Registration
All registration will be conducted online from this website starting on August 19th, 2009. 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. All registrants must provide a name and phone number for an adult contact responsible for their students in their online registration. Said adult must be present at on-site registration for schools to register.

Caps and Limits

Yale has limited space. In order to keep the tournament manageable, we have limits in many events. Each school will be able to register five debaters in each LD division, until and unless the divisions hit their entry limits. LD will be capped at 160 debaters; JV LD may be capped lower depending on space.

If a school registers more than five LDers in either division, debaters beyond the first five will be placed on the waitlist. No schools will be given a 6th LD entry (or more) until 7 PM September 10th, to allow other schools a chance to register. Sixth slots will be given on a first-come, first-serve basis, except that a very good way to knock yourself further down the waitlist is to pester us, individually or collectively, for additional slots. Speech events are currently limited to 100 per category, though typically we are able to accommodate more entries in some events. Public Forum is initially limited to 120 entries.