The Jim Fountain Classic

October 17th-18th, 2025
McClintock High School

Dear Colleagues, McClintock Masque and Gavel is proud to invite you to the Jim Fountain Classic Invitational Tournament onOctober 17th and 18th, 2025. At this tournament we will be offering Congressional Debate, Novice/Varsity Divisions of LD & Public Forum, we will offer Novice and Varsity Policy and collapse to an open division if necessary, and the full compliment of individual events.This year, we are allowing triple entry in speech events.

We will be using a staggered debate schedule to hopefully prevent any need to flight debate rounds. The schedule will be posted soon on the sidebar of this website.

Fees:No school fee will be assessed. Entries will be $10 for individual entries, $20 for partner event entries (Duo, Duet, CX, and PF)

Debate Topics:PF and LD will use the appropriate September/October topics for each division (Novice LD will use the Novice LD topic for Sept/Oct)

Open LD: Resolved: In the United States criminal justice system, plea bargaining is just.

Novice LD: Resolved: In the United States, national service ought to be mandatory.

PF (Both Divisions): Resolved: The United Kingdom should rejoin the European Union.

Policy Debate: Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly increase its exploration and/or development of the Arctic.

If we have to collapse Policy to an Open Division, it will be restricted to the use of the2025-26 NDCA Novice Policy packet.

Congress:Bill submissions are due bySeptember 29, 2025.The docket will be published on Tabroom by October 3, 2025. Please use the NSDA Templates for formatting legislation.ALL SUBMISSIONS SHOULD BE IN PDF FORMAT ONLY(That one courtesy will save Richie a significant amount of time.)

We will be using DIRECT QUESTIONINGfor both sessions of Congressional Debate.

Please note that all entries will be due prior to 5:00 p.m.onMonday, October 13th. Drops and name changes are due by 6:30pm on Thursday, October 16th. Any drops after that date will be assessed the entry fee amount for said event(s). Additions to the entry and modifications will also be accepted until that date.

Judges need to be finalized by October 16th.

Please post your drops and/or changes online as soon as you are aware of them.Entries and drops will only be accepted through Tabroom. Do not fax or call in entries/drops.We hope to see you at the tournament. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Tim Cornwell at (480) 216-3787 or tcornwell@tempeunion.org or Richie Glover at (480) 270-4314 orr.a.glover@gmail.com(TXT Preferred). See you at the Tournament!

We are excited to be the first full-service tournament of the season this year. While our dates are a little earlier than our usual last-weekend-of-October, we are still excited to be the Spooky Season tournament. As always, MHS Students will be dressed according to a theme (for easy visibility when seeking them out for questions or directions). We absolutely invite and encourage dressing up and having a good time! We're looking forward to seeing everybody at MHS!

Sincerely,

Tim Cornwell & Richie Glover