Lone Star District Qualifier

for the 2024 National Tournament

Cross Entries

We encourage students to compete in multiple events as allowed by the Unified Manuel of the National Speech and Debate Association. The choice to compete in multiple events is indeed a choice and that decision cannot have an impact on the other students, judges, or tournament writ large in a negative way (for example: delay rounds over 15 minutes due to cross entries or tardiness on the part of the student.) The responsibility to arrive on time to compete is solely on the student and the rounds which delay the start in other rounds due to cross-entries will result in those who have opted to cross-enter, potentially missing an opportunity to compete in that round.

Ranks or decisions will not be adjusted to accommodate students who are late/miss rounds (once ballots are submitted) unless the circumstance meets a very high standard that the District committee will review on a case-by-case basis. All coaches and students with cross-entered students have an affirmative obligation to look at the published schedule to decide if it is logistically possible to compete in rounds where they have conflicting events during the same time block. If a student is in an elimination round of debate that would be delayed by competing in an individual event elimination round, those students would need to choose which event they would continue in so as not to disrupt the entire elimination round schedule.