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Invitation to the 2010 University of Ottawa tournament
02/18/2010 The University of Ottawa English
Debating Society (EDS) would like to formally invite you to our annual
high school debate tournament. This year, we will be attempting to hold
both a French and English bracket simultaneously, because we are a
bilingual University and think our high school debate tournament should
reflect as much. SEDFUO (Société étudiante des débats français de
l'Université d'Ottawa) will be helping to judge the French category.
In order to ensure that the EDS has sufficient francophone judges, we
ask that all French coaches act as judges for the French bracket
throughout the tournament. English coaches are also invited to judge the
English bracket if they would like to: we will work to ensure that no
coach will judge anyone from their own school.
This will be a two
day tournament taking place from the afternoon of Friday the 26th of
February until the evening of Saturday the 27th of February.
Registration
costs will be $90 per team.
Registration will take place from
1:30pm-3:30pm in the Desmarais (DMS) Building located at 55 Laurier
Avenue East, on the corner of Laurier and the Transitway. From here, our
registration officer will direct you to the GA for the tournament and
give you a map of campus.
The cost of registration will include 2
rounds of debate, 1 meal, and two seminars on Friday, and 2 rounds of
debate, hidden quarters finals, open semi-finals and finals, 2 seminars,
and 3 meals on Saturday. This allows for 5 rounds of straight motion
debate and 4 seminars for all participants.
To register, please
email events.EDS@gmail.com
and please indicate the language in which each team will be
participating for the duration of the tournament as well as any dietary
restrictions or need-to-know information. There is currently no limit on
the number of teams each school can register. This tournament is also
open to upper year elementary school debaters should they be interested.
Registration
Checks should be made out to “the University of Ottawa English Debating
Society” and mailed to:
English Debating Society
175 Waller
St. P.O. Box 450
Ottawa STN A; Ottawa ON; K1N 6N5
