2024 Queen City Classic

We will utilize Stoa Joy of Tournaments for the tabulation software and will follow the Stoa Transparent Tabulation policies.

Speech

Speech will have 3 rounds with a Pattern A and a Pattern B run during each round.

We will seek to have 3 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.

All 6 preliminary rounds of both types of debate will be randomly paired regardless of number of debaters.

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 checks in debate will be awarded to the top 38% of teams regardless if a team has a winning record. 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.

We will recognize all debaters with a 4-2 record or better at awards regardless if they receive a check mark as we believe that this accomplishment should be recognized.

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.