Adam Torson made and Sheryl Kaczmarek seconded the following motion, which passed 7-0 on 5/11/2017.
The NDCA policy debate tournament procedures should be amended by replacing this part of the Tournament Qualification section:
"Teams registering for the NDCA Championships will automatically be placed on a waiting list until they achieve the requisite points, as detailed below, determined by sending in their qualifying point sheets or using the NDCA points database. Teams will be released off the waiting list immediately if they have earned at least 500 points and if they apply prior to March 15 and until 75 teams have been admitted to the tournament. The application deadline is April 1. On April 1 an additional 25 teams will be released from the waiting list even if some of those applicants don’t have 500 points. Applications will be accepted, regardless of a team’s point total, after April 1 until 100 teams are entered in the tournament or until the Monday preceding the start of the tournament whichever comes first."
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"Teams registering for the NDCA Championships will automatically be placed on a waiting list until they achieve the requisite points, as detailed below, determined by sending in their qualifying point sheets or using the NDCA points database available on tabroom.com. Teams will be released off the waiting list immediately if they have earned at least 500 points and if they apply prior to March 1. On March 1 additional teams will be released from the waiting list even if some of those entries don’t have 500 points. Entries will be accepted, regardless of a team’s point total, after March 1 until 100 teams are entered in the tournament or until the Monday preceding the start of the tournament whichever comes first."