Worlds Info/Schedule

WORLD SCHOOLS DEBATE - 2021 JOHN EDIE TOURNAMENT HOSTED BY THE BLAKE SCHOOL

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SCHEDULE 

Friday 12/17 - Virtual Registration 5-9 PM -- All times CST

Saturday 12/18 - 

 Be in room 10 minutes prior to round.

Rd 1 - 10:45 AM - Prepared

Rd 2 - 12:30 PM - Prepared

Break 2-3PM

Rd 3 - Roll Call and Motion drop 3PM -- Round approx 4:15 PM

Sunday 12/19

Rd 4 - 9:30 AM  -- Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 11AM

Rd 5 - 1PM-Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 2:15 PM

Rd 6-  4PM - Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 5:15 PM

Monday  12/20 (we will clear all 4-2 teams)

Partial Quarter - 9:30 AM  -- Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 11AM

Semifinals - 1PM - Roll Call, Flips and Prepared Debate

Finals 3:30PM  -- Roll Call, Motion Drop, Motion Prep and Round. Round approx 4:40 PM

VIRTUAL DEBATES

-- Judges should always have their camera on when a speech is happening

-- Students are asked to have cameras on for the debates -- tech issues can alter this but one should try

-- POI should be done via a hand or better is a note card which says POI.  The speaker can request verbal but otherwise the assumption is non-verbal POI given two people speaking on Zoom can create issues.

-- Blank google documents can be used during impromptu prep for team members to communicate in the impromptu prep room. 

-- Naming conventions should be used by all persons. Students - Side -Team-Name (Judge-Team-Name or Coach-Team-Name)

Observers Policy and Entourage Judging Rule:

Observer Policy -- We will be adding a separate event where for no cost teams can add observers.  This must be adults out of high school. They can be coaches or parents, but only one per round per team, if a parent is watching then a coach cannot watch.  Our plan in all events is to allow two observers which would be one observer per team involved to observe in your own team's rounds.  We truly believe watching your debaters is critical for education and coaching. This policy will run thru prelims and elims.  We hope to live stream a good deal of rounds for debaters to observe.  To be an observer you must have signed up in the "observer" event and have a tabroom account. 

Entourage -- If you are an observer and not a parent, we expect you to be in the judge pool for that event for 2 prelim rounds or 1 prelim round and the first elim round.  A flighted round (we are only doing a couple early PF and LD elim rounds) means you could judge two debates to cover this one round.

ELIM ROUNDS

Plan is to break all 4-2 teams. If teams from the same school debate each other they will be given the choice of having a debate or allowing the coach to determine the advancing team per that school's normal policies.

Motions

Round 1/2 -- This House Believes That nuclear energy should be promoted as a significant method of climate mitigation.

2nd Elim - THBT improving the culture of security institutions is best accomplished by including women in security forces rather than non-participation and outside protest.

Info slides include

“security forces” refers to the personnel who work to provide military support, peacekeeping operations, and protection of people from violence as instructed by the laws of governing institutions (typically nation-states and local governments).

“security institutions” are the institutions that have a function to provide security for governing institutions such as nation-states and local governments. These include state military branches and the police