1. Perry Speech and Debate
What You Need to Know

2. You need to choose your events
Next tournament is a practice tournament on September 17

3. Here are the choices -Public Forum Debate -Lincoln Douglas
-Humorous Interpretation
-Dramatic Interpretation
-Original Oratory
-Expository
-Prose
-Poetry
*If you want to do any other events, you must be discuss it beforehand with Ms. Jones and the officers

4. Fees -Handout lists all fees -Tax credit can be used for club fees
-Club fees are used for: buses, any tournament fees to compete, NSDA membership, diploma seals, briefs
-We need to vote on membership to the National Speech and Debate Association. This is mandatory if we want to compete.

5. Briefs
-Briefs are documents with evidence and explanations of the evidence for each topic. Debaters use them to help them write cases.
-We need to vote on briefs for Public Forum Debate and Lincoln-Douglas.
-The total for both year-long packages is $100.

6. Dress Code Males: -Suit and tie/bowtie -Ties can be colorful
-Dress shirt with undershirt
-Dress shoes
Females:
-Pantsuit/Skirt suit
-Nice blouse
-Heels or nice flats. Heels are highly recommended. If you bring heels, bring flats to walk around in
Both:
-Neutral suit colors (Please, loud colors are tacky and lame)
-Briefcase or professional bag to carry stuff (Mostly for Debaters)
-Neat, pinned/gelled/ brushed hair (Just don’t have messy hair)

7. Tournament Format Saturdays:
-IEs rounds start at 8:00am. Be at Perry to take bus at 6:30am
-Generally 3 rounds of IEs
-Then, lunch break for an hour near noon. Food available
-If debaters break, they arrive around this time
-Breaks for IE semifinals posted
-IE semifinals. If not participating, watch an event
-IE finals/Debate finals
-Debate outrounds are also posting and going at the same time as IE outrounds
Tournament Format
Fridays:
-Skip 6th, sometimes 5th period to go to tournament. Go to tournament on bus
-Generally four rounds of debate
-Breaks (making it to the next round) posted sometime after the rounds but before Saturday debate rounds
-Usually ends anywhere from 8-11pm
-Food is available

8. Parent Meeting MANDATORY
Next Tuesday, August 30th after the Debate Meeting (7:00 PM)

9. Event Captains

10. Public Forum
Andrew Park and Austin Heath

11. Lincoln Douglas
Clayton Marfori

12. Humorous Interp.
John Prothro

13. Dramatic Interp.
Jayden Nguyen

14. Original Oratory
Joanna Gunaraj

15. Expository
Courtney Deaver

16. Prose
Ryan Schaaf

17. Poetry
Ryan Schaaf

18. Thanks!
This concludes the meeting today, if there are ANY questions whatsoever, please ask a Varsity member for clarification. Speech and Debate is an amazing club to be a part of and the experiences, friendships, and accomplishments gained through involvement in the NSDA are ones that cannot be found anywhere else. Take time to start working on your events today with the help of the event captains.