[CX-L] STUDENT CONGRESS TOC

[JW Patterson]

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ANNOUNCES:

FORTY-FIFTH KENTUCKY TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

STUDENT CONGRESS

APRIL 29, 30, AND MAY 1, 2006

STUDENT CONGRESS ADDED TO THE KENTUCKY TOC.

The University of Kentucky TOC is continuing Student Congress in its list of
debate events.  Last year, this added another debate format to the already
existing TOC Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, and Public Forum Debate.

QUALIFICATION STATUS

Students with 2 bids are guaranteed entry provided the total number of
qualified students does not exceed the cap number of 74. STUDENTS WITH ONE
BID MAY APPLY FOR AN AT LARGE.  AT LARGE BID APPLICATIONS AND FULLY
QUALIFIED APPLICATIONS ARE DUE IN LEXINGTON BY 5 PM ON MARCH 12, 2006.


JUDGING

Judges must be selected from a Congress pool or a Debate pool.  IE judges
who do not also coach Congress or other forms of Debate or ineligible.
Parents are ineligible unless they are full time employees of the school and
are full time debate coaches.

QUALIFYING TOURNAMENTS (OTHERS MAY BE ADDED)

Tournament                            Qualifying Level
NCFL Grand Nationals                Semi-Finals
NFL Nationals                             Semi-Finals
Wake Forest University                Finals
Yale University                            Finals
University of Pennsylvania           Finals
St.  Mark¹s                                  Finals
University of Florida Blue Key        Finals
The Glenbrooks                            Finals
Nova Titan                                    Top 6
Crestian Classic                             Finals
Emory University                          Finals
Stanford University                       Finals
James Logan                                 Finals
University of California-Berkeley     Finals
Harvard University                        Semi-Finals
Villager                                        Finals
Columbia                                      Top 6
Princeton                                      Top 6
Grapevine                                     Finals
University of Texas                        Finals
Churchill                                       Finals

IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE THE FOLLOWING WILL ALSO COUNT AS QUALIFIERS

A. STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS COUNT AS ONE OF TWO REQUIRED BIDS:  The top six
contestants in a state¹s Championship Tournament will receive a leg provided
that ONE of the following conditions is met:
    i. All the students attending the State Championship qualified to that
tournament         
    through a competitive district/regional tournament or series of
tournaments.
    ii.  If a state¹s championship tournament is ³open² to all contestants,
there must be 48   
    or more students competing in Student Congress.

B. NFL DISTRICT STUDENT CONGRESS:  Qualification to the NFL National Student
Congress will count as one of the two required bids.

TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS MUST SUBMIT QUALIFIERS

As in all other TOC debate events, for a tournament to count as a qualifier
the director must submit to me the list of qualifiers, otherwise that
tournament cannot be used on either fully qualified applications or at large
bids...

JUDGES

Each school that participates in Student Congress must provide one
additional judge regardless of the number of Student Congress entries from
that school.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

In the near future an application with schedule and fee information will be
posted on our website (www.uky.edu/studentaffairs/deanofstudents/debate).
In addition applications are available through email to the executive
secretary for the TOC, Linda Barker at the following email address:
llbark0 at uky.edu.

Sincerely,
JW Patterson
TOC Director and Founder


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