286 competitors from 29 schools qualified for the 2009-1010 Wisconsin Debate Tournament held at South Milwaukee HS this weekend. At the end of competition WFD is pleased to congratulate our Wisconsin State Champions.

Middle School Policy:
MacDowell Montessori Keenan Gibson, Khahil Davis, Donovan Green, Tom Lowe

Novice Policy:
Rufus King Aliye Kidwell, Marvin Stokes-Beamon, Lonnie Anderson, Akebia Juett

Lincoln Douglas:
James Madison Memorial Co-Champions Brendan Caldwell & Arjun Seshadri

Varsity Policy – Four Person:
West Bend Taylor Marx, Emma Hill, Rachel Williams, Matt Holcomb

Public Forum:
James Madison Memorial Lingran Kong & Valerie Shen

Varsity Policy – Two Person:
Nicolet Abby Loxton & Jason Schwartz

Also honored:
Coach of the Year:
Bill Batterman Marquette University HS

WDCA Scholarship Winners:
Valerie Shen James Madison Memorial
Jason Schwartz Nicolet

WSDT Results 2009 (387.22 kB)

The Wisconsin Debate Coaches' Association has made a number of changes for the 2009-10 academic year. The following is a narrative highlight of those changes:

• The Wisconsin State Debate Tournament will be a Saturday-Sunday tournament. This was done to increase the time to run the tournament and create a more relaxed schedule. More details will be available as we release the 2009 WSDT Invitation.
• There is no JV division at this year's WSDT. This does not mean that there cannot be JV divisions through out the season. If JV tournaments occur during the season, students may use the JV division to qualify for the WSDT varsity divisions.
  
• A definition of novice was adopted. The defiintion of novice reads: "A Novice is defined as a high school student debating his or her first resolution." This means policy debaters from the prior year are not eligible to compete in novice, they must compete in another division. PF and LD debaters from the prior year are also not eligible to compete in novice policy debate.
• The qualification rules for State have changed. No longer do you have to reach a certain elimination round or tie the winning record in four person events. In general, to qualify for state your team must have a greater than .500 preliminary round record (4-2, 3-2, 2-1, 3-1, etc) at two tournaments. A proposal was passed at the Fall Meeting to allow MDL and other sanctioned conferences or leagues to use their tournaments as one qualifying leg, so long as the other qualifying leg comes from a WDCA sanctioned event. Please contact Tournament Practices and Procedure Chair, Tim Scheffler with any questions about this process.
• Registration for the Wisconsin State Debate Tournament will be conducted online through the Joy of Tournaments system.
• The organization is cracking down on schools who are delinquent in paying their fees and arrears. No team who has not paid dues to either the WHSFA or the WDCA for 2008-09 and 2009-10 will be allowed to compete at the WSDT. Additionally, teams will be required to bring a check or a confirmation of a check request with their team to the WSDT. Teams will not be allowed to compete without a check or a confirmation that a check has been submitted.

Following is the 2009 debate tournament calendar. The dates for the Wisconsin State Debate Tournament are not a typo. At the Spring Meeting it was decided that the tournament would move to a Saturday-Sunday format starting in 2009.