The Kuwait 
Debate League Year 2008 Season
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BBS Will Host the EIGHTH Annual Kuwait Debate League
Al-Bayan Bilingual School proudly hosts the Kuwait Debate League. Again, the debate league invites all English language curriculum schools within Kuwait to attend and participate in its upcoming season which will
culminate in the combined BIT/KFSAC Kuwait junior varsity and varsity championship.
This year, however, numbers permitting, we'll also crown a COLLEGE division
champion.
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This Season's Resolution
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"Resolved that the United States should subtantially
change its policy towards Africa [or a substantial part of Africa]."
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A Shortlist of Acceptable Debatable Subareas
for Plans within this Larger Topic
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This list is by "country." However, a single plan
might reach across several countries.
(1) a region of Africa
(2) a single country if you can prove its substantiality
(3) all of Africa [but you'd be best advised to limit this to
one aspect]
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This Season's Schedule
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Open forum for coaches: January 19th
Sample debate: January 24th
Round 1 February 7
Round 2 February 21
Round 3 March 13<---note the change.
Round 4 March 20
April In-School Tournament
Tournament April 18 and 20th
(only the 18th if necessary)
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Tournament Rules for 2008 (continued)
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The following were adopted in 2004 and tried in the League that year. Coaches will have the option of voting to continue them or discontinue them.
(1) Tournament Match Scoring
At the meeting, the coaches adopted an altered form of scoring for the tournament. Each school's "A," "B" etc. team will be put in a pool of similarly designated teams. Points for matches then will be awarded as follows (in the event of a split ballot, each team would get half).
1. A team matches = 8 points
2. B team matches = 6 points
3. C team matches = 4 points
4. D team matches = 2 point
(2) Junior Varsity Tournament Age limit
The junior varsity age limit for the tournament would be set at 16.
During the regular season, as in the past, varsity and j.v. squads
will intermix.
However, any school totally new to the League can participate as a junior
varsity team regardless of the age of the students involved.
(3) Debate off
This will be retained for this season.
***********************************Maps to Al-Bayan Bilingual School Hawally
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Note that our elementary and KG are still in Jabriya. That's NOT where we're debating. Within a year, the entire Al-Bayan school will be located at Hawally. This is why you'll see so much construction on our site, but the high school IS open.
A map of Hawally and BBS.
Another view
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You're Never Too Young:
Middle School Debates
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Some schools have expressed interest in Middle School Debates.
These will likely follow generally-accepted rules, except with
shorter speeches, say 5 minutes instead of 8 and 3 minute rebuttals
The topic selected for Middle Schools is:
Resolved: That the United States school substantially change its
policy towards Iran.
For a reading I prepared specifically for Middle Schools click
here.
Schools interested in participating in this activity should email
me at dfruit@hotmail.comdirectly.
*************************SEASON RECORDS KDL 2008
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All will appear here eventually.
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THE BAYAN INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT
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See also the BIT 2008 page.
Did you NEED to know more?
Email me at dfruit@hotmail.com
