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    ​EDMONDS WOODWAY INVITATIONAL

    12-13 November 2021

    DEADLINE
    8 November 2021
    ​NO REFUNDS AFTER THIS DATE
    ELIGIBILITY
    open to middle and high school students
    PLATFORM
    Cascade Commons

    Information

    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.

    ​Entry Fees

    Debate only and parent is judging $60
    Debate only and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $190

    Debate + 1 Speech and parent is judging $70
    Debate + 1 Speech and parent is OPTING OUT judging $210

    Debate + 2 Speech and parent is judging $80
    ​Debate + 2 Speech and parent is OPTING OUT judging $220

    One Speech Event and parent is judging $60
    One Speech Event and parent is OPTING OUT judging $140

    Two Speech Events and parent is judging $70
    ​Two Speech Events and parent is OPTING OUT judging $150

    Each person in a PF team would be responsible of providing their own judge, so one PF 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).
    ​​
    ​Tentative Schedule
    We will not start before 3:00 PM Friday or 8:00 AM Saturday, but we may adjust this schedule between now and the tournament. If we have the judges, we may try to single flight some divisions of LD and Public Forum.
     
    Friday, November 12th
    3:00 PM           Debate Check in
    3:30                  Debate Round 1, Congress session 1 (LD and PF double flighted)
    5:45                   Debate 2
    6:00                  Congress Session 2
    8:00                  Debate 3
     
    Saturday, November 13th
    7:45 AM           Check in
    8:00                  Speech 1
    9:30                  Debate 4 (super congress 1)
    11:30                  Speech  2
    1:00                   Debate 5 (super congress 2)
    3:00                  Speech  3
    4:30                  CX sems/finals. LD and PF Quarters.  
    6:00                  Speech finals
    7:15 PM             CX Finals, LD and PF sems (If applicable)
    8:30 PM           LD/ PF Finals
    8:30 PM           Awards  
     
    LD and PF judges are obligated for two rounds past the elimination of their last competitors.

    Drop Fee

    Changes or drops made after the deadline will be charged a nuisance fee by the tournament. 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
    Make sure you have checked the double-entry policies if there are any. We are not responsible for schedule conflicts.
    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 two minutes.

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

    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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