Michigan District Qualifier

for the 2024 National Tournament

Welcome to the NSDA Michigan District Qualifier registration site!

Our event will be 100% online for 2024. It will be held in three phases:

1) Lincoln-Douglas Debate in December;

2) IE and both PF and CX Debate will be held on 2/24/24. Debates and Extemp will be run synchronously. All other IE categories will be submitted through MP4 video uploads and judged asynchronously.

3) Congressional Debate will be held synchronously on 3/2/24.

NOTE: Any debate judge submitted to serve for the National Qualifier tournament MUST be "clean" in that they can judge students from the same school without conflict.

Public Forum Topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should ban single-use plastics. (February 2024)

Extemp: Please be aware that the Extemp topics for the event will be as follows:

US Extemp

1. US Politics & Elections
2. US Economics, Business, & Industry
3. US Energy & Environment
4. US Foreign Policy & National Security
5. US Supreme Court & Legal Issues
6. US Education, Healthcare, & Social Issues

International Extemp

1. Americas & Caribbean
2. Asia & Pacific
3. Southwest Asia & North Africa
4. Sub-Saharan Africa
5. Europe
6. Global Environmental & Humanitarian Issues