BCFL
Formulas
to
determine Policy, Public Forum, and LD Qualifying Tournament Participants
These
guidelines cover debate events (Policy and Lincoln Douglas Debate)
- Students/teams
defined as "qualifying" have competed in at least 9 rounds in
one event during the 6 qualifying tournaments.
- Students
are selected and ranked based upon the results from their 3 best
tournaments from the 6 qualifying tournaments.
- No
students/teams may "break" or be given a fixed seed in the
qualifying tournament until the completion of the fourth scheduled
tournament.
- In
Lincoln Douglas Debate, rankings are determined by won-loss record then
best total points.
- In
Policy Debate, team rankings are determined by best won-loss record,
highest speaker points, then lowest ranks.
- In
policy debate there are other specific considerations,
- Each
team is assigned a code assigned by the tab room which remains unchanged
the whole season through the qualifying tournament.
- These
codes are used to maintain season records and determine seeding.
- At
least one team member must be competing under that code during each
tournament to add to the cumulative record.
- Until
a team becomes seeded, its student members may be substituted.
- Once
seedings are set, students from the seeded team
may not debate with any other team which still might be eligible for the
qualifying tournament.
- The
total number of students invited to the national qualifying tournament
will be determined according to the following formula.
- In
the event of a cancellation resulting the running of fewer than 5
tournaments, the executive board of BCFL will double the results of the
team’s/debater’s best tournament to determine
final seedings.
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Number of Qualifying Students/Teams
|
Number of students/teams invited to
national qualifying tournament
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Tournament arrangements.
Qualifying Tournament seeds and brackets
determined and published by tab room at the final qualifying tournament.
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Up to 20
|
8
|
Double elimination tournament to determine
the 6 national qualifier students/teams
|
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21 through 57
|
16
|
Double elimination tournament to determine
the 6 national qualifier students/teams
|
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57 through 70
|
24
|
Double elimination tournament to determine
the 6 national qualifier students/teams
|
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Greater than 70
|
32
|
Double elimination tournament to determine
the 6 national qualifier students/teams
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