Welcome to the home page for the 2015 Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament tournament hosted by Ohio University on Mar 4-8, 2015 for College students.

Status: Tournament Completed

<p>Dear Pi Kappa Delta and Forensic Colleagues,</p> <p>I join the National Council of Pi Kappa Delta in extending this invitation to join us for Pi Kappa Delta&rsquo;s 2015 Biennial Convention and Tournament March 4-8 on the campus of Ohio University in Athens, OH. I have been working with your national president, Jeff Stoppenhagen, your local host, Dan West, along with the National Council to offer you a spectacular tournament and convention.&nbsp;</p> <p>This year&rsquo;s tournament will feature the very best of intercollegiate forensics in a full range of individual and team events, including debate and individual events not before offered at a PKD national tournament. After several years of trying to schedule our tournament and convention within a three-day format, we have decided to expand to four days. This change in scheduling will enable us to offer a better managed tournament that offers its participants a more humane schedule and better opportunities to participate in convention and social events.&nbsp;</p> <p>This invitation outlines details about the tournament and convention.&nbsp; Additional details will be featured and added on the Pi Kappa Delta website.&nbsp; Individuals are encouraged to visit the website at&nbsp; <a href=\"http://www.pikappadelta.com\">www.pikappadelta.com</a>.&nbsp; The website will include updated information and forms for registration and hotel arrangements.&nbsp; You can also follow us on Twitter, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PiKappaDelta\">@PiKappaDelta</a>.</p> <p>Please note the <strong><em>Wednesday, February 4th deadline</em></strong> for hotel reservations and initial tournament and convention entry.&nbsp; As in the past, a brief period for changes without penalty will be extended but initial entry <strong><em>must be made by the February 4th deadline</em></strong>.</p> <p>In 2015, PKD will open its national archive at the birthplace of our organization, Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas.&nbsp;&nbsp;Council Member Ryan Louis of Ottawa&nbsp;is coordinating&nbsp;the&nbsp;collecting of&nbsp;artifacts&nbsp;having historical importance.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you or your university&nbsp;possesses&nbsp;items that may befit an archive--and would wish to either donate or to&nbsp;provide the artifact(s) as a loan--please contact Ryan Louis (ryan.louis@ottawa.edu) or PKD Historian Susan Millsap (smillsap@otterbein.edu). You may also&nbsp;consider bringing these artifacts to the Biennial Convention and Tournament in March. If you do this, please notify&nbsp;Ryan/Susan in advance so we can plan for appropriate transport of artifacts. Examples of noteworthy artifacts include:&nbsp;</p> <p>Programs, flyers and announcements from past tournaments</p> <p>Artifacts denoting special recognition regarding PKD (trophies, certificates, items of merit)</p> <p>Correspondence between PKD members</p> <p>School or local newspaper/newsletter articles mentioning PKD&nbsp;</p> <p>Agendas/Meeting Notes from past province or chapter meetings</p> <p>The PKD Archives will be a place for all members to visit&nbsp;or conduct research. It will be open to all as a place to jointly remember our collective history.</p> <p>We look forward to seeing you in Athens this March 4-8 for what promises to be an amazing tournament and convention!</p> <p>Sincerely,</p> <p>Scott Jensen&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Jeff Stoppenhagen&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Dan West</p> <p>National Tournament Director&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;National President&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Local Host</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span class=\"marker\"><strong><em>Constraints on Entering and Cross-Entering</em></strong></span></p> <p>Students may enter&hellip;</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<em>Two individual events in any flight</em></p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Two duos, with different partners and each duo counting as an event</em></p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Individual events and reader&rsquo;s theatre and/or discussion</em></p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Individual events and NPDA/IPDA debate and L-D/Public Forum debate/Student Congress</em></p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Discussion and reader&rsquo;s theatre but no debate in the first debate flight</em></p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Reader&rsquo;s Theatre and LD/Public Forum debate/Student Congress OR NPDA/IPDA debate&mdash;ALL</em></p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; cast members must be in the &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;same flight of debate</em></p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;CEDA/NDT or Worlds and no other debate format</em></p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;CEDA/NDT or Worlds and flight A or C Individual Events</em></p>