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    AMERICAN DEBATE LEAGUE HS FALL INVITATIONAL 21

    20 November 2021

    DEADLINE
    16 November 2021
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to middle and high school students
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    Our tournament serves to develop a student's own voice through both oral and written communication. We facilitate this by enhancing and developing children’s public speaking, literacy, creative and persuasive writing skills. It also helps to develop confidence, mutual understanding, and respect for all people and for the diversity of ideas. These skills also encourage children to develop leadership skills. The power of public speaking, debate and leadership is a lifelong skill and will serve our children well in any endeavor they choose to pursue as adults.

    We are excited that you will compete in our American Debate League High School Fall Invitational Saturday, November 20, 2021. This will be an Online Tournament, using NSDA Campus. 

    Please report the OUR ZOOM CHECK-IN ROOM at 9am EST (6am PST) on Saturday to receive Debate round pairings, judging assignments and instructions.
    ​
    NSDA Campus Competition room test
    (IF you do not test the NSDA rooms and can not enter the room you can not debate in our tournament. The Tabroom and NSDA campus platform will NOT let you enter virtual rooms so you CAN NOT Compete at our tournament.)
    Step 1: Go to your Tabroom account
    Step 2: Go "NSDA Campus Test rooms" at the bottom right side of you Tabroom 
    Step 3: Press the Test Competition room
     Step 4: when you are taken to the test competition room it will ask you to allow them to turn on your microphone (Press "Allow" for any request the system asks you)

    ​Entry Price

    If you are providing a judge, your fee will be waived! So you pay $0
    If you (parent) are OPTING OUT OF JUDGING, one event fee is $100

    ​
    Each person in a PF team would be responsible of providing their own judge, so one PF team would need to either provide two judges, both pay the judge fee, or one of each option.

    Registration will not be complete until payment is received.
     
    NOTE: We will charge set up fees if we have to create tabroom.com accounts for judges. It is recommended you do so on your own.

    Schedule

    Please note that all times are in EASTERN STANDARD TIME (EST).
    Times in green have been converted into PST.

    DEBATE (Double Flight) schedule:

    November 23, 2021 CHECK-IN Room BY 9:00 A.M. (DEBATER REGISTRATION & JUDGE CONFIRMATION)

    9:00-9:50 a.m. Check in (check in for debate pairings, ballots, and troubleshooting)   --- 6:00-6:50 am PST
    10:00-10:50 Round 1 Flight A   --- 7:00-7:50 am PST
    11:00-11:50 Round 1 Flight B   --- 8:00-8:50 am PST
    12:00-12:50 Round 2 Flight A (LUNCH FOR FLIGHT B)   --- 9:00-9:50 am PST
    1:00-1:50 Round 2 Flight B (LUNCH FOR FLIGHT A)   --- 10:00-10:50 am PST
    2:00-2:50 Round 3 Flight A   --- 11:00-11:50 am PST
    3:00-3:50 Round 3 Flight B   --- 12:00-12:50 pm PST
    4:10-4:30 Awards' ceremony   --- 1:00-1:50 pm PST

    Drop Fee

    Drop fees will be the same amounts as the entry fee PLUS any fees the tournament charges us for late drops. Drop requests should be made to Victor and Nadia.

    Please do not drop out last minute to avoid being charged these fees.

    Contact Info

    Victor Rivas Umana
    Contact email:  [email protected]

    Nadia Budiman 
    Contact email: [email protected]

    Or [email protected]

    Registration Form


    STUDENT INFORMATION

    PARENT CONTACT INFORMATION
    Your email address will be the one included when we send the logistics email. If you want to add two emails, please use a comma.

    EVENT SELECTION
    BOTH partners must fill out form and pay in order to be registered!

    ​JUDGE PROVISION
    Signing up a judge without having a Tabroom account will result in us charging you for the set up fee. You can do this easily on your own by going to tabroom.com. It takes two minutes.

    ​First time judging? Click here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.

    Tournaments recommend judges to have a judge philosophy on their Tabroom account, which can be a few sentences on your preferences of debating styles, etc. See here for example (it doesn't need to be this long, but make sure to add something before you sign up).

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

We would love to have you visit soon at one of our open houses.
Check our home page for the schedule!


School year Hours

M-F: 3:45 pm - 8:30 pm 
Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Telephone

510-270-8480
510-470-0531

Email (preferred)

For more info email us at: [email protected]

Locations

Fremont: 200 Brown Rd #201, Fremont, CA 94539

Cupertino: 20432 Silverado Avenue Suite 211, Cupertino, CA 95014

Aborn Institute: 2804 Riedel Road, San Jose, CA 95135 

​​​​Dublin: Loving Tree Academy, 6693 Owens Dr, Pleasanton, CA 94588​​
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