Gray Academy Jr Tournament

Gray Academy Junior Debate Tournament (Grade 6 to 9)

Time: Tuesday, February 12th. Registration will be from 5:00 to 5:30. Awards at 8:30 pm

Location: Gray Academy, A100-123 Doncaster Street, Winnipeg

Parking: Please feel free to park in the lot located directly in front of the school rather than the Rady JCC parking lot across the street.

Resolution: Be it resolved that Canada should adopt mandatory 2-year conscription (either military or community service).

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. 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 http://sites.google.com/site/manitobadebate/guides-and-videos/msda-debate-guide)

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 February 5th. 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. Senior high students (grades 10 to 12) who are experienced debaters may judge.

Please fill in the information below and email it by February 1st to Andrew Kaplan, at akaplan@grayacademy.ca . Please email if you have any questions or phone Andrew at 204 -990-5277.

School_____________________________________

Coach_ __________________________________

phone __________________(home) ________________ (school)

(email) _______________________________________________

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

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