Delta Novice
2024 — Pasco, WA/US
Congress
Event Description:
Students will be allowed to use computers in-round for flowing, note-taking, the reading of speeches, and looking up pre-prepared evidence. The tournament will not be liable for any computer crashes or technological issues, and students should bring paper copies of evidence and speeches to be prepared for this occurrence.
Legislation:
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The official legislation adopted by WA State will be the legislation used for the tournament. A copy of the legislation will be available on the Tabroom site. Please have your students in Congress bring their own copies of the legislation. NO COPIES WILL BE PROVIDED.
Docket Setting:
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We will follow the docket setting method suggested by the WSFA committee. Each school represented in each house will draw numbers to determine the order for a legislation draft. They will then take turns picking bills to be debated. This will determine the docket for the session.
Scoring:
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Students will receive scores from each speech. At a normal tournament, the judge and parliamentarian will rank people in the room and that would determine overall placing. At this tournament-students will only receive their speech scores
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We would love to have an experienced coach as parliamentarian to teach our novices how to Congress, and then students as judges.