<p>My school isn't anywhere near the national circuit... We do a local policy six-week once-a-week tournament in the fall, an in-club two-month tournament in the winter, and a regional Constitutional law tournament and a state-wide LD tournament in the spring.</p>
<p>If all goes according to plan, though, we should be entering the state-wide (NJFL) circuit this winter and the national circuit (NFL college tournament) next year.</p>
<p>yeah I did policy for a year at a major policy school (if you know what it means, our school's alumni included people who broke at policy TOC and one who got 2nd speaker there in policy)...but my new school only does LD. Yes it is wimpier but you do it if you can't do anything else.</p>
<p>jimbob1225, what school do you go to?</p>
<p>right now i go to school in the south--yes east coast! we've had a couple people in bid rounds for LD and our coach is on the resolution-writing committee...yet we are not well known :) i dont think notre dame travels.</p>
<p>yeah i went to harker before.</p>
<p>Plano High Debate > you</p>
<p>i won't deny it... i <3 policy.</p>
<p>notre dame only sends a couple of people to the state/final round. my brother is in speech & debate at bellarmine, and they always win something at the state championships every year.</p>
<p>Alright guys I have a couple of NFL questions.</p>
<p>Just how strict are your coaches about points and all? Like if a radio speech was 3 minutes (but you need 4 for it to qualify as a service project, according to the chapter manual), would they give you the points anyway?</p>
<p>Also, what constitutes an Official Scorer? I'm going to a couple MUN conferences soon; would the chair (a college student running the committee) record the points? Or would I have to get my school's MUN club advisor?</p>
<p>I reallllllllly want to qualify for the district tournament which, for my state, is in the end of March, so I'm rushing to figure out how to get 15 points so I can be a member by then haha. Everything we're doing in our debate club until then is intramural stuff, which doesn't help at all. :P</p>
<p>(PS, we recently recieved our approval to be an affiliated school! Yessssss!)</p>
<p>Haha. Our school doesn't even do any of that stuff...regarding the radio speech and so forth.</p>
<p>The secretary takes care of the points. And the points come from tournaments.</p>
<p>Congrats on being approved!</p>
<p>Our point system is solely based on attending tournaments, competing against students from other schools, and winning a placement in the end. For example, in an individual event (speech), first place gets six points, second gets five, third gets four, and so on.</p>
<p>We'll probably do only that too, considering how our advisor (she doesn't even try calling herself a coach. She explicitly told us that she's never debated in her life and can't help us out at all. She only manages the club for the money). But next year if I'm at officer in MUN I'll probably try to bring the NFL there too. Maybe even Model Congress cause a few of my friends are officers in that already.</p>
<p>But in the meantime I just want to be a member within two months so I can qualify for the district tournament. So. I'm kind of desperate. :P</p>
<p>Oh yeah. And we don't do any speech events at all. If we can ever get involved with collegiate tournaments (our advisor stubbornly refuses to attend any overnight programs, though), we might try it out. That's a big IF though.</p>
<p>Theoneo...that sucks that you guys can't do overnight tournaments. Those are the only good ones in my opinion unless you have national tournaments right next door to your house :) Our old coach stubbornly refused to acknowledge local tournaments :) Go elitism!</p>
<p>i go to a policy school that has about 5 TOC teams a year and usually one that is pretty competitive(makes semis or finals).</p>
<p>Atlanta? Do you go to westminster ryan?</p>
<p>We might be able to go to Princeton, Penn, or Columbia next year. For the latter two we'd have to take a train though. We might be able to do Pton next year though.</p>
<p>HAHA. POLICY DROOLS. LD RULES.
jkjkjkjkjkjkjk...
Anyway, I go to school at providence in charlotte. Some of you guys MIGHT know it.</p>
<p>EDIT: To be honest, policy is dead in NC because they probably can't get good enough judges.</p>
<p>PROVIDENCE...haha I go to Cary Academy. Yeah policy is dead, and LD's dying. Policy can be great though.</p>
<p>DONT GO TO PRINCETON THAT TOURNAMENT SUCKS HORRIBLY. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY.</p>
<p>Haha at this point it's probably our only option. My advisor doesn't want to pay 100 more dollars (or ask the school to pay for it) to be a member of the NJ Forensics League - which has weekly tournaments from October through March or so - because we just spent 100 on being an affiliate of the NFL. Oh yeah and the tournaments are on Saturdays and we need an advisor, and she doesn't want to go.</p>
<p>Ahhhhhhhh I hate her.</p>
<p>Dude...travel by yourself, it's remarkably easy. It's easier than it sounds, yo! Just call up the tournament, ask the rents to buy plane tickets and make a hotel reservation, get some dough for transport, and you're done. It's even easier if you can persuade another debater to go too.</p>
<p>I havent been on this thread in a while so I thought i would pop in and say hello. By the way, are any of you going to the Harvard National Debate on like February 18 or some time around then?</p>