Invitation

2025 Puget Sound Logger CARD Tournament

University of Puget Sound

Tacoma, WA

October 18-19, 2025

Greetings,

The University of Puget Sound forensics squad is pleased to invite you to the 2025 Puget Sound Logger CARD Tournament and CARD season opener. This year's tournament will take place from October 18-19, 20235. We invite you to attend this tournament and enjoy the "warmth" of the Northwest. The tournament will offer hybrid forms of competition, but we strongly encourage programs to attend in person.

Competition will be help in:

• CARD (Collegiate Advocacy Research Debate)—please refer here for information on speech times and format.
• All Judges should review the judging guide for information on CARD judging norms. Importantly, we seek judges who focus on student educational growth from the perspective of a judge-educator and critic of argument and decision-making paradigms and RFDs should reflect an educational perspective.
• Full-text articles in the community library are available via a shared drive.
• Information on the community library is available here
• Participants can utilize any portion of any article listed in the established community library but not cite material not in the community library as in-round evidence.

All teams will debate the Fall 2025 CARD resolution:

Resolved: The United States should actively promote substantially greater unionization by implementing the Protecting the Right to Organize Act or facilitating sectoral bargaining.

We work to keep costs low for all attendees and do not seek to make monies off of hosting a tournament. As a result, we will have minimal awards but will offer significant recognition to student competitors.

Please let us know if you any questions or require any further information.

Sincerely,

Derek Buescher, PhD Matt Coleman, JD

Professor, Department of Communication Studies Debate Coach

Director of Forensics University of Puget Sound

University of Puget Sound

Tournament Registration:

Registration for the tournament will be at tabroom.com. If you have any difficulties with registration please email Derek.

• Entry Deadline: Tuesday, October 14, 6:00 PM Pacific Time.
• Drop Deadline: Thursday, October 16, 6:00 PM Pacific Time. After this deadline, fees will be calculated and all drops will be charged full entry fees.
• Email: dbuescher@pugetsound.edu
• If necessary, you may email in changes to your registration. Please email changes as soon as you know them, but also please try to make changes in tabroom prior to emailing them.

Divisions and Entries

We will offer two divisions of CARD but reserve the right to collapse divisions if needed.

Tournament Information and Entry Fees

Puget Sound teams will participate and are eligible for elimination rounds and speaker awards. While we do not expect to have to limit entries, we reserve the right to cap entries at 6 teams per school/per division.

In person $50 per person (competitor, judge, or observer)

Online $50 per team

Hired Judge Fee $150 for each uncovered team

These charges cover security and cleaning costs, tabulation, two light breakfasts, two lunches, and awards.

All judges are obligated through semifinals. Judges with teams participating in elimination rounds are obligated one round past their team’s elimination.

You do NOT need to send your payment in advance. Fees will be set by Thursday evening. Please make checks payable to University of Puget Sound. We do not have the ability to accept online payments but we can accept onsite credit card payments.

Hotel

We have arranged a small block of discounted rooms at the Marriott Downtown Tacoma. Rooms must be reserved by September 18, 2025 at $169/room and discounted parking. Use this link to book rooms: https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1757534273319&key=GRP&app=resvlink

Maps and Directions

Directions to campus and the campus map are available here. Parking is free and you should plan to park at Wyatt and Thompson Hall. Parking lots to use are P13 and P14 on the printable map located here.

All debates will take place in Thompson Hall (Building 47) on the printable map. Announcements, food, awards, etc., will be in a convenient location TBD. Changes to location or schedule will be communicated should the need arise.

Registration and Schedule

Virtual registration will be available Saturday morning until 7:45 am PST. If you are unable to register at that time, make arrangements via e-mail.

Tournament Schedule (PST). A more detailed schedule including disclosure, round start, and decision times is posted here.

Saturday October 18

7:30-8:00am - Breakfast

8:00am - Round 1

10:00am– Round 2

12:00- 1:00 pm - Lunch

1:00pm – Round 3

3:00pm – Round 4

Sunday October 19

8:00-8:30am - Breakfast

8:30am - Round 5

11:00am – Showcase Debate

1:30 – Awards and Snacks