BERKELEY BIF

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

* Indicates required field

Upload Signed Waiver *

Max file size: 20MB

I understand that without submitting the correctly signed waiver form, my entry will be dropped and my fees forfeited. *

Yes, I understand.

STUDENT INFORMATION
Suggested attire for the tournament can be found here.
More tournament resources can be found here.

Student Name *

First

Last

Student Email (DO NOT USE PARENT'S EMAIL) *

Student Phone Number *

Does the student have a Tabroom account? *

Yes and it is linked with GSA's account(s) Yes but it is not linked and we need you to add to your roster No but I will create one before submitting registration No but I will pay the additional $35 setup fee

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.

Parent Name *

First

Last

Parent Email *

Parent Phone Number *

EVENT SELECTION
Double entry will not be allowed between debate events or between debate and speech.

Partner Name (write N/A if none) *

First

Last

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.

Are you supplying a judge? *

Judge Name *

Judge email (Must be linked to a tabroom account. Register first at tabroom.com before completing this sign up) *

Judge phone *

Does your judge have a Tabroom account? *

Yes No but I will create one before submitting registration No but I'll pay the additional $35 setup fee Not judging

Does your judge understand that he/she is responsible for the entire tournament schedule and that missing a round incurs fines from the tournament? *

Yes, understood Not judging but understood as well

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

I will keep a copy of this form for reference. *

YES

We are signing up with the understanding that my child will work to be ready by the tournament date. If we choose to drop out because my child is not ready that will be considered when making assessments for future classes. *

YES

I understand that if I fail to drop the tournament before the deadline that I will still be responsible for the fees of both my son or daughter, along with that of his or her partner and the fines. *

YES

I understand that if payment is not received we won't be registered and our spot will be given up to someone else. *

YES

I confirm that I have completed all necessary paperwork for this tournament. *

YES

I understand that The Golden State Academy has no control over tournament entries other than the initial sign up. I understand that my child's priority will be based on either the last time I signed up OR the date paid, whichever is latest. *

YES

I understand that my child must check in and check out periodically at the tournament with the coach and that if I do not my child will be barred from participating in following tournaments. This is to ensure coaches can see where students are at competitively and to give any initial feedback for improvement. *

YES

I understand that I can check my entry status through tabroom.com. *

YES

I am a consenting adult. I understand that by submitting this form I agree to all that has been covered. *

YES

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

Polygon Academy (Cupertino): 1025 S. DeAnza Blvd, San Jose, CA-95129

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

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

CAL INVITATIONAL UC BERKELEY​

19-21 February 2022

Information

​Entry Price

Schedule - PST

Drop Fee

Contact Info

Registration Form

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

School year Hours

Telephone

Email (preferred)

Locations

CAL INVITATIONAL UC BERKELEY

Entry Price

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