Logistics

Registration:

Food: The students appreciate having juice and cookies or timbits between rounds. It is best not to put them out before the first round or they will disappear. Adult judges like having coffee/ tea, and are happy to have food as well.

Medals: In Manitoba we provide 1 medal to the top person from each school that participates, as well as medals for the top several speakers and the top several teams -- how many depends on your budget for medals but the more the better as a general rule. In order to spread out the medals, we normally don't award more than 1 medal per student at any one tournament; we usually just announce their position if they earn any award after their first medal, although that can take longer to calculate. If the tournament has both open and novice categories, novice and open are ranked separately. If a school enters both novice and open debaters, the award for the top student from that school is always presented to the top open student from that school even if a novice student has a higher score.

Scoresheets: The scoresheets are available by following this link: MSDA Debate Scoresheets

Scripts: Officials scripts are available at this link: MSDA Speaker's Scripts