About This Site
Welcome to the website of the HomeSchoolDebate.net online tournament registration software. It is designed to eliminate the hassles involved with organizing NCFCA tournaments, by allowing participants, judges, and timers to register and pay online.
Why?
This software was created to fill a massive need in the home school speech and debate community; that organizing the average sized tournament requires hundreds of hours of repetitive data entry and the trading of conflicting spreadsheets between those in charge of the tournament. Anyone who has ever participated in organizing a tournament, round-robin, or practicum, will know how the time required increases exponentially for any but the smallest of competitions. Especially in states where NCFCA participation has grown to the point that a single debate round-robin can have upwards of 100 competitors, the need for an easier alternative is desperate.
How?
By allowing every participant to do their own data entry, and eliminating the need for mail-in paper registration forms and checks, the time required drops exponentially. This is accomplished through an online registration and payment process. Payments are handled by the secure online payment processor Paypal, which allows for hassle-free payments from all major credit cards, and via e-check. These payments are automatically tracked by the tournament registration software, which sends out automatic confirmation emails upon completion.
The program has a complete admin backend where anyone you choose can view, and modify the data. Once registration for a tournament has closed, all the information can be exported into a spreadsheet to be used for tabulation at the tournament. The exported data can also be used for easy importation into the Joy of Tournaments, which can further automate the tabulation process.