Sr Provincial Debating Championships

Grades 10, 11 and 12 (very experienced grade 9’s may also enter)

Time: Sunday, March 16th. Registration will be from 12:45 to 1:10 PM. The awards will be presented by 5:30 PM.

Location: St. John’s-Ravenscourt School, 400 South Drive, Winnipeg

Resolution: There will be 2 prepared parliamentary rounds (students will debate both sides) on the resolution “BIRT Canadian Senators be prohibited from being members of political parties”, and 1 impromptu round. The rules are on the MSDA site https://sites.google.com/site/manitobadebate/home

The ten to twelve top teams in this competition will represent Manitoba at the National Debate Championships in Winnipeg from April 11-13, with no more than 1 team per school until all schools with teams in the top half of the tournament are sending 1 teams. To be eligible for the Senior Nationals, a school must be a member of the MSDA and must participate in this qualifying tournament. Students selected for the Senior Nationals will have to pay a fee to cover registration costs.

In addition, the top team per school will be eligible to attend the Donahoe Cup tournament in Halifax, April 5th – 6th. Teams that are selected for the Sr. Nationals may not go to the Donahoe Cup as well but the next best team from those schools can attend the Donahoe. Again, students selected for the Donahoe will have to pay a fee to cover travel and registration costs.

Schools may send a maximum of 3 teams plus 1 team for every MSDA tournament hosted this year. Since this is a qualifying tournament, there will not be a novice category. 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 we will let you know on March 1 if space is available. Schools must bring one judge per two-person team. High school students may not be judges. If this causes great problems for you, please let me know and it might be possible to make other arrangements.

Please send the following information to John Robinson at jdr400@gmail.com no later than Wednesday, Feb 26th. Please email if you have any questions.

School_______________________________________________ Coach__________________________ email:_______________________________

Number of teams: ________ (open) Additional teams if there is space, ____ (open )