Debate

ATTENTION: ALL INDIVIDUAL POLICY (IP) DEBATERS MUST BE CURRENT MEMBERS OF STOA TO COMPETE IN THIS TOURNAMENT! If you are not already a member of Stoa, you may CLICK HERE! to register for Stoa membership.

(LD Value and Team Policy Debate will not require Stoa membership. Also, please note that there are modified speech times for Team Policy at this tournament.)

Purpose of Individual Policy, Team Policy, and LD Value Debate:
To train Christian home school students in the skills of presentation, critical thinking, and research in an environment of honorable competition, to cultivate maturity, wisdom, grace, and poise, bringing glory to our Lord Jesus Christ. (Value debate also trains in analysis of basic values.)

Cost:

$35 per student

Time-keeping:

All competitors must bring a working time piece and should have it with them during check-in. Debate will be self-timed.
NOTE: Wrist watches and electronic devices such as cell phones will not be acceptable as time pieces.

Individual Policy Debate:

Students registering for IP debate must have participated in Individual Policy Debate in at least one tournament this school year with results posted to Speechranks.

RESOLUTION:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its marine natural resource policies.
Click here to view all of Stoa's Individual Policy Rules,

Lincoln Douglas Value Debate:

RESOLUTION:
Resolved: The United States has a moral obligation to mitigate international conflicts.
Click here to view all of Stoa's LD Value rules.

Team Policy Debate:

RESOLUTION:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its marine natural resource policies.

Notice: It is important to us to include Team Policy at this tournament. However, in order to make team policy available, and because of limited time and space, it became necessary to reduce the speech times to the following:
1AC: 6 minutes
CX: 2 minutes
1NC: 6 minutes
CX: 2 minutes
2AC: 6 minutes
CX: 2 minutes
2NC: 6 minutes
CX: 2 minutes
1NR: 4 minutes
1AR: 4 minutes
2NR: 4 minutes
2AR: 4 minutes
Prep time per team: 3 minutes
THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING!

Click here to view all of Stoa's Team Policy rules, but disregard the speech times and refer to our modified times for this tournament.