Information

Registration – Entries will be accepted until Friday, September 5, 2014 assuming the maximum entry limit of 96 teams has not been reached. As mentioned in the invitation, space is limited due to classroom availability. There is no maximum amount of entries per school, but once the tournament entry limit is reached, registration will close and teams will be placed on a wait list. Please drop your entries by Wednesday, September 10. Schools that drop teams after this deadline will be assessed a $35.00 drop fee per team. 

Preliminary registration will take place BY PHONE on Thursday evening, September 11, between 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM. Please call Katie Gjerpen to confirm entries and judges at 248-921-1025. In the event of ANY changes in entries or judges that occur after the Thursday evening deadline, email the changes to katgje@d219.org.

Final registration will take place from 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM at Niles North High School outside the auditorium on Friday, September 11. Buses and vans should drop students off at this location. Tournament t-shirts will be distributed here.

Fees – Checks for entry fees and hired judges need to be mailed to Katie Gjerpen at Niles North High School, 9800 Lawler Avenue, Skokie, IL 60077 or brought to the tournament and handed in to the registration desk prior to the beginning of round one on Friday. Please make checks out to Niles North High School. Registration fees will include tournament t-shirts for each competitor and their head coach. T-shirts will be distributed at final registration to schools that have fulfilled their entry fee obligation. Entry fees for each Policy Debate team are $75.00. Dinner on Friday and lunch and dinner on Saturday will be available for purchase in the Student Cafeteria. A limited number of hired judges will be available at the cost of $300.00 per full commitment and $150.00 per half commitment. Hospitality will be provided for visiting coaches and judges.

Novice Workshop - There is no cost to participate in the Novice Workshop. We do kindly ask, however, that you encourage your novices to utilize the concession stand. To register your novices for the workshop, please enter your students’ names in the “Free Novice Workshop” division.

Policy Division – An 8-3-5 format with an 8-minute preparation rule will be used. We are debating the 2014-15 National Policy Debate Resolution.  There will be six preliminary rounds of debate, clearing to double-octafinals or octafinals. 

Judging – Schools need to update their judge information on a consistent basis via tabroom.com.  We will be using a Mutual Preferred Judging System for the Open Policy division. Schools MUST supply one qualified judge per two teams in Policy Debate. All judges fulfilling a preliminary round obligation are required to be available for one round beyond the elimination of their school. Schools will incur a $25 fine for judges that do not fulfill this obligation.

Please direct all correspondences to: 

Katie Gjerpen

Niles North High School

Cell: 248-921-1025

Email: katgje@d219.org