DEMPSEY CRONIN

THE DEMPSEY CRONIN MEMORIAL INVITATIONAL

5-6 February 2022 for debate
6 February 2022 for speech

DEADLINE

1 February 2022

ELIGIBILITY

Open to middle and high school students

PLATFORM

Online through NSDA Campus

Information

Santa Clara Debating Society and La Reina High School cordially invites you and your team to attend the Fr. James J. Dempsey SJ- Marty Cronin Memorial Speech and Debate Tournament, held on the weekend Saturday-Sunday, February 5-6, 2022. This tournament will be held on the NSDA Campus platform.

The tournament is named in honor of the late Rev. James J. Dempsey, S.J. and Director Marty Cronin. Father Dempsey was a longtime college coach at many notable institutions and co-founder of the collegiate Northern California Forensic Association. Mr. Marty Cronin was an outstanding teacher and coach for many years who serviced the community and helped create a competitive atmosphere where his students thrived. Cronin was president of the Douglas County Professional Education Association, an officer in the Nevada state high school forensic association and active in state politics. Both Fr. James J. Dempsey and Marty Cronin represented the best of this community. In accordance with their values, we hope to provide an educational and competitive event for your students.

This tournament will NOT be offering bids for NIETOC and is NOT designated as a bid tournament for the UK TOC. Our tournament is intended to provide additional opportunities for Middle School, Novice and JV competitors that have been harder to locate in this pandemic year.

LOCATION/PLATFORM
This competition will take place online on the NSDA Campus platform. All Speech rounds will be on Sunday only. Policy, LD, PF and Parliamentary will complete all Prelim rounds on Saturday. All rounds will be single-flighted in order to reduce screen time for both competitors and judges.

TIME ZONE
Due to our school’s location in California, all times for the tournament will be on Pacific time.

DEADLINES
No refund will be issued after the tournament registration deadline passes.
Judge changes are due on the same date.

DOUBLE ENTRY LIMITATIONS
Students are able to enter in one Debate event and up to 2 Speech events.
Students who enter in Extemp can only do Extemp during the Speech pattern, but may still register for a Debate event.
Debate will be divided into Open, JV, and Middle School divisions.
Middle School students can enter into any division their coach deems appropriate.

JUDGE QUALIFICATIONS

All judges are required to have a linked Tabroom account. This is to ensure they have access to both their ballots and the competition rooms on the NSDA Campus platform.
Judges covering Open division competitors must be over the age of 18 and have graduated from high school.
Judges for JV and Middle School events can be current high school Juniors or Seniors with significant forensics experience.
We highly encourage all judges to review the NSDA Cultural Competency resources (www.speechanddebate.org/judge-training/) and take the course. If you are new to judging, you can also refer to the Adjudicating Speech and Debate course available on the same link.
We expect all judges to act in a manner that is inclusive, equitable, and offers constructive criticism to the competitors, regardless of their background or experience.

ELIMINATION ROUND OBLIGATIONS
All judges are committed to judge one round beyond when the last student from GSA is eliminated from competition in that division.
This means that if you are judging PF and one of GSA's PF entries advances to the Quarterfinal round, ALL PF judges are committed to judge the Semifinal round.
All judges are obligated through the first complete elimination round. For example, if we run a partial octofinal debate all judges are obligated through the quarterfinal elimination round.
All Speech judges are committed to the first elimination round, and all Congress judges are committed through the Final round.
Please make sure your judges are available for their full commitment. Missed rounds will incur fees as we have to replace those judges with hired judges or school judges beyond their commitment.

PUBLIC FORUM
We are running the January and recently add the February PF topic.
We are assigning sides in prelims, but in elims we will implement a coin flip. Evidence must be shared upon request from either an opponent or judge.

EQUITY AND DISPUTES
If, at any point in time, during the tournament there is a concern regarding equity or a dispute regarding a tournament procedure, we are requiring the individuals to fill out a google form so they can be contacted by the Ombudsperson and Equity Officer. The decisions of the Equity Officer / Ombudsperson are final.

Entry Price

One speech event and parent is judging $70
One speech event and parent is opting out of judging $140

Two speech events and parent is judging $90
Two speech events and parent is opting out of judging $160

One PF event and parent is judging $70
One PF event and parent is opting out of judging $190

One PF plus one speech event and parent is judging on both days $90
One PF plus one speech event and parent is opting out of judging $210

One PF plus two speech events and parent is judging on both days $110
One PF plus two speech events and parent is opting out of judging $230

One LD event and parent is judging $90
One LD event and parent is opting out of judging $210

One LD plus one speech event and parent is judging on both days $110
One LD plus one speech event and parent is opting out of judging $230

One LD plus two speech events and parent is judging on both days $130
One LD plus two speech events and parent is opting out of judging $250

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 PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (PST).

Click here to see the schedule page

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

* Indicates required field

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
Contestants should make an effort to notify their judges when they are double-entered. Tardiness to rounds may result in disqualification unless excused by the tabroom or tournament director.

JUDGE PROVISION

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

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

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