Saturday APRIL 30th, 2011

http://dudl.org/urbandebate/tournaments/

COMPLETE ** MOCK Tournament/Practice Round – NOVEMBER 14, 2009
8:00am-3:30pm @ Paxon Middle, Principal Darrell Perry, 3276 Norman Thaggard, Jacksonville, Florida 32254  (just off Edgewood)

COMPLETE **First Official Duval Urban Debate Tournament – JANUARY 23, 2010
8:00am-3:30pm @ Florida State College of Jacksonville (North Campus – Parking Lot 1, Registration in Main Auditorium, Debate Rounds – Bldg D), 4501 Capper Road,  Jacksonville, Florida  – (just off Lem Turner). lease visit the Auditorium for registration. Judge training will start promptly at 7:00am. We will occupy rooms 202, 203, 205. 206. 208, 209,211 and 213 (where we will host our Judge training session from 8:00am-8:50am)

COMPLETE** Second Official Duval Urban Debate Tournament – FEBRUARY 20, 2010
8:00am – 3:30pm @ Raines High School, Principal George Maxey, 1424 Franklin Street, Jacksonville, Florida  – (just off Moncrief Road) - dudl_invitational_02-2010

COMPLETE** Third Official Duval Urban Debate Tournament – MARCH 27, 2010
8:00am -3:30pm @ Northwestern Middle, Principal Robert Gresham, 3276 Norman Thaggard, Jacksonville, Florida 32208. - dudl invitational 03-2010

This tournament will consist of the Food Stamps AND Mental Health cases debaters are required to prepare for competition.  Please refer to your Training Manuals issued during the Fall training retreat for full documentation. You may also refer to the resources below for supporting research/evidence.

• http://debate-central.ncpa.org/past/2002/
• Mental Health Aff 2AC Blocks
• http://www.urbandebate.org/resources/09_10.Core.File.Summaries.pdf
• http://www.planetdebate.com/blogs/view/117

COMPLETE** City-wide Urban Debate Championship – APRIL 24, 2010
8:00am-5:00pm @ UNF Brooks College of Health, Building 39 |  1UNF Drive Jacksonville, FL 32224  |  (904) 620-281

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Debate competition didn’t introduce Eugene Butler Middle School eighth-grader Davon Bostick to the skill of arguing – that’s something he already knew.

“I’ve always been good at that,” Davon said. “I’m always getting into it with my sister, so that was the easy part.”

The hard part was learning the art of research and the how to apply facts and history to his arguments. And learning those skills has helped Davon become a better debate participant and student.

Northwestern Middle School brings home the goal after an intense final debate round against Ribault Middle Debate Team. Support the urban debate movement!

“Debate helps me better with research classes such as science,” he said. “While we’re doing the science fair, it’s easier for me to research topics.”

That’s the whole point of the Duval Urban Debate League, to help students master research and improve their academics. The league held its first championship Saturday at the University of North Florida.

Davon and 29 other students from five middle schools put forth their best affirmative and negative arguments on whether “the United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States.”

That was the 2009-10 resolution selected by the National Federation of State High School Associations and debated by all students in the country.

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Duval UDL students tune into intense debate instruction

demonstration at Paxon Middle School from 10am-3pm on Saturday, November 14th. Local debaters will convene to debate this year’s national topic and present a plan for the following case, “The United States Federal Government should substantially increase benefits for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.”

Sign up here if you are interested in attending or volunteering at this event.

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• Debate Tournament – Novice Rules (dudl.org)

Coaches and debaters should observe the following guidelines when using evidence and preparing for tournaments:

1. Schools should not modify the actual 1AC plan texts until the 2nd tournament in January, 2010. However, each team may update and reformat parts of their evidence as required.
   
2. Each school will need to update evidence on their own, independent of outside support; no updates will be sent out from DUDL Admin for the remainder of the year. However, we will offer technical and research assistance under special cases. If any disadvantage or affirmative becomes “non unique”, the DUDL Administration will put together a new disadvantage or affirmative for the next tournament.
   
3. The topicality information in your DUDL Information Kit is there only as a guide; any school may add topicality arguments, but not theory arguments including effects topicality and extra topicality.
   
4. Schools may develop as many Negative “on-case attacks” as they choose, however points may be deducted if judges determine that any of the content within the arguments in the DUDL Information Packet are altered/changed.
   
5. Enforcement of these rules is up to the Tournament Director. The DUDL Administration and Tournament Director will clarify this during the opening assembly each tournament. For example, if a Director chooses to make the penalty for a novice running another case or disadvantage or an argument such as a counter plan, (s)he will make this clear during the opening assembly. A pre-tournament Judges meeting will be held to stress the importance of these rules with all of the potential judges of the novice debate division prior to each tournament.
   
6. The Rules exist to insure that debaters in both new and old programs are comfortable in the novice division. Although coaches are encouraged to remember that the novice division is geared toward new and less experienced debaters, the division (ie. Junior Varsity, Varsity) in which they enter their debate teams is up to the coach’s discretion.
   

TOTAL TIME – 40 minutes