The Victory Briefs Tournament 2012

January 21-23, 2012 

We hope you will join us in Los Angeles for the 2012 version of the Victory Briefs Tournament.  This year we will offer open divisions in Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum and Policy debates.  LD is an octafinal qualifier to the TOC. PF is a semifinal qualifier. 

 If you have questions, contact Mike Bietz - bietz@victorybriefs.com.  

SCHEDULE

We will have registration on the evening of January 20 at the tournament hotel – the Courtyard Marriott – Sherman Oaks.   

LD will run on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. **Monday rounds will take place at Harvard-Westlake Upper School. ** (3700 Coldwater Canyon, Studio City, CA 91694).

Link to map

Public Forum and Policy will run on Saturday and Sunday. 

DIVISIONS

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

A school may enter a maximum of 6 LD Debaters 

- LD will use 6-3-7-3-4-6-3 speech times with 5 minutes of prep time.  Debaters may not use CX time as prep time, but questions may be asked during prep time by the “prepping” debater.

There will be 6 preliminary rounds.  We are going to do our best to clear as many 4-2 debaters to a partial triple as we can so long as we believe we can have good, mutually preferred judges. We will not clear beyond a full triple-finals bracket.   

Octafinals through Finals will take place on the campus of Harvard-Westlake Upper School.

Public Forum

A school may enter a maximum of 3 Public Forum teams 

- PF will default to using the NFL rules with the exception of the coin flip.  Each team will be assigned sides for each round.  Each team will debate 3 pro rounds and 3 con rounds during prelims (unless there is a bye).  Elims will become a flip-for-sides, but not speaker position. 

Policy

A school may enter a maximum of 4 policy teams 

Policy debate will use the 2011/2012 NFL Resolution, which reads:

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

JUDGING REQUIREMENTS

All teams must follow the judging requirements outlined in each of the pages for each division.  Judges MAY NOT fulfill obligations across divisions.  We may use judges any division.