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    THE EVERGREEN INVITATIONAL ​

    26-28 February 2021

    DEADLINE
    To register: 15 Feb 2021
    ​To drop: 17 Feb 2021
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to middle and high school students 
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    The Evergreen Valley Speech and Debate Team wholeheartedly welcomes you to the Evergreen Invitational! We’re incredibly excited to host this tournament and strive to create an amazing tournament experience for all events and skill levels. 
      
    General Information
    Locations:
    Competition: NSDA Campus
    Zoom “Tabroom”
    • We offer open and novice divisions for each event, but reserve the right to collapse divisions if entries warrant. 
    • The tournament reserves the right to adapt the amount or structure of elimination rounds if required by tournament logistics.
    • While casual attire is encouraged for competitors, formal attire is also welcome!
    • Our tournament Equity Officer is [TBA].

    Debate General Information
    • In debate, we offer 5 preliminary rounds and will break to double-octofinals in each event, assuming the number of entries warrants this.
    • Debate Prelims and Elim 1 will be double-flighted. Elim 2 and beyond will be single-flighted.
    • Tie-breakers for debate elimination rounds will be win-loss record, opponent seed, and head-to-head. There will not be speaker points in debate events.
    • We will break brackets based on school affiliation.
     
    Speech General Information
    • In speech, we offer 3 prelim rounds and will break to semifinals in each event, assuming the number of entries warrants this.
    • Speech Prelims will be single flighted and asynchronous (with the exception of Impromptu), while Speech Elimination Rounds will be single flighted and live.
     
    Events and Divisions
    • We offer Open and Novice divisions for the following Speech and Debate events:
      • Dramatic Interpretation
      • Humorous Interpretation
      • Impromptu
      • Original Oratory 
      • Oratorical Interpretation
      • Lincoln Douglas
      • Public Forum
    • The tournament reserves the right to collapse divisions on a need-basis.
    • Debate Events will be held from Friday to Sunday.
    • Speech Events will be held on Sunday. ALL Speech Events EXCEPT for Impromptu  (DI, HI, OO, OI) will hold asynchronous preliminary rounds.
    • Additional rules and procedures for each event and division can be found HERE.

    Eligibility
    • In order to compete in the Novice division, competitors must not have competed in the previous academic year, broken to elimination rounds at 3 or more tournaments in Novice, or broken to elimination rounds in open at any tournaments
     
    Judge Notes
    • You will be fined $50 per round if a judge fails to show up for a round for which they are scheduled.
    • Regardless of whether their teams advance to elimination rounds, all judges are obligated to be available to judge through the first full elimination round in their division. 
    • For schools whose teams advance to elimination rounds, all judges for your school will be obligated until one round after your last team in that division is eliminated.
    • We will be using NSDA Campus, so all judges MUST have a tabroom account.
    • Preliminary rounds for speech (except for Impromptu) will be conducted asynchronously so judges will be watching videos of competitors on Saturday. Sunday is live elims.
    • All judges who are 18+ are accepted. Judge training will be offered at the beginning of the tournament.
      
    Topics
    Public Forum: NSDA February 2020 PF Topic
    Lincoln Douglas: NSDA Jan/Feb 2021 LD Topic
     
    NSDA Campus
    • We will be using NSDA Campus to conduct this tournament. 
    • Instructions for Students
    • Instructions for Judges
    • More information will be provided soon.​

    ​Entry Price

    One Speech or Debate Event $85
    Two Speech and/or Debate Events $110
    Three Speech and/or Debate Events $135
    Four Speech and/or Debate Events $160

    If you don't provide a judge, you will pay an additional $110
    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).

    All events (please see each sheet for specific activity)
    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

    To participate at this tournament, you are required to sign the liability form(s) below. Make sure to do so before you proceed with the registration.
    ​

    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.
    There is a limit of 3 events to students entering in Speech. Please make sure you are aware, however, that elimination rounds for everything are live.
    2. The only cross-entry restriction between speech and debate is for those who want to do Impromptu (live prelims) and Debate, as this is simply not possible with our schedule. If a student wants to enter in both Speech and Debate, they may enter in 3 (NON-IMPROMPTU) speech events and 1 debate event. However, please do note that elimination rounds for all speech are live, so students must evaluate what they believe they can do and prioritize.
    YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED IN ENTERING DEBATE AND IMPROMPTU DUE TO TIME CONTRAINT.
    BOTH partners must fill out form and pay in order to be registered!



    ​​Asynchronous speech videos are due on 24 Feb 2021. List them here or send them to nbudiman@tgsastaff.com, vrivasumana@tgsastaff.com by that date.

    ​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 less than a minute.

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

    ​Judges are encouraged 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".

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

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