We are hosting a one-day NFA-LD tournament on Sunday, February 26th. 

We are accepting entries in Novice, JV, and Open debate. For the purposes of this tournament, Novice means students with no significant debate experience (fewer than 3 tournaments, any format) prior to the 2016-2017 season. JV is limited to students in their first 4 semesters of college debate eligibility. Open is available to any undergraduate student. 

Since maximizing potential to qualify to NFA Nationals is our priority, we have moved to a 5 round format. Any entry with a 3-2 record or better should qualify, so we will be concerned only with meeting the 3-school / 5-entry minimum in each division.

If a student would be eligible to compete in a division lower than the one where they are entered, please email us (ermocito@gmail.com) to indicate if you are willing to have them moved down to help each division make. 

We will not be charging entry fees in 2017, but we will charge judging fees at $10.00 per uncovered round. Each entry requires 3 rounds of judging to cover, but you can still cover 2 entries with one judge. If you are able to bring judging beyond your requirements, we will hire judging at $20/round. You can list additional rounds on the hired judge exchange in tabroom. If you are representing a school that has no travel budget and no judging support, please contact us. 

The entry deadline is Tuesday, February 21st, but we strongly encourage you to enter earlier if possible. If your entries have been out, please update affirmative and negative arguments at the case list: https://nfald.paperlessdebate.com/Main/. You can also email your cites to ermocito@gmail.com and we will post them for you. Ideally, all case list info would be posted by the entry deadline. 

If your program is new to NFA-LD and you would like additional support (including some starter evidence). There is no pre-tournament expectation for case list uploading for programs that have not competed on this topic yet, but we will work to help get cites uploaded during the tournament. We are hoping to make the tournament open and welcoming to all students, but will particularly try to facilitate students from schools that have not competed in NFA-LD. If requested, we are open to doing a training session Sunday morning or posting training videos prior to the tournament. Just ask!

All rounds will be in Craig Hall (NW of corner at National & Grand) - you can park across the street in Lot 22. Here is a map: http://map.missouristate.edu/#!z=16&ll=37.203822,-93.28563&layer=parking. 

Schedule: Sunday, February 26th

Please email any registration changes as soon as possible!

12:15pm Registration/Pairings

12:30pm Round 1

1:30pm Round 2

2:30pm Round 3

3:30pm Round 4

4:45pm Round 5 (power-matched)

6:00pm Awards