The Edina High School Speech and Debate team invites you to attend the eighth annual Edina Classic Debate Tournament. Events offered at the tournament will include Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas, and Congressional Debate. Our tournament is committed to twin goals of EFFICIENCY and EDUCATION - we hope that you will consider joining us!

Public Forum:
We will offer three divisions of PF debate – novice, JV, and varsity. There will be awards for the top 5 teams in each division. November/December 2024 PF topic will be used. 5 rounds, plus a final round in all divisions. Provide 1 judge for every 2 teams.

Policy:
We will offer four divisions of Policy debate – novice A, novice B, JV, and varsity. The JV and novice divisions will feature separate tournaments on Friday (virtual) and Saturday (in person). There will be awards for the top 5 teams in each division. Provide 1 judge for every 2 teams.

Lincoln-Douglas Debate:
LD debaters will debate the November/December 2024 resolution. We will offer three divisions of LD debate – novice, JV, and varsity. There will be awards for the top 5 debaters in each division. 5 rounds, plus a final round in all divisions. Provide 1 judge for every 2 debaters.

Congress:
We will offer three divisions of Congressional Debate (Varsity, JV, Novice.) Legislation will be made available prior to the tournament and will be posted on tabroom.com. Provide 1 judge for every 5 students in Congress.

Judges:
Be sure to cover all your entries. Judges cannot cross between kinds of debate. Please make sure that judges arrive on time.Teams that arrive without their full complement of judges will be charged a nuisance fee of $125.00 per missing judge.

Deadline for entry is 5:00 PM on Tuesday, November 12th– keep us informed of any changes to your judging or entry.Drop-deadline is 5:00PM on Thursday November 14th. Any drops after this time will still owe the entry fee for dropped entries. Space is limited, so enter early to avoid being shut out.

We are keeping the website open for drops until 7:00 a.m. on Saturday morning. After that point, any changes should be made at registration. We want to have rounds organized and distributed well before our start time; letting us know of changes as soon as you know them will help us be on-time throughout the day.

Food:
We will have concessions all day long.

Schedule:
Registration: 7:45-8:00 AM
Congress Session I: 8:30-10:00 AM
Congress Session II: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Congress Session III/Semifinals: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Congress Session IV/Finals 2:30-4:00 PM
LD/PF Round One: 8:30 AM
LD/PF Round Two: 9:45 AM
LD/PF Round Three: 11:00 AM
LD/PF Round Four: 1:00 PM
LD/PF Round Five: 2:15 PM
LD/PF Finals: 3:30 PM

Awards: 4:30 PM

Policy Friday(online)

Check in: 2:45-3:30 pm

Round 1 3:45-5:45 pm

Dinner 5:45-6:15 pm

Round 2 6:15-8:00 pm

Policy Saturday (in person)

First Pairing: 8:30 am

Round 1: 8:45-10:45 am

Round 2: 11:00-1:00 pm

Lunch: 1:00 pm -1:45 pm

Round 3: 2:00-4:00 pm

Awards: 4:30 pm