Acadia Tournament

Junior Impromptu Debate Tournament (Grade 6 to 9)

Acadia Junior High

Time: Thursday, January 9, 2014. Registration will be from 4:30 to 5:15. The resolution will be distributed at 5:30 SHARP. Please be early or at least on time so that your students have the appropriate amount of time to prepare. Awards are at 8:30 pm.

Location: Acadia Junior High, 175 Killarney Ave, Winnipeg

Parking: Please feel free to park in any available space in the staff parking lot.

Resolution: This will be an impromptu debate, using kid friendly topics.

There will be 2 rounds. There is only one impromptu resolution which will be announced at 5:30, and the students will debate both sides. The debate preparation time will be 20 minutes, between 5:30 and 5:50. In impromptu debates no adult coaching or research, including books, magazines, internet or computer research, is allowed during the preparation time.

Speaking times for all debates will be a maximum of 6 minutes for constructive speeches and 3 minutes for rebuttals. There is no minimum time. Heckling is not allowed. Points of information are allowed in the open category. (They are described in the parliamentary rules available on the MSDA website (http://portal.sjr.mb.ca/debate/parldeb.htm )

If there are sufficient entries, there will be separate novice and open categories at the tournament. In order to qualify as novice, debaters must be in their first year of debating or must be grade 6 or 7. Schools may send a maximum of 3 teams in total, i.e. adding together the novice and open teams. Depending upon numbers, it may be possible to send additional teams. If you would like to do so please indicate this on the form and, if you include your phone number or email address, I will let you know on January 7. Schools must bring at least one judge per 2 person team. Senior high students, grades 10 to 12, who are experienced debaters, may judge.

Please fill in the information below and email it by December 20 to Jared Thorlakson, at jthorlakson@pembinatrails.ca . Please email if you have any questions or phone 204 -269- 6210 if you are cancelling a team at the last minute so that we can fill your spot.

Soup will be available for purchase prior to the debate, for $2.00 per bowl. All proceeds will be donated to our school’s charity club.

School___________________________________ Coach_________________________________

phone _________________(home/cell) ________________ (school)

(email) _______________________________

Number of teams: ____ (open) ____(novice)

Additional teams if there is space _____ (open) ____ (novice)

Please put the names of your teams in your email if you know them so that we can more quickly fill out our lists.