South Oregon District Qualifier

for the 2023 National Tournament

Congress

Congress

Location: Online

Date: Saturday, March 4

Register by: Friday, February 24

Qualifiers: Top 2 in the Senate (6 schools required to seat a Senate and 10 entries) and top 2 in the House (Must have 16 competitors to seat a House).

Temporary Chairs: Please email me requests by the date of registration, February 24th.

Legislation:

Each school should upload up to 2 pieces of legislation by Noon on February 22nd. That legislation will be posted on this website, and then placed on the docket in each chamber. Any speaker from your school may present the authorship speech in the chamber. Any legislation I receive after February 22nd at Noon will not be considered a school bill and will not be posted, though individual speakers may submit legislation from the floor (it will be eligible for debate after the school bills). Please carefully write and format school bills (templates available at https://www.speechanddebate.org/legislation-templates/). If you do not follow the format, the committee may reject the bill/resolution. Bills should be the original work of the school. The committee reserves the right to reject improper legislation.

Judging:

1. Congress: We will need a total of 3 people to judge in each chamber (9 total). If you have no speaker in a chamber, you may be asked to be a scorer or parliamentarian. If you think you can bring a scorer or parliamentarian, please notify Kayla Crook. Judges are paid per session. As per the NSDA, we must use unaffiliated judges in each chamber.

2. General Notes:

1. Students will qualify in Congress based on Judge Ranking.

2. As we are finishing this tournament before Speech and Debate qualifiers, please note that speakers who have already qualified in Congress will be allowed to compete, and perhaps even qualify, in the Speech and Debate qualifiers.

3. I will set the chambers Friday night before Congress. Please let me know if you need to change your entries by 5 p.m.

4. If you have students who choose to compete in the Congress and a speech or debate event, you need to have a completed Single Entry Letter of Intent for each. This is found on tabroom.

5. During the congress, we will have coaches create our World School qualifier rankings.