Butler University's Dave Waite HS Debate

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General information

This is a High School tournament in Indiana.

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Registration, balloting, and tabulation will take place utilizing Speechwire.  Faxed, mailed, or emailed entries will not be accepted.  To help us prepare, we would appreciate if each school planning to attend (or not attend) would mark their team as attending (or not attending) on Speechwire as soon as possible, even if you don’t yet know how many entries you will bring.  Registration will close at 5:00PM (Eastern) on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. 

Students may not enter multiple styles of debate.

For congress, each school must provide one judge for every five congress entries or any fraction thereof (e.g., six congress entries will require two judges). For the other debate styles, each school must provide one judge for every three entries or any fraction thereof (e.g., one LD entry and three policy teams will necessitate two judges).  Each judge should be prepared to judge all rounds including finals and all styles of debate regardless of your school’s entries.  Judges are expected to provide meaningful and helpful written feedback.  As we will be utilizing electronic ballots, judges will need to have speechwire.com accounts created ahead of time and must bring an internet-capable device (i.e., laptop or tablet).  Please ensure your judges are familiar with Speechwire’s electronic balloting prior to the tournament.

Students may be dropped off in front of Jordan Hall, 4600 Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis, IN  46208.  Tournament HQ will be in the lobby of Levinson Family Hall.  Once inside the buildings, we ask that students remain inside if there is inclement weather.  There are skywalks between the buildings we will be using so there is no need to go outside.  

Congress will incur a fee of $10 per entry.  Policy/Public Forum/LD/World entries will incur a fee of $15 per entry (i.e., one LD entry is $15; one policy team is $15). Beginning at 12:00PM (noon) on Thursday, October 10, 2024, drops will incur a fee of $25 per dropped entry and $100 per dropped judge in addition to the entry fee.  Name changes will be permitted without cost until 5:00PM on Friday, October 11, 2024.

Make checks out to “Butler University Speech and Debate Team” and address them to Janis Crawford, 4600 Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, 46208.

Students are expected to make it to every round for which they are scheduled.  Students will forfeit their round if they are ten or more minutes late.  No participant or observer may record anyone without prior approval of the student, the student’s coach, and the tournament director.

Please instruct your judges to submit their decisions immediately at the conclusion of the round.  They may then continue editing their critiques/comments if they desire.  Ballots will not be closed and released until 12:00PM (noon) on Monday, October 14, to ensure judges have ample opportunity to provide thorough and meaningful feedback.

All events will follow their respective current NSDA topics.  World Schools will use the topic, "This House would significantly limit private land ownership."  The third round of World Schools will be an impromptu round.  Congress will debate the bills  B/E 2, SC 1, SC 3, and FP 2 from the Indiana Schools Speech and Debate Association September/October docket:  

• A Bill to Ban Pharmaceutical Drug Advertisements
• A Bill for an Efficient Secret Service
• A Bill to Streamline the U.S. Military
• A Resolution to Restructure the United Nations Security Council

We will be awarding ribbons to individual students, 1^st through 8^th, in addition to team awards. 

Manager contact information

Greg Moser
Email address: gmoser@butler.edu
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Mailing address

4600 Sunset Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46208