CLAREMONT WOLFPACK

15TH ANNUAL CLAREMONT WOLFPACK INVITATIONAL

12-14 February 2022

DEADLINE

8 Feb 2022 @NOON

ELIGIBILITY

Open to 5th-12th graders

PLATFORM

Online through NSDA Campus

Information

Please accept our cordial invitation to the 15th Annual Claremont High School Wolfpack Invitational. We look forward to hosting your team virtually (We tried! But, OMICRON!!) on the NSDA Campus platform and providing a great weekend of outstanding competition. In this, our fifteenth 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 competition. We accept entries from 5th-12th grade.

Events and Divisions:
In debate, all competition will be virtual, synchronous live events. We offer both Novice and Open divisions in Lincoln-Douglas 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 16 entries in one of the divisions.
A Varsity debater is any high-school age debater in their second season or greater of high school competition or any middle school debater in their third season or greater of debate competition.
A Novice debater is any debater still in their first academic year of high school competition, as long as they do not have two or more prior years of middle 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 preliminary 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.

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. We will offer a Novice speech division in two events: Novice Oratory (which will combine OO and OA) and Novice Impromptu.
A novice speech competitor is any middle school student or a first year high school competitor.
In addition, we are pleased to announce that this year we are again both a NIETOC and a University of Kentucky TOC bid tournament, offering bids in Open Divisions of OO, DI, HI, POI, Info, Duo and Extemporaneous. The number of bids available depends on the number of competitors in each event. Speech events will break to semi-finals with thirty (30) or more entries; in some events we may have three semifinal panels. Fewer than thirty entries will break directly to finals. For additional information on bid count and what a NIETOC bid can mean for your team, please visit www.nietoc.com. For more information on UK TOC, please go to https://ci.uky.edu/UKDebate/tournament-champions-1 .

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

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

Pattern A: Impromptu, DI, POI, Domestic Extemp, OPP, OO, and Novice IMP
Pattern B: International Extemp, HI,, Info, OI, OA, and Novice OO/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.

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. All debate judges from a school are committed for one additional round beyond when your 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.
Presiding Officer Instructions

Entry Price

These fees assume that you (parent) will be judging:
LD only $90
LD + 1 Speech $110
LD + 2 Speech $130
LD + 3 Speech $150
LD + 4 Speech $170

PF only $75
PF + 1 Speech $95
PF + 2 Speech $115
PF + 3 Speech $135
PF + 4 Speech $155

Policy only $80
Policy + 1 Speech $100
Policy + 2 Speech $120
Policy + 3 Speech $140
Policy + 4 Speech $160

Congress only $70
Congress + 1 Speech $90
Congress + 2 Speech $110
Congress + 3 Speech $130
Congress + 4 Speech $150

One Speech Event $70
Two Speech Events $90
Three Speech Events $110
Four Speech Events $130

If you (parent) are OPTING OUT OF JUDGING and your child is doing speech only, you will pay an additional $120
If you (parent) are OPTING OUT OF JUDGING and your child is doing debate only, you will pay an additional $150
If you (parent) are OPTING OUT OF JUDGING and your child is doing speech and debate, you will pay an additional $150
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

15th Annual Wolfpack Invitational Tournament Schedule
PST

Saturday, February 12
7:00 AM Judges and Coaches sign-in to Wolfpack Zoom
8:00 AM Debate & Congress Round 1
10:00 AM Debate & Congress Round 2
12:00 PM Speech Pattern A Round 1
1:30 PM Speech Pattern B Round 1
3:00 PM Debate & Congress Round 3
5:00 PM Speech Pattern A Round 2
6:30 PM Speech Pattern B Round 2

Sunday, February 13
7:00 AM Judges and Coaches sign-in to Wolfpack Zoom
8:00 AM Speech Pattern A Round 3
9:30 AM Speech Pattern B Round 3
11:00 AM Debate Round 4 & Congress Semis
1:00 PM Speech Semifinals (Pattern A & B Combined)
3:00 PM Debate Round 5 & Congress Finals
5:00 PM Speech Finals (Pattern A & B Combined)
7:00 PM Debate Round 6 (double flighted if needed)
7:30 PM Speech Awards

Monday, February 14
8:00 AM Judges and Coaches sign-in to Wolfpack Zoom
9:00 AM Debate Open Double-Octofinals & Novice Octofinals (double flighted if needed)
10:30 AM Debate Open Octofinals & Novice Quarters
12:00 PM Debate Open Quarterfinals & Novice Semis
1:30 PM Debate Open Semifinals & Novice Finals
2:30 PM Debate Open Finals

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

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 Participant/Judge Tournament Eligibility Survey. Make sure to do this before you proceed with the registration.

https://forms.gle/2PVQK2xPidN6tcpU8

School: The Golden State Academy
Chaperone: Victor Rivas Umana

STUDENT INFORMATION
Students must fill out the Google Form above before proceeding.

* Indicates required field

Student Name *

First

Last

Student Email (DO NOT USE PARENT'S EMAIL, must have Tabroom account) *

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 so make sure to list it correctly.

Parent Name *

First

Last

Parent Email *

Parent Phone Number *

EVENT SELECTION
Make sure you have checked the double-entry policies above. We are not responsible for any disqualifications due to not abiding to the rules.

JUDGE PROVISION
Make sure you will be available to judge the entire tournament schedule.
Judges must also fill out this Participant/Judge Tournament Eligibility Survey before proceeding:
TBA

Are you supplying a judge? *

Judge Name *

Judge email (MUST HAVE TABROOM ACCOUNT) *

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

Cupertino: 20432 Silverado Avenue Suite 211, Cupertino, CA 95014

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