NCX Schedule and rules (online event)

NCX Rules and Schedule - THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT

Any 9th grader (or younger) or student in their first full year of policy debate may enter. 3 tournaments or less in a year is not considered a "full year". This is a limited argument tournament (packet)

NCX – this is an online event and will use a packet (see argument restrictions below)

Saturday Oct. 17, 2025 All times CDT

Pairings no later than 30 minutes before each debate.

Round 1 10 am

Round 2 1 pm

Round 3 4 pm

Sunday Oct. 18, 2025 All times CDT

Yes, this is a late start. We want the schedule to be consistent with VCX and VLD but we don’t want our west coast participants to have to start at 6 am

Pairings no later than 30 minutes before each debate.

Round 4 11:30 am

Elim 1 2:30 pm

Elim 2 5:30 pm

We will stop after 2 elims. Entries winning 2 elims will be declared co-champions and receive appropriate awards.

Argument restrictions (packet)

Last year the NDCA, GFCA and DFW packets were all the same. Hopefully, that will happen again. If not, we will try to reasonably accomodate the various novice packets.
Update 8-10-26 GFCA and NDCA files will be the same for 2026.