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    CAL INVITATIONAL UC BERKELEY​

    19-21 February 2022

    DEADLINE
    30 January 2022
    NO REFUNDS
    ​
    ​
    The tournament is still accepting entries after 30 January 2022, but this will incur a $50 late fee. So make sure to sign up ahead of time.
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to middle and high school students
    PLATFORM
    Online possibly through NSDA Campus

    Information

    Greetings,

    This is your formal invitation to the 2022 California Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament, to be held February 19-21, 2022.

    Due to very recent changes in University, City and State policy, Cal Debate Director Michael Klinger has made the very difficult decision to move the tournament online and cancel the in-person event for 2022. We tried our best to make an in-person event work, and we know that this decision may have negative impacts on some of our attendees, but unfortunately the decision is out of our hands. Up to this point, University guidance allowed for an in-person event, and the University did not recommend canceling despite the Omicron surge. On very short notice, the University changed course and implemented a new set of guidelines and requirements that directly affect our ability to host the event, and we are now being told to go online. We know that many of you were looking forward to coming in-person, and we share that disappointment. We will look forward to welcoming you all back to Berkeley in 2023.

    We plan to hold our usual offering of both speech and debate events for this year's tournament Online for all three days of competition.

    Events and Divisions - All events will be offered online.
    Lincoln-Douglas Debate
    • Varsity LD
    • JV LD
    Public Forum Debate
    • Varsity PF
    • JV PF
    • Middle School PF
    Congressional Debate
    • Varsity Congressional Debate
    • Middle School Congressional Debate
    Speech
    • Dramatic Interpretation
    • Humorous Interpretation
    • Duo Interpretation
    • Extemporaneous Speaking
    • Impromptu Speaking
    • Informative Speaking
    • Original Oratory
    • Program Oral Interpretation
    *There will be 4 preliminary rounds in individual events. Individual events will be synchronous. Specific event schedules will be released in advance of the tournament.

    Our current plan is to host online events on NSDA Campus.
    We reserve the right to cancel or combine divisions with insufficient entries, and will notify participants in advance of any changes.
    All divisions will receive trophies.
    New this year, we will also be offering Middle School Public Forum and Middle School Congress divisions, with schedules designed specifically for your younger students.

    Multiple Entries
    Students may triple enter in speech events. Students may not double enter in speech and debate. All double entry is at a student’s own risk. No accommodations will be made for a student missing a round due to double entry.

    TOC Qualifier
    The online tournament is a Tournament of Champions qualifier in the following:
    Double Octafinals in Silver PF
    Octafinals in Gold PF
    Octafinals in LD
    Top 6 in Congress
    Speech events according to size

    Topics
    Lincoln-Douglas Debate will use the 2021-2022 January-February NSDA topic.
    Public Forum Debate will use the February 2022 NSDA topic.

    Judge Commitments
    All judges are committed through the first elim on Monday (usually the Double Octafinals depending on event size), or one round beyond the elimination of GSA's teams, whichever is later. Even if your school doesn’t have any teams in elimination rounds, your judges are still committed through the first elimination round on Monday. Elim judging commitments also apply in all divisions of an event so if you have a JV team, your Varsity judges are still committed and vice versa.

    Fines
    The penalty for a judge failing to report to an assigned round is $75 per round. This fine is assessed even when a replacement judge is found.
    All entry fees, late fees, and any other penalties/fines must be paid in full before a team will be allowed to advance to the elimination rounds (or the next elim).

    Decision Times
    Decision times will be strictly enforced. Policy rounds must be decided two hours after the announced start time, and LD/PF rounds must be decided fifty five minutes after the announced start time.

    Eligibility
    Maverick teams are not permitted to enter prior to the tournament. If a team becomes maverick due to illness of a partner during the tournament, the ill debater may miss no more than 2 debates to be able to return and continue debating. Mavericks may win the debate. Mavericks will not be permitted to clear to elimination rounds.

    We look forward to hosting you this year!
    Berkeley Debate

    ​Entry Price

    LD and parent is judging $140
    LD and parent is OPTING OUT of $260

    PF and parent is judging $115
    PF and parent is OPTING OUT ​of $235

    Congress and parent is judging $120
    Congress and parent is OPTING OUT ​of $240

    One Speech Event and parent is judging $100
    Two Speech Events and parent is judging $150

    Three Speech Events and parent is judging $200
    One Speech Event and parent is OPTING OUT ​of $220
    Two Speech Events and parent is OPTING OUT ​of $270
    Two Speech Events and parent is OPTING OUT ​of $320

    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.

    Schedule - PST

    2022 Tentative Schedule
    All schedules are still under development and are subject to change. Final schedules will be released closer to the event.

    SPEECH
    R1 - Saturday 8:30am
    R2 - Saturday 10:30am
    R3 - Saturday 1:00pm
    R4 - Saturday 3:30pm
    Elims - Sunday 8:30am-5pm

    LD/PF
    R1 - Saturday 8:00am
    R2 - Saturday 11:15am
    R3 - Saturday 3:00pm
    R4 - Saturday 6:30pm
    R5 - Sunday 8:00am
    R6 - Sunday 11:15am
    First elim - Sunday 3:00pm
    Second elim - Sunday 6:30pm
    Remaining elims - Monday 8:00am-4:00pm

    CONGRESS
    Congress will run throughout the day Sat and Sun​

    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

    To participate at this tournament, you are required to sign the waiver and parent letter forms below. Make sure to do so before you proceed with the registration. Failure to do so will result in your entry being removed and your fees forfeited by the tournament.

    ​DOWNLOAD WAIVER FORM
    Max file size: 20MB

    STUDENT INFORMATION
    ​
    Suggested attire for the tournament can be found here.
    ​More tournament resources can be found 
    here.
    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
    ​
    Double entry will not be allowed between debate events or between debate and speech.
    BOTH partners must fill out form and pay in order to be registered!

    ​JUDGE PROVISION
    Debate judges are required to be available the whole 3 days from Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Speech judges are required to be available the whole weekend, Saturday and Sunday. What event you'll be judging depends on what your child is signed up for.
    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 

Loving Tree Academy: 36601 Newark Blvd, #83, Newark, CA 94560
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