Registration

All registration will be conducted online from this website starting on August 1st, 2011. We cannot accept email or phone registrations, but are happy to help you navigate the registration website. If there are any questions concerning registration, please contact yale@tabroom.com. The IE event speaker codes given to you on the online registration system will be those used in competition unless you are notified otherwise. Field reports in the debate events will also be posted in advance of the tournament.

Eligibility, Adult Supervision & Independent Entries

All students must be actively enrolled in high school, or if (and only if) they are home schooled, they must be of high school age (14-19 years). All students must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian, or a school-approved guardian or coach. The adult guardian in question must be a high school graduate; high school students who have passed their 18th birthday do not count. All registrants must provide a name and phone number for an adult contact who will be present at the tournament and is responsible for the students in case of an emergency.  Said adult must be present at on-site registration for schools to register.

Caps and Limits

We have limited space. Initially, LD will be capped at 160 debaters and JV LD will be capped at 120 initially. Speech events will be limited to roughly 100 per category, though typically we are able to accommodate more entries in some events.  Initially, Public Forum will be limited to 120 entries.

NEW: This year, in an effort to ensure that all schools wanting to participate in our tournament are able to do so, we will be leaving registration open for one full week before registering students. We hope that everyone registers in that week, in due time and leisure, and after a week, we will use the registration numbers we have at that time to determine how many slots each school will receive. Instead of crafting an arbitrary policy, such as “each school can register six Lincoln Douglas debaters” up front, and thus giving some schools six slots and some schools none, we plan to look at the registration list after one week, determine the fair number that provides all schools an equal amount of debaters, and give everyone who registered in that week-long time period that number of slots for debaters. All other students will go on a wait list on a first come, first serve basis. In previous years, though we have had a wait list through August, we have been able to accommodate all students that want to compete in the tournament. Beginning in the fall of 2012, students from schools owing outstanding fines to our tournament will be automatically wait listed. Those schools will be registered after other schools based on space availability.