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Brooklyn-Queens Regional Qualifying Tournament for NYSFL State Tournament

Hi coach,

You are invited to attend the Brooklyn-Queens Regional Qualifying Tournament. Thisinvitation is open to your team if your school is located in Kings or Queens County andyou plan to participate in the 2025 New York State Forensic League ChampionshipTournament (herein referred to as States, happening April 18th-19th, 2025). Participationin States requires completion of a Google form [link forthcoming from StateCoordinator], and the submission of the Principal Acknowledgement Form to NYSFLState Coordinator Joe Vaughan (joespeechtabroom@gmail.com). Any questions aboutthis can be directed to WK (wkay@berkeleycarroll.org) or Joe.

Student Eligibility & Qualification Numbers:Students who have already qualified for States should not attend this tournament. Ifthey wish to try to qualify in a different event, they will lose their previous qualification.It doesn’t matter if a student has already earned one half-qual for States or not. Thenumber of full-quals distributed at the RQT is based on the number of studentscompeting in the event (in alignment with the half-qual chart), but no more than 8 arepermitted to qualify in any one event. In the events DUO and POI, the qualifications arerelaxed. Any student in POI or any DUO team that has competed in that event at leastonce this season may participate in States.

Tabroom Registration: Registration opensMonday February 16th at 8am and closes Wednesday March 11th at 8pm. Please be sureto register the appropriate number of judges by the deadline, as entries uncovered byjudging run the risk of being removed from the tournament.

Tournament Schedule:Due to the SAT in the morning, we will run this tournament in the afternoon. Please arrive at Brooklyn Latin between 1:15 and 1:45. We will begin rounds as close to 2pm as possible and plan to be out the door by 6pm, with your cooperation and assistance.

Events: Declamation, Dramatic Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, JV and Varsity Extemp Speaking, Original Oratory, Program Oral Interpretation, JV and Varsity Oral Interpretation, Student Congress, Novice, Intermediate and Varsity Public Forum, and Novice, Intermediate and Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate.

Rounds of Competition​: The RQT will offer 3 preliminary rounds in all speech and debate events and 2 sessions of Student Congress. There are no final rounds. Awards will immediately follow the conclusion of round 3 and the second Congress session.

Congress Legislation: Congress legislation should be submitted via email to WK (wkay@berkeleycarroll.org) by Friday, February 20th at 5pm. Note that there is no SuperSession, so schools may only submit up to 2 pieces of legislation (please note in your email submission which will be Primary and Secondary).

Debate & Extemp Topics:We will use the March topics for LD and PF debate. The March PF topic is “Resolved: The United States federal government should ban corporate acquisition of single-family residences.” The March LD topic is “Resolved: The United States military ought to abide by the principle of non-intervention.” In extemp, the topic areas will be as follows: Round 1 is US Legal Issues; Round 2 is International Institutions & Alliances; and Round 3 is Society, Culture, & Entertainment

Wild Card Entries for States:In addition to qualification via half-quals/the RQT, every school is permitted to register 1 wildcard entry in speech and 1 wildcard entry in debate (which includes Congress, PF and LD) for States that has not qualified via half-quals or the RQT. When registering your wild cards, please enter “WILD CARD” in the fields for both “Qualifier 1” and “Qualifier 2.”

We look forward to your school’s participation in the Brooklyn-Queens RQT!

Best,
WK (they/she)

Brooklyn-Queens Regional Director, NYSFL

wkay@berkeleycarroll.org