Topics and Tiebreakers

All events will follow the rules outlined in the NSDA Unified Manual.

PF

- All rounds will be flip for sides. Elimination rounds will never be side locked.

- PF will debate the November/December 2025 topic.

- Seeds will be determined by 1) Win-Loss record, 2) Points - best/worst, 3) points - 2 best/2 worst, 4) Points, 5) Average opponent seed, 6) Coinflip

LD

- Sides in preliminary rounds will be assigned.

- Elimination rounds will be flip for sides, unless debaters have met in preliminary rounds; in such cases, entries will be assigned the opposite side.

- LD will debate the November/December 2025 topic.

- Seeds will be determined by 1) Win-Loss record, 2) Points - best/worst, 3) points - 2 best/2 worst, 4) Points, 5) Average opponent seed, 6) Coinflip

Policy

- Sides in preliminary rounds will be assigned.

- Elimination rounds will be flip for sides, unless debaters have met in preliminary rounds; in such cases, entries will be assigned the opposite side.

- Policy will debate the 2025-26 NFHS topic:Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly increase its exploration and/or development of the Arctic.

- Seeds will be determined by 1) Win-Loss record, 2) Points - best/worst, 3) points - 2 best/2 worst, 4) Points, 5) Average opponent seed, 6) Coinflip

Congress

- All chambers will set their own docket order.

- Recency will be randomly generated by the tabroom and shared with the parliamentarian.

- Seeds will be determined by truncated 1) Ranks, 2) Judge pref), 3) Reciprocals, 4) Ranks - highest and lowest, and 5) Chair Ranks

- Should a final round be held, final placements will be determined by truncated 1) Ranks in finals,2) Judge pref in finals,3) Reciprocals in finals, 4) All ranks, and5) Chair Ranks in finals.

Speech

- Seeds will be determined by 1) Prelim rankings truncated to the smallest section, 2) Reciprocals truncated to the smallest section, and 3) points from preliminary rounds.

- We will aim to advance the top 6 entries in all events. Events with less than 8 entries will not have a final round.

- Final placements in platform (OO, INFO) and Interp (DI, HI, DUO, POI) will be determined by 1) final round rankings and 2) final round reciprocals. Final placements in limited prep events (IX, NX, IMP, SPAR) will be determined by 1) cumulative rankings and 2) cumulative reciprocals.