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TeamUp Tournament Software Inc.™ designed Debate Host™ to help you to design a tournament from scratch, avoid potential pitfalls, and make your experience of hosting a debate tournament successful and rewarding. |
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1. Systematic planning - Lay out the time
schedule, decide the event types, and record the rooms available. Add the
competitors and team assignments. Create individual and master schedules for
all participants and officials.
2. Manual and automatic schedule creation - Assign competitors and teams to rooms in each timeslot manually or let the AutoSchedule feature assign competitors and officials to each available room in a timeslot after you have recorded all or most of your registrations. Edit the schedule easily to make any last minute changes. Visual cues on the schedule alert you to missing data. 3. Missing information - Find out how many rooms still require judges, moderators, or timekeepers by visual cues on the master schedule. 4. Organizer's progress tracker- View statistics about your tournament during the setup phase to let you know what you have accomplished and what remains to be done. Details include number of competitors, number of schools, rooms required, judges required and recruited, and more. 5. Authenticated agents- The debate administrator can create organizers, registrars, and scorekeepers as agents who can access and manage only the parts of the tournament data that fall under their roles. Your hosting team can access and input tournament information by logging in from several computers at the same time. A team of scorekeepers makes score compilation quick and easy. More than one registrar can make check-in on the morning of the debate much less stressful. 6. Customizable printed schedules- Participants and officials receive personal schedules that can be customized with a map of the debate location. Master schedules for organizers and coaches are available for the whole tournament or just for one school. 7. Accurate and easy score tabulation - Compile scores from coded ballots and print tournament rankings as soon as the last ballot has been recorded. |
8. Volunteer management - How to recruit judges
and other officials and how to acknowledge their contribution of time and
service are features that are built into Debate Host™. Send personalized
letters or e-mail messages to thank volunteers and increase the likelihood that
they will volunteer again. Debate Host™ lets you merge personal information to
customizable letters or message formats and then print or send them.
Invitations to volunteers for your subsequent tournaments are easy to create
and send.
9. Reusable data- Debate Host™ preserves the lists of officials (judges, moderators, timekeepers) that you have used in previous tournaments so that you can add them to the current tournament without having to retype the data. In addition, Debate Host™ remembers the list of rooms that you have used in previous debates. Type them once in your first debate and from then on just select them from a list. 10. Data security and backup- All your tournament data is protected by password. The application is hosted on a server with redundant backup provision. 11. Scalability- Use Debate Host™ for quickly organizing small, informal or practice debates or for smoothly handling tournaments that last for several days. 12. No installation problems- Because Debate Host™ is a Web-based application, you do not have to worry about installation, networking, or configuration. All you require is a computer that has Internet access. 13. Access to debate and public speaking resources - Links to other helpful Web sites connect you to resources from around the world. 14. Helpful information- Comprehensive guides and information to help you organize your tournament and use Debate Host™ successfully. |
| Because public speaking is perhaps the most valuable skill a student can learn in school, the overarching goal of our software is to link together and standardize an international community of debate and public speaking. By using Debate Host™ from TeamUp Tournament Software Inc.™, more schools and debate coaches will find it easier to host tournaments. We believe that this will increase the number of students who have meaningful experience and training at these tournaments. | |