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The Bel Air HS Highlands Speech and Debate program would like to welcome you to the 2025
The tournament will be IN-PERSON at Bel Air High School on November 21 and 22, 2025. We will be offering the complete
set of events in IE’s and LD, PF, CX (if qualified numbers), and Congressional Debate.

This tournament hopes to have a huge sign up of schools and individuals to offer as many qualifying events and points possible. If any events fail to meetqualifying numbers, then the event will be dropped.

LD Topic: The United States ought to rewild substantial tracts of land.

PF Resolved: The United States federal government should require technology companies to provide lawful access to encrypted communications.

CX: The United States federal government should significantly increase its exploration and/or development of the Arctic.

Congressional Debate will be debating the following pieces of legislation from the TFA Fall 2025 Docket. There will be 4 chambers available.

Prelims: 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 (in that order)

Finals: 21, 23, 25, 27, 29 (in that order)

Please refer to the schedule for event times and cross entry rules.

All cross-entries are at the student’s own risk.

If a student does not make their round on-time they may be dropped, regardless of the reason.

Students may be marked as a no-show if they have not shown up to a round within 60 minutes of the start time, and students who sign into their rounds must perform within 90 minutes of the rounds start time. In debates, students may be marked as a no-show after 15 minutes.

Out-rounds will be paneled only if we have enough judges available.

We will break brackets in debate out-rounds.

We will do our best to accelerate the schedule if/when possible, so please pay close attention to the postings and updates.

Bel Air students will be competing at their own tournament, including in elimination rounds.

Student Congress will take place on the 3rd floor of the Science building, the floor above the Library.

All coaches and students need to bring their school id, and will receive a badge that will be worn during the entire tournament. A parking pass will be provided to coaches, judges, and students who drove themselves to avoid being booted.

Friday, Nov. 21st (Congress schedule may change slightly based on entry numbers, please be at Bel Air by 8am)
_______ 8:30-11:30, Prelims - Student Congress

________12:30-3:00, Finals - Student Congress Finals
_______ 4:30 LD/PF/CX Debate Rd 1
_______5:30 LD/PF/ _________ 6:10 CX Debate Rd 2
_______6:30 LD/PF/_________7:50 CX Debate Rd 3

All debate out-rounds will be on Saturday.

Sat., Nov. 22nd
Extemp draw will begin at 8:00 am in the Bel Air Library.
_______8:00 Debate (Quarters)
_______8:30 Prelims Individual Events A (DX, DI, OO, Duet)
_______10:00 Prelims Individual Events B (FX, HI, Inf, Duo, POI)
_______11:00 Debate (Semis)
_______11:30 Semis Individual Events A
_______1:00 Semis Individual Events B

_______2:00 Finals Debate
_______2:30 Finals Individual Events A
_______4:00 Finals Individual Events B

Here are links for Parking on Friday and Saturday, please note that they are different on both days:

You will need to park on a large parking lot on a parallel street from Yarbrough, the street being Venado. I have attached a map that indicates where. If you are bringing a bus, please note this is where our buses stop and unload, so you will need to park with buses and unloaded farther down on Venado near the baseball field. The buses can stay there as well if they wish. There will be a gate designated for everyone on Friday to come through with our volunteers and security will usher everyone into the section of the Health Professions building that is sectioned off for us. Once inside, everyone will be assigned rooms and wristbands.

Friday: Friday Parking

On Saturday, you can park in front of the main building and will be let in the front entrance. We will be using the 2nd and 3rd floors to this building for events. Draw will be on the 3rd floor. Again, wristbands will be assigned. There is a small commons area on the first floor where we will be selling $1 pizza slices as long as we have them in stock and will be selling affordable and tasty drinks as well. So let the kiddos know, it'll be in an area known as the Red Zone on the first floor.

Saturday: Saturday Parking Layout