JACK HOWE

WELCOME TO THE 29TH ANNUAL [VIRTUAL] JACK HOWE MEMORIAL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT!

Friends and Colleagues,
We hope that everyone has been keeping safe and healthy during the COVID-19 era. The faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the California State University, Long Beach would like to cordially invite you to attend the 29th Annual Jack Howe Memorial, hosted by the CSULB “Beach Forensics” Program on Saturday, September 18 through Monday September 20, 2021. Please note that the 20th is for Open Public Forum, and TOC LD only. As in past years, we will offer Public Forum and LD in addition to the TOC/ NIETOC Individual Events. We are also pleased to announce that we are offering qualifying bids to the Tournament of Champions in LD, Speech, and Public Forum debate! We also have NIETOC bids for Speech events that apply. Thank you for all of the returning schools and welcome to all of the newcomers! GO BEACH!

We have been awarded the following bids from the Tournament of Champions Bid Committee
Public Forum: Quarterfinal Round Bid (Gold) and Octofinal Round Bid (Silver)
Student Congress: Top 16 (New for 2021)
Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Semifinal
Speech: TOC and NIETOC bids based on the number of entries

Changes for 2021
1. LD will have four divisions: TOC LD and JV LD (which will follow NSDA and TOC norms) and California (CA) and Novice LD (which will follow CHSSA norms). To participate in novice LD, a student must be in their first year of competition and/or have less than 6 prior tournaments in a competitive debate style. Please see below for our general novice policy and general differences between California and TOC LD.
2. We will offer a middle school division for public forum.
3. All speech and debate rounds will be synchronous on the NSDA Campus Platform.

General Policies

All competitors and judges must have a Tabroom.com account.
DOFs: It is your responsibility to train judges for this and every tournament. Especially with the issues relating to Covid-19, we are trusting you to bring qualified adults who can judge and create a safe environment for our students. If not, please choose to opt-out from judging on the payment page. Please make sure they watch the judge training from NSDA and ask questions to the Zoom-based Question room that will be provided later. All judges that need to have training should watch the NSDA Judge training
We will also have a judge training at 7:15AM that folks can attend with questions and how to complete an online ballot with Amber Brooks
If you have further questions, we will have a Zoom based question room assigned.
If a judge or competitor has not shown up within 5 minutes, please alert the tournament via text message to the helpline number/Campus mechanism so that we can route that information to the tab room. Please make sure that all your debaters and teams know this number to report issues. That number is: 562-277-1606. This is a text-only number and will not accept voice calls.

Harassment and Discrimination Policy
This year, the tournament will follow a modified harassment and discrimination policy inspired by CHSSA. Please make sure all participants of the Jack Howe tournament read the harassment and discrimination policy below:

This year we will adapt the CHSSA Harassment and Discrimination Policy with some specific additions.
The California High School Speech Association is committed to providing its participants, judges, coaches, and members the opportunity to pursue excellence in their endeavors. This opportunity can exist only when each member of our community is assured an atmosphere of mutual respect. CHSSA is committed to maintaining an environment that is free from all forms of harassment and discrimination. Accordingly, all forms of harassment and discrimination are prohibited, whether committed by participants, judges, coaches, or observers. CHSSA is committed to the enforcement of this policy. Individuals who are found to have violated this policy will be subject to the full range of sanctions, up to and including removal from the tournament premises and prosecution by authorities. Any individual or group of individuals who believes they have been a victim of harassment and/or discrimination should report it to the Help Desk or appropriate authority immediately.
The addition and specificity that we add to what all forms of harassment and discrimination includes but not limited to online bullying and harassment on social media of all kinds or within a round, zoom bombing, use of racial, ethnic, ableist, religious, gendered, and sexual slurs, and other inappropriate comments or “advancements” from or to ANY participant. All judges’ web cameras should ALWAYS be at eye level and on while judging. If any violations to these additions occur, the violator will be asked to no longer judge or be disqualified.

We will be bringing back the following features of the Jack Howe
We will have sweepstakes awards. We will use a percentile system to calculate the top debate program and the top IE program; we will use an "equalization" system to determine the top overall school. This new sweepstakes calculation system is a result of persistent errors in calculation that have resulted from the system we have used to calculate sweepstakes in the past.
Over $5,000 in scholarships to students who win first place in a senior division event. Each top-place finisher will receive a renewable $500 scholarship to attend CSULB (upon acceptance) and compete on our nationally ranked forensics team, where they will be required to compete for a year. This scholarship is only renewable based on grades, competition, work ethic, and need.

SPEECH EVENTS
Welcome to the 2021 Jack Howe Memorial Tournament hosted here at/by CSU Long Beach. Like years past, this year we are honored to be a TOC and NIETOC Bid tournament, meaning that you can receive bids to all events for these two tournaments!

Events Offered:
Dramatic Interpretation
Informative
Original Oratory
Oral Interpretation
Program Oral Interpretation
Humorous Interpretation
Impromptu
Original Advocacy
Extemporaneous
Duo Interpretation

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A quick note for 2021.
All events will be held synchronously during the tournament's schedule.
Special note: while it was an option to have video back-ups of your events at group of tournaments last year (in an instance in which your internet failed), we will not be offering this option. We simply do not have the capabilities of offering asynch back-ups given the minimal staff we run the tournament with. If you do have internet issues, unfortunately there will be no ability to use a pre-recorded video in your stead.

LINCOLN DOUGLAS

CALIFORNIA LD AND TOC LD DIFFERENCES
We have different iterations of Lincoln Douglas (LD) at our tournament that I want to make clear. We have done this to have respect to different styles, intents, and argumentative directions that students would like to engage in.
The CA LD divisions (e.g., CA-LD and Novice LD) is governed by CHSSA Rules ONLY. CA LD is more traditional and non-circuit debate.
The TOC LD divisions (e.g., TOC LD and JV LD) is governed by NSDA/TOC rules and procedures. These events are more aligned with circuit norms and procedures. The TOC bid for the Quarterfinal would be the result of competition in the TOC LD division.
Please consider the differences in these divisions when registering your students in Lincoln Douglas events.

TOPIC: LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE – 2021 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER TOPIC
RESOLVED: THE MEMBER NATIONS OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION OUGHT TO REDUCE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTIONS FOR MEDICINES.

RULES/POLICIES
Students in preliminary rounds will advance based on the following method or tiebreakers:
1. Total wins in preliminary rounds,
2. Opposition seed based on preliminary rounds,
3. Team speaker points from all preliminary rounds except the highest and lowest preliminary round,
4. Total team speaker points,
5. Head to head decision (if the teams previously met in preliminary rounds), and
6. Coinflip.

PUBLIC FORUM EVENT

Description of event
Public Forum Debate (PFD) is a team event that advocates or rejects a position posed by the monthly resolution topic. The clash of ideas must be communicated in a manner persuasive to the non-specialist or “lay judge”, i.e. a member of the American jury. The debate should:
- Display solid logic, lucid reasoning, and depth of analysis
- Utilize evidence without being driven by it
- Present a clash of ideas by countering/refuting arguments of the opposing team (rebuttal)
- Communicate ideas with clarity, organization, eloquence, and professional decorum

Times
Speaker 1 (Team A, 1st speaker ).........................4 min.
Speaker 2 (Team B, 1st speaker)...........................4 min.
Crossfire (between speakers 1 & 2).................3 min.
Speaker 3 (Team A, 2nd speaker ) .......................4 min.
Speaker 4 (Team B, 2nd speaker )........................4 min.
Crossfire (between speakers 3 & 4).................3 min.
Speaker 1 Summary..................................................2 min.
Speaker 2 Summary..................................................2 min.
Grand Crossfire (all speakers) ........................3 min.
Speaker 3 Final Focus...............................................2 min.
Speaker 4 Final Focus...............................................2 min.
Each team may use up to three minutes of prep time.

Topic:
Public Forum Debate – 2021 September/October Topic Area: Europe
Resolved: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization should substantially increase its defense commitments to the Baltic states.

NOVICE ELIGIBILITY
The following policies will guide our definition of novice eligibility. Please refer to these polices as you evaluate whether to register students in Novice or higher,
1. For Students That Competed In Middle School: A high school freshman [or beyond] that competed in an event at more than five total tournaments in middle school cannot register for that event as a novice. A high school freshman [or beyond] that competed in an event at less than five total tournaments in middle school may register as a novice for that event.
2. General Definition For Novice: A “novice” constitutes a student that has competed in less than one complete competition season. “One complete competition season” would include either five [or more] tournaments in one semester AND/OR at least one tournament in two semesters. E.G. A high school sophomore that competed in LD at five tournaments in the fall of the previous year would not be a novice, nor would a high school sophomore that competed in one tournament in the fall and the spring of the previous year.
3. First-Time Entries In New Debate Events: A student who has no more than one complete competition season [or less] of Congress, LD, or PF but has not competed in other debate events may enter as a novice in policy debate. A student who has one complete competition season of policy debate [or more], however, may not enter Congress, LD, Parli, or PF as a novice.
4. First-Time Entries In New Speech Events: A student who has competed in no more than one complete competition season [or less] of debate events, but has not competed in any speech events, may enter as a novice in speech events. A student who has competed in no more than one complete competition season [or less] of speech events, but has not competed in any debate events, may enter as a novice in debate events.
5. Middle School Public Forum: This year, we will offer separate divisions for students in middle school who wish to participate in public forum debate or student congress. A student may enter these events if they have not matriculated into 9th grade. There is no cap of prior years of experience to enter students in middle school public forum or student congress.

DOUBLE ENTRY POLICY FOR ALL EVENTS
The following policies are in place for double entries this year:
1. Entries are not allowed to double enter in two limited prep events (e.g., Impromptu or Extemporaneous Speaking).
2. Entries are not allowed to double enter in Congress and Extemporaneous Speaking.
3. Entries in PF and California LD may only double enter in one speech event.
4. Entries in TOC LD debate may not double enter in any event.
5. Speech-only entries may double enter in up to two speech events.
6. Limiting screen time for students and allowing for students to have a break during rounds is important for student learning and success. Please make sure your students adhere to the double-entry policy set above. Entries may be dropped at any time during the tournament weekend if they are found to not adhere to the tournament double-entry policy.

JACK HOWE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT

18-20 September 2021

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