CLAREMONT WOLFPACK BIF

Please accept our cordial invitation to the 14th Annual Claremont High School Wolfpack Invitational. We look forward to hosting your team virtually on the NSDA Campus platform and providing a great weekend of outstanding competition. We have shifted our tournament dates from early January into February, to provide a friendly and affordable alternative to the Stanford Tournament. In this, our fourteenth year, we are excited to continue to offer three full days of competition, including six preliminary rounds in debate, clearing to Double Octofinals and offering two patterns of speech completion. We accept entries from 6th-12th grade and we do accept independent entries.

Events and Divisions:
In debate, all competition will be virtual, synchronous live events. We offer an Open division of Policy Debate. We offer both Novice and Open divisions in Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Parliamentary Debate, Public Forum, and Congressional Debate. (Note: There will be an Open division Presiding Officer contest that will preside over both divisions of Congress.) Novice and Varsity divisions of debate will be collapsed into one Open division if there are fewer than 24 entries in one of the divisions. A Varsity debater is any debater in their second season or greater of high school competition. A Novice debater is any debater still in their first academic year of high school competition. In Open divisions, we will clear all 4-2 teams up to a full Double Octofinals after six rounds. In Novice division, we will break up to a full Octofinals after five rounds. (No teams with losing records will advance). We will use the Jan./Feb. LD topic and the February PF topic. We do not use separate topics for the novices.

In speech, Duo will be recorded and asynchronous. Duo competitors must attend the round and when it is their turn to present, they will provide the judge a link to their speech recording via the chat. All other speech events will be presented as virtual, synchronous live events. We offer Open divisions in events including: Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Oratorical Interpretation, Program Oral Interpretation, Informative, Original Oratory, Original Advocacy, Original Prose & Poetry, Duo, Impromptu, Domestic Extemporaneous and International Extemporaneous. In addition, we are pleased to announce that this year we are again a NIETOC bid tournament, offering bids in OO, DI, HI, POI, Info, Duo and Extemporaneous. The number of bids available depends on the number of competitors in each event. Speech will break to semi-finals with thirty-five or more entries; in some events we may have three semifinal panels. Fewer than thirty-five entries will break directly to finals. The exception is Duo Interpretation, where NIETOC counts the number of competitors rather than entries. If there are 26 or more teams (51+ competitors), Duo will break to semi-finals. For additional information on bid count and what a NIETOC bid can mean for your team, please visit www.nietoc.com.

Patterns and Multiple Entry
Students may enter up to five events; consisting of one debate event and two speech events in each pattern. Exceptions:

Students entering in Policy Debate may not double enter.
A student entering either Extemp may not enter another event in the same speech pattern.

Pattern A: Impromptu, DI, POI, Domestic Extemp, OPP, OO.
Pattern B: International Extemp, HI, Duo, Info, OI, OA

Awards and Recognition
Awards will be given to all Speech semi-finalists and finalists and all Congress finalists will receive an award. All octo-finalists and higher in the debate events will receive awards. Speaker Awards will be given to the top 10 speakers in all partner debate events. We will also present Sweepstakes awards to the top five schools.

Entry Procedure:
Entries are NOT complete unless all student competitors and judges have completed their Participant/Judge Tournament Eligibility Survey. A Link to this Participant/Judge Tournament Eligibility Survey will be posted below.

Extemp & Parli Topic Selection and Congress Legislation
We invite the community to submit potential Congressional legislation, Parliamentary Debate resolutions or Extemporaneous topic areas for consideration. All topic selection decisions will be made by the tournament director. If you or your students would like to create congress resolutions, suggest Extemporaneous topic areas, or submit Parliamentary Debate resolutions, please email all ideas to (chamberlainofchs@gmail.com). Congress legislation must be received by January 1, 2021 so that the Congress legislation can be posted online one month prior to the tournament. The deadline for Parli resolutions and Extemp topic areas will be January 20, 2021.

Judge Requirements:
It is expected that schools will provide qualified debate judges. Judges will only count if they have a linked Tabroom.com account.
All judges from a school are committed for one additional round beyond when your school's last competitor is eliminated from the event.

Judge Training: With the switch to the virtual environment, judges are responsible for their own judge training. The NSDA has provided great tools, at no cost to anyone, at https://www.speechanddebate.org/judge-training/ It will help everyone become a better, unbiased judge, navigate the online ballots and platform, and if they are new, explain the basics of the events they might judge. Judges will need to certify on the Participant/Judge Tournament Eligibility Survey that they have completed all of the training.

Event Specific Rules:
All Public Forum will use the February topic and All Lincoln Douglas will use the January/February topic. Sides will be assigned for all prelim debates.

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

2021 CLAREMONT WOLFPACK INVITATIONAL

6-8 February 2021

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