do not contact us first. We expect that any team receiving a fee break will cover their entries with qualified judges.

Any drops after 11/9 will be assessed the full entry fees.

Location: All rounds will take place on the UC Berkeley campus. Specific campus locations will be provided when available.

Food: Food is available for purchase at multiple locations both on and off the UC Berkeley campus. Breakfast and lunch will be provided for coaches and judges.

You may also email a scanned PDF copy to calparli@gmail.com with a subject line including "NPDI 2014" OR mail a hard copy to the following address:
ASUC/Parliamentary Debate at Berkeley
University of California
112 Hearst Gym, MC 4520
Berkeley, CA 94720-4520

Rules: 

1. Almost anything goes regarding prep materials.. Printed materials, laptops, phones, internet, they all are allowed. However, only handwritten notes are allowed in round. Debaters may not utilize handwritten notes in round that were prepared prior to the round’s topic announcement. However, debaters may utilize any handwritten notes prepared prior to the round during the round’s 20 minutes of prep time. All handwritten notes written prior to a round’s topic announcement that are to be used in that round must be transposed, by hand, onto a new sheet of paper. Use of handwritten notes, in round, that were composed prior to the topic announcement of a round may lead to the forfeiture of the round.

2. Debaters may only prep with their partners. There is no team prep or coach prep.

3. Speech times for all rounds will be 7-7-7-7-5-5

4. There is no protected time in any speech.

5. No new arguments may be made in the rebuttal speeches.

6. POOs are allowed in rebuttals. POOs will stop time.

Past Results:

NPDI I

September 8-9, 2012

Bishop O'Dowd High School, Oakland, California

Champion: Saratoga Agrawal & Chiang

Finalist: Bishop O'Dowd Accinelli & Perl

NPDI II

November 16-17, 2013

Bishop O'dowd High School, Oakland, California

Champion: Dougherty Valley Konath & Wang

Finalist: Bishop O'Dowd Walsh & Zepeda

Tentative Schedule, subject to change:

Saturday, November 15

9:00 AM—9:30 AM               Registration

9:30 AM                                  Topic Announcement, Round 1

11:15 AM                                Topic Announcement, Round 2

12:45 PM—2:30 PM              Lunch

2:30 PM                                  Topic Announcement, Round 3

4:30 PM                                  Topic Announcement, Round 4

6:30 PM                                  Topic Announcement, Round 5

Sunday, November 16

9:30 AM                                  Topic Announcement, Round 6

11:30 AM                                Topic Announcement, Elim 1

1:00 PM—2:30 PM                 Lunch

2:30 PM                                  Topic Announcement, Elim 2

4:00 PM                                  Awards

4:30 PM                                  Topic Announcement, Elim 3

6:00 PM                                  Topic Announcement, Elim 4 

7:30 PM                                  Topic Announcement, Elim 5 (Likely)