UIL District Qualifier

for the 2023 National Tournament

Tabulation and Procedures

All rules for the district tournament can be found in the NSDA Unified Manual. This is what your District Committee uses to run the tournament and help inform us on decisions. There are a few decisions that we made that we'd like to publicize before the tournament.

Registration for the tournament is set 7 days prior to those events.

Interp/platform selections/titles/topics must be entered on Tabroom in the appropriate fields. All full selections (original source, photocopies of pages, full manuscripts) must be available at the tournament should a protest arise.

Judges are considered "dirty" if they meet the following conditions. In debate, they are dirty if they voted against you. In prepared speech, they are dirty if they've seen you before in that event. In extemp speech, they are dirty if you were ranked lower than 3. We will strive to avoid the use of "dirty" judges.

We will have three preliminary rounds of speech events and four preliminary rounds of debate events. We will have two rounds of Congress.

We will place one judge in every* preliminary round and three in each elimination round. *In Congress, each round will have three judges.

In debate, judges may award tenths (.10) in speaker points.

We will qualify the following numbers for elimination rounds:

• 4 in each interp/platform event that exceeds 8 preliminary round contestants*
• 12 in each extemp*
• 12 in each Congress
• All winning records will advance in debate

*In the event of ties, we will break all students tied with that cumulative ranking.

In debate, we will use the single-elimination bracket.

Alternates in debate will be determined by Preliminary Round Seeding.

In Congress, we will have three prelims chambers of the House and two of the Senate. Each chamber will run for a minimum of 10 minutes per speaker. Finals of each will have 12 competitors.

Our audit procedure is as follows: after the conclusion of each round, we will make full results available to coaches. Coaches should verify as much as they can with their students if there is a question (e.g. what speaker were they, what side did they debate, etc....). After a while, we will release basic results (rank, win/loss) to the competitors. All protests must be delivered in writing in a timely manner to the District Committee to make decisions. If necessary, District Committee members who are involved in the protest will be recused from the deliberation.