LD Grand Prix

Link to Awards Portal

Link to Invite

Date: March 13th-15th

Hosted online

Website: ldgrandprix.tabroom.com

note* Due to tremendous difficulties scheduling double elims with team constraints, the Grand Prix will be 7 rounds with a flip in Round 7 and single elimination rounds without breaking brackets.

The Banquet will announce the All-American teams, Student and Coach Awards

Awards will announce speaker awards and recognize non-advancing elimination round participants

Up to 16 students will advance to the elimination debates.

If more than 16 students have winning records after 5 preliminary rounds, a run-off round will occur on Saturday Evening with pairing procedures like a partial double-octofinal round.

All times Central Standard Time

March 13th

March 14th

March 15th

*Note: The Run-Off Round is optional and will only be held if there are more than 16 winning records. In the case of more than 16 with a winning record, Elimination Round 1 will be the run-off and Elimination Round 5 will be the finals.

March 10th 5 pm – Entry Deadline

March 12th 5 pm – Judge deadline

After March 12th any changes should be communicated to chadwickmeadows@gmail.com

Fees: 45 dollars per entry

Please make checks payable to:

Attn: WKU Forensics

1906 College Heights Blvd

Bowling Green KY 42101

We cannot currently accept credit card payment.

Each entry requires 4 rounds of judge coverage. A judge can cover 6 rounds.

All judges are obligated through the 2nc full elimination round. And then one round past their last eliminated debater.

Online judges should have cameras and keep them on for the duration of the debate. Judges should disclose their decisions and offer helpful/constructive feedback to students.

Judges should have a paradigm on the taproom website. Please ensure the content of your paradigm is something you would be fine being the subject of public interest, as publication of paradigms has become relatively common place.

The tournament expects students to disclose their affirmative and upload citations using the https://opencaselist.com/nfald25

Students should go to their rooms to disclose the affirmative by the arrival deadline.

The tournament will offer a Novice, JV, and Open division of National Forensics Association Lincoln-Douglas Debate. The topic will be the National Forensics Associations 2025-2026 topic..

Each debate will have one winner and loser.

Students competing at the LD-Grand Prix must be eligible to compete at the National Forensics Association national tournament.

Awards will be given to the 16 debaters who advance to the double elimination rounds of the Varsity division and the champion in JV and Novice.

The champion of the varsity division is awarded a traveling trophy, generously purchased by The Spicer Debate Forum at the first LD Grand Prix.

The LD Coaches Association will award trophies for the All-American Team, Coach of the Year, and Emerging Debater of the Year. LD Coach Association awards are donated by Chad Meadows.

Any student may enter an open division. Junior division is open to students in their first four semesters of collegiate debate (of any kind). Novice division is open to students with less than two semesters of any debate at any level (high school or college).

Zoom will be used for online/hybrid debates.

All-American, Coach of the Year, and Emerging Debater of the Year Portals will be uploaded to the Tabroom page shortly.