On behalf of the Hart House Debates Committee, it is our pleasure to formally invite you to the 2012 North American Debate Championships, taking place on January 27-January 29, 2012 at the University of Toronto.
Debating
We will have 6 rounds of preliminary debate (2 on Friday, 4
on Saturday), according to the CUSID/APDA MoU. We will break to octofinals, but
this is contingent on our tournament reaching its cap. Our initial team cap
will be 80 teams. As per the CUSID-APDA MoU, all members in good standing are
eligible to send two teams to the tournament. If there are sufficient numbers,
there will be a novice final.
Awards will be given to the top 8 teams, top 10 speakers,
top novice team, and top novice speaker.
Adjudication
Richard Lizius
has agreed to served as the CA for Hart House Norams. In addition as serving as
North American DCA for 2010-2011 Botswana Worlds, Richard’s accomplishments
include: Koç WUDC 2nd speaker and quarter-finalist, Cork WUDC 9th speaker and
octo-finalist, North American Top Speaker, 2 time CUSID national champion and
top speaker, and 2009 Yale IV champion and top speaker. Richard has an
extensive knowledge of both the Canadian and American judging pools, and has
served as CA for the Hart House IV three times.
Steven Penner
will serve as Assistant Chief Adjudicator. Steve is a CUSID British
Parliamentary National Champion, a two-time winner of the Seagram Invitational,
HWS/IDEA Round Robin Finalist, and has broken at numerous CUSID tournaments. He
has served as Chief-Adjudicator of the Hart House IV.
APDA will appoint a DCA shortly.
We intend on securing funding to subsidize as many qualified
American and out-of-region adjudicators as possible. However, Hart House’s own
legendary internal and Alumni judging pool will, on its own, provide
international quality judging panels in every room. Toronto is home to multiple
World, National, and North American debating champions, and a staggering number
who have broken as judges or adjudicators at previous Worlds and North Ams.
We have a strong enough internal judging pool that we will
not be imposing a significant n-judging requirement. The judging requirement
will be n/3, rounded down.
Food and Socials
Debaters and judges will be provided with a dinner on Friday
evening and breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday. Our traditional formal
banquet will be happening on Saturday evening. If you require special dietary
requirements (veggie, vegan, halal, kosher, allergies), we can make
arrangements for you if we are notified by the Stage II registration deadline,
December 15.
There will be socials on both Friday and Saturday night, as
well as an informal social for those arriving on Thursday.
Accommodation
We will be negotiating three hotel deals and these will be
finalized very soon. Details to follow.
For those who wish to billet, billeting is allotted on a
first-come, first-serve basis.
Registration
Registration is $160 per team, and $80 per adjudicator, all
prices in Canadian dollars.
Stage I of Registration begins on November 15 at 10am EST
and will take place through <
http://www.harthouse.ca/student-engagement/nadc_registration>
PLEASE NOTE: We will not consider registration attempts
before the above time.
You'll receive a confirmation email within 48 hours of
registering. If you don't, please contact us.
Full payment will be due by December 15. Credit card is our
preferred form of payment, and due to policy constraints, is unfortunately the
only form of payment that we can accept from American participants. Details of
stage II registration will follow shortly.
Hope to see lots of you there!
Sam Greene & Jake Brockman,
Tournament Directors, NorAms 2012
jakelbrockman@gmail.com
sam.greene@utoronto.ca
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