Invitation

Separate registration pages are set up for IE Quals (Feb 26-27) and Lincoln-Douglas/Policy/Congress Quals (March 5-6)

This tournament is open only to SDIVSL member schools. All teams must be paid members of CHSSA (paid no later than Feb. 12, 2021. Schools that were members for 2019-20 had dues rolled over, but must submit the CHSSA form to be eligible).

Tab Location: Tournaments.Classrooms.Cloud

Judges' Room: https://tournaments.classrooms.cloud/wing/sdivsl-rooms/

Qualifying Spots / Entry Limitations:  

Our league will qualify five (5) Parliamentary Debate teams and six (6) Public Forum teams to the State Tournament. 

Students who cannot attend the CHSSA State Tournament on April 23-25 (online) are not eligible to compete at this tournament. Additionally, students who are not available to compete in all scheduled rounds of this tournament are not eligible to compete.

A school may have up to ten (10) entries in Parliamentary Debate and up to ten (10) entries in Public Forum Debate at the Qualifiers tournament. Additional entries will count against the ten (10) floating entries that each school is allotted for the three weekends. Floating entries can be entered, and will be waitlisted until the tournament director can review and approve. 

Students may enter one (1) event for this weekend. 

Be sure not to exceed any individual or school entry limits: No student may enter more than four (4) events total throughout the three tournaments. 

Entry/Drop Deadlines: Entries for this tournament must be posted to Tabroom.com no later than 5:00 pm. on Tuesday, February 16. Drops will be accepted with no fees assessed until 5:00 pm on Wednesday, February 17. All Parli/PF fees will be final at that time.  Please email any drops prior to the tournament to Matt Valji at valjim@bishops.com or call/text them in to .

Fees: As per the SDIVSL Bylaws, all fees must be paid in full prior to competing in State Quals. For Parli/PF competitors, any past due fees, as well as Parli/PF fees, are due prior to the first round of this tournament. This year, all fees (including all weekends of Quals) will be due prior to the beginning of Parli/PF.

Judges: Please bring one judge for every 4 entries. IMPORTANT: We appreciate teams who arrange for their judges to remain for the entire tournament, regardless of the progress of their own students.

Tournament Details:

The first six rounds will operate on a double-elimination format. Once a team receives two losses in the first six rounds, they will be eliminated from the tournament. After any preliminary round, if eight or fewer teams remain, the next round will be a quarterfinal round. If after six rounds there are more than eight teams remaining, the top eight teams will advance to quarterfinals. The winners of each quarterfinals debate will advance to semifinals. The winners of the semifinals round will advance to finals.  

Sign-Off Meeting: After the awards ceremony following LD/Policy/Congress Quals (Saturday, March 6), all coaches must meet to sign off any students who have qualified for the State Tournament. All coaches need to (virtually) attend this meeting even if you don’t have a student that is qualified outright. Each year, students who haven’t qualified outright shift up into a qualifying position because of other students’ shifting out of the event, since a student may only enter one individual event at the State Tournament. If the coach is not at the meeting to confirm a student’s attendance at the State Tournament, the students may be bypassed and excluded from State qualification.

Note: If you sign a “No” on a student, that student MAY NOT later be added into that event if some problem arises with his or her participation in another event, such as Team Debate or Duo.  If a student does not qualify outright in any event you still may only sign yes in one event.

You must come to this meeting!