Awards and Speaker Points

We will provide awards for the top 20 speakers in all events, participants of elimination rounds, members of the supersession for Congressional debate. Awards will be provided for teams with winning records that did not advance to elimination rounds.

We will utilize the following tiebreaker structure to determine teams advancing to elimination rounds:

• 1st – Preliminary win/loss records

• 2nd - Total points

• 3rd – Ranks

• 4th – Opponent wins

We will utilize the following tiebreaker structure to determine top speakers:

• 1st – Total points

• 2nd – Ranks

• 3rd – Preliminary win/loss records

• 4th – Opponent points

• 5th – Opponent ranks

• 6th – Opponent win/loss records 

If two teams from the same school are scheduled to debate each other, we will ask the coach to select a team to advance to the next round.

Speaker points will be on the scale of 25-30 pts (Parliamentary) and 25-30 pts (Public Forum). Half points are allowed but 1/10th points are NOT allowed. Ranks will be on the scale of 1-4 in Public Forum and 1-6 in Parliamentary debate. Debaters cannot have the same rank but can have the same speaker points.