Event Details
- Date: Saturday, November 1, 2025
- Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
- Location: Centennial Collegiate High School, Saskatoon
- Format: Canadian National Style
- Rounds: 2 rounds prepared, 1 round impromptu
Thanks to the generous support of Centennial Collegiate for the tournament venue, we are able to provide a pizza lunch. The pizza lunch will be provided for debaters, coaches, judges, and volunteers. Please bring a reusable water bottle.
Who can attend?
- Grades 5 to 12
- Beginner Division: Grades 5 & 6
- Intermediate Division: Grades 7 & 8
- Novice Division: Grades 9 to 12 in their first year of competitive debate
- Open: Grades 9 to 12.
- There will be a French division if registration allows!
Motions and Prep
Beginner and Intermediate motion: This house believes that expanding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) will do more harm than good.
Novice and Open prepared motion: This house, as the United States government, would nationalize the artificial intelligence (AI) sector.
- Students should come prepared to debate both sides of the prepared motion.
- Student will receive the impromptu motion 30 minutes before the impromptu round.
Judging
- All teams must provide one judge.
- Teams without a judge may be unable to compete.
- No experience required. We provide training.
- View our judging resources HERE.
- Judges should register HERE by October 24.
We’ve made a few updates to the debate scoring rubrics on our ballots used at our national style tournaments based on feedback from judges and tournament staff. Key things to be aware of:
- The structure and scoring remain the same.
- The language in the rubric has been adjusted to help make things clearer for our volunteer judges and improve standards and consistency in judging.
- Standards expected from debaters have not shifted and we do not expect scores to change significantly.
- You can view the new rubrics on our judge resource page HERE.
Registration
- Space may be limited
- Some teams may sit out a round if numbers are uneven.
- If you don’t have a partner, we will try to match you with someone.
- A registration from must be filled in for each student.
- Each student should be registered HERE by October 24.
Tournament Fee
- $40 per student
- Financial aid available.
- Pay by e-transfer to director@saskdebate.com
- Put the student's name followed by T2 in the memo line.
- Teams that cancel less than 24 hours before the tournament will still owe tournament fees.
Transportation
A bus will be travelling from Regina to Saskatoon and back for this tournament.
- Departing from Regina Huda School. Loading starts at 6:20 AM
- Returning to Regina Huda School at 6:50 PM
- $30 bus fee per student
- $30 bus fee per non-judging adult observer
- Coaches and judges ride for free!
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