Climb the Mountain

November 5, 2017 Warm Room

In Person & Online Debates

BP-Worlds Scrimmages

Bellevue College BP and In-person debaters—go to L building

IPDA

Speaker Rankings

Results

Cumes

We are pairing rounds directly in the matches on www.idebate.online

For doublechecks/archiving here they are:

Open LD Round 1.htm

Open LD Round 2.htm

Open LD Round 3.htm

No separate novice division.

COLLEGE IPDA SCHEDULE 12:40 Check-In 1:00 Round 1 2:30 Round 2 4:00 Round 3 5:45 Finals 7:15 Awards

COLLEGE BP WORLDS SCHEDULE 12:50 Check-In 1:00 Round 1 2:50 Round 2 4:40 Round 3 6:30 Recognitions* *note because BP-Worlds is free, there are no awards

All times shown are Pacific Coast Time.
IPDA and BP-Worlds are College Events.

ENTRY DUE TUES. THE WEEK OF THE TOURNAMENT

Oct 8 Climb Debates & BP-Worlds Scrimmage Bellevue College

Nov 5 Climb Debates & BP-Worlds Scrimmage* Bellevue College

Dec 10 Climb Debates & BP-Worlds Scrimmage* Bellevue College

Jan 21 Climb Debates and BP-Worlds Scrimmage*

Mar 4 Climb Debates and BP-Worlds Scrimmage*

Apr 22 Climb Debates and BP-Worlds Championships*

*bp-worlds additional scrimmage dates tbd

FEES

Debater/Speaker Fee: $20 per debater/speaker except free for BP-Worlds teams*

Judging Fees: $40 per uncovered IPDA debater; $20 per uncovered BP-Worlds team (you need 1 judge per 2 IPDA debaters; you may not hire for more than 2 debaters; you need 1 judge per 4 BP teams; you may not hire for more than 4 BP teams)

Partial commitment judges are expected to judge all rounds and for rounds beyond commitment, fees are reduced.

*Note: BP-Worlds debaters do not receive awards.

If you need to hire judges, please tell Jim at least one week before the tournament starts at hansonjb@gmail.com

AWARDS*

Handed to in-person participants and mailed to online participants.

Stuffed animals for those placing (top half of speakers; debaters that advance to elims).

Silver Stainless Steel Platters for first place.

*No awards for BP-Worlds debaters because there are no fees.

DIVISIONS

IPDA Debate

Novice (debaters who have competed at 8 or less debate tournaments)

Open (open to any participant).

BP Worlds Debate

Novice (teams with debaters who both have competed at 8 or less debate tournaments)

Open (open to any teams)

Exception? We want your students to have the right opportunity. Contact Jim Hanson at hansonjb@gmail.com

ONLINE DEBATERS AND JUDGES: PREP TO BEGIN THE TOURNAMENT

By 12:40 pacific coast time, Check-in

1. Coaches confirm to Jim Hanson that all debaters/speakers and judges are online or at the tournament building and are ready

2. Coaches-students report any errors in the pairings to Jim Hanson asap

3. Every debater and judge views this:

Judge – Coach Expectations PPoint

Student – Observer Expectations PPoint

4. Every debater, speaker and judge tests tech to make sure it works. Seek help from X for tech issues

COLLEGE

IPDA Speaking Times:

· 5-2-6-2-3-5-3 with 1 minute prep before each speech.

· Affirmative constructive speech (5 minutes)

· Negative cross-examination of affirmative (2 minutes)

· 1 minute prep for neg.

· Negative constructive speech (6 minutes)

· Affirmative cross-examination of negative (2 minutes)

· 1 minute prep for aff.

· Affirmative rebuttal (3 minutes)

· 1 minute prep for neg.

· Negative rebuttal and summary (5 minutes)

· 1 minute prep for aff.

· Affirmative summary (3 minutes)

BP-Worlds Speaking Times:

7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7

· Prime Minister

· Leader of the Opposition

· Deputy Prime Minister

· Deputy Leader of the Opposition

· Member of Government

· Member of Opposition

· Government Whip

· Opposition Whip

Email Jim Hanson (Tab) questions at hansonjb@gmail.com or hansonjb.tab@gmail.com

External Links

Climb the Mountain Speech and Debate Foundation

IPDA Debate