Dear Forensics Community, 

Illini Global Forensics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign cordially invites you to take part in our Illini Forensics Invitational on the 3rd-4th October. 

We will be offering a synchronous NPDA, IPDA and LD tournament via Zoom on Saturday and Sunday. 

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email and we hope to see you all there!

Best Wishes, 

Agastya Govind Debate Chair

uiucforensics.club 

illiniforensics@gmail.com 

For any inquiries, please contact (447) 902 5706 or the email above.

2025 Illini Forensics Invitational Tentative Schedule - NPDA

All times in CST 

Saturday

Sunday

2025 Illini Forensics Invitational Tentative Schedule - IPDA

All times in CST 

Saturday

Sunday

2025 Illini Forensics Invitational Tentative Schedule - LD

All times in CST 

Saturday

Sunday

Tournament Notes 

Registration and Deadlines 

Debate entries are due Oct 1st, 5PM CST. 

Judge entries are due Oct 2nd, 5PM CST. 

Fees and Judging 

IPDA entries: $25

NPDA entries: $50

LD entries: $50

Judges dropped after the deadline: $200

Each judge covers 2 entries. 

An uncovered judge slot is $150 and you will need permission from tournament organisers.

WE EXPECT TEAMS TO BRING THEIR OWN JUDGES.

Fees should be paid to Illini Global Forensics via PayPal @illini.forensics 

Student Eligibility 

Students must be currently enrolled at the college or university under whom they are competing. Students may not have attended a collegiate national forensic/debate tournament in four or more academic years OR completed eight semesters of collegiate competition. A semester is defined as having competed in more than two tournaments. Either of these standards being met (eight semesters of college competition or four years of collegiate national tournament participation) will render a student ineligible to compete in this tournament. 

For the purposes of this tournament, a novice is someone who is in their first academic year of university OR has competed in less than 5 university debating competitions. When signing up, entries should identify if they are a novice or not.

Debate 

All registration, entry, tabulation, and topic announcement will be done via tabroom.com. Please make sure that every judge and competitor on your team has a Tabroom account set up and linked. 

We will only be offering an OPEN division of NPDA Parliamentary debate. The Illini Forensics Invitational will follow the latest version of NPDA rules as found on parlidebate.org. The 7-8-8-8-4-5 format will be followed with 20 minutes of pre-round preparation. The tournament will also allow flex time as described by NPDA. Only the tournament invitation, NPDA constitution and by-laws, NPDA national tournament procedures, and materials prepared during the 20-minute preparation time period prior to the round may be brought into the debating chambers. There are no restrictions on pre-round coaching or consultation of materials during the preparation period. 

We are committed to running an efficient tournament and will be strictly enforcing the following: 

• A two-minute grace period will be provided for debaters and judges to begin the debate
• Teams not in their rooms, ready to debate, will be AUTO-FORFEITED 22 minutes after topic announcement. ● Judges not in their rooms, ready to judge 22 minutes after the topic announcement will have their top-seeded team FORFEIT that round.

We understand technology can be difficult: please contact the debate tab ((202) 740-4499 or (447) 902 5706) immediately with any technical difficulties!