SJR November Jr Tournament

Grade 9 and Under

Time: Wednesday, Nov 19. Registration is from 5 to 5:30. Awards will be at 8:45 pm

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

Resolution: Impromptu (30 minutes prep without any outside help such as coaches, internet, notes, etc.) The theme will be the justice system, so the resolutions will relate to that, e.g. that police should be able to torture terrorists – since we have listed it, that obviously will not be the resolution.

There will be 2 rounds. 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 and other general tournament and debate information are available on the MSDA website (https://sites.google.com/site/manitobadebate/home))

If there are sufficient entries, there will be separate novice, 9 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. In order to qualify as 9 novice, debaters must be in in grade 9 and in their first year of debating. 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 phone number or email address, I will let you know on Nov 17. 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 Nov 13 to John Robinson, at email jdr400@gmail.com Please phone (204-960-1053) if you have any questions.

School_____________________________________

Coach___________________________________

phone __________________(home) ________________ (school)

(email) _______________________________________________

Number of teams: ___ (open) _______(novice) _______(9 novice)

Additional teams if there is space ____ (open) ____ (novice) ____ (9 novice)