August 11, 2015
Dear Friends,
We invite you to attend the 23rd Jack Lynch Invitational Debate and
Speech Tournament on Saturday, November 14, 2015 at St. Anselm College in
Manchester, New Hampshire.
We will offer Lincoln Douglas Debate, World’s Parliamentary Debate, and
11 Individual Events, all within a one-day tournament.
Our tab room staff is the BEST!
They do an excellent job and keep the tournament running on time. It will be a full day of high quality competition. We plan to have all of the rounds finished by 6:30 p.m. and awards completed by
7:30 p.m.
Tournament highlights:

Open LD Debate will have 6 preliminary rounds , breaking to semifinals.

Novice LD Debate will feature 2 workshops, 4 prelim rounds and 1 final round.

One division of World’s Parliamentary Debate, with 4 prelim rounds breaking to semifinals.

We will offer all 11 IE events. There will be 2 prelim rounds in all events and final rounds in events with 12 or more speakers.
The one-day schedule allows schools from a distance to drive or fly home on Sunday, and local schools can return home on Saturday night. Manchester airport is conveniently located 10 miles from the college. All of the major airlines fly into Manchester airport. Also, Boston airport is only an hour away. Please let us know if we can help you in any way.
We look forward to seeing you in November.
Sincerely yours,
David Trumble
Director of Debate
St. Anselm College
Manchester, NH dtrumble@anselm.edu

Tournament Summary
1. LD Open division: We will offer six preliminary rounds of NFA Lincoln-
Douglas debate in an Open division. We will break to semifinals.
2. LD Novice division: This division is designed for students in their first semester of college debate .
Novices will have two debate workshops ("Stock
Issues" and "2015-2016 Topic Analysis") to start the day. The novices will then have four preliminary rounds of competition, followed by a final round.
3. Worlds Parliamentary division.
We will offer four rounds of World’s
Parliamentary debate in an Open division. We will break to semifinals.
4. IE: We will follow NFA guidelines. We will offer two preliminary rounds in all events. Our general guideline will be to hold a final round if there are at least 12 competitors in prelims.
Food
Nutritious food awaits you Saturday morning. A quality continental breakfast (fresh fruit, baked goods, juice and coffee) will be provided. The breakfast is included in the fees. Good and inexpensive food is available in the
College cafeteria for lunch. The Cafeteria is open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Registration
Please register by Monday, November 9 at 9 p.m
. We appreciate the hard work of the coaches who run the tab room. This registration deadline will allow us to prepare for the tournament and have the pairings and brackets ready to go when you arrive.
Please register via e-mail at: dtrumble@anselm.edu.
E-mail entries will be confirmed. We will confirm all registration information when you check in
Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m. in the Cushing Center.
Early registration discount: If you send a complete registration by
Monday, November 2, we will waive your school fee of $25.
Tab Room
The LD tab room will be run by Heather May, Director of Forensics at Emerson
College and John Boyer, Director of Debate at Lafayette College.
The IE tab room will be run by Jodi Nevola, Director of Forensics at Suffolk
University.
The World’s Parliamentary Division will be run by Scott Thomson, Director of
Forensics at Ithaca College.

NFA LD Topic
We will use the 2015-2016 NFA LD topic and the NFA LD Rules as approved in
2013.
Resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially increase restrictions on bioprospecting.
Trophies
Debate : Trophies will be awarded to all debaters/teams that advance to the elimination rounds. This includes open division of LD, novice division of LD, and
Wor ld’s parliamentary. Also, we will provide trophies to the top five speakers in
LD Open, the top three speakers in novice LD and the top five speakers in
World’s parliamentary.
IE : Trophies will be awarded to the top three speakers in each Individual
Event. Also, we will provide trophies to the top three students in Triathlon. To be eligible for Triathlon, a student must enter at least three IE events. Their top three IE events will be counted. There are no rules regarding which particular events the student must enter to be eligible (e.g. limited prep, interpretation, platform speaking).
Sweepstakes : We will offer Team Sweepstakes Awards to the top five schools in IE, the top five schools in LD Debate , the top five schools in World’s debate and also the top community college overall.
Jack Lynch Debater Award: This award was started in 2011 in honor of
Professor John “Jack” Lynch. Prof. Lynch started the debate team at St. Anselm
College in 1948 and coached for 46 years. The award will go to a debater who best exemplifies the values of education and integrity. We ask each debater and judge to cast one vote for a debater (not from their own school) for someone who works hard, knows their material, respects the activity and personifies the idea that how you play the game is more important than winning or losing.
Lodging
There are many nice hotels in the Manchester area. There are hotels in downtown Manchester, on South Willow Street, and near the Manchester Airport.
All three locations are about 15 minutes from the College.

Judges
Judges will be used in either the debate judging pool or the IE judging pool throughout the preliminary rounds. Please bring your own judges. If you have alumni or other friends of forensics who would like to be hired judges for the day, please let us know. If they can stay for the whole day, we will pay them $120.
Debate.
One LD debate judge who is available for all of the preliminary rounds and one elimination round will cover two LD debaters . For World’s parliamentary, the judging requirements will be based on an N-1 system. For example, if you bring 3 teams, you will need 2 judges.
IE.
Each full time IE judge covers 6 slots. Judges are available at a cost of $10 per uncovered slot.
Hired Judges. We are very fortunate to have an excellent pool of qualified hired judges. Many alumni from our college and other colleges and universities come to judge rounds for the day. They are still passionate about the activity and we appreciate their time. We will offer hired judges to every school on an equal basis.
Hired judges will be available on a first-come basis, with an initial limit of one hired per school.
If you would like to hire a judge, please contact David
Trumble by email.
Entries & Schedule Notes
1. Worlds and LD Novice Division debaters may enter a total of two IE events: one event in Category A (but not Extemp) and one event in Category B,
Open Division LD debaters may not enter IE.
2. Debaters can compete in only one debate event – either LD or Worlds.
3. Novice LD Debaters double entered in IE should go to the IE round first.
4. Worlds Debaters double entered in IE should go the IE round first in IE Rd. 1A,
2A and 2B. They should do debate first in Rd. 1B of IE/Rd 2 Worlds.
Please ask you coach or the tab room if you are unsure what to do.
Thanks!
5. We will enforce a 15-minute forfeit rule for all debaters unless a student is double entered in IE.
6. Category A: Extemp, Prose, Persuasion, ADS, and DI
Category B: POI, Informative, Impromptu, CA, Duo, and Poetry
7. The cafeteria is open from 7 am to 6 pm. There is a lunch break scheduled in the middle of the day for each division of the tournament. Competitors can eat as their schedule allows.

Time
7:30
8:30
9:00
10:00
10:15
10:30
11:00
11:15
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
12:45
1:00
1:15
2:00
2:15
2:30
2:45
3:30
3:45
4:30
5:00
8:00
6:30
Jack Lynch Invitational Tournament
Worlds
Parliamentary
Registration &
Continental
Breakfast
Judges and
Debaters
Meeting
Rd. 1
Rd. 2
Lunch
Rd. 3
Rd. 4
Semifinals
Saturday, November 14, 2015
LD Open
Registration &
Continental
Breakfast
Rd. 1
LD Novice IE
Registration &
Continental
Registration &
Continental
Breakfast Breakfast
Workshop 1 Extemp Draw
Rd. 1
World’s
Parliamentary
Finals
Awards
Rd. 2
Rd. 3
Lunch
Rd. 4
Rd. 5
Rd. 6
Semifinals
Open LD
Finals
Awards
Workshop 2
Rd. 1
Rd. 2
Lunch
Rd. 3
Rd. 4
Novice LD
Finals
Awards Awards
Rd. 1A
Extemp Draw
Rd. 2
Rd. 2A
Lunch
Rd. 1B
Rd. 2B
Finals A
Finals B
Debaters must choose LD or Worlds.
Open LD Debaters cannot compete in IE.
Worlds Parliamentary and Novice LD Debaters can do one event in category A
(not Extemp) and one event in category B.

Jack Lynch Invitational Tournament
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Entry Fees
Contact Person __________________________________
Name of School __________________________________
Phone Number __________________________________
Email Address __________________________________
School Fee $ __20__
Competitors:
Worlds Teams
# __________ x $50 per team
LD Debaters
$ ______
# __________ x $25 per debater (varsity or novice) $ ______
Individual Events
# slots ________ x $10 per slot
Observers
$ ______
# ___________ x $5 per person
Judges :
$ ______
LD Debate
# uncovered World’s teams ____ x $120 per team $ ______
(note: 1 judge covers one World’s team)
World’s Debate
# uncovered LD debaters ____ x $60 per LD debater $ ______
(note: 1 judge covers two LD debaters)
IE
# uncovered slots _____ x $10 per slot $ _____
( note: 1 judge covers 6 IE slots)
Drops at Registration:
# dropped IE slots, LD debaters or World’s teams
______x $ 20 each $ ______
Total Due $ ______
** If paying by check, please make check payable to St. Anselm College