Coast Forensic League
STATE QUALIFIER  for POLICY & LD DEBATE
Friday-Saturday, Mar. 16-17, 2012
Westmont HS

 

Events offered: Policy and Lincoln-Douglas debate  

2011-2012 Policy Debate Topic

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth’s mesosphere.

LD topic: NFL March/April Topic: Resolved: Targeted killing is a morally permissible foreign policy tool.

***  YOU MUST BRING MEDICAL FORMS AND HAVE A LEGAL, SCHOOL SANCTIONED CHAPERONE REPRESENTING YOUR SCHOOL AT ALL TIMES FOR ALL TOURNAMENTS.Please understand that if your school does not provide an official school-sanctioned chaperone and/or have available medical forms for all students involved in the tournament, ALL ENTRIES FROM YOUR SCHOOL WILL BE REMOVED ON SITE.

Judges: Room 15

Students: Cafeteria

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:  

Friday, March 16

4:00PM - 4:30PM: Registration and Judge Check-In

5:00PM: Round 1 

7:00-7:30 dinner*

7:30PM: Round 2

9:30PM: Competitors depart. Coaches prepare Round 3. 

* LD rounds may be moved up if time allows

 

Saturday, March 17

8:00AM - 8:30AM: Judge Check-In

9:00AM: Round 3 

12:00PM: Round 4

3:00PM: Round 5

6:00PM: "Go Round"

8:30PM: State Qualifiers Announced

Entry Procedure   

I. Eligibility   

All contestants must have earned at least one win at a preliminary CFL debate tournament (JV or varsity) in any head-to-head debate event (Policy, LD, Parli, or Forum). Schools are granted one “exception” entry – one team or one LD’er may be entered without a previous league win.   

Wildcards: Any teams that have gone undefeated at a CFL league tournament this school year in the varsity division earn a "wildcard" and will not count against your squad's total number of bodies allowed. Wildcards are "non-transferrable," so the same partnership that earned the wildcard must be entered to gain credit for the wildcard.

II. Entry Submission   

Students are entered via Joy of Tournaments (www.joyoftournaments.com)

The entry deadline  is 5:00p.m.  Friday, March 9th. 

Entry Limits

Each school may enter up to nine (9) students total. Schools can divide these students among the two events as they wish (3 Policy and 3 LD, 2 Policy and 5 LD, etc.).

Each policy team and Lincoln/Douglas debater who went undefeated at a CFL preliminary tournament may be entered as a “wild card” in the event in which they were undefeated. All “wild card”  entries will be matched against non-wild card entries in the first two preliminary rounds. “Wild card” entries do not take one of the school's nine guaranteed slots. 

Fees

$40.00 per debate team and $20.00 per LDer.  Drop fees will be assessed at 5 pm March 13.

Judges

Please provide one judge for every student entered (2 judges per team) for every round including Finals.   

Locations

Students to Cafeteria

Judges to Room 16

Coaches to Library (or TBA)

Awards and State Qualification 

 TOURNAMENT FORMAT: All teams are guaranteed five preliminary rounds. Power-matching begins with Round 3 (unless logistics make this impossible. The Vice Presidents of Debate (or his/her designees) serves as Tournament Director, and on the morning of the tournament, s/he will announce when power-matching will occur.

After Round 5, all undefeated entries will qualify to the State Championships. The sixth and final round will feature a debate for each of the remaining qualifying slots to the State Championships. (Our league is allocated 9 entries in Policy and 9 entries in L/D.) Entries will advance to Finals based on:

1.      Overall record

2.      Number of individual judges’ ballots won

3.      Total speaker points, subtracting highest and lowest scores

Once teams advance to the Finals, they will be seeded based on the above criteria, with the top Finalist matched against the lowest seed, the next-highest against the next-lowest, and so on. Adjustments may be made to avoid a debate between two teams from the same school. See Article V, Section 10, Paragraph A, Item 9 of our League By-Laws for further details.

The winners of the Final round debates will join the undefeated teams as our league’s entries at the State Championships. Alternates will be ranked according to their seeding entering the Final round.

Students who previously qualified to State in a debate event, and then qualify at this tournament, must compete in Policy or L/D at the State Championships. The vacated qualifying slot will be filled by the appropriate debate alternate. 

Trophies will be awarded to all Finalists, including the undefeated teams that receive a “bye” in the Finals.