Birch Run Debate Invitational

September 27th, 2025
You and your team are invited to attend the Birch Run High School Debate Invitational.

Some of the important information is as follows:

Location: We are excited to be back to hosting an in person debate tournament at MARSHAL GREENE MIDDLE SCHOOL, located at 8225 Main St, Birch Run, MI 48415. Map of the school has been uploaded for your convenience. All tournament activities such as schematic and judging will be online via tabroom.com. PLEASE BE SURE ALL PARTICIPANTS HAVE AN ACTIVE TABROOM.COM ACCOUNT.

Registration: Registration will close on Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2025at5:00 PM

Divisions: An open division is being offered in Congressional and Policy debate, if entries warrant there will be a novice and open division in public forum. If there are not enough teams to fill a division we reserve the right to combine. No maverick entries will be accepted. There are no separate Middle School Divisions unless there are enough entries to warrant a separate division. You may enter Middle Schoolers but they will be competing within the high school divisions. All debate events are dependent on having enough entries as well.

SCHEDULE

Registration- 7:30 am

General Meeting 8:15 am

Congress:
Session 1: 8:30 am
Session 2: 10:30 am
Super Session: 1:15 pm

Policy (online):
Round 1 9:00 am
Round 2 11:00 am

Public Forum Open:
Round 1 9:00 am
Round 2 10:15 am
Round 3 11:30 am
Round 4 1:30 pm
Semi Finals 3:30 pm
Finals 4:45 pm

Public Forum Novice:
Round 1 9:00 am
Round 2 10:15 am
Round 3 11:30 am
Round 4 1:30 pm
Finals 4:45 pm

Policy topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly increase its exploration and/or development of the Arctic.
Novice Packet — NDCA

Public forum topic: Resolved: The United Kingdom should rejoin the European Union.

Congressional Legislation: We will be using NSDA legislation. Specifically the Senate Final Round Legislation and the House Final Round Legislation.Nats25_Congress-Legislation-Docket-FINAL_05-14.pdf The docket with round by round breakdown of bills is uploaded.

Judges: All judges are required to judge one round beyond the elimination of their team from the tournament. Thus, all judges must be available for the first elimination round.

PLEASE IDENTIFY ALL JUDGE PRECLUSIONS AND CONFLICTS ON YOUR ENTRY. Because this is an online tournament you may have multiple judges fulfilling your commitment, do this for all judges.

PLEASE BE VERY DILIGENT IN SPECIFYING TIME FRAMES FOR JUDGE AVAILABILITY. No show fee of $25 per round charged to the school.

POLICY AND PUBLIC FORUM--You must supply one judge for every 2 teams or fraction thereof.

CONGRESSIONAL—You must supply one judge for every 10 competitors entered.

Fees: $25.00 per 2-person Public Forum team.

$45.00 per 2-person Policy team.

$10.00 per student for Congressional debate

Make checks payable to:

Birch Run Forensics Association

7822 Baker Road

Frankenmuth, MI 48734

(There is a W9 uploaded if you need it)

Forfeit: We will use a 15-minute rule for competitors and judges. If you are more than 15 minutes late you risk forfeit for that round. Teams of offending judges will forfeit and hired judges will not be paid if they are late. Please relay the importance of timeliness to your students and your judges.

Contact information: Please direct all correspondence to Paige Buckley at pbuckley10@gmail.com or by call/text to 989-284-4690

In addition to our tournament, we are hosting MIFA's debate student workshop. This will be for public forum, policy, AND congressional students. Pleaseuse this form to RSVP ASAP.