Virginia District Tournament Virtual
2022 — VA/US
Virginia District Qualifier
for the 2022 National Tournament
Congress/Debate Invitation
Virginia VIRTUAL NSDA District Congress/Debate Qualifying Tournament
April 15th and 16th VIRTUALLY
Qualifying Events: PF-LD-CX-BQ-SEN-HOU (the committee will drop any event not meeting NSDA minimums)
On April 15th & 16th, the Virginia District will be holding the second portion of the NSDA District Tournament. We will be hosting the Speech & Debate Qualifier online via NSDA Campus & Tabroom.com. This tournament determines who competes in all Speech and Debate from our district at the NSDA National Tournament held June 11 through the 17th, 2022. THE NATIONAL TOURNAMENT IS A LIVE EVENT AS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED. The qualifier is a VIRTUAL tournament!
You do not have to plan to attend nationals to participate in this qualifier. All schools that are Virginia District NSDA members are welcome and encouraged to compete. If your students do not intend to attend nationals, we would appreciate knowing that from you before the tournament begins. Officially you must declare your intention by May 1st.
Due to the nature of school entry limits, we ask that you update your students’ NSDA points through the NSDA’s Point Application at least 10 days prior to the tournament. Students must have a minimum of 25 NSDA points on theIr record, as well as be registered individually through the NSDA website to be eligible to compete at the District Tournament.
Additionally, all fees must be paid with the NSDA prior to competing at the tournament. Any school with outstanding NSDA fees will not be allowed to compete until those fees are paid in full.
Registration will be held Thursday evening via “Onsite Confirmation” and Zoom. This is in order to confirm that we have the most accurate representation of your competitors and judges. All of your paperwork will need to be organized and signed. Please help us begin on time by having this done ahead of time. (Paperwork is discussed in detail later in the document)
Each school must complete a District Tournament Registration Form. This form is automatically completed for you after you enter and complete your registration on Tabroom. This form must be fully completed, printed, signed, and turned into Jessie Sanchez, District Chair at along with your signed letters of single entry intent. Single letters of intent are required for any student doubled entered. You must also enter the single letter of intent information online as part of your entry.
In accordance with new rule changes, we will permit changes to registrations after the seven-day deadline, but the updated registration must be received by April 13th date to ensure entries into the tournament. The purpose of the extension is not for your main entry. That is due on April 8th at 5 pm. The purpose of the extra days is to accommodate your name changes, etc. All students and judges must be concurrently registered for the tournament on the Tabroom website as well. We must have both the electronic and NSDA forms in print of your registration. Please email those forms to Jessica at the email address above.
Please be sure to read the information on this website to ensure that you properly register.
It is important that you understand we are running all divisions of the tournament under the new pilot rules for debate and congress. We are required to do so by NSDA. Part of these rules is to better reflect how a normal tournament operates.
In debate events, please know we will hold 4 prelims and advance all winning (3-1 or 4-0) entries. 2-2 records will not advance to elimination rounds. Once prelims are completed, the advancing teams will enter a double-elimination tournament. All debate entries will compete in four prelims. This is a double-elimination event. Teams with a 301 record advancing who lose an elim round are eliminated!
In congress debate events, the previously used pilot rules will be followed There will be one prelim round and one final round in both House and Senate debates. This is to accommodate multiple chambers should our entries exceed 15 in either event.
It is our intention to maximize debate time on Friday. This means both prelim and final rounds on Congressional debate will be held on Friday during the school day. Once the congress debate has ended, we will immediately begin debate events. There will be three rounds of debate on Friday with the last prelim round held on Saturday morning. We will extend debate as long as needed on Saturday to determine the district qualifiers. We recognize that this is Easter weekend which may impact some families. We will make every reasonable effort to move quickly through the schedule so the scheduled times of rounds will be moved up if we can do so.
Note: it could become a very long day of debate on Saturday. Students will have to create their own breaks as they can. We strongly recommend students hydrate and eat as needed between rounds.
Note (2): Results of each round will be posted in Tabroom once results have been audited per NSDA rules.
Our schedule and other information are attached. Please take the time to read the information carefully.
Cordially,
Jessica Sanchez, Virginia District Chair, James River High School 804.357.0711 (c)
Harry Strong, Potomac School. hstrong@potomacschool.org. 515.202.4078 (c)
Sheryl Gusman, Dominion. Sheryl.Gusman@lcps.org 703.430.7559 (c)
Diane King, Fresta Valley Christian 540.219.2503 (c)
Virginia VIRTUAL NSDA Speech Tournament
On March 12th, the Virginia District will be hosting the first portion of the NSDA District Qualifying tournament. This is a VIRTUAL event based on the desires of coaches expressed in the ballot taken of all member schools. The speech tournament functions under the most recent set of NSDA rules (originally called pilot rules) which guided last year's tournament. Each qualifying main event will have three prelims and a final round. A final round will not be held in some divisions if the entered numbers don't support it. This tournament determines who competes in all Speech and Debate from our district at the NSDA National Tournament held June 11th through 17h, 2022. Please note that our national tournament is a live event in Lousiville June 11-17th, 2022.
You do not have to plan to attend nationals to participate in this qualifier. All schools that are Virginia District NSDA members are welcome and encouraged to compete.
Due to the nature of school entry limits, we ask that you update your students’ NSDA points through the NSDA’s Point Application at least 10 days prior to the tournament. Students must have a minimum of 25 NSDA points on theIr record, as well as be registered individually through the NSDA website to be eligible to compete at the District Tournament.
Additionally, all fees must be paid with the NSDA prior to competing at the tournament. Any school with outstanding NSDA fees will not be allowed to compete until those fees are paid in full.
Registration will be held Friday evening March 11th evening via “Onsite Confirmation” and Zoom (5-7pm). This is in order to confirm that we have the most accurate representation of your competitors and judges. All of your paperwork will need to be organized and signed. Please help us begin on time by having this done ahead of time. (Paperwork is discussed in detail later in the document)
Each school must complete a District Tournament Registration Form. This form is automatically completed for you after you enter and complete your registration on Tabroom. This form must be fully completed, printed, signed, and turned into Jessie Sanchez, District Chair at along with your signed letters of single entry intent. Single letters of intent are required for any student doubled entered. You must also enter the single letter of intent information online as part of your entry.
In accordance with new rule changes, we will permit changes to registrations after the seven-day deadline, but the updated registration must be received by March 17th date to ensure entries into the tournament. The purpose of the extension is not for your main entry. That is due on March 4thth at 5 pm. The purpose of the extra days is to accommodate your name changes, drops, etc. All students and judges must be concurrently registered for the tournament on the Tabroom website as well. We must have both the electronic and NSDA forms in print of your registration. Please email those forms to Jessica at the email address above.
Please be sure to read the information on this website to ensure that you properly register.
It is important that you understand we are running all divisions of the tournament under the new pilot rules for speech. We are required to do so by NSDA. Part of these rules is to better reflect how a normal tournament operates. Speech will have three rounds in prelims and a final round.