We will utilize Stoa Joy of Tournaments for the tabulation software and will follow the Stoa Transparent Tabulation policies.
Speech
Varsity Speech will have 3 rounds within each pattern (A and B).
We will seek to have 2 judges in each speech event.
Debate
Lincoln Douglas will have 6 preliminary rounds of debate and a final round. Lincoln Douglas will be flighted but a separate judge will be assigned to each debate within the flight.
Team Policy will have six preliminary rounds of debate and a final round.
Parli will have six preliminary rounds of debate and a final round.
We will begin power matching Debate at round 3.
There will not be any club protect or sibling protect for this tournament.
Joy of Tournaments software will be used to randomly pair rounds while the tab assistant from a different club watches via screen share on Zoom. If for some reason, Joy of Tournaments cannot complete the random pairings, the tab assistant from a different club will participate in making the random pairings.
When making the random pairings, the school variation and squad variation will be set to ignore. It has been our experience that this results in more randomness especially when there is a large contingency from one club.
No student/team will have more than two byes. Byes will be randomly assigned.
Green check marks will be awarded to the top 35% for all speech and debate events except Impromptu, which will be 25%. Teams are ranked within their win-loss bracket according to speaker points, rank points, and strength of schedule. To learn more about Stoa debate tiebreakers (what Stoa terms the mechanism for ranking teams that have the same win-loss record), see the Stoa Tab Manual beginning on page 44.
Ballots
All ballots for each student will be placed in a large brown envelope labeled with the student's name and will be ready for pick up after the awards ceremony.