The qualifying tournaments for the Tournament of Champions have been announced. The Public Forum Debate qualifying tournaments are listed after the jump.
Public Forum Debate automatic qualifiers when competing with the same partner:
Octafinals at the 2009 TOC
Octafinals at the 2009 NFL National Tournament
Octafinals at the 2009 NCFL National Tournament
The following Public Forum Debate tournaments are octafinal qualifiers for 2009-10:
Apple Valley (MN)
UC Berkeley (CA)
Dowling (IA)
Emory (GA)
Florida Blue Key (FL)
Glenbrooks (IL)
Harvard (MA)
Myers Park (NC)
Princeton (NJ)
Stanford (CA)
Yale (CT)
The following Public Forum Debate tournaments are quarterfinal qualifiers for 2009-10:
Alta (UT)
Arizona State (AZ)
Bronx (NY)
Columbia (NY)
Crestian (FL) Florida
George Mason (VA)
Golden Desert (NV)
James Logan (CA)
Lexington (MA)
Manchester-by-the-Sea (MA)
University of Pennsylvania
Villager (PA)
Wake Forest (NC)
The following Public Forum Debate tournaments are semifinal qualifiers for 2009-10:
Harker (CA)
Hudson (NY)
La Costa Canyon (CA)
Lincoln-East (NE)
Nova Titan (FL)
Ohio Valley (KY)
St. Mark’s (TX)
Sunvitational (FL)
Valley (IA)
Victory Briefs (CA)
The following Public Forum Debate tournaments are final round qualifiers for 2009-10:
Blake (MN)
Cheyenne East (WY)
Fremont (NE)
Grapevine (TX)
Indianola (IA)
Lincoln-Southwest (NE)
Mountain Brook’s (AL)
Millard West (NE)
Ridge (NJ)
Scarsdale (NY)
Springfield (MO)
Topeka (KS)
Whitman (WA)
All 2010 NFL Qualifiers from districts with two or more qualifying teams if the qualifier is certified before March 10, 2010.
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Very excited about our Octas bid! Come for Laird Lewis, stay for the Challenge!
theres way too many octas bids…in general these bids are spread in an even worse way than last yr…
haha, they spelled fremont wrong!
@ R-Man, I don’t necessarily think that the spreading of octas bids weakens the strength of the tournament. I mean the TOC caps the number of entries at around 70 teams and from what I’ve heard, they only had around 60 something teams at the 2009 TOC even after accepting all the at-large bids. If anything, the proliferation of octas bid tournaments geographically would only bring about more competition, as more schools that don’t have the means to travel to other national circuit tournaments would now have the opportunity to qualify to the TOC.
I think there could be less octos bids long term. PF has 3 more octos bids (if I did subtraction right) than LD or CX. But I agree that in the short term, it is probably for the best to expand the TOC.