Garden City Tournament

Manitoba Speech and Debate Association

Garden City Collegiate Debating Tournament

Grade 9-12

This is an in-person event. All visitors are required to wear a mask and maintain social distancing throughout the event. If you develop any cold or flu symptoms, please stay home. Please follow all cleaning and hygiene protocols, such as sanitizing hands, desks, chairs, and podiums.

The MSDA did pass a motion at their AGM that in-person tournaments should require vaccination. Therefore, we have decided to enforce mandatory vaccination for this event for all participants - coaches, judges, debaters and volunteers. We are asking that coaches check this with their students prior to signing them up to debate/volunteer at the event. If they do not wish to disclose their vaccination status, you can let them know that we will be checking QR codes/vaccine cards at the registration table.

Time: Saturday, November 13th. Registration will be from 1 until 1:30 PM. There will be 2 rounds. The tournament should end around 4:30 PM. Students should have eaten before attending – lunch will not be provided. Snacks will be provided between rounds.

Location: Garden City Collegiate, 711 Jefferson Avenue. There will be limited parking available in the East and West parking lots, but there is ample street parking

Resolution: This house would criminalize climate change denial.

This will be a Manitoban parliamentary debate (the parliamentary rules and other general tournament and debate information are available on the MSDA website (https://sites.google.com/site/manitobadebate/home). Speaking times will be a maximum of 6 minutes for constructive speeches and 3 minutes for rebuttals. There is no minimum time. Points of information are allowed in the open category only. There will be open and novice categories. Novice debaters are students in their first year of interschool debating.

Schools may send a maximum of 3 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 I will let you know on November 8th. Schools must bring one judge per two-person team.

Please register your school on or before November 5^th. Coaches can register their teams by emailing the information below to Kamal Dhillon at kamal.dhillon@connect.7oaks.org Please email Kamal if you have any questions.

Registration for the Garden City Tournament

School________________________________Coach_________________________________________

Phone ___________________ (cell)

Email ___________________

Number of Novice teams: ________

Number of Open team_____

Initial maximum =3 teams in total

If you would like to send additional teams if there is space, please indicate how many and what type ________