This is the Tournament Portal for our Spring East Tournament which will be held online on March 12-14th.

Registration

The registration period for this tournament opens on February 8 and closes on February 26.

Press Releases

Pre-tournament press release can be found here.

Tournament Schedule

Wednesday, March 10

19:30 - 21:00 Judge Training (Speech Categories)

Thursday, March 11

19:30 - 21:00 Judge Training (Debate)

Friday, March 12

18:00 - Student Leader Meeting

19:00 - Opening Ceremony 

19:10 - Guest Speaker

19:30 - Students Social Meeting (Zoom)

19:45 - Judge Q&A (Google Meet)

Saturday, March 13

12:00 -  Round 1 Flight B: Oratory, Prose, and Duo

13:45 -  Round 1 Flight A: Debate (Prepared) and Poetry

15:00 -  Round 2 Flight B: Oratory, Prose, and Duo

16:45 -  Round 2 Flight A: Debate (Impromptu) and Poetry

18:45 -  Semifinals: Varsity Prose and Oratory

  Round 3: Novice Prose and Duo

20:15 -  Semifinals: Poetry

             Round 3: Debate (Prepared)

Sunday, March 14

11:00 - Round 4: Debate (Impromptu)

13:00 - Finals: Prose, Oratory, and Duo

14:30 - Finals: Poetry and Debate (Prepared)

17:00 - Closing Ceremony

Judging

We welcome all high school graduates or above with C1 or higher English to judge at our tournaments. If you are new to BEST and our tournaments, visit our Judging Basics page!

Coaches, you must register if you are judging, too, and don’t forget to include your judges when you fill out your team roster spreadsheet (see below).

Judge Sign-Up form on this link.

Coaching

BEST Coaches should download our Coaches’ Checklist and make sure their teams are up to date.

Debate Motions

Novice:

• TH, as an individual, would quit social media.

• THBT shrinking cities should be allowed to impose an "exit tax" on leaving businesses.

• THBT women in managerial positions in male-dominated industries should preferentially treat other women in the company (e.g. fast-track other women for promotions, pay women more in their teams, etc.

Varsity:

• THS countries offering citizenship based on sporting ability

  • Info slide: Countries such as the U.S.A and Singapore currently offer citizenship based on sporting ability, inviting athletes to compete in their domestic institutions on condition they take citizenship in order to be eligible to compete for that state's national team.

• TH, as a talented young individual living in a Western Balkan country, would emigrate to pursue a career in the EU.

• THW ban all public advertisements which have the aim of promoting financial products to ordinary citizens (for example loans, investments in hedge funds, etc)

Impromptu motion hints:

• Art

• Education

• Religion