Welcome to the home page for the 2017 The Richest Hill on Earth 2 tournament hosted by Butte High School on Oct 27-28, 2017 for High School students.

Status: Tournament Completed

<p>Dear&nbsp;AA Coach:</p> <p>You are cordially invited to the Butte High School &quot;The Richest Hill on Earth&quot; Speech and Debate invitational tournament on October 27-28, 2017.&nbsp; Preliminary registrations are due to forensicstournament.net by Monday, October 16 at 5PM so we can get planning the tournament.&nbsp; Changes to your roster are accepted until 12PM on Wednesday, October 25. Please email me any drops after that time. Adds might be allowed but not if it adds a section.&nbsp; A registration fee of $5.00 for each student and event will be charged.&nbsp; Team events are $10.00. Drops/adds the day of the tournament will result in a $20.00 surcharge. Registration packets will be sent electronically&nbsp;during the evening of October 26. Please check my work and notify me of changes.&nbsp; We will bill your school for the registration fees. We ask that schools please include email so we can notify you of registration status immediately.</p> <p>Entries will be limited to a total of 35 with no more than three entries in IEs, varsity LD, legi, and interps&nbsp;and three teams per event in Varsity Policy, PFD, and DUO. In novice, you get two LDers and two policy teams. Your novice entries count towards your 35 entries.&nbsp; Team&nbsp;events count as two entries.&nbsp; For example, if&nbsp;you bring two novice policy teams, that counts as four entries and three duos counts as six entries.&nbsp; POI is offered but will not count in sweeps.&nbsp; Please notify us of all coaches who will be attending along with their tabbing preferences.&nbsp;&nbsp;Coaches who are not given tab assignments will be placed in the judge pool.&nbsp; We intend to fill the novice judging positions first with community members then coaches if needed.&nbsp; You may want to instruct your coaches how to judge debate events if they have not done so in the past.</p> <p>MHSA rules will apply.&nbsp; All events will be computer tabbed.&nbsp; Events will be self-timed.&nbsp; Please make sure all your students have their own timers.&nbsp; Please instruct your PFD teams to fill in the judges&#39; ballots to avoid confusion of sides and teams. &nbsp;</p> <p>Limited concessions will be offered.&nbsp; Pork Chop Johns and Staggering Ox are within walking distance&nbsp;of the high school. Students may also go to Naranche Stadium and get concessions as there is a football game Friday night.</p> <p>Speech/ Interp rounds are Friday at 4, 6, and 8.&nbsp; Saturday rounds are 8:30, 10:30, 1 , and 3.&nbsp; Debate rounds are Friday at 4, 6, and 8. Saturday rounds are 8, 10, 12 (Q), 2 (S), and 4 (F).&nbsp; Debates will have five rounds and break to quarters at noon.&nbsp; Depending on the number of novice debate entries, we will decide at the meet which outrounds they will have. &nbsp;</p> <p>Debate topics:</p> <p>Legi: Foreign: Climate Change<br /> Domestic: Immigration<br /> <br /> LD: Resolved: In the United States, national service ought to be compulsory.<br /> <br /> Policy: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its funding and/or regulation of elementary and/or secondary education in the United States<br /> <br /> PF: Resolved: The United States should require universal background checks for all gun sales and transfer of ownership.</p> <p>If you have any questions, please email me at mcculloughrb@butte.k12.mt.us or call me at <a href=\"tel:406-533-2173\">406-533-2173</a> between 2:00 and 2:55PM or leave a voicemail.&nbsp; My cell is <a href=\"tel:491-7006\">491-7006</a>.</p> <p>Sincerely,</p> <p>Roger McCullough</p> <p><a href=\"mailto:mcculloughrb@butte.k12.mt.us\">mcculloughrb@butte.k12.mt.us</a></p>