We hope to see you on Monday!

Regular meetings will be held Monday and Wednesdays from 5:30 to 7:30 starting Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 in the Kresge Building Room 106. The Kresge building is linked to Medical Sciences and the room in on the 2nd floor.

Positions: We are still in need of a Head of Logistics and additional equity officers. If you are interested, please contact Tournament Director Courtney Davis at leger@uwodebate.com.

Billeting: We would like to be able to offer billeting for this tournament. If you think you could help, please begin talking to your roommates.

Sponsorship: If you have any ideas for sponsorship, including, but not limited to food donations or finalist prizes, please speak to Steve Robins or Shaunvir.

Pancakes: Let us know if you have access to a griddle so we can make our delicious pancake dreams a delicious reality.

Pick-up: To win a round of debate

Drop: To lose a round of debate.

In-round: Rounds of the tournament in which everyone participates.

Out-round: Depending on the size of the tournament thos compromises quarter finals, semi finals and finals. These are public rounds where the top teams of the tournament compete.

Break: The "break" is the top teams of the tournament that go on to compete in out-rounds. Ex 1: Western is so pround to have had a team break at Winter Carnival last year. Ex 2: I'm so glad that we broke to semis!

Bracket: Debate tournaments are bracketed, meaning that teams of equal wins and losses compete against each other. After the first round there are 2 brackets 1-0 and 0-1 after the second round there are 3 brackets 2-0, 1-1, 0-2 etc. Brackets fold in on each other so the lowest team in the bracket faces the highest team in the bracket.

Pull-Up: In the event that a bracket doesn't have an even number of teams, a team is "pulled up" to compete in the bracket above them. Normally this is the team at the bottom of the lower bracket.

Ride the bracket: If you are the team at the top of the bracket you will always face the lowest teams or pull-ups with a greater chance of continuing to pick up rounds. This is usually done in the second or third highest bracket.

Room of death: If you are in the higher or highest brackets of a tournament you will eventually find yourself in a room full of excellent, break-class teams. In BP this means two teams are going to lose points, it can be unpredictable as these teams are often very evenly matched.

Chief Adjudicator: The head judge at a tournament who is responsible for placing the judges in all of the rooms of the tournament.

Tabs: The tab is the statistics of wins and losses and speaker scores that determines the relative pleacement of the teams in the tournament.

Speaker Scores: In addition to deciding the ranking of teams in a room, judges also assign individual speaker points to each team member.  The winning team must have the highest cumulative score, the second teams the second highest score. There is no such thing as a low point win.

Org Com: Organization Committee - pretty obvious I think

Public Speaking: To allow time between the rounds of debate for people to assemble the tab, there are rounds of public speaking. Every round has a topic and idividuals get 3 minutes to speak on it. Usually, the intent is to be funny, but seriosu public speaking should also be encouraged, even if it isn't always.

Dino: An "old" debater who has graduated from undergraduate. This includes law students, medical students, grad students and alumni.