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    BAY AREA MIDDLE SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP

    2 April 2023 for speech
    1-2 April 2023 for debate

    DEADLINE
    25 March 2023
    ​NO REFUNDS AFTER THIS DATE
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to 5th-8th graders
    LOCATION
    Presentation High School
    ​2281 Plummer Ave, San Jose, CA 95125, United States
    The Tab Room is inside of the Library, which is in the main building on campus, closest to Plummer Ave.

    Information

    The Presentation Speech and Debate program is excited to host IN PERSON middle school students in our Championship tournament for Speech and Debate events. The tournament will take place on the Presentation High School campus located at 2281 Plummer Avenue on Saturday, April 1st and Sunday, April 2nd. The tournament will offer all debate and speech events. Your fees cover the cost of entry as well as lunch on Sunday.

    1. To reiterate we will provide lunch for all competitors, coaches and judges.
    2. We will have awards announced in the center where all of the students will gather. All students who get to finals of speech events will get awards. All students who break to quarters or better in debate events will get awards. Both partners in partner events will get awards.
    3. We will offer preliminary rounds that will break to elimination rounds in all debate events and final rounds for all Individual events.
    4. This tournament is open ONLY to middle school students grades 5-8.
    5. Students are allowed to cross enter at their own risk. Students can enter up to three events but can only enter one debate division (Congress is considered a debate event.). We will not provide special accommodations for cross entry. Students are responsible for getting to all of their rounds on time. We will not hold up the tournament for cross entry nor will we re-run rounds for rounds missed.
    6. TOPICS FOR DEBATE EVENTS: We will use the March- April NSDA LD topic. We will use the April NSDA PF topic. Let me know if you have any questions about debate topics.

    ​We look forward to hosting you at this tournament which will feature the Best of the Bay!

    ​Entry Price

    One speech event and parent is judging $110
    One speech event and parent is opting out of judging $200

    Two speech events and parent is judging $170
    Two speech events and parent is opting out of judging $260

    One PF event and parent is judging $80
    One PF event and parent is opting out of judging $200

    One PF + one speech event and parent is judging on both days $140
    One PF + one speech event and parent is opting out of judging $260

    One PF + two speech events and parent is judging on both days $200
    One PF + two speech events and parent is opting out of judging $320

    One LD event and parent is judging $110
    One LD event and parent is opting out of judging $230

    One LD + one speech event and parent is judging on both days $170
    One LD + one speech event and parent is opting out of judging $290

    One LD + two speech events and parent is judging on both days $230
    One LD + two speech events and parent is opting out of judging $350

    Each person in a PF/Policy/Duo team would be responsible of providing their own judge, so one PF/Policy/Duo 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.

    Tentative Schedule

    ​Saturday April 1 Debate
    7:30am Registration
    8:30am Debate Round One
    10:30am Debate Round Two
    12:30 Lunch
    1:30pm Debate Round Three
    3:30 pm Debate Round Four
    5:00pm Debate Round Five

    Sunday, April 2 Individual Events and Debate Elims
    7:30am Final IE (Speech) Registration
    8:00am Extemp Draw
    8:30am Individual Events (Speech) Round One
    9:30am Debate Quarter Final Rounds
    10:30am Extemp Draw
    11:00am Individual Events (Speech) Round Two
    12:15pm LUNCH
    12:00pm - Debate Semi finals
    12:30pm Extemp Draw
    1:00pm Individual Events (Speech) Round Three
    3:00 Debate Finals
    3:00pm Extemp Draw
    3:30pm Individual Event (Speech) ​Finals

    *** WE WILL SPEED UP DEBATE ELIM ROUNDS WHEN POSSIBLE. So pay attention to announcements and Tabroom. We also reserve the right to add a prelim round or add/reduce the number of elim rounds based on entry size of each division of debate. We will make final decisions about breaks and rounds after registration closes and will make those decisions public ASAP.

    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:  vrivasumana@tgsastaff.com

    Nadia Budiman 
    Contact email: nbudiman@tgsastaff.com

    Or info@tgsastaff.com

    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
    Students are allowed to cross enter at their own risk. We will not provide special accommodations for cross entry. Students are responsible for getting to all of their rounds on time. We will not hold up the tournament for cross entry nor will we re-run rounds for rounds missed.​
    BOTH partners must fill out form and pay in order to be registered!

    ​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
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: info@tgsastaff.com

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 
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