• Setup:

  This status is used while the tournament is still being setup.

• Open:

  This status means tournament registration is open. Families can register for the tournament.

• Drops Only:

  This status means only registration drops are allowed. There are no new entries allowed but families can drop entries.

• Closed:

  This status means registration is currently closed for the tournament. There are no adds or drops allowed. Please contact the tournament director with any questions.

• Completed:

  This status means the tournament is completed.

To all Parents of Competitors:

Thank you for your commitment to your students and this community.

Please review the following parameters that will help the tournament to run effectively.

1. Every competitor must be accompanied by a parent or adult chaperone at all times while on tournament grounds. Your student will not be able to check-in at the tournament without an accompanying parent or adult chaperone, who is at least 21 years old. *Please note* that a new process has been put in place where students and parents/chaperones will both be required to check-in EACH DAY of the tournament. Failure to do so will result in your child not being able to participate.

2. All parents are expected to judge. You will need to register as a judge before completing your student registration. For each debate event that your student(s) are registered in, you must judge at least 3 rounds. For each speech event that your student(s) are registered in, you must judge at least 3 rounds. Please register for rounds in which you intend to judge. We will stick to your chosen rounds to the best of our ability. Please do not sign up to judge back to back rounds unless you are certain that you can fill out your ballot between rounds.

3. Chaperones, you are required to fulfill judging requirements for your own students PLUS the additional student you bring. Please take this commitment seriously before agreeing to bring another competitor. In order to meet the judging needs, each chaperone may only cover 1 additional student outside of their own children.
Chaperones must carry signed Medical Release forms for their students.

4. At the tournament there will be a required orientation meeting for all students and parents.

5. All parents who have not attended Judge Orientation this school year are required to attend Judge Orientation before judging at this tournament. Judge Orientation will be offered 45 minutes before each round.

6. All parents must report to Ballot Push 30 minutes prior to each debate round to assure that all judging slots are filled. We will be using the slots you sign up for as much as possible, however we may need additional judges at any time.

7. If you have a unique circumstance that does not allow you to fulfill the above requirements, then please email us, interritusdebate@gmail.com.

Thank you for your commitment to these students. We hope that you have a great tournament!

Sincerely,
Interritus Debate Club

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS & SUITES GRIFFIN
1361 N Expressway, Griffin, GA 30223 United States
Front Desk: 1-678-4086693
Reservation: 1 888 HOLIDAY (1 888 465 4329)
Holiday Inn Express

Home2 Suites by Hilton Griffin
1331 N Expressway, Griffin, Georgia, 30223
1 678-661-3707
Home 2 Suites, Griffin

Comfort Inn & Suites
1906 N. Expressway, Griffin, GA, 30223, US
(770) 233-4747
Comfort Inn and Suites

New Hotels Closer to I75, but not too far from the Tournament
These may be less expensive and this is not a bad area either. It's about 20 minutes (or less) away.

Candlewood Suites Jackson
112 Hospitality Drive Jackson, Georgia 30233
Hotel Front Desk: 1-470-7436100
Candelwood Suites

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS & SUITES JACKSON
116 Hospitality Drive, Jackson, GA 30233 United States
Jackson Holiday Inn Express

There are also some Airbnb options available in the area.

Mars Hill Categories are:

• Current Music
• Classic Media 
• Current Film and Television 
• Arts (Finals)

Apologetics Categories are:

• Category 1: The Character and Nature of God
• Category 3: Scripture
• Category 4: God and Man
• Category 2: Foundations of Christianity(Finals)

Dress Code and Code of Conduct

Dress Code

During competition, students must dress in modest, professional business attire.

Gentlemen: Suit or slacks and a blazer jacket; collared shirt and tie; professional dress shoes and socks.

Ladies: Skirt or pant suit; or professional slacks, skirt, or dress with a blazer jacket; professional dress shoes. Dress/skirt hemlines and slits should be no higher than the middle of the knee. Hose not required.

Awards Ceremony: Students must attend the awards ceremony in full competition attire.

Violations: If the competitor's attire at any time during the tournament is deemed a violation of the dress code, the competitor will be asked to come into compliance before being allowed to participate.

Code of Conduct

Tournament participants will exhibit kind, polite, and respectful attitudes toward each other and behave in a manner that brings honor to God.

Conflicts that arise mid-tournament will be resolved at the sole discretion of tournament leadership. Tournament leadership has final authority in all tournament decisions.

Tournament participants will adhere to the Peacemaker’s Pledge derived from Matthew 5:23-25 and 18:15-17. This principle dictates that if an offense occurs, the offended should go directly to the offender to resolve the issue; no gossiping or discussing with another person. We seek to restore relationships. A third party may be necessary to resolve issues.

Because this is an early tournament, we feel that it benefits all teams to have a pool of cases to prepare for negative rounds. This allows for all teams to have better debate rounds and allows judges to see the best each team has to offer. This also helps teams expand their knowlegde of the new resolution and better prepare for the rest of the season. 

We ask for each team to share their case title and some direction.

For instance, if you are increasing the Tariff Quota on sugar imported from Brazil.

You should NOT submit "Reform Tariffs in South America" or "Increase Tariff Quotas" or 'Reform Trade Policy in Brazil".  

Submissions should name:

Sector Specific Information (Tariff Quota)(Sugar Industry) 

The Location (Brazil)  

The  Action: ( increase, decrease, repeal, create, etc)

 Once registration closes, a request will be sent out for each team to respond with this information.  

*Case  will be due by October 20th*

at midnight EST.*  

Any team that does not share this information by the due date will not be allowed to view the case list and could be dropped from the tournament. The case list will be released on October 22th and will not be shared outside the competitors registered for this tournament. We only do the mandatory case share at our early tournament as we feel later tournaments do not need this advantage.

Send tp: Interritusdebate@gmail.com

Tabulation
The Stoa Hub software  will be used for tabulating results. All tabulation will follow the Stoa Tabulation Manual procedures and guidelines.

Team Policy, Lincoln Douglas, and Parli will be powermatched based on the number of competitors. But this is the overall plan:

26 Teams and up: Rounds 1 & 2  will be randomly paired. We will be power matching rounds 3-6 only.

25 Teams down: If there are not enough teams to power-match at round 3, power matching will begin round 5.

If there is an odd number of competitors, then the bye will be randomly assigned until power matching begins.

Rounds will be power-matched using Stoa’s standard tab procedures. Necessary byes will be assigned to the low seed, with no team receiving a bye twice.