Dear Colleagues,

The University of North Texas William DeMougeot Debate Forum and the Department of

Communication Studies at UNT are pleased to invite you to attend the 14th Annual John S. Gossett Memorial High School Speech & Debate Tournament this October 25-26, 2024. This year's tournament will be IN PERSON and hosted on the UNT Denton Campus.

Policy Debate, Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas will have 4 preliminary rounds and break to the

appropriate amount of elimination rounds according to the division size. Congress will have Prelims and Finals on Friday. Congressional Debate will run on a schedule that allows Congressional Debate entries to enter all Individual Events.

We are excited to offer a World School Debate division. World School Debate motions can be found at www.txfa.org

The LD topic will be the NSDA topic for September/October.

The CX topic will be the high school 2024-2025 Policy topic.

The Novice CX division will follow the Region 2 Novice packet rules. Please see below for more details.

The PFD topic will be the NSDA topic for September/October.

The Congressional Debate legislation can be found at www.txfa.org and we will be using the Fall 2024

Legislative Docket. The legislative docket will be announced a month prior to the tournament

Policy, Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas debate may not enter IE events. Brackets will not be broken in any debate event. We are planning to have panels in elimination rounds, if possible. For IE, Duo, and

Duet, we will have 8 in finals for the events that meet the TFA standard for 8 in a final round.

We will be offering DI, Duo, Prose, OO, USX, POI, HI, Duet, Poetry, Informative, IX, and NX. All Individual

Events will be held on Saturday, October 26th.

Pattern A: DI, Duo, Prose, OO, POI

Pattern B: HI, Duet, Poetry, Informative, IX, USX, NX

Should you have any questions regarding tournament logistics, please contact, Dr. Brian Lain. He can be reached by email – brian.lain@unt.edu

Thank you for joining us, and please let us know if there is anything we can do to make your experience more enjoyable.

Best Regards,

Dr. Brian Lain, Director of Debate

Colin Quinn, Student and Program Coordinator