Worlds Specific Information

Worlds Rules & Information

·       Motions will be released in late February/early March.

·       The tournament will consist of a variety of impromptu and prepared motions

·       There will be two judges in each preliminary round. At the end of the round, each judge will disclose and give a reason-for-decision, as well as turning in an online ballot

·       Speaker points will be assigned on the international scale (average speaker you expect to see at the tournament should receive a 70), moving up or down from there.

·       Each team will be assigned a pod, based on mutual-rankings. This pod of 6 teams will each debate each other, guaranteeing 5 rounds of top-quality competition.

·       We will not break the bracket.

·       To determine who advances to the semi-finals rounds, teams in each pod will be ranked in this way:

o   Total number of ballots

o   If tied, then head to head record (if more than two teams are tied, the ballot counts against the other teams will break the tie)

o   If the debaters split the ballot, then total number of sweeps

o   If still tied, high-low speaker points, followed by total speaks will break the ties

·       Coaches and participants of the tournament are welcome in rounds as long as the platform allows.