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We cordially invite you to our high school speech and debate tournament hosted online by Puyallup and Thomas Jefferson High Schools at NSDA’s Campus. We are ready to provide a quality tournament for you and your students.

This year, we will be offering Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum (both with an Open and Junior Division) and Worlds Style Debate (WSD) and Congressional Debate (in Open division). In addition, we will be offering all nine of the Washington State Individual Events, in addition to SPAR and EdComm, in Open division (with a celebration of the top novice in each category – please be sure to let us know if a student is a novice by checking the corresponding button on your team roster in Tabroom). All speech and debate events will be synchronous. PLEASE make sure that you have a solid wi-fi connection. Challenges inevitably come up, but as coaches, we can have a profound impact on the running of the tournament and our students having a positive experience, we can make sure that they are able to access tabroom by checking that they can get in to the NSDA practice room (found on the front page of Tabroom – right hand side), use both their camera and microphone, and that they have solid wifi access.

While this tournament is near the end of the season in Washington state, we are committed to focusing our tournament on education. We are thrilled that the tournament is a NIETOC bid in all NIETOC IE’s. NIETOC bids are based on the total number of students participating, so PLEASE be aware of that if you need to drop a student from an event. Also, all PF and LD will be using the JANUARY PF/LD TOPICs, Congress will be using the Spring WSFA legislation packet (released December 1^st and available on the VRE tabroom site shortly thereafter) and Worlds will be using prepared motions rounds 2, 3, 5, and all elim rounds!.

We will do our best to make sure that the tournament runs smoothly, professionally, and on time. The philosophical goals of our tournament are: Encourage scholarship, Record excellence, and Balance the spirit of competition with an Equitable and Inclusive atmosphere. We hope that you will join us to forge a new path of cooperation and competition.

Andrew Buchan Sarah Sherry and Greg Stevens

Tournament Directors Tournament Directors

Thomas Jefferson Speech/Debate Coaches Puyallup High School Speech/Debate Coaches