Junior-is for students with high school or college limited debate experience. Should not have won 8 or more debate awards in college. Should not have more than 2 years collegiate debate experience. Open is open to all who wish to compete. There will be three divisions of parliamentary debate, novice, junior, and senior.
Novice is for beginning debaters without previous debate experience.
Junior is for students who have some previous debate experience but not more than two years experience at the college level. Senior is for anyone with more than 2 years college experience or anyone who wants to compete at the senior level. Individual Events Divisions Novice-is for beginners. Novice speakers are in their first year of competition in public speaking in forensics. They have not won 3 or more speaking awards in college.