2012-2013/1.1 - Kentucky High School Speech League

KHSSL Handbook 72 2012-2013/1.1Judgingd. Drops at on-site Registration—entry fee plus $50e. Judge drops after registration—hired judge fee of $65 per day dropped. If hired judges arenot available, the entry may be reduced.7. A school must supply one qualified judge for every two Lincoln-Douglas, Policy Debate, orPublic Forum entries or fraction thereof, and one judge for every 5 Congress competitors orfraction thereof. Uncovered judges must be hired at $65 per day. (For example, if a school hasthree Lincoln-Douglas entries and two Policy entries, the school is obligated to provide threejudges -- two for Lincoln-Douglas and one for Policy. The Director may limit the number of hiredjudges available to each school, depending upon the number of hired judges available.8. A qualified Debate judge is a judge who meets two of the following criteria:Judged at a minimum of one tournament during this season or during previous, recent seasons,and was trained either through the League’s Judge Training Program and/or by the coach ofthe School;Debated in High School and/or College;Currently or formerly coached.Tabulation for LD, Policy, and Public Forum9. The tabulation room at the State Championship will be open to all coaches, but not to debaters,hired judges, or parents. A coach shall be privy only to information pertaining to his/herindividuals or teams as written on the tournament cards.10. If the schedule allows, each debate division will have five preliminary rounds, and all competitorswith a winning record will advance to the elimination rounds. A ‘run-off round’ to determine thelowest seeds for the full elimination bracket may be conducted as needed. The director may adopta Round-Robin format for Divisions with six or fewer entries. The number of full eliminationrounds is determined by the following chart:Entries Break to7-8 Finals (2)9-16 Semifinals (4)17-32 Quarterfinals (8)33 – 64 Octofinals (16)65 + Sextodecimofinals (32)11. In the event of an uneven number of entries in a category, one individual or team per preliminaryround will receive a bye which shall be recorded as a win with rank and speaker points equal to therounded average of those in the other preliminary rounds. In the first two preliminary rounds,byes shall be randomly assigned, but unless the size of the division prevents it, no school mayreceive more than one bye during these two rounds. Byes in subsequent rounds shall go to arandomly selected debate entry which has yet to win a round. No debate entry may receive morethan one bye.