Open Tab & Results

We will publicly post the results of each round in each Debate event (PF, LD) after each round is tabbed, to serve as a double-check. Judges in debate events are encouraged, but not required, to give feedback and critiques to the debaters and disclose their decisions. However, please be sure the tab room knows the results of the round before you give extended critiques. We will use an optional text-messaging system to allow you to quickly send results into the tab room.

Speech coaches will be welcome to enter the ballot sorting room and read ballots of their students during the tournament, so long as they do not hamper the ballot sorting and tabbing process. Coaches may not enter the tab room to do the same. Coaches may not remove ballots from the tab or ballot room until the tournament ballots are released.

Ballots and Awards:

Awards will be given to all competitors reaching eliminations. Please pick them up during the awards ceremony, or arrange to have someone else do so on your behalf. We do not mail trophies. If we had a nickel for every time we had to repeat this, we’d all be retired right now, enjoying our very own Caribbean island.

We also do not release ballots early to teams who cleared entries into elim rounds. Non-clearing teams can pick up ballots, but they may not be ready & sorted until Sunday morning after the first elim round. If you anticipate leaving early, bring a self-addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient size and postage to mail your ballots, label it with your school name, and deliver it to tab. We will put your ballots into the envelope and send it after the tournament. Please don’t just staple enough money to the envelope; bring actual postage; our asking for stamps is a time/hassle thing, not a money thing.

We will be using the scan & post method for debate ballots used at Yale — each school’s individual sets of debate ballots will be uploaded to the school’s tabroom.com account as we finish sorting them during the course of the tournament. However, due to our academic superiority over, and overall better demeanor than, a certain college in New Haven, we’ll be doing it without the system bugs that caused ballots to be overwritten by subsequent rounds at the affair hosted by our Connecticut compatriots.