Tournament eligibility in any given event will be based on a point system which will be under the discretion of the officers and will be dependent on the student's participation, active semesters on the team, and available funding. The MIT Debate Team shall hold meetings that allow members to carry on administrative business and to practice and teach debating skills through practice rounds. The MIT Debate team shall hold two different types of meetings. Ideally, meetings will be held once a week. If occasion arises that the members decide that the meetings need to be more or less frequent for a period of time, meetings shall be called as necessary.
Any Executive officer can call a meeting.
Meetings shall consist of no less than five members and shall observe Robert's Rules of Order. The time of the subsequent meeting will be decided before the closure of the meeting at hand. Practice Rounds - These mock competitions will be scheduled at administrative meetings and will be presided over by an experienced judge. This judge, an experienced member of the team, will be responsible for critiquing the competitors and deciding the outcome. All offices held in this organization shall be elected offices.