General Information

General Information

The debate will utilize the 2023 TFA Fall Docket. A copy of the legislation can be found in the parliamentarian
folders. The docket legislation for the morning and afternoon chambers are:

Prelims - 18, 19, 28, 4

Finals - 25, 23, 24, 10

The docket is preset and students may not change the order. This will allow chambers to start as soon as possible on debate since we are limited on time and have larger chambers.

Entry Information:

- There is an overall cap for a total of 175 students for this Tournament.
- Each school may enter up to 10 students. Additional students can be
placed on the waitlist and we will accept additional students as space
permits.
- There are entry limits within each of the three divisions Senate (max of 2
from each school), House (max of 6 from each school), and Novice (max of
2 from each school).
- Awards to Top 8 in each division
- Each division will have a preliminary round in the morning and a finals
chamber in the afternoon.
- Breaks will be announced at 1:00pm outside of the Tabroom.
- Overall Sweeps Award to 1st Place and 2nd Place Schools
- Every student advancing to Finals in the House, Senate, and Novice earns
a Medal
- Entry fee is just $25 per student!

Senate Entry Information:
~ Each school can register up to 2 students for the Senate.
~ Each Preliminary Chamber will have 20 debaters.
~ The Finals Chamber will have18 debaters.
~ Awards to Top 8 (Top 3 get LARGE Specialty Gavels. Place 4-8 get regular size
gavels)
~ Plaque to Top PO in Senate; can be in addition to a top 8 Place gavel.
House Entry Information:
~ Each school can register up to 6 students in the House.
~ Each Preliminary Chamber will have 20 debaters.
~The House Finals will have 20 debaters.
~ Awards to Top 8 (Top 3 get Large Specialty Gavels. Place 4-8 get regular size gavels)
~ Plaque to Top PO in House; can be in addition to a top 8 Place gavel.

Novice Entry Information:
~ Must be a first year Forensics Student. To be clear, this means this is the students
first year in speech and debate, NOT first year doing Congressional Debate only.
~ Each Preliminary Chamber will have 20 students each.
~ Top 8 from each preliminary chamber will break to the Novice Finals Chamber.

~ Goal is 16 students in Finals
~Awards to Top 8, all regular size gavels.

Sweepstakes and Awards:
We will be using the following point system to determine sweepstakes:
1 st Place – 15 points
2 nd Place – 12 points
3 rd Place – 10 points
4 th Place – 8 points
5 th Place – 6 points
6 th Place – 4 points
All three divisions, Senate, House, Novice, will count towards overall point totals for
sweeps. We will be awarding a Top PO award in the Senate and House yet this
distinction will not carry any point value.