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Sumner Academy of Arts & Science is located at 1610 N 8th St, Kansas City, KS 66101

Policy Debate:

Open Division - Students are NOT restricted to the evidence packet. Any evidence not in the evidence that will be read at the tournament must be disclosed no less than 1 week in advance.

Novice Division - Students are restricted to the evidence packet. Any student(s) reading evidence outside of the provided packet will be subject to reduction of speaker points and/or forfeiture of the round.

Please disclose any non-DKC evidence on the public caselist as well as emailing DKC staff.

Congress:

Session I Local Policing, Supreme Court Reform, Wealth Tax

Session II National Health Insurance, Electric Grid, Ban School Vouchers

Congress Judges - Do NOT enter your ballot after Session I. Session II is part of the same round and will all be on a single ballot.

Debate-KC has agreed to prohibit motions to suspend the docket in order to debate session 1 bills in session 2 or vice-versa. Please tell your students not to try. We will also be informing the judges to not allow such motions.

Senate - Entries to the Senate are restricted to students who have placed in the Top 3 in Open Congress at a previous DKC tournament. No student is required to compete in the Senate.

Legislation may be submitted for consideration on the docket only in the Senate.

Debate en Espanol:

Debate en Español es un evento de debate en español que sigue el formato de debate de políticas. Todas las rondas y la evaluación se llevan a cabo íntegramente en español.

Para más información, visite https://urbandebate.org/dee/. Esta página también incluye el paquete de evidencias que todos los estudiantes deben utilizar.

Debate en Español is a Spanish-language debate event that mirrors policy debate. All rounds and judging are conducted entirely in Spanish.

For more information, visit https://urbandebate.org/dee/. This page also includes the evidence packet that all students are required to use.

Novice Sections:

Novice students are in their first year of competition. Any student not in their first year found to be entered in a novice division prior to the tournament will be moved into the open division. Any such student found in the novice division after the start of the tournament will be ineligible for individual or team awards.