Tournament Regulations

1. TOPIC: Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly strengthen its protection of domestic intellectual property rights in copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks.

2. The tournament will be cross-examination style with 8-3-5 time limits. Prep time will be 8 minutes

3. Rounds 1 & 2 in all divisions will be pre-set. We will then delay power match rounds 3-5.

4. Entry fees will be $5.00 per team. Registration deadline is Friday, October 25th. Cancellations after November 1st will be non-refundable.

5. Schools wishing to enter more than 4 teams per division may be asked to provide one extra judge per additional team entered.

6. Coaches and sponsors will be used to judge if necessary. Any school that does not/ will not fulfill a judging request will have the judge removed from a room in which one of its teams is debating and will forfeit that round with a 3-4 loss.

7. In case of win-loss ties, speaker points will be used to determine finalists. Opposition records will be used to break ties in speaker points.

8. Any team more than 10 minutes late to a round, through no fault of the tournament, will be forfeited with a 3-4 loss.

9. Tournament management reserves the right to handle difficulties in a way that seems fair to us.