North Dakota Roughrider District Qualifier

for the 2024 National Tournament

Hello Coaches,

Happy (Belated) National Speech and Debate Education Day!

Please review the Google Doc Link for our Spring-Ish “newsletter” regarding the Speech & Big Questions Qualifier held in April.

• Direct Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BQpzxWd5IdNIN9Ew5TDcOqgVadJX1lcFSJCFYu2mSDo/edit?usp=sharing

Attached you will find the “Paper Based” registration form that needs to be completed and sent to Sue Anderson. This also serves as your invoice.

• If you scroll to the third page, it asks for World Schools Debate nominations. Those are also due on April 2 with all other registration information.

Tabroom.com link to “officially” register your students can be found: https://www.tabroom.com/index/tourn/index.mhtml?tourn_id=28903

• As of me sending this email on March 2 it currently has debate registration information listed. That’ll eventually get cleaned up and updated ????

A Belonging and Inclusion Space (and Advocate) will be available at the speech/BQ qualifier. Please let your students, coaches, judges, and guests know about this.

• It is important to acknowledge that the BIS/BIA is for all belonging and inclusion efforts. Some examples of what it could be used for include: a senior just saw they didn’t advance in their event and realizes they already performed their piece for the last time and just wants a place to decompress. A student heard a moving piece in POI or Dramatic (for example) that brought up some feelings they’d like time to process or talk about (and maybe can’t find their coach because they’re in a round). A judge heard some students in the hallway making some unkind remarks about a student and would like an official tournament person to talk to them.

You can learn more about the BIS at this site: https://www.speechanddebate.org/bis/