Information

Separate registration pages are set up for Speech Quals (March 6-7) and Lincoln-Douglas/Policy/Congress Quals (March 13-14)

This tournament is open only to SDIVSL member schools. All teams must be paid members of CHSSA (paid no later than Feb. 13, 2026) with all necessary SDIVSL and CHSSA forms completed prior to registering.

Tab Location: LIBRARY

Judges' Room: LIBRARY

PARLI PREP AFF: TBA

PARLI PREP NEG: TBA

Qualifying Spots / Entry Limitations:

Our league will qualify seven (7) Parliamentary Debate teams and seven (7) Public Forum teams to the State Tournament.

Students who cannot attend the CHSSA State Tournament on April 17-19 at James Logan High School (Union City) are not eligible to compete at this tournament. Additionally, students who are not available to compete in all scheduled rounds of this tournament are not eligible to compete.

A school may have up to ten (10) entries in Parliamentary Debate and up to ten (10) entries in Public Forum Debate at the Qualifiers tournament. Additional entries will count against the ten (10) floating entries that each school is allotted for the three weekends. Floating entries can be entered, and will be waitlisted until the tournament director can review and approve.

Students may enter one (1) event for this weekend.

Be sure not to exceed any individual or school entry limits: No student may enter more than four (4) events total throughout the three tournaments.

Entry/Drop Deadlines: Entries for this tournament must be posted to Tabroom.com no later than 11:59pm. on Monday, Feb 23. Drops will be accepted with no fees assessed until 6:00 pm on Wednesday, February 25. All Parli/PF fees will be final at that time. Please email any drops prior to the tournament to Matt Valji at valjim@bishops.com or call/text them in to 858-353-8120 on the day of the tournament.

Fees: As per the SDIVSL Bylaws, all fees must be paid in full prior to competing in State Quals. For Parli/PF competitors, any past due fees, as well as Parli/PF Quals fees, are due prior to the first round of this tournament. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KNOWING THE AMOUNTS DUE - if you have questions, contact Gregg Osborn, League Treasurer, at gosborn@helixcharter.net.

Judges: Please bring one judge for every 4 entries, or part thereof.

IMPORTANT: Teams need to arrange for their judges to remain for the entire tournament, regardless of the progress of their own students.

Tournament Details:

a. Rounds 1-4 - Preliminary rounds: All teams or individuals shall debate in four rounds. At the conclusion of round four, all teams or individuals with two or more losses shall be eliminated.

b. Elimination bracket: Following Round 4, all remaining teams or individuals will participate in elimination brackets. The number of elimination brackets and the names given to each round (e.g. Octafinals, Quarterfinals, Semifinals) shall be determined by the number of remaining teams or individuals. In each elimination bracket, elimination is automatic for losing teams or individuals, regardless of overall win-loss record. Elimination rounds will continue until the state qualifiers and alternates are determined for each debate event.

If at any time the qualifiers for the State Tournament can be determined, no further rounds will take place.

Sign-Off Meeting: After the awards ceremony following LD/Policy/Congress Quals (Saturday, March 14), all coaches must meet to sign off any students who have qualified for the State Tournament. All coaches whose teams competed in State Quals need to attend this meeting, even if you don’t have a student that is qualified outright. Each year, students who haven’t qualified outright shift up into a qualifying position because of other students’ shifting out of the event, since a student may only enter one event at the State Tournament. If the coach is not at the meeting to confirm a student’s attendance at the State Tournament, the students may be bypassed and excluded from State qualification.

Note: If you sign a “No” on a student, that student MAY NOT later be added into that event if some problem arises with his or her participation in another event, such as Team Debate or Duo. If a student does not qualify outright in any event, you still may only sign yes in one event.

You must come to this meeting!