Welcome to McCallum High's first speech and debate invitational! Many hands have come together to ensure that this tournament goes off without a hitch, and we appreciate you being a part of this chapter in our school's history. This invitational will host the usual suspects: PF, LD, CX, and WS debates, Congress, US, and International Extemp, HI, DI, DUO, POI, OO, and INFO.

We also have opened registration for novice divisions in PF, LD, CX, and Extemp. If those categories do not draw enough participants, we will collapse novice divisions into open categories. We have also offered PRO and POE and will similarly collapse those into POI if there is a lack of entries.

This tournament is on Saturday ONLY, and fully in-person. Located at 5600 Sunshine Drive, Austin, TX 78756, doors will open at 7:15 am with events starting as early as 8 am. We've created enough gaps in the schedule to try and accommodate for any unforeseen mishap or delay, and while we hope to have everything wrapped up by 10 pm, we will accommodate for any Finals rounds that push beyond this timeframe.

There are several parking options available. The street in front of the school, Sunshine Drive is open for parking, even where the curb is painted yellow. There are also four parking lots available: the gravel lot on the corner of Sunshine and Houston, the smaller rectangular lot on Houston in front of the portables, the smaller u-shaped parking lot near the intersection between Sunshine and 2222/Koenig, and the large band parking lot at the farthest end of the school.

If you are bringing a bus, park in the large band parking lot.

Please avoid parking in any of the VISITOR PARKING spots, and do NOT park in the circular bus loop at the front of the main entrance school.

The main entrance of our school is located on Sunshine Drive around 100 yards north of the intersection with Houston. For noticeable landmarks, there are the three flagpoles.

PLEASE MAKE PAYMENTS OUT TO McCallum Debate Team.

SCHEDULE

TOPICS:

WSD: (if no semis are needed, we will drop the Semis prompt)

-Rounds 1 & 3 - This House supports the Home Guarantee movement. Info Slide: A federal Homes Guarantee means that every household in the United States — whether they rent or own — has a dignified and affordable home.

-Round 2 & 4 - Impromptu

-Round 5 (Semis) - This House believes that social media activism has done more harm than good to the feminist movement.

-Round 6 (Finals) - This House believes that state capitalism is a more effective economic model than liberal capitalism for promoting long-term national development and economic stability.

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

Novice CX -We WILL require novice teams to stick to the novice packet.

LD - Resolved: The United States ought to become party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and/or the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

PF - The United States should accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Congress: (TFA Spring 2025 Docket)

-Prelim - Items 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

-Finals - Items 20, 18, 17, 15, 13