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    ​GGSA INDIVIDUAL EVENTS #3

    29 January 2022

    DEADLINE
    23 January 2022
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to BIF High School students only
    PLATFORM
    NSDA Campus

    Information

    GGSA Member Schools,
    On Saturday, January 22, 2022 the Golden Gate Speech Association will be hosting Individual Events 3 online using NSDA Campus online tournament platform.
    You are responsible for ensuring that you are familiar with and follow the 2020-21 amended CHSSA rules for online speech.
    Please review the GGSA Individual Events tournament format. With online tournaments, all students must be linked in tabroom.com to their school. See tabroom.com help for more information. 
     
    Event & Registration Information
    • The tournament will offer CHSSA Individual Events:
      • Original Events include Original Oratory, Informative (formerly Expos), Original Advocacy, Original Prose and Poetry. 
      • Interpretive Events include Humorous Interp, Dramatic Interp, Program Oral Interpretation (formerly Thematic Interpretation), Duo Interp, and Oratorical Interp.  
      • The league has voted and Duo Interp will be conducted synchronously, live performances with students in the same room. We encourage you to follow the safety protocols set forward by your school and have a waiver signed on record. If your students would like to compete in Duo but are not able to be in the same room, please contact Justin or Kimberly for accommodations for video recordings. 
      • 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 beginning speakers, 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.
    • ​Drops on the day of the tournament slow the tournament down and can hurt the competition pool. We cannot accommodate ldst-minute adds or event changes.

    Tournament Logistics
    • ​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 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.
    • Please see the guideline below if you are judging. It might be of great help.
      https://s3.amazonaws.com/tabroom-files/tourns/21840/postings/28012/GGSASpeechJudgeIntstructions.pdf
    ​

    ​EXTEMP PROCEDURES & IMPROMPTU TOPIC AREAS
    ​1. Extemp Procedures / Prep Room Link / Draw Schedule > TBA
    2. 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
      For each round, judges will paste 3 topics in the chat when it is each speaker's turn to speak. After a prep period of 2 minutes, the speech begins. 
    ​

    EQUITY STATEMENT​
    ​GGSA is committed to the safety and well-being of all its participants -- students, coaches, and judges. Equity Officers will be available at each GGSA tournament to address concerns that challenge the safety and fairness of the competition. As a league, we have zero tolerance for harassment, bullying, and/or discrimination of any kind. We expect all competitors, coaches, judges, and staff to make a commitment to inclusion by providing a safe environment for all students to compete. 
    If there is an equity issue that arises at this tournament, please contact the tournament's Equity Officer(s).

    ​Entry Price

    One Speech Event and parent is judging: FREE
    One Speech Event and parent is OPTING OUT of judging: $100

    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

    GGSA INDIVIDUAL EVENTS 3 SCHEDULE (to be confirmed, this is just a copy from the last tournament)
    Saturday, January 29, 2022

    Judges: When you receive a ballot, please click Start Round in tabroom.com and proceed to your competition room. 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
    2:15 p.m. Judges Report to Judge Lounge | Extemp breaks announced and prep to begin ASAP
    2:45 p.m. Final Round Begins
    5:00 p.m. Awards Ceremony (sooner if possible)


    AWARDS CEREMONY
    STUDENTS ADVANCING TO THE FINAL ROUNDS will be invited to join an Awards Ceremony Zoom room. Only competitors who have advanced to the final round of their events, and students whose events did not have a final round, should log into due to capacity restraints. 
    LIVE STREAM LINK (TO BE UPDATED AFTER FINALS)
    ​We encourage all family, competitors, and community members to view it through the live stream. 
    Procedures for Finalists at Awards: 
    1. Enter the Awards Ceremony Zoom with your camera off. Your mic should be muted the entire time. 
    2. When your event + division is called, please turn your camera on. 
    3. When your placing & name is announced, wave to acknowledge your award then turn your camera off. 
    Awards will begin as soon as all of the ballots are in. 

    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
    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.

    EVENT SELECTION​

    ​JUDGE PROVISION
    SPEECH JUDGE INSTRUCTIONS
    Please see the guideline below if you are judging. It might be of great help.

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/tabroom-files/tourns/21840/postings/28012/GGSASpeechJudgeIntstructions.pdf

    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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