Wichita East Aces
Debate Invitational 2024

Wichita East High School

2301 E. Douglas Ave., Wichita, KS, 67211

November 9th, 2024

We invite you to attend the Wichita East Ace Debate Invitational on November 9th, 2024. The tournament will have two divisions: Novice and Open.

Novice will be limited to those students who have not participated in debate prior to this season. Novice will have four rounds. The top eight teams in this division will receive medals. Novice debaters should be prepared to debate in front all types of judges

• Teams will NOT be limited to the Novice Case-list.

Open division teams will be sharing the same judging pool as novice debaters.

Payment must be submitted with the attached invoice from tabroom.com. All entry fees are $7.00 per team.

There is currently no judging requirement from teams, but that may change as we get closer to the date of the tournament. I have a fairly supportive staff and enthusiastic community pool, so you can expect former debate coaches, former debaters, current debaters, and parents with varying knowledge of policy debate.

We will offer a beautiful multicultural hospitality lounge for coaches and judges. Students will have the opportunity to purchase a pizza meal deal which includes 2 slices of pizza, a drink, and chips for $7, while supplies last. We will also have concessions available and a boba tea stand. Please request that your students bring cash for all. There will not be enough concession variety to plan a lunch outside of the meal deal.

Hannah Erdman

Wichita East High School – Head Speech & Debate Coach

herdman@usd259.net

Tournament Guidelines

1. The tournament will be cross-examination style with 8-3-5 time limits with 8 minutes of prep time.

2. Rounds 1 and 2 in all divisions will be pre-set. Rounds 3 and 4 will be power matched.

3. Every school entered in the tournament is required to have a responsible adult in charge, on site for the full day. Coaches and sponsors will be asked to judge if necessary.

4. All ballots will be done on paper

5. Tournament management reserves the right to handle difficulties, or things otherwise not clarified in the invitation, in a way that seems fair to us.

6. Please be respectful to all of our tournament spaces– our teachers are wonderful people for allowing us to use their rooms. Our administration is kind enough to allow access to the facilities.

7. Please no Mavericks or non-school affiliated entries.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

(Projected / Tentative)

Saturday

Round 1 @ 8:00 AM to 9:40 AM

Round 2 @ 9:45am AM to 11:10 AM

** Lunch from 11:10am to 12:15pm **

Round 3 @ 12:15 PM to 1:55 PM

Round 4 @ 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

**Awards ASAP in The Hangar**

Awards

• Sweepstakes trophies will be given out to the top 3 teams.
  
  

• The top 8 teams in each division will medal.

Hannah Erdman

Wichita East High School – Head Speech & Debate Coach

herdman@usd259.net