FIRST, TOURNAMENT
PARTICIPANTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE COURTEOUS TO EACH OTHER[1]
This
tournament affirms the importance of all tournament participants’ cooperation
in creating an educational and competitive environment that is fair, humane and
responsible while, at the same time, encouraging speeches and debates that are
devoted to full and robust argument about a diverse range of ideas. Specifically, this tournament affirms that:
1.
Judges
and students are encouraged to talk about the expectations that they have for
creating a debate that focuses on ideas instead of personal attacks.
2.
Debaters
are encouraged to communicate with respect, not attacking each other or the
judge.
3.
Judges
are encouraged to communicate with respect, not attacking or devaluing
students.
4.
Debaters
and judges are encouraged to reject discourse which devalues other members of
our community based on their race, age, gender, class, sexual or religious
orientation, or any reason that is not directly related to the arguments that
they present.
5.
Students
and judges are encouraged to communicate with each other when they observe
instances of verbally aggressive attacks rather than silently watching
something happen before them to which they object.
6.
Judges
are encouraged to reward courteous and respectful behavior toward the judge and
other competitors in awarding speaker points.
7.
If
serious and/or repeated demeaning speech materially or substantially disrupts
the opportunity for debaters to compete fairly or the judge to evaluate fairly,
judges are encouraged to dock speaker points or give a team a loss. Please
report this to the ballot table.
SECOND, THE RESOLUTION
FOR THE WHITMAN TOURNAMENT
Resolved: That the
Announced in early October. Click here to see
the November Public Forum Topic
THIRD, NOTICE—THERE IS
NO COIN FLIP AT THE WHITMAN TOURNAMENT.
FOURTH, TIMES FOR
PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE
NOTE: NO COIN
FLIP. THE PRO-AFF AND THE CON-NEG TEAM WILL BE LISTED ON THE POSTING.
First
Speaker - Team A = 4 Minutes
First
Speaker - Team B = 4 Minutes
Crossfire =
3 Minutes
Second
Speaker - Team A = 4 Minutes
Second
Speaker - Team B = 4 Minutes
Crossfire =
3 Minutes
Summary -
First Speaker - Team A = 2 Minutes
Summary -
First Speaker - Team B = 2 Minutes
Grand
Crossfire = 3 Minutes
Final Focus
- Second Speaker - Team A = 1 Minute
Final Focus
- Second Speaker - Team B = 1 Minute
Prep Time
(per team) = 2 Minutes.
·
YOU CAN ASK THE TEAMS TO KEEP TRACK
OF THEIR TIME OR YOU CAN TIME.
·
You can use hand signals to indicate
how much time is left or you can say OUT LOUD how much time they have left
(that is fairly common in policy debates).
Click here to go to Tips for Public Forum Ballots
(Step 3)
[1]
Taken from Kristine
Bartanen and Jim Hanson, “Advocating Humane Discourse,” The Forensic of Pi
Kappa Delta 80 (Fall 1994): 20-21.