West Los Angeles District Qualifier

for the 2024 National Tournament

District Auditing Procedures

From the NSDA High School Manual

District Tournament Audit Procedures

Tabroom.com or SpeechWire must be used to tabulate the district tournament. District Committees are strongly encouraged to make the tabulation process as transparent as possible.

Minimum Audit Requirement

At a minimum, primary results of each round (win/loss or rank) must be released to the advisor or a coach representative from each school in attendance after the conclusion of each round. The coach representative is responsible for reviewing results in a timely manner and alerting the District Committee to any potential errors or violation of the audit procedure.

Examples of Audit Procedures

These examples are not exhaustive and are meant to provide guidance for the options District Committees have for meeting the audit requirements.

• If a tournament is using paper ballots, the District Committee can appoint an Audit Committee to compare ballot results to the results input into the computer after each round. After passing the Audit Committee, the ballots and audit sheet can be made public to the coach representative so they may take responsibility for the results. This allows two independent groups to verify results.

• If a tournament is using online ballots, the District Committee can publicize the results and written feedback to coach representatives after each round. This allows coaches to verify that the sides were appropriately assigned in debate on the online ballot and notice major discrepancies between the reasons for decisions and the results.

• The District Committee can publish results publicly after each round. This allows both coaches, competitors, and the judges themselves to verify that the results match what the judge intended or that the results match a decision that was disclosed to the competitors.

Violations of Audit Requirements

It is the affirmative duty of coaches to hold the District Committee accountable to their published auditing procedures and use this procedure to check results after each round. If a district is not auditing results and/or providing the audit to a coach representative, the coach representative should file a protest to the Committee, citing this procedural violation.If a protest is filed, the District Committee is required to contact the NSDA tournament contact for a ruling.

If coaches believe errors in tabulation have occurred, they must first address the issue with the District Committee in atimely fashion.If the tournament is still in progress, the protest should be lodged within one roundof the audit being available to coaches.

The audit for the final round results must be made available before the awards assembly. No protests regarding tabulation will be permitted after the awards assembly.

The national qualifiers determined by the national office will be official. If the District Committee erroneously identifies and announces that a student has qualified for the National Tournament, that student will not keep that qualification spot for the National Tournament.