SchoBo Manual 2004 - IHSA

2018-19DebateManual for

Schools and Managers

2018-19 Debate Manual for Schools Table of Contents

School Information

List of Participant Instructions......................................................................................................................1

Terms & Conditions Changes for 2018-19 ...................................................................................................2

Terms and Conditions..............................................................................................................................3-11

General Information

Do What’s Right Sportsmanship ................................................................................................................13

Future Dates................................................................................................................................................14

Revision History

—1—

Instructions for Submitting List of Participants

INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPLETE THE ONLINE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS FOR DEBATE

IHSA will utilize Tabroom for our online registration. The Tabroom website is www.tabroom.com. Each school must complete theironline registration on Tabroom by the deadline date of February 27, 2019.

List of Participants Deadlines:

Debate—Wednesday, February 27, 2019 (Print a copy for your records)

—2—

Debate Terms and Conditions Changes for 2018-19 1. Item VIII-A-6-b-Policy Debate Judging

Recommendation: Judges for Policy Debate shall be in the second year removed form an Illinois high school. Schools may bring firstyear out debaters as judges IN ADDITION…First year out debaters will be listed separately on the strike list and will be free strikes forall schools. must be high school graduates.

Rationale: The first year out judges did an exceptional job judging at the state final and therefore should be part of the regular judgingpool. This will assist tournament management when dealing with judge shortfalls.

2. Item VIII-B-6-c- Lincoln-Douglas Debate Judging

Recommendation: All individuals used to fulfill a school’s judging requirements must have graduated from high school over one yearprior to the date of competitions be high school graduates and meet one of the following criteria:

6d. DELETE6e. DELETE


3. Item VIII-C-4-e-1-Congressional Debate Judge Rules

Recommendation: Judges are expected to notify the contest manager of any conflicts of interest prior to the start of competition.All judges must have graduated from high school over one year prior to the date of competition and must have either debated atleast five tournaments at the varsity division in congressional debate or have judged at least 2 sessions of congressional debate.

Rationale: Due to the size of the congressional debate chambers, judges need to be at least one year out of high school to avoid con-flicts of interest.

4. Item VIII-D-8-c-Public Forum Debate Judging

Recommendation: Schools, which fail to provide the required number of judges in accordance with their entries, shall be subject todisqualification of two (2) public forum teams per missing judge. Judges must not be affiliated with the teams they are judging. Allindividuals used to fulfill a school’s judging requirements must have graduated from high school over one year prior to the date ofcompetition be high school graduates and meet one of the following criteria: 8d. DELETE

8e. DELETE


5. Item x-Awards

Recommendation: Plaques shall be awarded to the Policy, Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas and Congressional debate teams finishingsecond and third overall based on points earned throughout the tournament in each of the four debate categories. Rationale: To make awards more consistent with other IHSA/speech events, the second and third place teams should be recognized.

—3—

2018-2019 Debate Terms and Conditions

In accordance with Section 1.450 of theIHSA Constitution, the Board of Directors hasapproved the Terms and Conditions governingthe 2018-2019 IHSA Debate TournamentSeries.

I. SCHOOL CLASSIFICATION

Competition in the IHSA 2018-2019Debate Tournament Series will be held for allmember schools without classification.

II. DATES AND SITES

A. The State Final Debate Tournamentwill be held at Illinois State University inNormal, IL.

B. Dates for the tournament shall beMarch 15-16, 2019. Registration will takeplace on Thursday, March 14, 2019.

III. ONLINE ENTRIES, WITHDRAWALPROCEDURES, ELIGIBILITY, ANDONLINE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

The policies for Original Entry Deadlines,Late Entries and Late Withdrawals shall be thepolicies and procedures regarding entries forall IHSA-sponsored activities, included in the2018-2019 Entry Policies and Procedureswhich can be found in the Schools Center onthe IHSA website.

A. Online Entries All member schools must enter theirschool into the state series competitionthrough the IHSA Schools Center on the IHSAWebsite at www.ihsa.org. The deadline forentry is November 1, 2018. The 2018-19 EntryPolicies and Procedures outlining the onlineentry procedures for all IHSA-sponsored tour-naments can be found in the Schools Centeron the IHSA website. Competing schools are responsible forEvent Fees as described in Section IV. Checksfor Event Fees should be made payable to theIllinois High School Association and brought toregistration at the tournament.

B. Late Entries Any attempt to enter a sport or activityonline after the established deadlines will bedenied. Schools that wish to enter after thedeadline will be considered late. To be consid-ered for late entry, the Principal/OfficialRepresentative must contact the IHSA admin-istrator in charge of that activity. The penaltyfor late entry shall be a payment of $100.00.

1. Entry Limitations a. Schools are allowed to haveup to four entries in Policy, Lincoln-Douglas,and Public Forum Debate. All entries willdebate both sides of the question. Schools areallowed to have up to ten (10) entries inCongressional Debate. b. Policy Debaters may partici-pate in only one (1) debate event at the StateFinals. c. Substitutions and changes inentries are permitted with the following limita-tions: 1) Changes in original onlineentries may be made prior to the deadline forsubmitting final entries to the contest manager(February 27, 2019), by notifying the IHSAOffice in writing. 2) Members of participatingteams shall be determined prior to the start ofcompetition. No substitutions will be permittedonce the Debate contest has begun.

IV. HOST FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS

A. Event Fees An Event Fee of $50.00 per Policy team,$25.00 per Lincoln-Douglas, $15.00 perCongressional Debate Entry and $25 perPublic Forum Debate Entry shall be paid to theState Final Contest Manager. No contestantfrom a school will be permitted to participate inthe State Final contest if the Event Fees($50.00 per Policy team, $25.00 per Lincoln-Douglas, $15.00 per Congressional DebateEntry and $25 per Public Forum Debate Entry)are not paid. Checks for Event Fees should bemade payable to the Illinois High SchoolAssociation and brought to registration at thetournament.

B. Judges Fees: Judges hired by theIHSA shall be paid a flat fee of $250.00 forPolicy, Lincoln Douglas, Congressional andPublic Forum Debate at the State FinalTournament. However, if a judge is late for around or misses an assignment, the flat fee willbe rescinded and the judge will be paid $10.00per round actually judged. Any judge whodrives more than 70 miles round trip to the siteof the State Final Contest shall be reimburseda travel allowance of $.30 per mile in excess of70 miles round trip. Reimbursement shall bedirectly from the IHSA office upon the judges’submission of a travel report form to be pro-vided by the IHSA to the contest manager.

V. TOURNAMENT ASSIGNMENTS

All schools will participate in the statecontest at Illinois State University in Normal,IL.

C. Breach of Contract By-law 6.041(Withdrawal Procedure) 1. To withdraw without penalty, theschool principal must notify the IHSA office, inwriting, of the school’s team withdrawal fromDebate State Finals prior to February 27,2019. 2. Withdrawal after February 27,2019 will result in a school being liable for pay-ments of $100.00 late withdrawal penalty. 3. If a school withdraws one ormore entry after February 27, 2019, theschool shall be liable for all event fees (seeterms and conditions Article IV-A) for eachdebate category withdrawn and shall beassessed additional penalties in the amount of$25.00 per event withdrawn. 4. If a school does not officiallywithdraw and/or does not show up for compe-tition, the school will be assessed the penaltiesin “2” and “3” above and if applicable, theschool may be charged for any additionalfinancial loss sustained by the offendedschools or the Association as a result of suchbreach (Judges’ fees if applicable). The schoolshall also be considered in Breach ofContract under the terms of the IHSA By-law6.040, and the matter shall be reported to theIHSA Board of Directors for disposition.

D. Eligibility Responsibility of Individual School: Theprincipal is the official school representative inall interscholastic activities and is responsibleto see that all students from his/her schoolentered in competition are eligible under therules. All correspondence with the IHSA Officeshould be conducted through the principal. In each contest in which his/her school isrepresented, the principal shall have presentan adult, preferably a member of the faculty,who shall supervise and be responsible for theconduct of the participants and other personsfrom the school. Failure to comply with thisprovision shall result in disqualification of theschool’s contestants.

Online List of Participants IHSA will utilize Tabroom for our onlineregistration. The Tabroom website is www.tab-room.com. Each school must complete theironline registration on Tabroom by the deadlinedate of February 27, 2019. If a school does notsubmit their registration on Tabroom by thedeadline, coaches and/or participants from theschool are subject to penalties which couldinclude, but not be limited to being ruled ineli-gible to compete in the State Series and/orcharged $100.00. Confirmation of receiptwill be found in the Tabroom program. If youhave any questions about your registration,contact the Tournament Manager to verify yourregistration.

—4—

to the debater. No debater may be interruptedby an opponent during the course of thedebate. 3) A debate twosome shalltake no more than eight (8) minutes totalelapsed preparation time during a round ofdebate. The timekeeper should keep a recordof elapsed time between speeches and indicateto the debater the time remaining. 4) Speeches in policy debatewill be limited to: eight (8) minute construc-tives, three (3) minute cross-examinations,and five (5) minute rebuttals. 4. Rules of Competition: a. Debaters and coaches shallnot exchange evidence or other materials withcontestants from other schools during a con-test. b. Debaters should make allevidence read in their speeches available forperusal by their opponents. Debaters, howev-er, should not be penalized for refusing to letopponents take such evidence back to theirdesks. If any judge wishes to read evidencefollowing the debate, that evidence may berequested by the judge and should be provid-ed. Judges must not provide such materials tothe opposition. c. Each debater is responsiblefor the validity of evidence read in the debate.All evidence cards or other evidentiary materi-als must contain the name of the author, thequalifications, the source, the date, the pagenumber, even if the full citation is not read inthe debate. d. Prompting is not allowed.Prompting does not exclude time notations,but does prohibit all other forms of assistanceto a debater during a speech or when involvedin a Policy period. e. New issues shall not beintroduced during the rebuttal speeches. f. The members of either teammay switch the order of rebuttals; however, thejudge must be so informed before the debatebegins. g. Observers are permitted toattend debates. Flows of the debates may betaken. Electronic (audio/video) recording of thedebates shall be prohibited without prior con-sent of the IHSA. h. The use of computers, elec-tronic storage and retrieval devices, etc. isallowed in rounds of Policy Debate.Connectivity to any person, machine, device,or server outside the competition room or per-sons other than the competitors in the round isnot allowed. This includes the prohibition ofthe use of wired or wireless local, or wide, areanetworks; cell phones; personal digital assis-tants; Palm, Treo, or Blackberry type devices;etc. The establishment of such a connectionwill constitute a violation of this rule.Competitors violating this rule will be disquali-fied from competition.

VI. TOURNAMENT STRUCTURES ANDTIMES SCHEDULES

A. Contest Management: 1. Tournament Committee: Tourna -ment committees composed of debate coach-es and a representative from the IHSA SpeechAdvisory Committee will be appointed by theIHSA. One member shall be designated to bein charge of each of the four divisions: Policy,Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas, andCongressional. The tournament committeeswill assist the State Final Manager. Participating schools shall refer online toa listing of the State Debate TournamentCommittee members. The functions of theTournament Committee shall be: a. to aid the manager in plan-ning, organizing and administering the con-test; b. to interpret the rules whennecessary; and c. to serve as a panel to selectcontest judges. The State Final Tournament Committeeshall be authorized to conduct the contestunder the provisions of these Terms andConditions and to make final decisions on anyissues not specifically covered by the rules. Ifa situation develops in which there is an appar-ent unfairness to a contestant, and which isdetermined to be the result of an administra-tive or judge’s error, the TournamentCommittee shall determine the manner inwhich the situation shall be resolved. The Tournament Committee shall beresponsible to resolve questions of rules inter-pretation, to arbitrate disputes and to applypenalties for violations of contest rules.Decisions of the Tournament Committee in allcases herein described shall be final.

B. Time ScheduleThe time schedule for the State FinalTournament will be established by the statefinal tournament committee and will be postedonline on the IHSA website.

VII. ADVANCEMENT OF WINNERS All contestants will debate five rounds onFriday and Saturday. The highest ranking con-testants shall be paired for elimination roundson Saturday. The winner of the final debate ineach event shall be awarded first place andsecond place shall be awarded runner-up.

VIII. TOURNAMENT RULES

A. Policy Debate Competition Rules 1. Definition: Policy Debate is organized oral argu-ment which, in the setting of interscholasticcompetition, provides participants an opportu-

Debate Terms and Conditions—Page 2

nity to display their skills of oral persuasion,logical reasoning, research and application ofevidence and extemporaneous delivery beforecritic judges. 2. Debate Subject: The topic for debate will be thenational policy topic developed by theDiscussion and Debate Committee of theNational Federation of State High SchoolAssociations. By a poll of the coaches of thenation, the following resolution has beenselected as the national policy debate topic for2018-2019:

Problem area: Immigration

Resolved: The United States federalgovernment should substantially reduce itsrestrictions on legal immigration to theUnited States.

3. Time Schedule and Procedures: a. Tardiness or Absence: Nodebate shall start unless both members of bothteams are present. If any debater is absent,the chairman shall wait five minutes for his/herappearance. If still absent, the team of whichthe debater is a member shall forfeit the debateto the other team. If members of both teamsare absent, the debate shall be annulled and indetermining the final ranking of the teams,both shall be charged with the loss of thedebate. If a coach is five (5) minutes latefor a round that he/she is to judge, his/herteam(s) will forfeit that round. Note: If the manager is con-vinced that the tardiness of a debater, debateteam, or coach/judge is due to clearly unavoid-able causes, the starting time for the debatemay be extended, or the debate may bearranged for another hour provided that it doesnot in any way interfere with or postpone ter-mination of the contest. b. Each elimination round muststart no later than fifteen (15) minutes after itis posted. Coaches will be notified where elim-ination pairings will be posted and the time ofposting will be recorded. If a team is late it willforfeit that round. c. Individual Round TimingProcedures: 1) In Policy style debating,the questioner controls the time and may inter-rupt the person being questioned to ask thatshorter or more direct answers be given or toinform the person that the answer is insuffi-cient. The questioner should ask relevantquestions. The questioner should neither com-ment on the answer, argue with the opponentnor make speeches. He/she should use thetime for questioning only. 2) Time lost throughunavoidable interruptions shall be made good

—5—

5. Matching of Teams and DrawingProcedures: It will be attempted to allow everydebater to debate each side of the question twotimes in the preliminary rounds. a. The State Final Manager willcreate a list of all judges, as posted by coachesin Tabroom. Judge changes at registration willnot be reflected. Each team will be given theopportunity to strike judges for the duration ofthe preliminary rounds, based upon the judg-ing pool. b. There will be a randomdrawing to determine pairings for Rounds 1and 2. Subsequent preliminary rounds shouldbe power matched, high-low within brackets. c. If there are at least forty (40)teams in the tournament, debaters advancingto the octa-final round will be paired accordingto a bracket prepared by the TournamentCommittee. If there are at least eighty-five (85)teams, elimination rounds will begin with dou-ble octa-finals (top 32). If there are less than40 teams, elimination rounds will begin withquarterfinals. d. If in the elimination rounds,teams from the same school are necessarilypaired against each other, they may eitherdebate to determine a winner or the coach ofthe school involved may designate one of theteams as the winner of the round. Eliminationbrackets will not be altered to prevent suchpairings. e. In the elimination rounds,sides will be determined by a flip of a coin,unless they have met previously. In suchcases the debaters will switch sides. f. At the start of each elimina-tion round, a list of possible judges for eachround will be created by IHSA. A head coachor assistant coach from each team in the roundwill have 5 minutes to strike one judge fromthe list for that round. 6. Judging: a. Two (2) judges shall be usedfor each debate in the preliminaries. As avail-ability permits, three (3) judges should beused in all eliminations except for the finalround. Five (5) judges shall be used in the finaldebate. b. Judges for Policy debatemust be high school graduates. Judges whocompeted for an out-of-state high school mustbe high school graduates. All judges shouldhave judged at a minimum of two tournamentson the current resolution. Each participatingschool shall provide a coach-judge for eachteam entered in the State Final. Schools whichfail to provide the required number of judges inaccordance with their entries shall be subjectto disqualification of one Policy team per miss-ing judge. Schools whose judges miss individ-ual rounds shall be assessed a $30.00 fee foreach round missed.


Affirmative 3 minute cross-examinationAffirmative 4 minute rebuttalNegative 6 minute rebuttalAffirmative 3 minute rebuttal b. State Final Time Schedule:The time schedule for the State FinalTournament will be established by the statefinal tournament committee and will be postedon the IHSA website. c. Tardiness or absence: Nodebate shall start unless both contestants arepresent. If any debater is absent, the chairmanshall wait five minutes for his/her appearance.If still absent, the absent debater shall forfeitthe debate. If both competitors are absent afterthe five-minute grace period, the debate shallbe annulled and in determining the final rank-ings, both shall be charged with the loss of thedebate. Note: If the tournament manageris convinced that the tardiness of a debater orjudge is due to clearly unavoidable causes, thestarting time for the debate may be extended,or the debate may be arranged for anotherhour provided that it does not in any way inter-fere with or postpone termination of the con-test. d. Elimination Rounds. Eachelimination round must start fifteen (15) min-utes after it is posted. Coaches will be notifiedwhere elimination pairings will be posted andthe time of posting will be recorded. If adebater is late he/she will forfeit that round. A debater may take no more than

four (4) minutes total elapsed preparation timeduring a round of debate. The timekeeper shallkeep a record of elapsed time between speech-es and indicate to the debater the time remain-ing after each interval. 4. Rules of Competition: a. Debaters and coaches shallnot exchange evidence or other materials withcontestants from other schools during a con-test. b. Each debater is responsiblefor the validity of evidence read in the debate. c. A debater shall not receivehelp from anyone during the debate. d. New issues shall not beintroduced during the rebuttal speeches. e. Observers (including coach-es with students in the round) are permitted toattend any debates. Electronic (audio and/orvideo) recording of the debates shall be pro-hibited without prior consent of the IHSA.Scouting is not allowed. f. Competitors are not allowedto attend debates while they are still compet-ing. g. The use of computers, elec-tronic storage and retrieval devices, etc. isallowed in rounds of Lincoln-Douglas Debate.Connectivity to any person, machine, device,or server outside the competition room or per-

c. Each judge shall completethe ballot indicating the winning team, rea-son(s) for the decision, and appropriate speak-er points for each debater, and a written cri-tique of the debate. The decision as to whowon the round must be turned in to the tour-nament headquarters within fifteen minutesafter the end of the second affirmative rebuttal.The completed ballot must be turned in assoon as possible and prior to the distributionof ballot packages to schools. A judge’s deci-sion should be made without consultation withanyone. Judges are not prohibited from oralcritiques and/or disclosure of their decision tothe debaters. All judges, including those whoare school coaches, shall be available for allrounds including all elimination rounds. d. Each judge shall keep a flowsheet during the debate to assist him/her incompleting the ballot and reaching a decision.It is recommended that judges concentrate onthe flow sheet during the debate and on theballot after the debate has been completed. e. Judges shall not conversewith anyone, other than the debaters them-selves, prior to submitting their decisions for agiven round to the tournament manager. f. Judges in any round must beat least four years removed from any affiliationwith a team in that round. Judges are expectedto notify the contest manager of any conflictsof interest prior to the start of competition.Judges may strike themselves from hearingany individual team(s) in the tournament. g. Schools with teams in elimi-nation rounds must maintain a representativein the tab room area until the rounds havestarted.

B. Lincoln-Douglas DebateCompetition Rules 1. Definition: Lincoln-Douglas Debate is organizedoral argument which, with only one debaterarguing on each side of a proposition of value,provides participants an opportunity to displaytheir skills of oral persuasion, logical reason-ing, research and application of evidence andextemporaneous delivery before a critic judge. 2. Debate Subject: The topic for the IHSA Lincoln-Douglas debate series will be the March topicof the National Speech and Debate Association(sppchanddebate.org). Wording of this topicwill be posted online at www.ihsa.org on thedebate menu page. 3. Timing Schedule andProcedures: a. The order of speakers andtime limits for each Lincoln-Douglas debatewill be as follows:Affirmative 6 minute constructiveNegative 3 minute cross-examinationNegative 7 minute constructive

—6—


2. Debate Subject (Legislation): a. After preliminary entries arereceived, each school will be assigned to writelegislation (bill or resolution) for two of the fol-lowing areas: foreign affairs, economics, andpublic welfare. A school should submit onepiece of legislation for each area assigned.Schools entered in Congressional Debate willbe notified in December to which legislativecommittees they have been assigned. Theymay only write for assigned committees.Appropriate legislation must be submitted byJanuary 30. Legislation must follow the IHSAStandard Legislation Template that will be pro-vided in December. All legislation approved forCongressional Debate by the IHSA will beavailable to schools online in a downloadablefile. b. Only legislation sent fromthe head coach’s e-mail address will be accept-ed. c. Only one piece of legislationfrom each school will be considered for thePreliminary Sessions. Only one piece of legis-lation from each school will be considered forthe Elimination Sessions (Semis and Finals). d. If a school only submits onepiece of legislation, and it is chosen for debate,it will be placed in the Prelims, the Semis, orthe Finals, and it will not be debated in morethan one session. e. If a school submits twopieces of legislation, one or both may be cho-sen. If both are chosen, only one will beplaced in the Prelims (to be debated for onlyone session), and the other will be placed inthe Semis or Finals. f. All identifying school andstudent information will be taken off of theSemis and Finals Legislation. g. All legislation assigned tothe Prelims, Semis, and Finals will beannounced shortly after the January 30 dead-line. h. A Best Legislation award(overall – of all chambers combined) will beissued after votes are tallied in the PreliminarySessions. 3. State Final Time Schedule: a. Sessions will begin at theposted times. Debate will not wait for any lateparticipants. b. Preliminary Sessions maynot end early. 1) Semi-final Session: Thesession will end immediately (prior to the post-ed end time) when everyone who wishes tospeak twice has done so. 2) Final Session: The sessionwill end immediately (prior to the posted endtime) when everyone who wishes to speaktwice has done so.

sons other than the competitors in the round isnot allowed. This includes the prohibition ofthe use of wired or wireless local, or wide, areanetworks; cell phones; personal digital assis-tants; Palm, Treo, or Blackberry type devices;etc. The establishment of such a connectionwill constitute a violation of this rule.Competitors violating this rule will be disquali-fied from competition. 5. Matching of Contestants andDrawing Procedures: It will be attempted to allow everydebater to debate each side of the question twotimes in the preliminary rounds. In the elimi-nation rounds, sides will be determined by aflip of a coin unless they have met previously.In such cases the debaters will switch sides. a. The State Final Manager willcreate a list of all judges, as posted by coachesin Tabroom. Judge changes at registration willnot be reflected. Each team will be given theopportunity to strike judges for the duration ofthe preliminary rounds, based upon the judgepool. b. Preliminary rounds 1 and 2will be randomly paired. Subsequent prelimi-nary rounds should be power matched, high-low within brackets. c. If there are at least forty (40)contestants, debaters advancing to the octa-final round will be paired according to a brack-et prepared by the Tournament Committee. Ifthere are at least eighty-five (85) contestants,elimination rounds will begin with double octa-finals (top 32). If there are less than 40 con-testants, elimination rounds will begin withquarterfinals. d. At the start of each elimina-tion round, a list of possible judges for eachround will be create by the IHSA. A head coachor assistant coach from each team in the roundwill have 5 minutes to strike one judge fromthe list for that round. If in the elimination rounds,debaters from the same school are necessarilypaired against each other, they may eitherdebate to determine a winner or the coach ofthe school involved may designate one of thecompetitors as the winner of the round.Elimination round brackets will not be alteredto prevent such pairings. 6. Judging: a. Two (2) judges shall be usedfor each debate in the preliminaries. As avail-ability permits, three (3) judges should beused in all eliminations except for the finalround. Five (5) judges shall be used in the finaldebate. b. Each participating schoolshall provide one (1) judge per (2) studentsentered as long as the tournament is doubleflighted. Each participating school shall pro-vide one (1) judge per student entered if thetournament is not flighted.

c. All individuals used to fulfilla school’s judging requirements must be highschool graduates and meet one of the follow-ing criteria: 1. Debated at least fivetournaments at the Varsity level in the entereddivision. 2. Judged at least 10Varsity rounds in Illinois in the entered divi-sion. 3. Judges should bespecifically trained for the division they arejudging and are expected to take careful“flows”/notes of arguments made throughoutthe debate. d. Coaches are responsible forverifying that their judges meet the criteria.Schools which fail to provide the requirednumber of judges in accordance with theirentries shall be subject to disqualification oftwo (2) Lincoln-Douglas contestants per miss-ing judge.Schools whose judges miss individual roundsshall be assessed a $30.00 fee per roundmissed. e. Each judge shall completethe ballot indicating the winning debater, rea-son(s) for the decision, appropriate speakerpoints for each debater, and a written critiqueof the debate. The decision as to who won theround, and the completed ballot, must beturned in to the tournament headquarters with-in fifteen (15) minutes after the end of the sec-ond affirmative rebuttal. f. Judges are prohibited to dis-close their decisions to debaters. All judges,including those who are school coaches, shallbe available for all rounds including all elimina-tion rounds. g. Judges shall not conversewith anyone, other than the debaters them-selves, prior to submitting their decisions for agiven round to the tournament manager. h. Judges are expected to noti-fy the contest manager of any conflicts of inter-est prior to the start of competition. i. Judges in any out-roundmust be at least four years removed from anyaffiliation with a team in that round. Judgesare expected to notify the contest manager ofany conflicts of interest prior to the start ofcompetition.

C. Congressional Debate CompetitionRules 1. Definition: Congressional Debate is a simulatedcongressional activity (debate) modeled afterthe State or National Congress. Participantsresearch and write bills and/or resolutions thatwill be debated on the floor of the congression-al debate, utilizing the tools of deliberativedecision-making such as ParliamentaryProcedure and group communication skills.

—7—


4. Procedures in PreliminaryChambers: a. Committee Sessions: 1) Committee Sessions shallbe comprised of a committee of the entirechamber (a Committee of the Whole – all reg-istered participants) deciding upon the agenda(the order in which legislation will be debated)for the Preliminary Session. 2) This Committee of theWhole will meet prior to Session I to set theagenda (selection of bills and the order theywill be debated). The agenda must alternatethrough legislative committees (100s, then200s, then 300s) 3) Discussions within thecommittee will be restricted to the issue ofdebate-ability. (“Is the bill controversial, timely,and well written?” “Are there substantial proand con arguments concerning the bill?”) Themerits of the idea contained within a billshould not be discussed within the committeemeeting. 4) The bills on the prioritizeddocket will be considered in the order recom-mended by the Committee of the Whole. b. Apportionment: One (1)entry per school will be assigned to a chamber. c. Order of Events: 1) Two judges will beassigned to each chamber. The committee willprepare a seating chart for each chamber. a. A school that registers1-6 debaters is required to provide one (1)qualified judge for the preliminary sessionsthrough the finals. b. A school that registers7-10 debaters is required to provide two (2)qualified judges for the preliminary through thefinal round. 2) At the beginning of eachsession, judges will conduct an election for aPresiding Officer (P.O.) for that session. 3) A preliminary session’stime will begin once the Presiding Officer hasbeen elected and all of the judges assigned tothe chamber by the tab room are present. 4) There is no time limit fordebate on each piece of legislation. 5) Debate on each bill willbegin with the Presiding Officer’s request for athree-minute authorship speech to be given bythe actual author. His or her name must be onthe legislation in order to qualify as the author.If the author is not present in the chamber, thePresiding Officer will call for a sponsorshipspeech. A sponsorship speech is a 3 minutespeech supporting the intent of the bill and canbe given by anyone in the chamber regardlessof their school’s affiliation. Preference will notbe given to a member of the author’s school.Following the delivery of the authorship orsponsorship, the Presiding Officer will ask for a

speech in opposition to the bill. This speech,and all speeches thereafter, will be three min-utes long. This alternating process of three-minute speeches will continue until the bill isplaced upon the table, the bill is passed/failedafter previous question is called, or timeexpires within the session. Should a sessionterminate while a bill is still being debated, pre-vious question will be called and an immediatevote will take place. 6) Following each speech, atwo-minute question and answer period will beheld. The questioning period will consist of onequestion asked per person to the speaker. Nocross-debate shall be allowed during the ques-tioning period of the preliminary chambers.The time clock will run continuously for thequestion and answer period. 7) When more than onespeaker seeks the floor, the presiding officermust follow precedence. First, recognize stu-dents who have not spoken during the session.Next, recognize students who have spokenfewer times. Precedence, in regard to speakingorder, will reset at the end of each preliminarysession. 8) Legislation that is debatedin one preliminary session may not be debatedin another preliminary session of that samechamber. d. General Rules 1) A participant may notspeak on both sides of the same legislation orthat debater will earn a zero for the secondspeech given in opposition to the first speechon the same legislation. A participant mayspeak on the same side of the same legislationtwice- if precedence and regency allow it tooccur. Judges may evaluate this secondspeech as they would any other by asking thequestion: “does it advance debate?” 2) Voting on all matters in thepreliminary sessions will be one vote per per-son. 3) Abstentions shall not becounted in voting totals. 4) The members of a cham-ber may not suspend any IHSA CongressionalDebate rules. e. Judge Rules: 1) Judges are expected tonotify the contest manager of any conflicts ofinterest prior to the start of competition. Alljudges must have graduated from high schoolover one year prior to the date of competitionand must have either debated at least five tour-naments at the varsity division in congression-al debate or have judged at least 2 sessions ofcongressional debate. 2) Judges will be responsiblefor evaluating the participants’ speeches forcontent, logic, evidence, rebuttal, extension,structure, delivery, and their response to ques-

tions. Both judges will judge all speeches. Inthe event that a judge scores a student fromhis/her own school, that score will not be tabu-lated and the other judge’s score will counttwice. 3) No participation or ethosscore will be adjudicated or awarded in anysession of IHSA Congressional Debate.Participation and ethos ought to be considered,in conjunction with debating and speaking abil-ities when determining nominations and rank-ings. 4) The judges, acting in con-cert, shall be the ultimate authorities on parlia-mentary procedure and fairness in recognizingspeakers. They shall have the power and theresponsibility to correct and/or overturn a deci-sion of the Presiding Officer if it violates proce-dure or fairness. 5) At the end of every ses-sion, each judge will nominate two speakers(not the Presiding Officer), not from his/herown school, to be considered for advancementto semis. Judges must not confer when makingnominations. 6) Judges will score the pre-siding officer twice during each session (onceper each ½ of the session). Scores will countas two speeches. 7) Judges, of the third pre-liminary session, will conduct an election forbest legislation within that preliminary cham-ber. Each debater in the chamber will beallowed one vote. The winning legislation mustreceive a simple majority of the votes cast. Ifno person earns a simple majority, the legisla-tion that received the lowest vote total will bedropped from consideration and voting will berepeated until there is a clear majority. In theinstance that more than one piece of legislationis tied for the lowest vote total, eliminate alllegislation that has the lowest vote totalbefore re-voting. Judges will report the 1st,2nd, and 3rd Place Legislation from theirchamber. Tab will use these tallies to calculatewhich piece of legislation won across all tenPreliminary Chambers. That legislation willwin IHSA Best Legislation. 8) Judges, of the third pre-liminary session, will conduct elections for bestPresiding Officer. Each debater in the chamber will beallowed one vote. The winning candidate mustreceive a simple majority of the votes cast. Ifno person earns a simple majority, the candi-date who received the lowest vote total will bedropped from consideration and voting will berepeated until there is a clear majority. f. Chambers are “closed cham-bers”- no debater can leave the chamber unlessthe chamber recesses or adjourns. Studentsshould ask permission to leave and enter thechamber when it is in session (use parliamen-

—8—


tary procedure to move to a point of personalprivilege to use the restroom). However, nodebater should interrupt a speaker who isaddressing the chamber. 5. Procedures regarding theElimination Rounds: a. Semi-final Congress 1) Eligibility for the SemifinalSession will be determined in the followingmanner at the end of Preliminary Session 3:The high point speaker (ties will not be broken,any debater with the highest total in theirchamber will advance), any debater with atleast one judge nomination, and the winningpresiding officer from the chamber willadvance. Presiding Officer (PO) scores do notcount toward high-point speaker advancement. 2) Four Semi-final chamberswill be established. a) Three coaches will beassigned to judge each Semi-final chamber. b) Coaches will beassigned to preside over the Semi-final cham-bers. c) During this session,Direct Questioning will be used. This question-ing will consist of two 30-second time periodsthat will total 1minute. The Presiding Officerwill call on both questioners at the same time;then, the first questioner will engage in cross-debate with the speaker. When 30 secondsexpire, the Presiding Officer will tap the gavel,and the first questioner and the speaker willimmediately stop speaking; the second ques-tioner will rise and immediately engage incross-debate with the speaker for 30 seconds. d) Four participants fromeach of the Semi-final chambers will advanceto the Final Session (Super Congress). e) Each judge will com-plete a preferential ballot, which ranks the topeight speakers. Everyone else not ranked willreceive a ranking of 9. The lowest ranking (1st)is the best ranking. When ranking, judgesought to consider speeches for content, logic,evidence, rebuttal, extension, structure, deliv-ery, and their response to questions, as well asparticipation, ethos, and quality of questionsasked. Both judges will judge all speeches. f) The top four studentswho receive the lowest numerical rankings onthe preferential ballot will advance. Ties will bebroken following this specific order: Judge Preference Speech Points Student Preferential ballot 3) A random number genera-tor will determine precedence in the Semi-finalSession. 4) Each participant will havean opportunity to give two speeches. ADebater in the Semi-Final Session may not givemore than two speeches. The session will end

immediately when everyone who wishes tospeak twice has done so. 5) No authorships will begiven during Semis. a. Final Congress (SuperCongress) 1) Sixteen participants willadvance to the Final Congress. 2) Five coaches will beassigned to judge the Final Session. Each judgewill evaluate all speeches. 3) A coach will be assignedto preside over the Final Session. 4) Each judge will complete apreferential ballot, which ranks the top eightspeakers. Everyone else not ranked will receivea ranking of 9. The lowest ranking (1st) is thebest ranking. When ranking, judges ought toconsider speeches for content, logic, evidence,rebuttal, extension, structure, delivery, andtheir response to questions, as well as partici-pation, ethos, and quality of questions asked. 5) To determine final awards,each of the five judges will complete a prefer-ential ballot where they rank half of the cham-ber. The State Champion and Runner-up willbe decided based upon who has the lowestnumerical rankings on this preferential ballot.Ties will be broken by the following criteria inthis specific order: 1 Judge Preference 2 Redistribution of the preferentialballots between tied debaters 6) A random number genera-tor will determine precedence in the FinalSession. 7) Each participant will havean opportunity to give two speeches. ADebater in the Final Session is not permitted togive more than two speeches. The session willend immediately when everyone who wishes tospeak twice has done so. 8) No authorships will begiven during Finals. 6. The use of computers, tablets,electronic storage and retrieval devices, etc.are allowed in rounds of Congressional Debate.Connectivity, wireless or otherwise, to any per-son, machine, device, or server outside thecompetition room or persons other than thecompetitors in the round is not allowed. Thisincludes the prohibition of the use of wired orwireless local, or wide, area networks; cellphones; personal digital assistants; Apple,Microsoft, Palm, Treo, or Blackberry typedevices; etc. The establishment of such a con-nection will constitute a violation of this rule.Competitors violating this rule will be disquali-fied from competition. D. Public Forum Debate Competition Rules 1. Definition: Public Forum debateuses current controversial subjects as topics

(resolutions) to be debated. Topics are brief,require no plan, and are debatable. Debateteams do not know on which side of the argu-ment they will be speaking. Due to the subjectmatter of these topics, much of the researchtoward building and understandingthe topic of a public forum debate case will beconducted using current publications and newssources. 2. Debate Subject: The topic for theIHSA Public Forum debate series will be theMarch topic of the National Speech and DebateAssociation (speechanddebate.org). Wordingof this topic will be posted online atwww.ihsa.org on the debate menu page. 3. Timing Schedule and Procedures: a. Public Forum Debate TimingScheduleFirst Speaker – Team A. 4 MinutesFirst Speaker – Team B 4 MinutesCrossfire (A1&B1) 3 MinutesSecond Speaker – Team A 4 MinutesSecond Speaker – Team B 4 MinutesCrossfire (A2&B2) 3 MinutesSummary – First Speaker – Team A 2 MinutesSummary – First Speaker – Team B 2 MinutesGrand Crossfire 3 MinutesFinal Focus – Second Speaker – Team A 2 Minutes

Final Focus – Second Speaker – Team B 2 MinutesPREPARATION TIME FOR EACH TEAM 2 Minutes

b. State Final Time Schedule:The time schedule for the State FinalTournament will be established by the statefinal tournament committee and will be postedon the IHSA website. c. Tardiness or Absence: Nodebate shall start unless both members of bothteams are present. If any debater is absent, thechairman shall wait five minutes for his/herappearance, this allowance being grantedspecifically for variations in timepieces. If stillabsent, the team of which the debater is amember shall forfeit the debate to the otherteam. If members of both teams are absent,the debate shall be annulled and in determiningthe final ranking of the teams, both shall becharged with the loss of the debate. If a coach is five (5) minutes latefor a round that he/she is to judge, his/herteam(s) will forfeit that round. Note: If the tournament manageris convinced that the tardiness of a debater ofjudge is due to clearly unavoidable causes, thestarting time for the debate may be extended,or the debate may be arranged for another hourprovided that it does not in any way interferewith or postpone termination of the contest.

—9—


d. Procedure: Prior to theround in the presence of the judge(s), a coin istossed by one team and called by the otherteam. The team that wins the flip may chooseone of two options: Either the side of the topicthey wish to defend (pro or con) or the speak-ing position they wish to have (begin thedebate or end the debate). 1) Once the coin toss win-ners select their favored option, the other teammakes a choice within the remaining options.Once speaking positions and sides has beendetermined, the debate can begin.

2) Each speaker shall havefour minutes for constructive argument, alter-nating between pro and con. (Please keep inmind that the debate may begin with a conspeech.) 3) Following the first twoconstructive speeches, the two debaters whohave just given speeches will participate in athree-minute “crossfire”. (In “crossfire” bothdebaters “hold the floor”. However, the speak-er who spoke first must ask the first question.After that question, either debater may ques-tion and/or answer at will.) 4) At the end of the first“crossfire”’ the four-minute constructive argu-ments are continued by the students yet tospeak. 5) At the conclusion of thelast two constructive arguments, anotherthree-minute “crossfire” takes place betweenthe two debaters who just spoke using thecrossfire procedure discussed above. 6) Following the four con-structive speeches and two “crossfire” seg-ments, the 1st speaker for each team will eachgive a two-minute summary continuing estab-lished alternation. The summary speechesshould include arguments his or her team iswinning and refuting of arguments it is losing. 7) At the conclusion of thesummary speeches, all four debaters will par-ticipate in a three-minute “Grand Crossfire” inwhich all four debaters are allowed to cross-examine one another. The speaker who gavethe first summary speech must ask the firstquestion. 8) At the conclusion of the“Grand Crossfire”, the second speaker willeach give a 1-minute “Final Focus” speech.The “Final Focus” is a persuasive final restate-ment of why a team has won the debate. 4. Rules of Competition: a. The first speaker for eachposition usually has a prewritten case that pro-vides reasons for affirming or negating a topic. 1) After both speakers havestated their cases a cross-fire session occurs.In cross-fire both speakers ask and answerquestions in a civil manner.

2) The second speaker foreach position generally attempts to refute thepoints of the opposing side and can also pro-vide additional reasons to vote for their posi-tion. 3) The second speakers con-duct a cross-fire session in the same mannerthe first speakers did. The speech that followsis the summary in which the first speakers ofboth positions summarize their points and theopposing sides points and try to show thejudges why their points still stand or why theopposing team’s points fall. 4) Following this speech is agrand cross-fire, a cross-fire session that isconducted sitting down and includes all fourspeakers. The final speech for both sides is alast shot in which the second speaker for eachteam provides one main reason why the judgesshould vote for their position on the resolution. 5) Final Focus Speechesshould present voting issues to the judge. b. Debaters and coaches shallnot exchange evidence or other materials withcontestants from other schools during a con-test. c. Each debater is responsiblefor the validity of evidence read in the debate. d. Judges are not prohibitedfrom oral critiques and/or disclosure of theirdecision to the debaters. e. A debater shall not receivehelp from anyone during the debate. f. The use of computers, elec-tronic storage and retrieval devices, etc. isallowed in rounds of Public Forum Debate.Connectivity to any person, machine, device, orserver outside the competition room or per-sons other than the competitors in the round isnot allowed. This includes the prohibition ofthe use of wired or wireless local, or wide, areanetworks; cell phones; personal digital assis-tants; Palm, Treo, or Blackberry type devices;etc. The establishment of such a connectionwill constitute a violation of this rule.Competitors violating this rule will be disquali-fied from competition. g. Observers a. Observers, (includingcoaches with students in the round) are per-mitted to attend any debates. Electronic (audioand/or video) recording of the debates shall beprohibited without prior consent of the IHSA.Scouting is not allowed. b. Competitors are notallowed to attend debates while they are stillcompeting. 5. Matching of Teams and DrawingProcedures: a. The State Final Manager willcreate a list of all judges, as posted by coachesin the Tabroom. Judge changes at registrationwill not be reflected. Each team will be giventhe opportunity to strike judges for the duration

of the preliminary rounds, based upon thejudge pool. b. There will be a random draw-ing to determine pairings for Rounds 1 and 2.Subsequent preliminary rounds should bepower matched, high-low within brackets. c. If there are at least forty (40)teams in the tournament, debaters advancingto the octa-final round will be paired accordingto a bracket prepared by the TournamentCommittee. If there are at least eighty-five (85)teams, elimination rounds will begin with dou-ble octa-finals (top 32). If there are less than40 teams, elimination rounds will begin withquarterfinals. d. If in the elimination rounds,teams from the same school are necessarilypaired against each other, they may eitherdebate to determine a winner or the coach ofthe school involved may designate one of theteams as the winner of the round. Eliminationbrackets will not be altered to prevent suchpairings. e. In the elimination rounds,sides will be determined by a flip of a coin,unless they have met previously. In such casesthe debaters will switch sides. f. At the start of each elimina-tion round, a list of possible judges for eachround will be created by the IHSA. A headcoach or assistant coach from each team in theround will have 5 minutes to strike one judgefrom the list for that round. 6. Advancement and Determinationof Winners: The highest-ranking teams will bepaired for elimination rounds on Saturday. 7. Ties: Speaker points will breakties. 8. Judging: a. Two (2) judges shall be usedfor each debate in the preliminaries. As avail-ability permits, three (3) judges should be usedin all eliminations except for the final round.Five (5) judges shall be used in the final debate. b. Each participating schoolshall provide one (1) judge per (2) teamsentered as long as the tournament is flighted.Each participating school shall provide one (1)judge per team entered if the tournament is notflighted. c. Schools, which fail to pro-vide the required number of judges in accor-dance with their entries, shall be subject to dis-qualification of two (2) Public Forum team permissing judge. Judges must not be affiliatedwith the teams they are judging. All individualsused to fulfill a school’s judging requirementsmust be high school graduates and meet one ofthe following criteria: 1. Debated at least five tour-naments at the Varsity level in the entered divi-sion. 2. Judged at least 10 Varsityrounds in Illinois in the entered division.

—10—


3. Judges should be specifi-cally trained for the division they are judging inand are expected to take careful “flows”/notesof arguments made throughout the debate. d. Coaches are responsible forverifying that their judges meet the criteria.Schools whose judges miss individual roundsshall be assessed a $30.00 fee per roundmissed. e. Each judge shall completethe ballot indicating the winner debater, rea-son(s) for the decision, appropriate speakerpoints for each debater, and a written critiqueof the debate. The decision as to who won theround, and the completed ballot, must beturned in to the tournament headquarters with-in fifteen (15) minutes after the end of the lastfinal focus. f. The judge should rate eachspeaker on a scale of 11-30. The judge needsto write a brief reason for his/her decision. g. Judges shall not disclosetheir decisions. All judges, including those whoare school coaches, shall be available for allrounds including all elimination rounds. h. Judges shall not conversewith anyone, other than the debaters them-selves, prior to submitting their decisions for agiven round to the tournament manager. i. Schools with teams in elimi-

nation rounds must maintain a representativein the tab room area until the rounds havestarted. j. Judges are expected to notifythe contest manager of any conflicts of interestprior to the start of competition. k. Judges in any out-roundmust be at least four years removed from anyaffiliation with a team in that round. Judges areexpected to notify the contest manager of anyconflicts of interest prior to the start of compe-tition.

E. Special Rules and Limitations: 1. Use of Inappropriate Material: If, in the opinion of any judge, materi-al which is debated for his/her adjudication isinappropriate for public presentation by a highschool student, the judge may rank the teamdown. If, in the judge’s opinion, a debate ispersistently inappropriate or is flagrantly pro-fane and vulgar, he/she may stop the debateand disqualify the students or team. In eithercase, the judge shall explain his/her opinionand action in a written critique and the managershall forward a copy of the critique to the IHSAOffice. Please Note: Material which is inap-propriate for public presentation by highschool students will not be tolerated.

IHSA By-law 6.010 will be applied inthe event contestants utilize material which,upon investigation by the Executive Director, isdetermined to be inappropriate. By-law 6.010states: Any violation of the IHSA Constitutionand/or IHSA By-laws, IHSA Terms andConditions, IHSA Policies and Guidelines,and/or other rules of the Association, shall bereported to the Executive Director, who shallhave authority to investigate all alleged viola-tions. The findings of the investigation shall bemade known to the school (or schools), person(or persons), alleged to have committed viola-tion. The Executive Director shall then have fullauthority to invoke penalties against suchschool or persons found to have committedviolations. Penalties shall include, but not belimited to, written warning or reprimand, requi-site affirmation corrective action... up to andincluding suspension and/or expulsion. Failureto take the corrective action required by anypenalty shall be the basis for further action upto and including suspension and/or expulsion. Note that these provisions includepossible penalties against the school or indi-vidual persons found to have committed viola-tions. This means that competitors, coaches,directors, and/or principals/official representa-tives may be penalized directly for the use ofinappropriate material in the IHSA competi-tions. A debate (language or action) whichincludes symbolic or colloquial expressiondescribing or naming anything which is pro-fane and/or vulgar, whether or not suited to aspecific case being presented, IS ALWAYSCONSIDERED INAPPROPRIATE! 2. Violation of Limitation Rule: If a student participates in moreevents than permitted by Art. III-E, his/herschool shall be disqualified in all the events inwhich he/she participated. If the student orhis/her school won any awards in, or as aresult of, the events in which he/she participat-ed, such awards must be surrendered to theIHSA Office. 3. Late Discovery of Violations: If a violation, the penalty for which isdisqualification, is not discovered until after theclose of the contest in which the violationoccurred, the following procedure shall be fol-lowed: a. The student, team or schoolshall nevertheless be disqualified and the viola-tion shall be reported to the IHSA office. b. The rankings of the othercontestants in the event shall be revisedupward. c. If the disqualified individual,team or school has won any awards, such

awards shall be returned to the IHSA Office. Anattempt will then be made to redistribute theseawards on the basis of the revised rankingrankings.

IX. TOURNAMENT POLICIES

A. Damage to Property or Equipment If contestants or people from any schoolentered in a state series are found guilty ofcarelessness or maliciously breaking, damag-ing or destroying property or equipmentbelonging to the host school, such school shallbe held responsible for costs incurred inreplacing or repairing such property or equip-ment.

B. Media Policies 1. Media Personnel a. Any media person wishing totake photographs will contact the State Finalmanager to verify arrangements to take photosat the tournaments. Photographers are wel-come to take photos in the commons area.Managers’ names and information can befound on the IHSA website or by contacting theIHSA Office. b. Photography is NOT allowedin rooms while rounds are taking place, howev-er, media personnel are invited and encouragedto sit in on rounds as spectators. c. At all levels of IHSA competi-tion, an area may be set aside for photographs.All participating students will be invited andencouraged to make themselves available dur-ing the tournament for the Official IHSAPhotographer as well as local media outlets. d. Results from each level ofthe tournament can be obtained by logging intothe IHSA website and choosing the appropriateactivity. State Final results will be postedonline as soon as possible following the tour-nament. 2. Managers a. May arrange an area forphotographers and students to gather forphoto opportunities. b. Will post any information forall participating students to have the opportuni-ty to meet with area media. c. Will cooperate fully withmedia personnel to arrange photo opportuni-ties and ensure coverage of all levels of thetournament.

C. Tobacco/Liquid Nicotine Products:The use of tobacco or liquid nicotine productsin any competition area, either during a prac-tice or while a contest is in progress, or affiliat-ed property of any IHSA state series contest byany coach, player, any other person connected

—11—


with a team, or fan shall be prohibited. Stateseries hosts are required to make all stateseries contest sites and any affiliated property,including parking lots, fan accommodationareas, and other school or event venue proper-ty, tobacco/liquid nicotine free zones on thedate or dates of any IHSA event being held atthe site.

D. Use of Inhalers: A student with asthma may possess anduse his/her medication during an IHSA compe-tition under the supervision of school person-nel, provided the school meets the outlinedprocedures of self- administration in the Illinoisschool code.

E. Alcoholic Beverages and IHSA StateSeries Events: The possession, distribution, sale and orconsumption of alcoholic beverages are pro-hibited at the site and on any affiliated propertyof any IHSA state series contest. State serieshosts are required to make all state series con-test sites and any affiliated property, includingparking lots, fan accommodation areas, andother school or event venue property, alcoholfree zones on the date or dates of any IHSAevent being held at the site. Violation of thispolicy by an event host will subject the host toa penalty for violation of IHSA By-law 2.020.Such penalty may include but not necessarilybe limited to prohibition against subsequentevent hosting assignments. Violation of thispolicy by a non-hosting member school will

subject the school to penalty for violation ofIHSA By-law 2.020. Patrons of any IHSA stateseries contest determined to be in violation ofthis policy will be removed from the premise,and law enforcement officials will be called aswarranted.

F. Special Report Forms and SAWAForms Special report forms have been developedto facilitate schools reporting any matter con-cerning high school programs that merit theattention of the high school principal. Theseforms can be used for reporting any incidentsor problems with a competitor, coach, directoror spectator. The forms may also be used toreport errors in applying rules or any phase ofjudging in which a judge should immediatelyattempt to improve. The SAWA Report formshould be used for reporting any instanceswhere a coach, director, participant, judge orspectator has done an exemplary job ofSporting A Winning Attitude. These forms canbe found on the IHSA Web Site atwww.ihsa.org.

G. Responsibility for Theft or OtherLosses: The IHSA will not be responsible forloss or theft of any personal or school propertyduring the course of the contest.

H. Prayer at IHSA State Series Contest: Prayer at an IHSA state series contest thattakes place over the public address system isprohibited.

X. AWARDS

Trophies and team medallions shall beawarded to the Policy, Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas and Congressional Debate teams fin-ishing first overall based on points earnedthroughout the tournament in the four debatecategories. Plaques shall be awarded to thePolicy, Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas andCongressional Debate teams finishing secondand third overall based on points earnedthroughout the tournament in each of the fourdebate categories. In Policy, Lincoln-Douglas,Congressional and Public Forum Debate,medallions shall be given to the individualchampions and runners up and the top ten (10)ranking speakers in each event after the prelim-inary rounds and in Policy, Lincoln-Douglasand Public Forum all other contestants whoqualify for the octa-final, quarter-final, semi-final or final rounds. In Congressional Debate,all qualifiers for the Super Congress will receivemedallions. The Best Legislation in Congresswill receive an award.

XI. JUDGING

Refer to the Rules of Competition for eachDebate category in Article VIII.

—12—

GeneralInformation

—13—

respectappreciation

integrity

✧ Show respect for other students, coaches and spectators.

✧ Recognize and show appreciation for an outstanding performances by all.

✧ Respect the integrityand judgment of tournament judges.

positivesteamwork

responsibility

✧ Look for positives in students and coaches.

✧ Emphasize teamwork in activities; teach them to think “We” instead of “Me”.

✧ Accept the responsibility and privilege of representing your school and community.

differencemodesty✧ Spectators can make a difference–be positive!

✧ Lead by example in sportsmanship: Display modesty in victory and graciousness in defeat.

DO WHAT’S RIGHT!

Sportsmanship begins and ends with you!

—14—

Future Standardized Dates

IHSA Standardized Calendar IHSA-sponsored State Tournament Series and IHSA Sport Seasons shall be conducted on dates established in accordance with the AssociatesStandardized Calendar. This calendar shall number the weeks of the year, with week one (No. 1) being the first full week of July (Sunday throughSaturday).

SPEECH-DEBATE 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23List of Participants Due On-Line (Wed. Week 35) Feb. 27 Mar. 3 Mar. 3 Feb. 28 Mar. 1State Final (Thurs.-Sat. Week 37) Mar. 14-16 Mar. 19-21 Mar. 18-20 Mar. 15-17 Mar. 16-17Policy Debate Topic Resolution Ballots due Oct. 15 Oct. 15 Oct. 15 Oct. 15 Oct. 15Policy Debate Topic Resolution

Ballots (second ballot) due Dec. 15 Dec. 15 Dec. 15 Dec. 15 Dec. 15Congressional Debate Legislation due Jan. 30 Jan. 30 Jan. 30 Jan. 30 Jan. 30

2018-2019Note:EasterSunday is boxed.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 29 30 31

AUGUSTWk.No. 5 6 7 8 9

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 2122 23 24 25 26 27 2829 30 31

JULYWk.No. 1 2 3 4 5

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1516 17 18 19 20 21 2223 24 25 26 27 28 2930 31

DECEMBERWk.No.222324252627

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 1718 19 20 21 22 23 2425 26 27 28 29 30

NOVEMBERWk.No.1819202122

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 2021 22 23 24 25 26 2728 29 30 31

OCTOBERWk.No.1415161718

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1516 17 18 19 20 21 2223 24 25 26 27 28 2930

SEPTEMBERWk.No. 910111213

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 2324 25 26 27 28

FEBRUARYWk.No.3132333435

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 15 16 17 18 1920 21 22 23 24 25 2627 28 29 30 31

JANUARYWk.No.2728293031

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1516 17 18 19 20 21 2223 24 25 26 27 28 2930

JUNEWk.No.4849505152

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 29 30 31

MAYWk.No.4445464748

S M T W T F SAPRILWk.

No.4041424344

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 2324 25 26 27 28 29 3031

MARCHWk.No.353637383940

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 2021 22 23 24 25 26 2728 29 30


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 1718 19 20 21 22 23 2425 26 27 28 29 30 31

AUGUSTWk.No. 4 5 6 7 8

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 2021 22 23 24 25 26 2728 29 30 31

JULYWk.No.

1 2 3 4

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 2122 23 24 25 26 27 2829 30 31


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 2324 25 26 27 28 29 30

NOVEMBERWk.No.17 18192021

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 15 16 17 18 1920 21 22 23 24 25 2627 28 29 30 31


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 2122 23 24 25 26 27 2829 30

SEPTEMBERWk.No.

910111213

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1516 17 18 19 20 21 2223 24 25 26 27 28 29


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 29 30 31

JANUARYWk.No.26 27282930

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 2021 22 23 24 25 26 2728 29 30

JUNEWk.No.4849505152

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 2324 25 26 27 28 29 3031

MAYWk.No.43 4445464748


No.3940414243

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 2122 23 24 25 26 27 2829 30 31

MARCHWk.No.3536373839

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 29 30


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1516 17 18 19 20 21 2223 24 25 26 27 28 2930 31

AUGUSTWk.No. 4 5 6 7 8 9

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 29 30 31

JULYWk.No.

1 2 3 4

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 15 16 17 18 1920 21 22 23 24 25 2627 28 29 30 31


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 2122 23 24 25 26 27 2829 30


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 1718 19 20 21 22 23 2425 26 27 28 29 30 31


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 15 16 17 18 1920 21 22 23 24 25 2627 28 29 30

SEPTEMBERWk.No.

910111213

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 2021 22 23 24 25 26 2728


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 2324 25 26 27 28 29 3031


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 15 16 17 18 1920 21 22 23 24 25 2627 28 29 30

JUNEWk.No. 4849505152

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1516 17 18 19 20 21 2223 24 25 26 27 28 2930 31

MAYWk.No.43 4445464748


No.3940414243

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 2021 22 23 24 25 26 2728 29 30 31


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 1718 19 20 21 22 23 2425 26 27 28 29 30


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 2122 23 24 25 26 27 2829 30 31

AUGUSTWk.No.

5 6 7 8 9

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 1718 19 20 21 22 23 2425 26 27 28 29 30 31

JULYWk.No.

1 2 3 4

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 29 30 31


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 2021 22 23 24 25 26 2728 29 30


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 2324 25 26 27 28 29 3031


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 29 30

SEPTEMBERWk.No.

910111213

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 15 16 17 18 1920 21 22 23 24 25 2627 28


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1516 17 18 19 20 21 2223 24 25 26 27 28 2930 31


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 29 30

JUNEWk.No. 4849505152

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 2122 23 24 25 26 27 2829 30 31

MAYWk.No. 4445464748


No.3940414243

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 15 16 17 18 1920 21 22 23 24 25 2627 28 29 30 31


S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21 22 2324 25 26 27 28 29 30

Documents

SchoBo Manual 2004 - IHSA