St. Pauls Jr Invitation

Manitoba Speech and Debate Association

Junior Debate Tournament (Grade 9 and under)

St. Paul’s High School

Time: Wednesday, October 16^th. Registration from 5 to 5:30. Awards at 8:30 pm

Location: St. Paul’s High School, 2200 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg

Resolution: This House believes that free speech should be restricted in the interests of national security

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 phone number or email address, I will let you know on October 11^th. 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 October 10^th to Brian Murphy, at bmurphy@stpauls.mb.ca . Please email if you have any questions or phone Brian at 831-2300.

School_____________________________________

Coach_ __________________________________ 1

phone __________________(home) ________________ (school)

(email) _______________________________________________

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

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