SJR Jr Dec Tournament

Junior Debate Tournament (Grade 9 and under)

St. John’s-Ravenscourt School

Time: Tuesday, December 6^th. Registration from 5 to 5:30. Awards at 9 PM

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

Resolution: Two impromptu resolutions

The preparation time for the resolutions will be from 5:30 until 6:30. THIS MEANS THAT TEAMS THAT ARRIVE LATE, I.E. AFTER 5:30, MAY NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE PART. 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. There will not be a grade 9 novice section – all grade 9’s will be in open. Schools may send a maximum of 4 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 December 4^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 December 2^nd to Linda Martin at linda.debate@shaw.ca Please email if you have any questions or phone Linda at 888-8435 .

School_____________________________________

Coach_ __________________________________

phone __________________(home) ________________ (school)

(email) _______________________________________________

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

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