Welcome to the 2024-25 CFL Debate State Qualifier Tournament for the CHSSA State Championship!

Friday, February 28 & Saturday, March 1 @ Palo Alto High School

Directed by Charles Schletzbaum, VP of Debate

Hosted by Kyle Hietala, VP of Operations

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HELPDESK EMAIL: coastforensicleague2@gmail.com

TAB ROOM: 526

JUDGE CENTER & FOOD: Library

STUDENT CENTER & FOOD: Media Arts Center & Student Center

OPTIONAL PARLI PREP: 1732, 1733

Palo Alto High School Map

WiFi: PAUSD Guest

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PF and LD will use the March Topics.

PARLI TOPIC AREA: Syria

PARLI LIVE DOC

All entries need to fill out the CFL SINGLE ENTRY LETTER OF INTENT if they are DOUBLE ENTERING in Speech and/or Debate and/or Congress.

All schools must have completed CFL's AND CHSSA's re-registration procedure (CFL Reg Info) and have paid their 2024-25 Fall Invoices.

Pre-Tournament Questions: coast.forensic.league+debate@gmail.com

JUDGING

Each prelim round will be judged by 2 judges. Elim rounds will have 3 judges.

All event judging pools are combined. Please consult the Judge Info Sheet for more information.

Judge obligation is 1 judge : 2 students (e.g. one judge per debate team , or one judge per 2 LDers) - Article XXVII.1

ELIGIBILITY AND CAPS

Article XIV.5
A. State Qualifying competition shall be offered in each of the following events, though these may happen at two separate tournaments: Lincoln Douglas Debate, Policy Debate, Parliamentary Debate, Public Forum.
B. Eligible contestants shall have had at least one varsity win in a CFL competition during the current term (see II.1.B.4). One entry per event from each school may enter without a varsity win in each qualifier.
C. Each school may enter up to 5 entries each in LD, PF, Policy, and Parliamentary debate. Wild-card entries (see 2.K) do not count against the school's per-event entry limit. In PF/Parli/Policy the two partners receive their wild card as a team. Wild cards may only be used for the debate event in which they were won.

Article XIII.7
No late entries will be accepted.

SCHEDULE

Rounds will be flighted as needed, with the exception of policy debate.

Please note that parli topics are announced at the round start time; prep will end and rounds will begin 20 min later

Rounds are subject to be moved forward if time permits.

Friday, Feb 28

Check-in: 4:00–4:40 PM

Schools not checked in by 4:40 PM by their legal chaperone, in–person at room 526, will be dropped from the tournament.

Round 1: 4:45 PM

Round 2: 6:45 PM

Saturday, March 1

Round 3: 8:45 AM

Round 4: 11:00 AM

Round 5: 1:30 PM

Elimination Round 1 (If necessary): 4:00 PM

Elimination Round 2 (If necessary): 6:00 PM

Topics:

LD - NSDA Mar/Apr The development of Artificial General Intelligence is immoral.

PF - NSDA March In the United States, the benefits of the use of generative artificial intelligence in education outweigh the harms.

Policy -The United States federal government should significantly strengthen its protection of domestic intellectual property rights in copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks.

The Parli Topic Area is Syria

Judge Info Sheet

Health & Wellness

If you’re feeling sick, CFL strongly prefers that you not attend the tournament to protect other participants, including people who are immunocompromised and/or live with others who are immunocompromised. Although proof of vaccination and/or masking are not required by CFL, masks will be provided at the tournament for those who wish to wear them. No participant will be penalized for wearing/not wearing a mask; and all participants should respect each other’s health & wellness preferences, including (but not limited to) masking and social distancing.