Debaters new to the current season can be moved between JV and Varsity can be moved back and forth at the discretion of their coach. However, debaters who competed in a previous season (even if only for one tournament) may only compete in varsity chambers.

For any election (election of Presiding Officer, Best Presiding Officer, Second Place and Third Place Speakers, Best Legislation) each school is capped at a maximum of two votes, and representatives from that school must collectively decide each of the two votes.

Once procedural issues at the beginning of the session are completed, the Presiding Officer will calculate the remaining time for debate in the session. The maximum amount of time the chamber may spend on any legislation will be one half of that remaining time, rounded up to the nearest minute.

When choosing speakers, the Presiding Officer must choose the debater who has given the least amount of speeches throughout the ENTIRE tournament. In the event of a tie, they may choose one of those debaters by their own discretion, which they should have indicated at the beginning of the session. However, speaking order from previous sessions may NOT carry over.

Debate will begin with a four-minute authorship speech, or a three-minute sponsorship if the author is not present in the chamber. Following that speech, a debater will deliver a speech in opposition of the bill. This speech will be four minutes long (also known as a conship) if it follows a four-minute authorship. It will be three minutes long if it follows a three-minute sponsorship speech. This alternating process of three minute speeches will continue until the time limit expires.

During questioning, each questioner will have a 1-minute block of time that cannot be yielded to the next questioner. After a 4-minute authorship or conship speech, there will be three such blocks of questioning. After any other speech, there will be two such blocks of questioning.

Debaters who have not questioned a speaker have precedence over those who have and the Presiding Officer must acknowledge these people before s/he recognizes others.

Each judge will evaluate each speech on a scale of 0-6 based on quality of debate, organization, delivery, and question responses. Furthermore, they will also provide debaters with feedback and critiques and share their critiques with the other judge. While Judges may evaluate their own participant’s speeches, these scores will not be averaged into speech totals.

At the end of each session, each judge will independently nominate two debaters (not from their own school) they feel should be considered for speaker awards, which they will rank first and second.

If speakers have spoken a maximum of once, the two judges’ scores shall be averaged to result in one Presiding Officer score out of 6 points. If the maximum number of speeches is two or greater, both judges’ scores will comprise the P.O.’s score out of 12 points. The P.O’s score may exceed the highest speaker’s score.

At the end of the tournament, debaters will vote in a judge-run election between each of the nominees to determine the second and third place speakers. The second place speaker will be the first debater to receive a simple majority of the votes cast, and the third place speaker will be the nominee on that ballot who receives the second-highest number of votes. In the event no nominee receives a simple majority, the judges will remove the nominee(s) who received the least number of votes and will hold another round of voting. This procedure will continue until a nominee receives a simple majority. Ties for either place are broken by the Oversight Committee (see rule 48).

The debater who has the highest speech score average, and has given at least three speeches over the course of the tournament, will receive the first place award. In the event of a tie, the Oversight Committee will break it based on number of nominations received and, if a tie is still present, by the ranking of those nominations.

Each debater's points (including ethos, speeches, and presiding officer points) will be totaled up. The top eight such point-receivers from each large school will be totaled, and the schools with the first, second, and third-highest numbers of points will receive awards. In the event of a tie, duplicate awards will be given.

Each debater's points (including ethos, speeches, and presiding officer points) will be totaled up. However, only the top four such point-receivers from each small school will be totaled, and the schools with the first, second, and third-highest numbers of points will receive awards. In the event of a tie, duplicate awards will be given.

Debaters may use electronic devices and access the internet while in the chamber. However, they may not use any electronic devices while they are either speaking or questioning.