January 24 and 31 Tournament Invitation
On behalf of Bruce Johnson, Coach of Eastern Middle School in Greenwich, and Scott Brady, Coach of Wamogo Middle School in Litchfield, I would like to invite you to our first competitive tournaments at the end of the month. There will be one open division of debate.
The motion, previously announced, is:
This House believes that zoos do more harm than good.
You register through the www.tabroom.com, a free website for the debate community. We will use this system for all our events. Download our tabroom.com Instructions for more information.
On tabroom.com the tournament names are “CTMSDL January 24” and “CTMSDL January 31”.
The tournament schedule will include a short workshop in the morning and three rounds of debate:
| 9:30-10AM | registration |
| 10-10:30AM | workshops |
| 10:45-11:30AM | round 1 |
| 11:30-12:15PM | round 2 |
| 12:15-12:45PM | lunch |
| 12:45-1:30PM | round 3 |
| 1:30-2:00PM | awards |
| 2:00PM | departure |
We will use the standard middle school parliamentary debate format with three debaters on each team, five minute constructive speeches and three minute rebuttals. For more information go to our website, https://ctmsdebate.org .
If you have any questions, please email us at inquiry@ctmsdebate.org .
You can also download a Printable Version of this invitation in pdf format.
We hope to see you on January 24 or 31!