3A 2017 State at Stansbury High School

Please remember to review all of the rules! Do not challenge them unless you know them and you can prove it!

In 3A, 4A and 5A regions, no school may qualify more than 25 participants for the state forensic tournament. The allocation may not exceed 3 policy teams, 3 Lincoln-Douglas debaters, 3 Public Forum teams, 2 Student Congress participants, 2 Original Oratory participants, 2 Impromptu Speaking participants, 2 National Extemporaneous speaking participants and 2 Foreign Extemporaneous speaking participants.The only exception is when a school uses the “substitution rule.” (Ch. 3, Art. 1. Sect. 17). 

If a school qualifies more competitors than the rules allow in a particular event, the coach may choose to bring the extra qualifier to replace a region entry. A. Extras in one event can only be entered if all entries in that event qualified outright at the region tournament. 2015-16 UHSAA HANDBOOK SPEECH/DEBATE 124 B. Under this rule a student may only be entered in an event in which they competed at the region tournament. C. Non-existing entries may not be dropped to meet the limit overall (substitutions may only be made for slots filled at the region tournament). D. Entry limits shall not be exceeded: 1. The total number of entries per school shall not exceed 25 for 3A, 4A and 5A, nor shall it exceed 24 for 2A, nor 22 for 1A. 2. A policy or public forum team counts as two entries for the purposes of substitution.Two individual entries would need to be dropped to enter an additional policy or public forum team.Dropping a policy or public forum team would allow two slots in events where students compete individually provided the event limit is not exceeded. 3. No more than one extra entry per event may be made in the state tournament. (No more than four entries in individual or debate events shall be allowed in 1A and 2A.No more than three entries in individual events, nor more than four in debate events shall be allowed in 3A, 4A and 5A.) 

WE WILL BE USING ONLINE BALLOTING AT THIS TOURNAMENT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING THAT YOUR JUDGES ARE TRAINED, HAVE TABROOM ACCOUNTS, AND THAT THE LISTED NAME OF THE JUDGE IS AT THE TOURNAMENT READY TO GO. IF YOU LIST JUDGES THAT WONT BE THERE, ENTRIES WILL BE DROPPED TO OFFSET THE LACK OF JUDGES. 

Please see the entire UHSAA rulebook at: http://www.uhsaa.org/Publications/Handbook/ActivitiesSections/SpeechDebate.pdf