St. Mary's Jr Tournament (Grade 9 and under)

Time: Wednesday, Feb 15. Registration from 5 to 5:30. Awards at 8:30 pm

Location: St. Mary’s Academy

Resolution: This house believes love trumps hate

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 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 debating in grade 8 or in grade 6 or 7. 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 email address, I will let you know on Feb 13. 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 be grade 10, 11 or 12 students.

Please email the information below by Sunday, Feb 12, to Bernice Lucas at blucas@smamb.ca Please email if you have any questions.

School_____________________________________

Coach___________________________________

phone __________________(home) ________________ (school)

(email) _______________________________________________

Number of teams: ___ (open) _______(novice)

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