Acadia Tournament

Junior Impromptu Debate Tournament (Grade 6 to 9)

Time: Thursday, January 8, 2015. Registration will be from 4:30 to 5:00. The resolutions will be distributed at 5:15 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 and all teams will debate both sides. In the case of this impromptu debate, there is only one resolution and the students will debate both sides. The debate preparation time will be 30 minutes, between 5:15 and 5:45. 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

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 5. 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 register by December 18, 2014. To register either use the link below or email the information (number of open and novice teams, any extra team requests, contact information for coach) 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. Snacks will be served between rounds.

Please follow the following link to register (ctrl-click):

http://goo.gl/forms/MlKsqNQdFn

(If for some reason the link does not work, you can send Jared an email at the address above.)