West Oklahoma District Tournament
2025 — OK/US
West Oklahoma District Qualifier
for the 2025 National Tournament
West Oklahoma NSDA District Tournament
at
Bishop McGuinness High School,
OKC, OK
Mar 7–9
CX
LD
PF
DI
DUO
HI
INF
IX
OO
POI
USX
West Oklahoma NSDA Congressional District Tournament
at
Edmond Santa Fe,
Edmond, OK
Feb 28
HSE
SEN
West Oklahoma NSDA Big Questions District Tournament
at
Edmond Memorial,
OKC, OK
Mar 1
BQ
MAIN DISTRICT TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Entries and Judges are due on Tabroom by February 28 at 8:00 PM!
- The Main District Qualifying Tournament will be held Friday-Sunday, March 7-9 at Bishop McGuinness Catholic HS.
- The number of entries is according to your team strength found on the entry screen and your speechanddebate.org team account.
- When you click on the tournament from your Tabroom account page, there is a tab labeled "NSDA Forms". This is where you will find the School Consent and Single Entry Letter forms.
- Coaches must submit the School Consent Form.
- The Single Entry Letter of Intent form must be submitted for any student entered in more than one event. The Single Entry Letter of Intent must also be entered on Tabroom.com.
- All NSDA financial obligations must be cleared or have a check to turn in at registration.
- Must have a check for West OK chapter dues made out to West OK District NSDA or have mailed a check. We will also accept cash. For further info, please click the tab to the right of the screen.
- TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: See Tentative Schedule Under Web Pages to the right of the screen. This will change as event numbers change. Friday will be Debate only. IE's will begin Saturday. We hope to complete Semis Saturday night and Finals on Sunday. If needed, Semis will be shifted to Sunday.
- REGISTRATION 2:00-2:30 FRI and 7:00-7:30 SAT in the auditorium
- MANDATORY MEETING 2:30 PM FRI and 7:30 AM SAT in the auditorium
- All coaches, competitors, and judges must attend the opening meeting on their first tournament attendance day in the auditorium where we will give information about tournament procedures. If there are any competitors or judges who miss the meeting, coaches must make sure they get the information. To streamline the process, we will send the info slides out in advance.
- ROUNDS AND BREAKS
- IE events have three preliminary rounds with one judge. After the preliminary rounds are concluded, the entries are ordered by rank total to determine breaks. A minimum of the top 25% advance to a semifinal elimination round with three judges. If there are fewer than eight entries, there will be no elimination round. A minimum of the top 25%, with no fewer than four, advance from semifinals to a finals round with three judges. Qualifiers are determined by the cumulative scores of finalists.
- Debate events have four preliminary rounds with one judge in each round. Rounds one and two are randomly paired. Rounds three and four are power-matched rounds. All winning records (3-1 or 4-0) will advance to a single elimination bracket with three judges in each round. There will be as many elimination rounds as needed to narrow it down to the top three competitors. Last year NSDA did not schedule a final round, only a runoff for the third spot. This will likely be the case again this year.
- Breaks will be posted in the cafeteria/commons and on Tabroom.com.
- AUDITING
- Primary results (win/loss or rank) will be released to coaches via Tabroom after the conclusion of each round. All ranks will be published to coaches via Tabroom email after preliminary rounds for the purpose of auditing. The coach representative is responsible for reviewing results in a timely manner and alerting the District Committee to any potential errors before the start of the next round.
- Debate evidence, extemp evidence, and IE scripts must be available on site upon request in case of protests or questions but will not be housed in the tab room.
- Protests must be filed by the coach representative in writing within one hour of the end of the round and will be adjudicated by the West OK Committee. No protests regarding tabulation will be permitted after the awards assembly.
- DEBATE topics: March PF topic and March/April LD topic will be used.
- PF will use a coin toss in the presence of the judge to determine sides and team speaking order.
- EXTEMP draw will be in the auditorium. For important procedures and topic areas, click the tab on the right side of the screen.
- Ballots will be online on Tabroom.com. Please be sure your judges know to bring a laptop and charger, have a tabroom account linked to your school and remember their login, understand how to access and submit ballots on tabroom, and understand NSDA rules and events.
- Food availability: We will have a short lunch break each day. There will be a concession stand on site and restaurants within a 5-10 minute drive. Teams could also plan to bring food or have something delivered.
- Judge availability: Please help us get extra judges by contacting alumni, college groups, community groups, etc. Hired judge payments are $12.50 per round with a $25 minimum-for being available all day if given no rounds. This payment is also available to the college judges that count for your judge requirement.
- Please see the High School Unified Manual for specific rules and regulations for the tournament and each event. There are some differences between OSSAA rules and NSDA rules. High-School-Unified-Manual
- If you have any issues regarding Belonging and Inclusion, no matter the severity, visit our Belonging and Inclusion Advocate, Sara Nichols in the tab room. For more information, please click the tab on the right side of the screen.
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WORLD SCHOOLS TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
- Soon we will put out a call for those interested in having students on the West OK World Schools debate team. If we have more than 10 students interested, we will hold a competition for the spots, which will most likely be online. Be sure you would be able to cover these important requirements if interested:
- We can have one or two teams with up to 5 members.
- Entry fees per student are the same as any other event.
- Each team must have a World Schools judge who may not be entered in any other pool.
- There must be a West OK World Schools coach.
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Entries and Judges are due on Tabroom by Friday, February 21 at 8:00 pm!
- The Congressional Debate Qualifying Tournament will be held Friday, February 28 at Edmond Santa Fe.
- Session 1 will begin around 3:30 pm. Session 2 will begin around 6:30 pm.
- Every competitor must give at least one speech to count as an entry.
- If the competitor will also be entered in the West OK Main Tournament, coaches will need to submit a Single Entry Letter of Intent form (on the NSDA forms tab on your registration) and update the single entry intent on Tabroom.
- Since this is the first tournament in the series, a School Consent Form will need to be submitted and West OK Dues must be paid before competing. You may bring a check or cash for dues to the tournament. Checks can be made out to West OK District NSDA. All financial obligations must be cleared with NSDA before participation.
- If your team wishes to partake in a pizza order each student just needs to bring $5. That will cover as many pizzas, water, plates, and napkins as we can afford with whatever amount of money is donated.
- We ALWAYS need judges for this event. If you can come up with high school graduates who are around the area (generally graduates who are attending OU, OCU, OCC, UCO, RSC, OCCC, OSUOKC, etc, etc, etc.) they can earn $25 per session. We often pay college students $50 to be here for 6 hours and we feed them dinner.
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BIG QUESTIONS TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Entries and Judges are due on Tabroom by Saturday, February 22 at 8:00 pm!
- The Big Questions Qualifying Tournament will be held Saturday, March 1 at Edmond Memorial.
- Resolved: Creativity is a more powerful force than intelligence.
- Rounds will be at 8:00 am, 9:00 am, 10:00 am, 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 2:00 pm. Awards will follow the last round.
- If this is the first part of the tournament series for your school, a School Consent Form will need to be submitted and West OK Dues must be paid before competing. You may bring a check or cash for dues to the tournament. Checks can be made out to West OK District NSDA.All financial obligations must be cleared with NSDA before participation.
- We need judges and will pay college-age judges $12.50 per round with a minimum of $25.
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