Central Texas District Tournament
2026 — TX/US
Central Texas District Qualifier
for the 2026 National Tournament
Congress and Legislation Info
TheNSDA District Congressional Debate tournament will be held on February 20th at Boerne Champion HS. To give students the time to prepare high-quality arguments, we call for all legislation to be submitted by 11:59 PM on January 30. We have tried to balance the docket in the past, placing one item from each school in the line-up. If your students plan to participate in Congress, please submit up to 3 items from your school for consideration. The committee will evaluate submissions and release the docket for the district tournament no later than February 3. Submissions should be emailed to aly.mithani@nisd.net.
| Student Congress Legislation Evaluation Rubric | ||
| Category | Parameter | Expectation |
| Legislative Intent | Debatability | The legislation is written in a manner that is intended to provide equal access to arguments on both sides of the issue. |
| Education | Researching the legislation is intended to enhance the student's depth and breadth of knowledge and their understanding of the foundational underpinnings of proposition and opposition arguments. | |
| Scope | Impact | The problem being addressed by the legislaiton is one of widespread concern on the national level and is not localized in scope or consequence. |
| Relevance | The topic of the legislation is one of current concern to the citizens and legislators of the United States. | |
| Need and Feasibility | Agent Approptiateness | The agent of action presented in the legislation has the appropriate authority to address the problem being presented. |
| Creativity | The legislation establishes a solution to a novel problem or a new approach to addressing a commonly debated problem, as opposed to recycling ideas students have debated frequently or recently. | |
| Grammatical Structure & Style | Writing | The legislation is composed in a concise, organized and fluent manner. The submission is devoid of errors stemming from omitted, added or transposed words. |
| Mechanics | The legislation is devoid of grammatical and spelling errors. | |
| Formatting | Template Use | The legislation adheres to TFA formatting standards, is submitted in the TFA template and includes line numbers down the left side. |
| Academic Integrity | The legislation appears to be original to this submission and to be the original work of the school submitting it for consideration. |
Please utilize the NSDA Constitutional Amendment Template,NSDA Bill Template, and NSDA Resolution Template for all submitted legislation. To provide consistency across circuits, submissions will be evaluated according to the rubric used to assess TFA docket nominations: Please reach out with questions.