EDMONDS

We’re pleased to invite you to the inaugural Edmonds-Woodway High School Speech and Debate Tournament! The dates for this year’s tournament are November 12th-13th. Due to our District requirements and the state of the world right now, we will be hosting this tournament online.

This year the tournament will be held on Cascade Commons, a tournament room-hosting service that has served us well over the last year of competition. This platform provides an advantage over competing services in that it allows observers in rounds, and permits increased flexibility for all events in room assignments. This does require some advanced set-up on your end to ensure the security of our participants, but it will be worth it!

We currently plan on running all speech events live, with the option for an asynchronous backup in the event of connection issues at the time of the round (optional, you don't have to submit a video if you don't want to). Please see event descriptions for specific rules.

We offer the following events:
Congressional Debate
2 sessions on Friday evening and a super session on Saturday divided into open and novice as entries permit. We will keep house sizes small in order to facilitate online competition. More info soon.

DEBATE
Lincoln Douglas Debate: Open and Novice
Public Forum Debate: Open and Novice

Lincoln/Douglas competitors will use the Nov/December LD topic
Public Forum debate will use the November topic

Individual Events
Inform (Novice-Open)    Oratory (Nov-Open)
Extemp (Nov-Open)    Programmed oral interp (Nov-Open)
Duo Interp (Nov-Open)    Impromptu (Nov-Open)
Dramatic Interp (Nov-Open) Humorous Interp (Nov-Open)
*If a division has fewer than 10 contestants the event will be collapsed into one division.

PLEASE READ THE EVENT RULES CAREFULLY

If you are coming from OUT OF STATE, you may want to consult the Washington Forensics Association Rules found here:
https://wiaa.com/ConDocs/Con1144/2019-20%20Bound%20for%20State%20Regs.pdf.

INFORMATVE: A speech that is designed to be informative in nature. Visual aids and note cards are permitted, but are not required. Time: ten minutes (10) maximum, with thirty seconds (30) grace.
DRAMATIC INTERP: One or more cuttings from a published play, prose, poetry, TV, or radio script, which is serious in nature. The presentation is MEMORIZED. Time: ten minutes maximum with 30 seconds grace.  Novices may use scripts.
DUAL INTERP: A cutting from a published play, prose, poetry, TV, or radio script, which may be either humorous or serious in nature. The selection must be memorized but given without props or costumes. Time: ten minutes (10) maximum with 30 seconds grace. We are currently planning on allowing submissions of videos filmed either with both students together on camera or split screen. Judges will be instructed to not favor either method. If COVID restrictions change, we may change this. If you need help figuring out how to film a duo with this limitation, check out some advice from the NSDA.https://www.speechanddebate.org/duo-interp-split-screen-demo-nats-2020/
Novices may use a script.
EXTEMPORANEOUS: Thirty minutes before speaking time, each speaker will select a topic from a choice of four. Questions will be based on current events of the last three months. Speaker will be expected to organize and analyze material relevant to the subject area and answer the chosen question. One note card for novices only is permitted. Time: seven minutes (7) maximum, with thirty seconds (30) grace.
ORATORY: An original speech designed to persuade—that is, to change or reinforce an existing belief, to eulogize, to cause agreement with speaker’s position, or to motivate to action. Notes may be used in Novice Oratory. Time: ten minutes (10) maximum, with 30 seconds grace.
IMPROMPTU: Student will enter the room and be given a choice of three topics. The student will choose a topic and have six minutes to prepare and speak on the chosen topic. Time may be used in any manner the speaker chooses (example-2 minutes prep and 4 speaking or 4 minutes prep and 2 minutes speaking). Time: six minutes (6) maximum, with thirty seconds (30) grace. This event will be done live on Saturday.
HUMOROUS INTERP: One or more cuttings from a published play, prose, poetry, TV, or radio script, which is humorous in nature. The presentation is MEMORIZED in open, but novices may use scripts. Time: ten minutes with 30 seconds grace. Novices may use scripts.
Programmed oral interp: At least one cutting of prose and one cutting of poetry and/or drama linked thematically. We will follow WSFA rules. Time: ten minutes maximum with thirty seconds grace.

DOUBLE POLICY: Our standard policy for double entries is that students may enter as many events as they like as long as they take responsibility for getting to the rounds on time. As long as they can bounce between the virtual rooms quickly without holding up the tournament schedule, feel free to enter in any event you like!

INTERNET: If you suspect that your internet quality may not be the best on Saturday, 13 November 2021, you may submit a speech video backup to Nadia beforehand by Tuesday, 9 November 2021 for non-limited prep events. However, this does not mean the tournament is asynchronous. This is only a last resort unrepairable technical issues. If you are looking for pre-recorded speech tournaments, please check the GSA calendar for other opportunities.

CASCADE COMMONS: You can find information on Cascade Commons, our tournament hosting site, here: https://www.cascadecommons.org/ Prabhat, the developer of this site, is a local debate coach as well and is on-hand for any support issues, should they arise during the tournament.

JUDGING: Schools are responsible for ensuring that their provided judges are trained and prepared for their assigned judging roles. All ballots will be submitted electronically via Tabroom, so please ensure judges have accounts ahead of time. We also highly recommend that judges take the NFHS judging course found here: https://nfhslearn.com/courses/adjudicating-speech-and-debate

I cannot emphasize this enough; PLEASE TRAIN YOUR JUDGES! The beginning of the tournament is not the time to get judges on Tabroom. We want this to run smoothly, just as you do, and the best way to help ensure that is to have everyone familiar with their software and role.

Time Commitments
Debate judges must be able to judge Friday and Saturday.
Speech judges must be able to judge all day Saturday.

DIVISIONS: Novice division is open to any student who has not competed in debate before the current school year or attended a summer debate camp/workshop. Open IE’s are for all contestants, regardless of prior experience. If a student competed last year in anything for 6 or more rounds, they must be in open division. Novice IE entries must be in the first year of competition.

AWARDS: Awards will be given to all finalists in Individual Events and breaking students in debate. They will be purchased and distributed after the tournament. Please be patient with us, this is a new world. Awards will range from certificates to plaques or trophies depending on event and level. They may also include medals, key chains or other types of awards. Local awards will likely be distributed to coaches while those going farther will be mailed.

EDMONDS WOODWAY INVITATIONAL

12-13 November 2021

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