UT Region 13 Tournament 2025

Morgan High School

Dates: Saturday, Feb 22, 2025

Contact Info: Lisa.Hone@morgansd.org

Registration Deadlines: Feb 20 by 10 am

Tournament Level:Open competition (no novice divisions)

Debate Events: Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum,Policy, and Congress

Speech Events: Oratory, Informative Speaking, Combined Interps, Impromptu,National Extemp, and Foreign Extemp

Double Entry:Students can enter ONE debate event and ONE speech event. No double entry in speech and debate within the same block! No double entry in Policy. No double entry in Extemp.

Congress: Congress will have ONE 3 hour session.

The docket will be selected from the UDCA website and NSDA legislation and will be posted in Tabroom.

We will use March Topics for Debate. (Announced Feb 1, 2025)

LD Topic:Resolved: The development of Artificial General Intelligence is immoral.

PF Topic: Resolved: In the United States, the benefits of the use of generative artificial intelligence in education outweigh the harms.

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

Judges: All judges must be high school graduates! No varsity judges. Ballots will be online, so please remind your judges to bring a device and charger. Judges will meet in the library conference room, and food will be provided for them there.

Please bring 1 judge for every 4 debate entries, 1 judge for every 4 speech entries, 1 judge for every 4 in Congress, and 1 judge for every 2 policy teams.

If you have a Congress judge who can be parliamentarian, please let me know.

Awards: There will be awards for the finalists (1st- 3rd) in every event.

Tab room: Tab will be in the library, and coaches are welcome to hang out there. No students or judges should be in the library, though. Please let me know if you can help in Tabroom.

Extemp Prep: Room 204

Student Hang-out area: Students can congregate in the commons and cafeteria area.

Food: Concessions will be sold Saturday. There will be Little Caesar’s, assorted treats, snacks, and drinks. Food and drink are allowed only in the commons and cafeteria areas. Coaches and judges will be fed in the faculty lounge and library conference room.

Schedule:

Check in: 7:15-7:30—Please send me drops from the road!

Judges meeting: 7:30

Congress:

Round 1: 8:00am- 11 am

Policy

Round 1: 8:30- 10:30

Round 2: 11:00-1:00

Round 3: 1:30-3:30

LD/PF:

Round 1: 8:30am-9:15am

Round 2- 9:30am- 10:30am

Round 3- 11:00am-12:00pm

Extemp:

Round 1: 12:00pm- 1:15pm

Round 2: 1:15pm- 2:30pm

Round 3: 2:45pm - 4:00 pm)

Lunch: 12:00pm-1:00pm

Speech:

Round 1: 1:00pm-2:00pm

Round 2: 2:00pm-3:00pm

Round 3: 3:00pm-4:00pm

Awards Ceremony: 4:30

We will accelerate the schedule wherever possible to finish earlier!

Protest Procedures:Issues that occur in the round should be addressed within the round with the judge. The judge should be making the determination on evidence violations, rules violations, or similar. Those things cannot be re-litigated after the round.

If a student has issues with the way something was handled in round, or has issues with something non-rules or evidence related, they should bring it first to their coach. Their coach can then determine if it merits being brought to the tournament director. The tournament director will then speak with the appropriate parties to investigate.

If a judge has a concern, they may bring it to the tournament director. They should report it and then recuse themselves from the situation. If further information is needed, the tournament director will contact them.

Students are welcome to come to tab for basic questions—e.g., what time should Congress end, where is extemp prep, etc. Anything that is rules or protest-related, however, must go through their coach.