SU
Debate Tournament Schedule
2024-2025
UPDATED DECEMBER 18, 2024
ALWAYS double check with Jim Hanson for accurate tournament information.
Tournaments you can participate in.
Please put them into your calendar.
We encourage you to go to as many as you can. : )
Tournaments that we host are highlighted in light red.
Winter 2025
Tues Jan 7, Thurs
Jan 9, How to do Team IPDA
Practice leading up to the tournament.
JAN 12 Climb Team IPDA Tournament (Online)
Jan 12, Sunday
9:20am to 3:45pm plus elims into early evening.
Note: u washington
may join us at seattle u for doing the rounds but the tournament is online.
https://www.nwforensics.org/climb-tournaments/index-college.htm
JAN 18 SU MS tournament Online
Judge Debates (online)
8:50am to 5:30pm
JAN 24-25 YODL 3
Online and Seattle U HS Tournament
YODL Friday 3:15 to 7:30pm, Saturday 930am to 3pm plus elims
HS Tournament judging: Friday night 8 to 10pm; Saturday morning 745am to 915am
plus elims/finals 3:30pm to 10pm.
JAN 31-FEB 3
Vanderbilt In Person
(limited number of
qualified teams can go, must apply and be approved to go)
Friday morning
fly, Saturday and Sunday all day, Monday fly return late evening.
FEB 9 Seattle U Willamette NOVICE Throw Down Online
Students not going
to Vanderbilt
Sunday midday to early evening
FEB 21-22 YODL 4 Online
Friday 3:15 to
7:30pm, Saturday 930am to 3pm plus elims into the evening.
MARCH 1-2,
Seattle U-UW Tournament
IPDA, BP, Speech Events
Saturday at
Seattle U, expected 9am to 9pm, Prelims (Speech During Day then Debate Evening)
Sunday at U
Washington expected 9am to 6pm, Prelims Elims (Debate)
MARCH 14, 15, 16
Seattle U Hosted: K12 tournaments
Judge Debates, Speeches (online or in-person)
Friday March 14, 4
to 9:15pm (online)
Saturday March 15,
8:50am to 5:30pm (in-person)
Sunday March 16, 9:20am to 6:10pm (in-person)
Spring 2025
MARCH 22-31 *YODL Championship at Cal Poly San
Luis-Obispo
(limited number of
qualified teams can go, must apply and be approved to go)
Prep Session March 22 and 23, Leave Monday March
24—Practice and sight seeing in the Bay Area, then go to Cal Poly SLO,
Tournament on Friday, Saturday and Sunday all day, Return late Monday evening,
March 31.
MAY 4 Climb Team IPDA Tournament (Online)
May 4, Sunday
9:20am to 3:45pm plus elims into early evening.
https://www.nwforensics.org/climb-tournaments/index-college.htm
MAY 23, 24,
25 Seattle U Hosted: K12 tournaments
Judge Debates,
Speeches
Friday May 23, 4
to 9:15pm (online)
Saturday May 24,
8:50am to 5:30pm (in-person)
Sunday May 25, 9:20am to 6:10pm (in-person)
*Apply for Vanderbilt and YODL Nationals (and any
plane travel tournament) confirming the following:
--Confirm you have a Passport OR an Enhanced Driver
License ID and know that there is 1 day travel before and after these
tournaments and you know you may not check-in baggage unless you have an ada
reason to do so (you must carry all luggage in small suitcases/backpacks into
the plane)
--Confirm that you've judged or that you will judge at
su elem/ms/hs tournaments before the start of the tournament. Each regional
(van) trip requires 1 day of judging. Each national (plane) trip requires 2
days of judging. SU IV participation can count for the 2024-2025 year.
--List the tournaments you have competed at or that you
will compete at before the plane travel tournament happens. We would normally
expect an absolute minimum of 3 local/online tournaments prior to traveling by
plane.
--Confirm you've attended at least 2/3 of practices
during the previous 2 months of debate meetings/practices.
--Confirm that you have completed Topic Prep Debate
Practice Sessions.
--Concisely and briefly explain the work you have done
to help others on the team
--Confirm you've been a supportive teammate and
speech-debate community member
Understand that we have a limited budget and so we can
only afford to send so many to plane ticket tournaments. That means not
everyone that can go to plane ticket tournaments even if you meet the above
standards. So, we ask and will make decisions also based on:
--List out any awards/high rankings you have received
especially this year
Fall 2024
Sept
24-25-26-28-29 First Meetings
Returners meet
Tues Sept 24 645pm.
First Year
students meet Thurs Sept 26 645pm.
All students
especially returners meet on Sat Sept 28, 1 to 6:30pm for an afternoon of topic
prep debates plus dinner.
Oct 4-5 YODL First
Tournament (online)
Friday 3:15 to
7:30pm, Saturday 930am to 3pm plus elims into early evening (note the YODL will
now start elims with quarters).
Oct 11-13 Lewis
and Clark (Portland, OR)
Friday late afternoon/evening drive, Saturday all day, Sunday return in
the later evening.
Nov 1-2 YODL
Second Tournament (online)
Friday 3:15 to
7:30pm, Saturday 930am to 3pm plus elims into early evening.
Nov 15-17 Linfield
Tournament (McMinnville OR)
In-Person Leave
Friday 3:45pm, Return Sunday in the late evening.
Tuesday, Nov. 19.
Expected 5 to 930pm, UW-Seattle U Joint Event
We leave SU at 5pm
and go to the UW for one BP and one IPDA debate. Dinner provided. Return
approximately 930pm.
Nov 22/23/24
Seattle U Hosted: K12 tournaments
Judge Debates, Speeches (online or in-person)
Friday Nov 22, 4
to 9:15pm (online)
Saturday Nov 23,
8:50am to 5:30pm (in-person)
Sunday Nov 24, 9:20am to 6:10pm (in-person)
Dec 6 Seattle U IV WUDC Rules
(Online)
Friday Dec 2,
8:20am to 6:45pm plus finals after that (online)
Dec 7-8 Seattle U IV YODL Rules
(In-Person)
Saturday 8:50am to
8:00pm and Sunday 8:50am to 12:30pm plus multiple elims into the evening
(in-person)
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