Magnolia District Qualifier

for the 2026 National Tournament

10. Equity, Inclusion, Auditing

The Belonging and Inclusion Station (BIS) is the upgrade to NSDA’s “Equity Office.” We aren’t really staffed up enough to have a wholly separate room and personnel for this, so the process will start with an online form: https://bit.ly/magnoliaBIS. Go ahead and look at it. There are some notes there to consider for you or your students if you have a concern to raise, and it would be a good idea to get familiar with it in advance.

Basically, the Belonging and Inclusion form is for addressing concerns about harassment, discrimination, bullying, or behavior/equity issues. It is NOT for filing a protest regarding the results of a round or reporting a violation of event rules.

If you have a protest or rules concern this weekend, you should contact Mr. Everson and/or other Committee Members directly in the tabroom.

As in the past, we are required by NSDA to post results of each round to coaches for y’all to audit. The primary concern here is for you to check that the results seem to make sense and that your students are indicated as being on the right side of debate rounds, especially in Public Forum, where we have the coin flip.

The purpose of the audit is to catch mistakes. It is NOT for giving you information to coach your students in between rounds. RFDs and other judge feedback will not be posted until after the tournament. If you have a concern, please bring it to our attention in the tabroom ASAP.

Keep an eye on tabroom.com emails so that you know when results have been posted for you to see.