Hello all,

Mighty Ellison Eagle Debate Society would like to take a moment to formally invite you and your squad to our first Mighty Ellison Eagle Speech & Debate tournament! We are excited to offer this competition opportunity IN PERSON on February 22, 2025!

Every student competing in Individual Speaking Events will be guaranteed 3 rounds of competition, and students competing in LD and CX debate will be guaranteed 4 rounds of competition!

The Mighty Ellison Eagle Academic UIL team, known for having the best snacks, will sell concessions!

COMPETITION DIVISIONS:

As we get our tournament up and running, we intend to run competitions with a single division for all schools.

Should our meet have a large number of entries, we will immediately explore splitting schools into Novice and Varsity divisions. If such a decision ends up being made, we will let you know beforehand. ("Novice" is defined as a student in their first year of competition in that event.)

SPEECH/DEBATE TOPICS:

Students competing in CX Debate will debate the 2024 - 2025 NFHS Resolution: Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly strengthen its protection of domestic intellectual property rights in copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks.

Students competing in LD Debate will debate the Spring 2024 UIL Resolution: TBD

Students competing in the Congressional Debate will debate the Fall 2024 TFA Dockettems 1-5 will be used for prelims/session 1,and items 6-10 will be used for finals/session 2.

SPEECH/DEBATE JUDGING OBLIGATIONS:

Schools are obligated to provide judges for each of the speech/debate events that they enter students in. Judge obligations are generated with the following formulas:

CX Debate* - One judge is required for every 2 teams (or a portion thereof).

LD Debate* - One judge is required for every 2 entries (or a portion thereof).

Informative/Persuasive** - One judge is required for every 8 entries (or a portion thereof).

Prose/Poetry** - One judge is required for every 8 entries (or a portion thereof).

*Debate judges may only enter one pool. They may not fulfill any other obligations. Schools will be charged a fee of $100.00 for each missing debate judge.

**Individual Event judges MAY cover both Extemp and Interp obligations, but they MUST be available for all rounds of both contests. IE judges may not cover any Debate judging obligations. Schools will be charged a fee of $75.00 for each missing IE judge.

FEES:

Please make all checks payable to:

Ellison High School

C/O Andrea Garcia

909 Elms Road

Killeen, TX 76542

Fees are generated with the following formulas:

School Custodial Fee - $20.00 per school

Individual Speech Events - $20.00 per entry

LD Debate - $30.00 per entry

CX Debate - $50.00 per entry

Missing Debate Event Judge - $100.00 per judge

Missing Individual Speech Event Judge - $75.00 per judge

**Please do not let the cost of entry/judge fees prohibit your students from attending our tournament. This is a fundraiser for our program, but we will do our absolute best to accommodate schools’ financial constraints as best as we can.

Reach out to Andrea Garcia if you have any questions.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Any questions should be addressed to Andrea Garcia at andrea.garcia@killeenisd.org or 361-336-0600.