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    BYRAM HILLS INVITATIONAL

    8-9 October 2021

    DEADLINE
    3 October 2021
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to high school students
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    2021 Byram Hills Online Open Invitation
    NIETOC Qualifier

    Byram Hills Speech & Debate is excited to announce that the 2021 Byram Hills Open will take place Digitally on Friday and Saturday and October 8th and 9th. The tournament will use NSDA Campus and ALL events will be live (not pre-recorded). Debate Events will be Open Lincoln-Douglas and Open Public Forum. Speech events will include Declamation, Original Oratory, Dramatic Interpretation (including Humorous) and Extemporaneous. We are also excited to announce that we will be a Bid Tournament for NIETOC this year.

    Registration & Entry Information:
    The tournament is open to 9th - 12th graders officially representing the schools they attend. We are allowing double entry in speech events with the exception of Extemporaneous.

    Judges:
    ‣ Speech judges will be expected to cover all speech events
    ‣ All judges in all Debate events must have paradigms on tabroom.com AND must be a high school graduate
    ‣ We will be using online balloting at this tournament. Judges in all divisions must have linked tabroom.com accounts.
    ‣ ​There will be an additional $25 nuisance fee if judges miss a preliminary round; elimination rounds will be $50 fee each missed round

    Awards - We will have limited awards for all events. We hope to mail medals and certificates after the tournament. We will supply more specific details as we get closer to tournament day. 

    ​Entry Price

    LD and parent is judging $70
    LD and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $180

    PF and parent is judging $70
    PF and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $180

    One speech events and parent is judging $70

    One speech events and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $180

    Two speech events and parent is judging $90
    Two speech events and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $200

    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

    Please note that all times are in EASTERN STANDARD TIME (EST).

    (subject to change)
    ​
    LD/PF

    Friday
    Round 1 - 4pm
    Round 2 - 6pm

    Saturday
    Round 3 - 9am
    Round 4 - 11am
    Round 5 - 1:30pm
    Quart - 3:30pm
    Semis- 5:15pm
    Finals - 7:00pm

    SPEECH

    Saturday
    Round 1 - 9AM
    Round 2 - 11AM
    Round 3 - 1PM
    Finals - 3PM

    Awards - 5PM 

    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

    PARENT CONTACT INFORMATION
    Your email address will be the one included when we send the logistics email.

    EVENT SELECTION

    DOUBLE ENTRY POLICY: Students can only participate in either speech OR debate, not both. We are allowing double entry in speech events with the exception of Extemporaneous
    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 less than a minute.

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

    ​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".

    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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