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    GGSA INDIVIDUAL EVENTS 2 ONLINE ​

    5 December 2020

    DEADLINE
    26 Nov 2020
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to BIF High School students only
    PLATFORM
    Pre-recorded and online through Classrooms.cloud

    Information

    GGSA Member Schools,
    On Saturday, December 5, 2020 the Golden Gate Speech Association will be hosting Individual Events 2 online using the tournaments.classrooms.cloud tournament platform.
    You are responsible for ensuring competitors are familiar with and follow the 2020-21 amended CHSSA rules for online speech.
    Please review the GGSA Individual Events tournament format.
     
    Event & Registration Information
    • The tournament will offer CHSSA Individual Events:
      • Original Events include: Original Oratory, Expository (similar to NSDA’s Informative), Original Advocacy, Original Prose and Poetry. 
      • Interpretive Events include: Humorous Interp, Dramatic Interp, Program Oral Interpretation (formerly Thematic Interpretation), Duo Interp, and Oratorical Interp.  
      • Limited Preparation Events include: National Extemp, International Extemp, and Impromptu.  
    • Double entry is not allowed at regular season GGSA IE tournaments.
    • There will be Varsity and Novice divisions in each event, if entry size allows. Students who have advanced to the final round in a novice division must compete in the varsity division of similar events such as interps, prepared speeches, and limited prepared speeches. For example, if a student was second in novice HI and then switched to duo they would not be able to compete as a novice. However, as a beginning speaker, they could try novice extemp.
    • There will be three preliminary rounds and a final round, unless a division is too small to warrant a final round. Trophies will be given in both Varsity and Novice divisions.
    • Students competing in asynchronous events will need to have their piece uploaded to the classrooms.cloud website by TBD.
    • Drops on the day of the tournament slow the tournament down and can hurt the competition pool. We cannot accommodate adds or event changes the day of the tournament.

    Tournament Logistics
    • For non-limited prep events, preliminary rounds will be asynchronous with the competition video uploaded via the Classrooms.Cloud website. Students are invited to watch all round videos with their judge. The final round will be synchronous.
    • Extemp will mandatory meeting in Extemp Prep at 8:00 a.m. Draw at 8:30 a.m. and the first round will start at 9:00 a.m.
    • All ballots will be online. Remind judges to be prepared with devices to access the internet. They may be more comfortable with a large screen or two devices to watch the round and type their comments/ballots in tabroom.com
    • Judges need to be present for instructions and ballots assignment by 8:30 a.m.
    • If judges are returning ballots on time, and tabroom.com or classrooms.com doesn't go offline, the final round should begin by 2:30 p.m. with the awards ceremony beginning before 5:00 p.m.

    Student Expectations
    • No videos or use of phone allowed during the rounds.

    Judges
    • Please invite your judges to visit this page and preview the judging resources before the tournament. We recommend the CHSSA IE judging video and the NSDA and NFHS free course.
    • Judges should use an iPad or laptop to enter their ballots. While a phone may work, we are discovering that many judges are struggling to get their ballots fully submitted when they are on a phone.


    ​EXTEMP AND IMPROMPTU TOPIC AREAS

    National Extemp
    Round 1:   Politics/Government
    Round 2:   Finance & Economics
    Round 3:   Science & Technology / Social Issues & Controversies
    Finals:       US Foreign Policy

    International Extemp
    Round 1:   The Americas
    Round 2:   Europe/Russia
    Round 3:   Asia/Australia/Oceania
    Finals:       Africa/Middle East

    Impromptu
    Round 1:   Brief, thought provoking quotations
    Round 2:   One word abstract topics, e.g. THRIFT
    Round 3:   General topics of current interest and importance in the form of a question
    Finals:       Concrete nouns, e.g. UMBRELLA
    ​

    Thank you for empowering students through speech! 
    Sincerely, 
    Kimberly Fradelis, kfradelis@bentleyschool.org 
    Justin Kurup, jkurup@nhusd.k12.ca.us 
    GGSA Directors of Individual Events

    ​Entry Price

    One Speech Event and parent is judging: FREE
    One Speech Event and not providing a judge: $70

    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).

    SCHEDULE
    GGSA INDIVIDUAL EVENTS 2 SCHEDULE

    ​Saturday, December 5, 2020
    Judges: When you receive a ballot, please click Start Round in tabroom.com and proceed to your competition room in tournaments.classroom.cloud. If all students are present before the posted start time, you may begin. If anyone is missing, please wait until the posted start time, then you may begin. Thank you for submitting your round ranks as soon as possible at the conclusion of the round. You may continue to enter constructive comments until the awards ceremony.
    Students: Thank you for being good audience members in your rounds. 
    All: Remember, no recordings of the round may occur and please refrain from texting and conversing during the round.
    ---------------------
    8:00 a.m. Coach online check-in | Mandatory Meeting for Extemp Competitors 
    8:30 a.m. Judge Instructions | Extemp Prep Begins
    9:00 a.m. Round 1 Begins 
    10:15 a.m. Extemp Prep Begins
    10:45 a.m. Round 2 Begins | Judges without a ballot assignment, report to Judge Lounge
    12:00 p.m. Extemp Prep Begins
    12:30 p.m. Round 3 Begins | Judges without a ballot assignment, report to Judge Lounge
    1:45 p.m. Lunch
    2:30 p.m. Judges Report to Judge Lounge | Extemp Prep Begins
    3:00 p.m. Final Round Begins
    5:00 p.m. Awards Ceremony (sooner if possible)


    For non-limited prep events, preliminary rounds will be asynchronous with the competition video uploaded via the Classrooms.Cloud website. Students are invited to watch all round videos with their judge. The final round will be synchronous.

    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
    • For non-limited prep events, preliminary rounds will be asynchronous with the competition video uploaded via the Classrooms.Cloud website. Students are invited to watch all round videos with their judge. The final round will be synchronous.​

    ​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 on the resources below.
    We recommend the CHSSA IE judging video and the NSDA and NFHS free course
    Or here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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