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Fellow Debaters:
The St. Paul’s School Debate Team cordially invites you to attend our Seventh Annual Invitational Debate Tournament in Honor of Secretary of State John F. Kerry, to be held on Sunday, November 13, 2016.
The tournament is open to both advanced and novice teams, and you are welcome to enter no more than two four-person teams in each division. You must also provide one judge for each four-person team. In accordance with the DANEIS rules, only those who have participated in no more than six previous interscholastic tournaments, or those who have not debated in the last fifteen calendar months, may compete as novices. We do ask that coaches use their discretion.
The tournament will be Oregon-style Prepared, and will consist of three rounds. Pairs will debate on the same side of the resolution for all three rounds. The resolution is:
Again, each team shall consist of four students, accompanied by a judge. While experienced advanced debaters are acceptable as judges in the novice division, advanced teams must have an adult judge. We regret that we are unable to provide judges. ALL student and adult judges should be thoroughly prepared in order to ensure a fair and constructive tournament.
Registration fees are $70 per four-person team (including judge), with a $10 charge per observer to offset meal costs. Please let us know by October 25 how many advanced teams, novice teams and observers you plan to bring, by emailing Andrew Gray, agray@sps.edu. Once we hear from you and closer to the tournament date, we will send you a request for the names of participating students to enter into our scoring system.
If there are any changes in the number of teams, names of participants, or positions they are debating (affirmative or negative), please contact me as soon as possible prior to the tournament. If the changes are last minute, on the morning of the debate, it is imperative that you call my cell phone (617-800-7903) before you leave your school, so that the schedule of debates, and/or the appropriate information in our scoring database, can be adjusted in time for a smooth start.
Please refer to our directions below to St. Paul’s as GPS systems can often send drivers in the wrong direction! Silk Farm Road is CLOSED to traffic.
We hope that you can join us, and look forward to greeting you on November 13.
Sincerely,
Alejandro Maldonado, Anvesh Jain, and Max Baron, Debate Captains
Andrew Gray and Dave Camden, Coaches
IN HONOR OF SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN F. KERRY ’62
Sunday, November 13, 2016
BIRT: the U.S. should significantly increase its freedom of navigation operations by Air Force and Navy in the South China Sea.
Schedule of Events:
| 10:00 –11:00 | Registration, Coit Common Room |
| 10:00-11:00 | Brunch, Coit Upper Dining Hall |
| 11:00-11:30 | Joint Debaters’ and Judges’ Meeting, Coit Upper Dining Hall Timers’/Runners’ Meeting in Coit Common Room |
| 11:45 – 1:00 | Round One |
| 1:00 – 2:15 | Round Two |
| 2:15 – 3:30 | Round Three. Note: After Round Three snacks will be available back at Coit Upper Dining Hall. |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Awards Ceremony, Coit Upper Dining Hall |
Oregon Style Prepared:
| 1st Affirmative constructive | 7 minutes |
| 2nd Negative cross-examination | 3 minutes |
| 1st Negative constructive | 7 minutes |
| 1st Affirmative cross-examination | 3 minutes |
| 2nd Affirmative constructive | 7 minutes |
| 1st Negative cross-examination | 3 minutes |
| 2nd Negative constructive | 7 minutes |
| 2nd Affirmative cross-examination | 3 minutes |
| 1st Negative rebuttal | 4 minutes |
| 1st Affirmative rebuttal | 4 minutes |
| 2nd Negative rebuttal | 4 minutes |
| 2nd Affirmative rebuttal | 4 minutes |