ARIZONA STATE HDSHC INVITATIONAL

    10-12 January 2025

    DEADLINE
    29 Dec 2024 - TO TRAVEL WITH THE TEAM
    2 Jan 2025 - IF TRAVELING WITH OWN PARENTS
    NO REFUNDS AFTER THESE DATE
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to MS/HS students
    LOCATION
    In-person in Arizona State University

    Information

    Hotel Info
    (for those traveling with their own own parents)
    • Residence Inn Tempe Downtown/University
      510 S Forest Ave, Tempe, AZ 85281
      ​WWW.Marriott.com/PHXTD
      $169-$199 per night
      ​Book here: by December 10th
    • Sonesta Select Tempe Downtown
      601 South Ash Ave., Tempe, AZ 85281
      ​Website
      $144 per night
      Book here: by December 13th


    ​Debate Events

    LINCOLN-DOUGLAS:
    • LD DEBATE STUDENTS: NO DOUBLE ENTRY IS ALLOWED.
    • Two divisions offered: Novice (first academic year of competition) and Varsity. Finalists in Varsity earn a bid to the TOC. Six prelims in both divisions, ALL 4-2s will clear up to a full Triple-Octafinals (64 teams).
    • Varsity will have judge preferences in the form of a 6 category system--teams will only have access to those preferences if ALL policy judges from their school have paradigms on tabroom.com
    • Lincoln-Douglas debate features individual debaters who will debate on the NSDA topic for January and February of 2025. Varsity and novice divisions will be offered. Novice division is limited to debaters in their first academic year of competition. L/D will use the 6-3-7-3-4-6-3 time format with 4 minutes preparation time for each debater.

    PUBLIC FORUM:
    • PF DEBATE STUDENTS: NO DOUBLE ENTRY IS ALLOWED.
    • Two divisions offered: Novice (first academic year of competition) and Varsity.Six prelims in both divisions, ALL 4-2s will clear up to a full Triple-Octafinals (64 teams).
    • Varsity Double-Octofinalists earn a Silver Public Forum TOC bid and Octofinalists earn a Gold Public Forum bid.
    • Varsity will have judge preferencing in the form of 15% strikes.
    • This event involves two teams debating over the January 2025 NFL topic. The format is 4-4-3-4-4-3-3-3-3-2-2 with 3 minutes of prep per team. Novice division is limited to debaters in their first academic year of competition.


    ​Speech Events
    • NO DOUBLE ENTRY WITH ANY DEBATE
    • You may enter up to FOUR speech events, two in either pattern.
    • Students may enter up to 2 events in each speech pattern.
    • Pattern A (Drama, Duo, Extemp, and Info)
    • Pattern B (Humor, Impromptu, Original Oratory, and POI)
    • There will be four preliminary rounds in each event. Elimination rounds will start at octafinals for events with more than 111 entries, quarterfinals for events with more than 55 entries and semifinals for those events with more than 27 entries. Coaches are urged to emphasize the importance of conscientious attendance in scheduled rounds, since “no-shows” make it impossible for the tournament staff to assure participants an equal level of competition.
    • MATERIAL: Material in individual events may not have been used by that student in competition prior to the completion of the 2024 High School National Forensic League Tournament.

    ORIGINAL ORATORY:
    Bid eligible for both NIETOC and TOC
    OO consists of a speech that is the original work of the student and is designed to persuade the audience. Presentation must be memorized. Any non-factual reference, especially a personal reference, must be so identified. Not more than 100 words of the oration may be a direct quotation from any other source. Maximum time is ten (10) minutes.

    DRAMATIC INTERPRETATION/HUMOROUS INTERPRETATION:
    Bid eligible for NIETOC and TOC
    Selections used in these events shall be cuttings from published printed novels, short stories, plays, or poetry. The presentation is memorized and is delivered without a manuscript. Costumes or props are not allowed in the presentation. Adaptations may be for the purpose of continuity only. Maximum time is ten (10) minutes, including memorized introduction, which presents the author(s) and title.

    DUO INTERPRETATION
    Bid eligible for NIETOC and TOC
    This event involves two competitors interpreting a cutting from a play, prose or poetry, humorous or serious, involving the portrayal of one or more characters by each individual. This is not an acting event; thus, no costumes, lighting, props, etc. are to be used. The presentation is memorized and delivered without a manuscript. The competitors’ focus should be off-stage and not on each other. Maximum time is ten (10) minutes, including memorized introduction, which presents the author(s) and title.

    EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING:
    Bid eligible for the NIETOC and TOC
    Topics for Extemp shall be based on foreign and domestic affairs for three months prior to the tournament. Speakers will be given 30 minutes to prepare after drawing from three topics suitable to their area of emphasis. Speakers may use one index card. Maximum time is seven (7) minutes.

    IMPROMPTU SPEAKING:
    Topics for Impromptu will be quotations. All speakers in a round will speak on one of two quotations, and thus it is necessary that competitors cannot view any contestant before them. Each speaker has a maximum of seven (7) minutes to prepare and deliver a speech. Note cards may be used when preparing and speaking.

    INFORMATIVE SPEAKING:
    Bid Eligible for the NIETOC
    Students author and deliver a ten-minute (10) speech on a topic of their choosing. Competitors create the speech to educate the audience on a particular topic. All topics must be informative in nature; the goal is to educate, not to advocate. Visual aids are permitted, but not required. The speech is delivered from memory.

    ​PROGRAMMED ORAL INTERPRETATION:
    Bid eligible for the NIETOC and TOC
    Using selections from Prose, Poetry and Drama students create a ten minute performance around a central theme. Program Oral Interpretation is designed to test a student’s ability to intersplice multiple types of literature into a single, cohesive performance. A manuscript is required and may be used as a prop within the performance if the performer maintains control of the manuscript at all times. Performances can also include an introduction written by the student to contextualize the performance and state the title and the author of each selection.


    ​Judging Information
    Qualified judges are an essential component of any tournament. A qualified judge is an individual who has either graduated from high school with forensics competition experience or who has already had at least one year of forensics judging experience. For Varsity LD debate, our expectation is your judges have had at least 10 tournaments judging the event before. Please list judges by full name when entering the tournament. Judge names should remain consistent throughout the tournament.

    In LD debate, we encourage all judges to reveal their decisions to the students after the debate. We will be posting results after each round. ALL judges for these events must submit a philosophy to tabroom.com. Teams who bring judges without paradigms on tabroom.com will not receive prefs. Several days before the tournament, online judge preference sheets will be made available for all teams in the TOC divisions of PF, LD, and Policy debate on tabroom.com. These should be submitted no later than 5pm January 4th.
    ​
    Obligations
    • All debate judges will be expected to be available through the full first elimination round.
    • Judges affiliated with teams in elimination rounds must be available for the round beyond their teams’ elimination.
    • All judges should inform the tab staff before departing.

    Missed ballots
    We will charge $60 per missed ballot.
    No students from a school with missed ballots will be allowed to compete in elimination rounds until their schools missed ballot fees are paid.
    Missed elim rounds that you are obligated for incur a $100 fine upon your school. Please impress upon your judges the significance of picking up their ballots on time.

    ​
    ​FAQ
    Please visit the frequently asked questions page here. Make sure to read this carefully before you proceed.
    docs.google.com/document/d/1BBPbRgTDdCllPEaO7plseF0vSoNOlPwgkVuxpdIJUU8/edit?usp=sharing

    ​Entry Price

    One novice PF event and parent is judging $75
    One novice PF event and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $215

    One novice LD event and parent is judging $90
    One novice LD event and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $230

    One varsity PF event and parent is judging $100
    One varsity PF event and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $240

    One varsity LD event and parent is judging $130
    One varsity LD event and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $270

    One speech event and parent is judging $65
    One speech event and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $150

    Two speech events and parent is judging $80
    Two speech events and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $170

    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.

    Schedule

    LD Schedule
    Varsity LD buildings: Wexler (WXLR) and Physical Sciences H-wing (PSH). These are connected buildings.
    Novice LD buildings: Wexler (WXLR), Engineering Center G-wing (ECG). A few in Physical Sciences F-wing (PSF) and Social Sciences (SS) only during Round 4.

    Friday, January 10th
    8:30am Round 1
    11:30am Round 2
    2:30pm Round 3
    5:30pm Round 4

    Saturday, January 11th
    8:30am Round 5
    11:30am Round 6
    3pm Elim 1
    ASAP Elim 2

    ​Sunday, January 12th
    8:30am Elim 3
    Remaining elims proceed asap
    PF Schedule
    Varsity PF buildings: Farmer Education (ED), and Payne Hall (EDB).
    Novice PF buildings: Payne Hall (EDB)

    Friday, January 10th
    8:30am Round 1
    11:30am Round 2
    2:30pm Round 3
    5:30pm Round 4

    Saturday, January 11th
    8:30am Round 5
    11:30am Round 6
    3pm Elim 1
    ASAP Elim 2

    ​Sunday, January 12th
    8:30am Elim 3
    Remaining elims proceed asap
    Speech Schedule
    ​Event Buildings:
    Drama/Humor: Stauffer Hall (STAUFF) and West Hall (WHALL)
    Duo/POI: Art Hall (ART), College of Design North (CDN), and Stauffer Hall (STAUFF)
    Extemp/Imp: Business Administration (BA) and Business Administration Center (BAC)
    Oratory/Info: Business Administration (BA), Discovery Hall (DISC), Bulldog Hall (BDH)

    Friday, January 10th
    8am Judge Training LSE 106
    8:30am Extemp Draw
    9am Round I A (Pattern A: Drama, Duo, Extemp, Info)
    10:30am Round I B (Pattern B: Humor, Impromptu, Oratory, POI)
    1pm Extemp Draw
    1:30pm Round II A
    3pm Round II B
    4:30pm Extemp Draw
    5pm Round III A

    Saturday, January 11th
    8:30am Round III B
    10am Round IV B
    12pm Extemp Draw
    12:30pm Round IV A
    2pm B Quarterfinals
    3:30pm Extemp Draw
    4pm A Quarterfinals
    5:30pm B Semifinals
    6:30pm Extemp Draw (EDB L1-08)
    7pm A Semifinals

    Sunday, January 12th
    8am EXT draw Social Sciences Building (SS 229)
    8:30am (LSE 104) Extemp Finals, POI Finals (LSA 191)
    10am (LSE 104) Impromptu Finals, Duo Finals (LSA 191)
    11:30am (LSA 191) Informative Finals, Humor Finals (LSE 104)
    1pm Original (LSE 104) Oratory Finals, Drama Finals (LSA 191)
    3pm Speech Awards LSA 191

    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
    If this is your first time competing, make sure to first create a Tabroom account here: https://www.tabroom.com/user/login/new_user.mhtml
    It's super simple and quick (<1 minute), but follow the guidelines here in case anything is confusing: ​https://docs.tabroom.com/Sign_Up
    PARENT CONTACT INFORMATION
    Your email address will be the one included when we send the logistics email.
    EVENT SELECTION
    No cross entry between speech and debate!
    ​JUDGE PROVISION

    ​Click here to complete the highly recommended Cultural Competency judge training course

    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 literally takes less than a minute.

    First time judging? Click here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.
    ​There are also these training cards available that include a summary of each event's rules and comments.​

    ​Tournaments encourage judges to have a paradigm 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. For example: "I am a parent, please speak clearly and slowly and avoid technical jargon".​

    ​More tournament resources can be found here.
    TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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​​