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HISTORY OF THE NDT The National Debate Tournament (NDT) began in when it was assumed by the American Forensic Association in part because of the Vietnam War . Since then the tournament has moved to different member schools each year and only three schools have hosted it twice. [http://www.wfu.edu/organizations/NDT/Articles/ndtintro.html In the first NDT, teams were nominated by committees from their district. This was soon replaced with district qualifying tournaments. At-large bids were offered beginning in 1968 and in 1971 the rules were ammended to assign at large bids prior to district qualifying tournaments (to prevent at-large teams from knocking out teams in qualifiers) Until 1970, a school could only send one team to the NDT. When the rule was changed the tournament quickly grew to 74 teams. A limited number of schools were allowed to send a third team since 1992. Mutual Preference Judging (MPJ) is a relatively recent addition to the NDT. Under MPJ, each debate team ranks the judging pool according to their preferences and judges are selected such that both teams prefer the chosen judge equally (if possible). Attempts are made to place as many mutual "1"s (the highest rating) in rounds, with preference given to the teams with the best record. TRADITIONS
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