Welcome!

Hi everyone! We're excited to have you and your team for the Varsity Warmup and Rookie Rumble! Thank you to Ferris High School for hosting - and Dan Sjolund (Ferris) and Jessi Klingback (Mt. Spokane) for directing/managing this weekend.

Some quick information:

FRIDAY 3 - 9 pm: VARSITY WARMUP

Varisty/Open competitors are invited to bring their rough/polished speeches for three rounds of practice/performing! Novice members are invited to give feedback and learn the speech formats. We hope this will be an educational and encouraging start of the year!

SATURDAY 7:30 am - 2 pm: ROOKIE RUMBLE

We will hold three rounds of debate (LD and PF will be flighted; WSD and CX will be single-flighted) and two sessions of Congress.

Lincoln Douglaswill debate the Nov/Dec resolution:

Resolved: De-extinction is unethical.

Public Forum will debate the Nov/Dec Resolution:

Resolved: European members of the North American treaty Organization will ratify the Treat on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Congress will debate a pre-selected docket. Chambers may vote to table a bill or resolution. They may not amend the docket without the Parli's permission.

Session 1: (In order) A, L, D, K, C, E

Session 2: (In order) G, B, F, J, I, H

World Schools Debate will have to prepared rounds on this topic:

"This House believes democratic elections are better served by public financing than by privately funded campaigns."

Please refer to the WSFA's topic overview document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ia-smPnzw_EtR9K-NEVJIGZBiDGnFOs-qJm5gQ4dseE/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you for all you do to prepare your students!

Policy is using the 2026-2027 topic:

Resolved: The United States federal government should establish national health insurance in the United States.

Policy debaters will be required to run one of the five novice case areas outlined by theWSFA and will refrain from running any counterplans. They may only run anenvironmental management Kritik. As discussed at the fall meeting, policy novices willbeusing the same evidence set in order to encourage a mastery of debate skills instead ofparticular arguments. We will be using the NDCA Novice Policy Packet for evidence.

The WSFA Policy Debate Committee adopted the NDCA NovicePacket for the 2026–2027 policy debate season.

• Affirmatives: ACA and Single Payer (Medicare for All) withmatching case negatives.

• Disadvantages: Doctors, Interest Rates, and Stock Market.

• Counterplans, critiques (Kritiks), and topicality arguments.

• Curriculum Support: Self-guided online courses, video lessons, anda slow demonstration debate are available through the ACACurriculum and Single Payer Curriculum.