SJR December Sr Tournament

Senior Debating Tournament (Grade 10 -12)

St. John’s-Ravenscourt School

Time: Tuesday, Dec 9. Registration is from 5 to 5:30. Awards will be at 8:30 pm

Location: St. John’s-Ravenscourt School, 400 South Drive, Winnipeg

Resolution: This House would pay reparations to communities that have been victims of historical injustices

There will be 2 rounds and all teams will debate both sides. Speaking times for all debates will be a maximum of 6 minutes for constructive speeches and 3 minutes for rebuttals. Points of information are allowed in the open category but not in novice (The parliamentary rules and other general tournament and debate information are available on the MSDA website (https://sites.google.com/site/manitobadebate/home))

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 attending senior debating tournaments . Students eligible to compete in novice may enter open instead if they wish to. 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 Dec 5. Schools must bring at least one judge per 2-person team. If this presents a problem, please contact me about it and we will see if other arrangements can be made. Judges may NOT be high school students.

Please email the information below by Dec 4 to John Robinson, at email jdr400@gmail.com Please phone (204-960-1053) if you have any questions.

School_____________________________________ Coach___________________________________

phone __________________(home) ________________ (school) (email) _______________________________________________ Number of teams: ___ (open) _______(novice) Additional teams if there is space ____ (open) ____ (novice)