HEnDA National
全国大会in Tochigi 2023
連絡会
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10時開始 Starts 10AM

全国大会募集要項 ルール変更
選抜基準 Standards for Selection
Debate Topics
US Exchange Debate Event (June 18thSunday)

Offline Tournament (Finally)
Legacy of Online tournaments:
Paperless (Tournament information, matchings will
be announced through Portal sites, LINE)
Judge decision will be using google forms: With somemore double, triple checks(All judges must have a smartphone/tablets)
Some YouTube live (only in some rooms)

Important Dates before Dec 16/17th
11月5日(日) 合同予選会Online (必要な場合のみ開催)
Nov 5th (Sunday) Joint Preliminary Prefectural Tournament (Ifnecessary)
応募期間は10月2日-11月8日

Entry Deadline Nov 8th
12月3日(日)Dec 3rd (Sunday)
ジャッジ・顧問説明会Online
Online meeting for Judges/Teachers (for the Participating Schools
before the Nationals.
No Judges meeting, just roll calls at the Tournament day)

Rule change: Joint school teams• 特例措置：合同チーム（※今大会からの追加規定）• 同じ都道府県に所在する2つの学校が，ともに選手不足の場合，合同チームを組んで予選および全国大会に応募することを認める（ただし合同チームとして全国大会に応募する際には，予選出場時点のチーム構成を変更することはできない。また3校以上による合同チームは認められない）
Joint team: Two schools from the same prefecture
only if neither can participate by their own,canform a team.

選抜基準
Selection Standards
No significant change from last few years.
“Joint teams” will be treated and counted as
one school.
“Inter-prefectural” tournamentsb) >10 schools c) Same prefecture teams <40%
* Every teams should be counted as equallyparticipating (No “Shadow” schools, please )Debate topic• Resolved:
ThattheJapanese
government should legalize gestationalsurrogacy.
• 日本政府は，代理出産を合法化すべきである。是か非か。

1. “Surrogacy”
Children of a Married couple(“intended parents”).
Surrogates can either be altruistic orcompensational2. “Gestational”
Limited to medically necessary cases inwhich intended parents provide their invitro fertilized embryo to the surrogate(donation of sperms, eggs are notincluded in this topic).

3. “Legalize”
Necessary amendments to the relevant
civil laws and medical guidelines.
Also, necessary laws that concern
parentage would be amended.
Parents that provided the in-vitro fertilized
embryo = legal parents of the children

4. No additional plans:

(Unwritten but rather obvious) Ruleif it is not EXPLICITLY written in the HEnDA definitions,debaters cannot add any new assumption (additional“plan”), nor should the judge assume that such newassumption (additional “plan”) can justify or refute
ADs or DAs
In other words, if it is not EXPLICITLY written in theHEnDA definitions, you must PROVE it (withevidence)5. Affirmative /Negative side positions:
The NEG = Keep the current Japanese legal/medical
guidelines that practically make surrogacy in Japan
impossible, and the current civil laws that do not
acknowledge parentage of genetic children throughsurrogacy (as of March 1st, 2023).
The NEG should not propose the position to illegalize
surrogacy
The above definitions will not change even if the actual
Japanese government announce or amend/establish laws
concerning surrogacy or parentage of genetic children(before the National tournament).

US Exchange Debate Event(June 18th Sunday)
Venue: Chuo Univ. Myogadani (茗荷谷キャンパス)Schedule JUNE 18th Sunday ６月１８日（日）AM 10:30 Lectures from Communication Professors
Dr. John Koch: Vanderbilt University - Assistant Professor ofCommunication Studies, Co-Director of Debate and Forensics
Dr. Kenneth Newby

PM 1:30 Exhibition Debate using HEnDA
format/Surrogacy topic by Two Japanese high school
teams each with one US exchange debater )Comments Q&A (- 4PM)
Free! Online participation will be possible