JacksonEast Novice Tournament Invitation 

Saturday, November 7, 2020 

Greetings Coaches! 

You are invited to attend the inaugural JacksonEast Novice Tournament! This is intended to be a low-stress tournament, and we hope it will be a great experience for your students. Like the Novice Workshop, we will allow varsity angels, but we will also need plenty of varsity judges to cover rounds. This year, we will offer LD, PF, CX, DI, Duo, HI, OO, Poe, Extemp, and Congress, POI, and Info. All events will allow manuscripts. For Policy, we encourage you to share your novice affirmative case areas as soon as possible. In Extemp, we will allow students to draw a folder with their topic containing one or more articles on the topic of their choice. The student may use the articles for their preparation and then keep the article to add to their personal files. Please call with any questions about any event. 

Registration : Please register competitors and varsity judges on tabroom - http://jacksoneast.tabroom.com

All competitors and judges need linked tabroom accounts. Entry fees are $6.00 per entry.  We would appreciate notification of your intent to attend and some indication of preliminary numbers by Friday, 30 October 2020.  Final entries are due by Friday, 6 November 2020. 

Please make sure all participants have signed and turned in the media release form. Copy found here . Entries will be waitlisted until the media release form is turned in.

Platform: NSDA Campus. All events will be synchronous (= live = not pre-recorded).

Resolutions: 

• Lincoln Douglas: Resolved: The United States ought to provide a federal jobs guarantee.

• Public Forum: Resolved: The United States should adopt a declaratory nuclear policy of no first use.

• Policy: Resolved: The United States federal government should enact substantial criminal justice reform in the United States in one or more of the following: forensic science, policing, sentencing.

•  Novice Policy Case Areas:

1. Forensic Science: Limit use of facial recognition software.

2. Policing: Abandon federal efforts to force local police to assist in immigration enforcement.

3. Sentencing: Abolish mandatory minimum sentences.

4. Sentencing: Drug decriminalization

  Congress Prelim Legislation - link here

Congress Supers Legislation- link here

Awards: all finalists will receive medals. We will also have sweepstakes awards for teams. These will be mailed to coaches at the conclusion of the tournament. We will hold an awards ceremony on Saturday night to recognize the finalists as well. 

Please contact us with questions! 

Marcus Viney, 970-310-0011, marcus.viney@laramie1.org 

Londe Gagnon 307-699-057 -  lgagnon@tcsd.org

JACKSONEAST NOVICE TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE 

Saturday, November 7, 2020 

7:30am -  Registration 

8:00am -  HOPEIC Round I (Humor, Oratory, Poetry, Extemp, Info, and Congress) 

9:00AM - DEBATES, DRAMA, DUET, POI Round I 

10:30AM - HOPEIC Round II 

11:30AM-12:30PM - Lunch 

12:30PM -  DEBATES, DRAMA, DUET, POI Round II 

2:00PM -  HOPEIC Round III 

3:00PM -  DEBATES, DRAMA, DUET, POI Round III 

4:30PM- HOPEIC Finals 

5:15PM -  PF & LD DEBATE Semi Finals 

5:30PM - DRAMA, DUET, POI, CX DEBATE FINALS

6:00pm -  PF & LD DEBATE  Finals

7:00pm -  Awards