West Los Angeles District Qualifier

for the 2025 National Tournament

NSDA West Los Angeles District Tournament
Friday, March 21st – Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
Burbank High School
902 N. Third St.
Burbank, CA 91502

Congress: Friday, March 21st, 2025

Debate: Saturday, March 22nd and Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

Speech: Saturday, March 22nd and Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

World Schools Debate: Saturday, March 22nd and Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

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Parking

Parking is available in the parking garage located on Third Street (near the intersection of Third St. and Delaware Rd.). It is a brief walk from the parking garage to the main campus area where the tournament will be held.

Tournament Site Information

Students should gather in the cafeteria and covered lunch shelter area. Judges and coaches should report to the Library. Most rounds will take place in the main quad area in the central part of the Burbank HS campus. No food or drinks are allowed in classrooms (except for water). Students may not enter a classroom unless an adult is present.

Please do not touch or move items in classrooms, especially items on teachers' desks. Please honor and respect the courtesy that Burbank High School is giving our district schools to use their spaces.

COACH REQUIREMENT

The Coach or representative MUST be contact-able throughout the entire tournament in case any issues arise and MUST check in at the Library with Tournament Staff. Students must be accompanied by a designated adult who is officially responsible for that student.

If a student is found to be at the tournament with no official adult supervision, that student will be removed from the tournament and sent home.

WHOMEVER you put in charge of your team should have the student emergency medical forms/permission slips/parent contact form for your team. Protect your students, yourself and your "representative."

Student Meal Pre-Orders

Student meals will be available to pre-order no later than Saturday, March 1st, 2025. All student meal pre-orders must be made no later than Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 at 3:00pm. There will be a very limited number of meals available for day-of purchases, so we strongly encourage teams to pre-order their team's meals. Snacks and drinks will be available for purchase throughout the tournament.

While there are many food options within walking or driving distance of the Burbank High School campus, we ask that you please support our host school and strongly discourage your students (or their parents) from leaving campus to purchase food offsite. In addition to being unsupportive of our host, it is also a significant liability issue for coaches and schools to have students wandering off campus during the tournament.

Topics

Lincoln/Douglas - NSDA March-April Topic: "Resolved: The development of Artificial General Intelligence is immoral."

Public Forum - NSDA March Topic: "Resolved: In the United States, the benefits of the use of generative artificial intelligence in education outweigh the harms."

Big Questions - NSDA 2024-2025 Topic: "Resolved: Creativity is a more powerful force than intelligence."

Policy - NSDA 2024-2025 Topic: "Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly strengthen its protection of domestic intellectual property rights in copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks."

Congressional Debate: We are currently accepting legislation submissions for our District Tournament Docket! Please see the tab on the right for more information.

World Schools Debate: Rounds 1 & 2 - Prepared Motion (teams debate both sides); Round 3 - Impromptu; Round 4 - Impromptu; Elim 1 - Prepared; Elims 2 and beyond (if needed) - Impromptu

Prepared Motions:

Rounds 1 & 2 (teams debate both sides):This House supports Argentina's dollarization efforts.

Elim 1: This House regrets the rise of cyber-vigilantism.
Info Slide: Cyber-vigilantism is when people take the law into their own hands on the internet instead of seeking help from the legal system. This includes name-and-shame websites for perpetrators, crowdsourcing and leaking of private information of such individuals, the creation of content where individuals entrap or confront perpetrators, etc.

Extemp: Our District Tournament Topic Areas can be found in the tab on the right labeled "Extemp Topic Areas".