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    GROVES FALCON INVITATIONAL

    13 November 2021

    DEADLINE
    6 November 2021
    NO REFUNDS AFTER THIS DATE
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to 5th - 12th graders
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    ​The Groves Debate Team cordially invites you and your team to the 32nd Annual Wylie E. Groves Falcon Debate Invitational, to be held virtually. Public Forum and Lincoln Douglas will be held on Saturday, November 13, 2021.

    TOPIC: 
    The November-December 2021 NSDA Public Forum Resolution.
    The September-October 2021 NSDA Lincoln Douglas Resolution.

    FORMAT: 
    We will be offering Middle School, Novice and Varsity Public Forum Debate Divisions and Novice and Varsity Lincoln Douglas Divisions on Saturday, November 13, 2021 only. We reserve the right to combine divisions in Lincoln Douglas based on number of entries.
      
    LOGISTICS:
    All debates will take place online (NSDA Campus).

    TABBING:
    ALL PUBLIC FORUM & LINCOLN DOUGLAS DIVISIONS WILL USE TABROOM. THE PROGRAM RANDOMIZES THE FIRST TWO ROUNDS AND POWER MATCHES THE NEXT TWO IN PUBLIC FORUM AND LINCOLN DOUGLAS.
     
    WE WILL BE USING TENTH POINTS IN ALL DEBATE FORMATS!
     

    JUDGES:
    Ballots and elimination rounds: Judges are expected to be available to judge one round past their team's elimination in ALL LINCOLN DOUGLAS AND PUBLIC FORUM DIVISIONS.. 
    Rules: The Tab Room/Tournament Administration will not enforce MIFA, NDCA, NSDA or NCFL rules or guidelines regarding disclosure of decisions, reading of evidence, prompting or "tag teaming," paperless debate or evidence citation. Judges may, or course, enforce certain rules, guidelines and preferences in individual debate rounds. We only ask that judges announce their preferences to the debaters prior to the beginning of the rounds. PREP TIME WILL BE EIGHT (8) MINUTES IN POLICY DEBATE, THREE (3) MINUTES PER TEAM IN PUBLIC FORUM, AND FOUR (4) MINUTES PER DEBATER IN LINCOLN DOUGLAS.
    Behavior: The Tournament Administration, upon investigation, reserves the right to remove from the judging pool adjudicators whose personal behavior is inappropriate or offensive. The school which has provided the removed judge will be financially responsible FOR ANY UNCOVERED DEBATES. Examples of inappropriate behavior include, but are not limited to: leaving the virtual room during speeches including cross-examination; rude or intemperate written or oral comments to debaters; undue familiarity/favoritism shown to a team in a round; evidence of bias or hostility exhibited towards competitors or harassment of any nature.

    AWARDS:
    Speaker awards will be given out based on the number of entries in each division. All teams reaching elimination rounds in each division will receive awards. Presiding officers in Congressional debate will receive a gavel.

    ​Entry Price

    All debate events $65
    If you are opting out of judging, you will pay an additional $95

    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 EASTERN STANDARD TIME (EST). The green times have been converted into PST.

    Saturday, November 13, 2021 
    ​
    Public Forum Schedule (Tentative)
    Opening Judging Meeting on Zoom - 9:15 A.M.   --- 6:15 AM PST
    Round 1 – 10:00 A.M.   --- 7:00 AM PST
    Round 2 – 11:15 A.M.   --- 8:15 AM PST
    Round 3 – 12:30 P.M.   --- 9:30 AM PST
    Lunch: 1:45 P.M.   --- 10:45 AM PST
    Round 4 – 2:30 P.M.   --- 11:30 AM PST
    First Elim: 4:00 P.M.   --- 1:00 PM PST
    Second Elim: 5:30 P.M.   --- 2:30 PM PST
    Third Elim: 7:00 P.M.   --- 4:00 PM PST
    Fourth Elim: 8:30 P.M. (if necessary)   --- 5:30 PM PST

    Lincoln Douglas Schedule (Tentative)
    Round 1 – 10:00 A.M.   --- 7:00 AM PST
    Round 2 – 11:00 A.M.   --- 8:00 AM PST
    Round 3 – 12:00 P.M.   --- 9:00 AM PST
    Lunch: 1:00 P.M.   --- 10:00 AM PST
    Round 4 – 2:00 P.M.   --- 11:00 AM PST
    First Elim: 3:45 P.M.   --- 12:45 PM PST
    Second Elim: 5:15 P.M.   --- 2:15 PM PST

    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

    PARENT CONTACT INFORMATION
    Your email address will be the one included when we send the logistics email.

    EVENT SELECTION
    Divisions may get combined if entries are too small.​
    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.

    Tournaments recommend judges to have a judge philosophy 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).

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

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