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You and your debaters are cordially invited to the Piper High School Invitational Debate Tournament on Saturday, October 11, 2025. This will be a one day tournament consisting of five rounds. There will be two divisions: Open & Novice. The Novice division is restricted to evidence provided in the NDCA Novice Packet. Please adhere to this and communicate it to your novice debaters.

Our tournament will be judged by some high school graduates from our debate program, but primarily the judging pool will be parents of our debaters so please plan accordingly.

Please find rules, details and schedule below:

1. We will use the KSHSAA approved 2024-2025 high school debate topic.

2. Entry fees are $7.00 per team. Initially we will be accepting 4 teams per school. Priority will go to schools who have given us extra entries.

3. Any cancellation after 5 p.m. on October 8th will still result in registration fees being charged.

4. In accordance with KSHSAA rules your sponsor may be asked to judge up to 2 rounds the day of the tournament so we can accommodate the most amount of teams.

5. Any team more than 10 minutes late to a round, through no fault of the tournament, will forfeit and receive a 3/4 ranking.

6. The first two rounds will be preset and we will delay power match the remaining rounds.

7. All debates will be the 8-3-5 Cross Examination format with 8 minutes of prep for each team.

8. Tab will be open.

9. We will medal the top six teams in each division.

10. Sweeps will be calculated based on each school’s best two entries from the Open division and an additional two entries from either Open or Novice.

We will have a $8 pizza meal deal for students to purchase and we would appreciate you purchasing through us. Per our administration,our concession stand will only accept payments via credit/debit cards. Please help communicate this information to students in advance.

The schedule we hope to follow…

7:30 a.m. - Registration

8:00 a.m. - Round 1

9:45 a.m. - Round 2

11:30 a.m. - Round 3

1:00 p.m. - LUNCH

1:30 p.m. - Round 4

3:15 p.m. - Round 5

Awards ASAP