2011 Tournament of Champions (TOC)

Registration

Friday, April 29th, 7-10pm, Hilton Downtown Lexington

Legislation Docket

Debate Topics:

Lincoln-Douglas debaters shall debate the January-February 2011 NFL L-D topic and Public Forum debaters will debate the April topic for PFD to be announced March 1st by the National Forensic League.  Policy debate teams shall debate the 2010-11 national high schooltopic.

Debate Formats:      

The Lincoln-Douglas Debate format is 6-3-7-3-4-6-3 with five minutes of preparation time for each debater.

Policy Debate uses the cross-examination format 8-3-5 which consists of eight-minute constructive, three-minute cross-examination periods, five-minute rebuttals, and ten minutes of preparation for each team.

Public Forum and Congressional Debate will use the NFL format for speech and preparation times.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Policy & LD

In Policy and LD divisions, preliminary rounds will be completed on Sunday and all elimination rounds will be held on Monday. The Policy final round will probably end around midnight and the LD final round should be completed by early evening.

Public Forum

Public Forum preliminary rounds and the first elimination round should be completed on Sunday.  Elimination rounds will conclude on Monday probably ending in the late afternoon.

Congressional Debate

Four preliminary sessions and the semi-finals will be held on Saturday and Sunday.  The Super Session will be held on Monday concluding around 3:00 p.m.