Golden Desert District Tournament

2024 — NV/US

Golden Desert District Qualifier

for the 2024 National Tournament
Debate at Advanced Technologies Academy (A-TECH), Las Vegas, NV Mar 22–23 HSE SEN CX LD PF
Speech at Clark HS, Las Vegas, NV Apr 5–6 DI DUO HI INF IX OO POI USX

Speech

All Speech competitors will receive 3 preliminary rounds. Two rounds will take place on Friday, with one preliminary round taking place on Saturday morning.

All preliminary rounds will feature one judge. All elimination rounds will feature 3 judges.

If a Speech event has fewer than eight entries, no elimination rounds will be held.

Six Entries or 25% of the field, in an event with more than eight entries, will break to elimination rounds, whichever is greater.

If advancing six competitors would create a need for a semi or quarter final in an event where 25% of the field is fewer than six competitors, therefore not normally requiring a semifinal, then 25% of the field will advance instead. (Example: In a field of 18, 5 competitors would advance as 25% of the field. If the 6th place competitor was tied on ranks with the 7th and 8th place competitors, thus creating the need for a semifinal round, where none was necessary with 5 competitors, a field of 5 shall be advanced instead of 6+2.)

If 25% of a field is eight or greater, it will break to a quarter or semi final, as necessary.