Divisions

The Novice division is limited to debaters in their first year of competition. First year competitors may participate in the Novice division regardless of how many previous tournaments they have competed in.

Debaters who debated during the 2019/20 school year must compete in the Varsity division unless they have competed in no more than 5 debate competitions over the length of their debate career (this includes ALL forms of debate, including Policy, LD, Parliamentary, and Public Forum).  This 5 tournament limit for Novice eligibility includes tournaments held in the 2020/21 school year. In other words, if the debater competed in 4 tournaments last year and will have competed in 2 this year before our tournament, s/he must compete in the Open division.

The TOC division is open to all interested debaters. It is a Varsity level division and Quarter Final level TOC qualifier.

The Open division is intended to be an overflow Varsity level division for experienced debaters for whom we do not have space in the TOC division. We will not run this division unless it is needed. If it is too small to run it will be folded in to the TOC division.