Tournament Invitation

August 5, 2023

Dear Moderators:

The Bronx High School of Science Speech & Debate Team cordially invites you and your team to join us at the Fifty-Third Annual New York City Invitational Tournament. In-person! We are happy to continue a 50+ year tradition of offering an early-season tournament.

The tournament will be held at the Bronx High School of Science from Friday, October 13th through Sunday, October 15th, 2023. On Saturday, October 14^th we expect Speech and Congress to be held nearby at PS 95.

We offer to eligible high school students the following: Public Forum Debate, Policy Debate, and Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and, on Saturday and Sunday, Congressional Debate, Dramatic Interpretation of Literature, Duo Interpretation of Literature, Extemporaneous Speaking, Humorous Interpretation of Literature, Informative Speaking, Original Oratory, Program Oral Interpretation and Prose & Poetry.

Registration for all events opens on August 20th at 12 pm. All entries will automatically be wait-listed until the Labor Day weekend, when entries will be reviewed and cleared based upon several factors, including past tournament attendance, geography, and diversity of entries, to distribute all the available slots fairly. We anticipate that available slots will fill up quickly.

Public Forum debater teams will debate the September/October 2023 Public Forum Debate topic. Policy debate teams will debate the 2023-24 National High School topic on fiscal redistribution. Lincoln-Douglas debaters will debate the September/October 2023 National Speech & Debate Association LD topic. Congressional Debate legislation will be released prior to the tournament.

Bronx Science remains a qualifying competition for the National High School Tournament of Champions (TOC) in all four varsity debate events: octafinalists in Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Public Forum Debate, quarterfinalists in Policy Debate and finalists in Congressional Debate. The NYC Invitational is a bid tournament for the TOC in all speech categories.

More specific information will be released on the pages at nyc.tabroom.com.

If you have any questions, please contact us at bigbronx@bxscience.edu. We very much value your continued support of our school and the tournament. We hope to have the opportunity to express our appreciation and welcome you and your team to our tournament this October.

Sincerely,

Timothy J. Huth
Director of Forensics

Kirby Chin '88
Co-Tournament Host

Robert Levinson '80
Co-Tournament Host