Lower Mainland West Regional Debate Championships

LOWER MAINLAND WEST REGIONAL DEBATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

West Point Grey Academy is proud to invite you to the Lower Mainland West Regional Debate Championship on Friday, January 18th(Seniors only) & Saturday, January 19th, 2013. All three categories (Seniors, Juniors and Grade 8s) will be held at West Point Grey Academy and your Tournament Directors are Ms Tracey Lee, Lindsay Spencer and Kees de Ridder.

As we are hoping to encourage schools to send their most competitive teams, we remind you of the DSABC policy that requires debaters to have must have attended at least one local, regional, or provincial debate competitions over the past year to be eligible to advance to Regionals. The registration cap for each school is 5 teams and we encourage participating schools to send teams in each of the three categories. Please include any extra teams for a wait-list; we will contact you as soon as possible after the registration deadline to inform you if any wait-listed teams will be allowed to compete.

The registration deadline will be the first week back from Christmas Holidays on Tuesday, January 7th, 2013 at midnight, though we encourage schools to send their registration information as soon as possible in order to facilitate the organization of the tournament. The early-bird registration deadline is Thursday, December 20th, 2012. Schools registering by this date will be eligible to submit wait-listed teams; acceptances from this list will be first-come first-served. Registration information should be forwarded toTracey Lee at with an appropriate title in the subject line (ex: Crofton House Regionals registration) or faxed to 604-224-1334 Attn: Tracey Lee. Please complete the attached Registration Form and communicate any changes as soon as possible.

Style

Senior Debaters will debate 2 rounds of prepared debate in cross-examination styleon the FRIDAY evening and 3 rounds of impromptu debate in CNDF style, followed by an impromptu Senior Final in CNDF for the top 2 teams. The first two rounds will be non-bracketed while the three impromptu rounds will be bracketed.

Junior Debaters will debate 2 rounds of prepared debate in cross-examination style and 2 rounds of impromptu debate in CNDF Style, followed by a Junior Final in cross-ex style (prepared topic) for the top 2 teams (running simultaneously with the Senior Final). The first two rounds will be non-bracketed while the two rounds of impromptu debates will be bracketed.

Grade 8 debaters will debate 2 rounds of prepared debate in Cross-Ex and 2 rounds of impromptu debate in Cross-Ex. As the Grade 8 category will advance students individually to the LFC, all rounds will be NON-BRACKETED.

Topics

Senior Motion:THBT the time has finally come for a joint Israeli-Palestinian state.

Junior and Novice Motion:

THW allow child labour in developing countries

*Please note that impromptu rounds will each have different topics with 25 minute preparation time prior to each round. Although the prepared topic is an IR focus and does require research and preparation, impromptu motions will be more relevant to local or national current events

and/or prevalent social or moral issues.

Registration Cost and Judges

The tournament will cost $80 per team. Part of this fee ($10) is being collected as a tournament levy for the DSABC.Please provide a cheque made out to West Point Grey Academyprior to or on the day of the tournament. Schools will be required to bring one judge per pair of debaters, though names of judges are not required prior to the tournament date. Schools that bring more than the required number of judges will be given a registration fee discount of $10 per extra judge.

Cheques can be mailed beforehand to:

West Point Grey Academy

4125 West 8th Ave

Vancouver, BC

V6R 4P9

Attn: Tracey Lee, Debate

Schedule

Please see the attached preliminary schedule. There are separate schedules for the Senior division and the Junior/Novice divisions, please note the adjusted time slots in each division. Any changes prior to the tournament date will be forwarded to coaches.

Senior Division Schedule

Tournament Director: Kees de Ridder

Friday, January 18, 2013

4:30 – 5:00Registration opens for Judges and debaters (cafeteria)

5:00 - 5:30 Briefing for Judges (Room 122) and debaters (cafeteria)

5:30 – 6:30Round 1 (Prepared Cross-ex topic)

6:30 – 7:15Dinner (Coaches AGM)

7:15 – 8:15Round 2 (Prepared Cross-ex topic)

Saturday, January 19, 2013

8:00 – 9:00Judges Registration and Briefing – Room 122 (SS)

9:00 – 9:30 Registration and Briefing for debaters (CNDF style) - cafeteria

9:30 – 10:25 Round 3 Impromptu motion released/prep

10:30 – 11:30Round 3 (impromptu)

11:30 – 11:55Round 4 Impromptu motion released /prep

12:00 – 1:00Round 4 (impromptu)

1:00 -1:45Lunch (cafeteria)

1:45-2:10Round 5 Impromptu motion released /prep

2:15 – 3:15Round 5 (impromptu)

3:30 – 3:55Finals teams announced / impromptu prep

4:00 – 5:00Senior Finals

Junior/Novice Divisions Schedule

Tournament Director: Lindsay Spencer

Saturday, January 19, 2013

8:00 – 9:00Registration and briefing for debaters (cafeteria)

Judges Registration and Briefing – Junior School Library

9:00 – 10:00Round 1 (Prepared Cross-ex topic)

10:30 – 11:30 Round 2 (Prepared Cross-ex topic)

11:45 – 12:30Lunch (cafeteria)

12:30 – 12:55Round 3 Impromptu motion released/ prep

1:00 – 2:00Round 3 (Juniors CNDF style / Novice Cross-ex)

2:00 – 2:25Round 4 Impromptu motion released /prep

2:30 – 3:30Round 4

3:45Finals teams announced

4:00 – 5:00Junior Finals

Awards ceremony will begin at the conclusion of the Senior and Junior Finals, expected start time is 5:15pm.

Tournament is expected to conclude by 6pm.

LOWER MAINLAND WEST REGIONALS

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Please fax this form to 604-224-1334 Attn: Tracey Lee or email a scanned version of this completed form to

School: ______

Coach: ______

Contact information: ______(work phone number)

______(cell phone number)

______email

Senior Division

Junior Division

Novice Division

Judges names do not need to be confirmed until Tuesday, January 15th, 2013. If you have additional judges above your registered number of teams, then your registration fee will be $10 less per additional judge.

Additional Judges:

______

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