Acadia Jr Tournament 2013

Junior Debate Tournament (Grade 9 and under)

Acadia Junior High

Time: Tuesday, January 15^th. Registration from 5 to 5:15. Awards at 8:30 pm

Location: Acadia Junior High, 175 Killarney Avenue.

Resolution: Impromptu. Resolution will be provided on site.

This can be defined as in the short term or long term or both. 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. (They are described in the parliamentary rules available on the MSDA website (https://sites.google.com/site/manitobadebate/rules-and-scoresheets/parliamentary-debate-rules )

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 email address, I will let you know on January 11^th towards the end of the day. Schools must bring at least one judge per 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 fill in the information below and email it by Noon on January 11^th to Jared Thorlakson, at jthorlakson@pembinatrails.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)