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    JOHN LEWIS SVUDL INVITATIONAL

    ​
    REMIND PARENTS TO ALWAYS CONTACT GSA FIRST BEFORE CONTACTING TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR, THEY DON'T LIKE IT

    19-21 November 2021

    DEADLINE
    10 November 2021
    ​NO REFUNDS AFTER THIS DATE
    ELIGIBILITY
    open to middle and high school students
    PLATFORM
    NSDA Campus

    Information

    THE SILICON VALLEY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE (SVUDL) PRESENTS:
    The John Lewis SVUDL Invitational, formerly known as the SCU Dempsey-Cronin (aka SCU 1).

    The Silicon Valley Urban Debate League has taken ownership of the SCU Dempsey Cronin, and will be running an online speech and debate invitational to be held the weekend before Thanksgiving, from Nov 19-21.

    All proceeds from this tournament will go to the Silicon Valley Urban Debate League, a local non-profit organization whose mission is to empower Silicon Valley students, regardless of their race or socioeconomic status, to reach their full potential to become professional and community leaders by teaching critical thinking and communication skills through speech and debate programming.

    SVUDL is pleased to continue to honor the legacy of the late Congressman John Lewis by naming this speech and debate tournament after him. Born near Troy, Alabama in 1940, Congressman Lewis devoted his life to securing civil rights, fair and equal access to voting rights, and was a tireless soldier who literally and repeatedly risked his life in the movement against racial segregation and injustice.

    We are also pleased to announce that we are again a NIETOC designated bid tournament for those interested in the National Individual Events Tournament of Champions.  We are also designated as a bid tournament for speech and semifinals bid in Public Forum for the Tournament of Champions, held by the University of Kentucky.

    We will be using the NSDA Campus platform for this virtual tournament. All speech and debate events will be done live except for Duo Interpretation, which will be asynchronous (pre-recorded). All judging will be done live during the scheduled round times, even for Duo. ​

    All debate formats will start Friday, November 19 this year. Speech events and Congress start Saturday, November 20. Sunday elimination rounds are staggered between debate and speech events.

    Please note that the schedule listed is tentative. Depending on the size of entry, the schedule may be adjusted. A finalized schedule will be posted in the coming weeks.  
    Please note, we may make adjustments to our tournament procedures to bring us more in line with other national tournaments. Coaches will be notified of any changes made as soon as they have been finalized.
    All space in debate and speech will be allocated on a first come, first served basis; register early!


    JUDGING
    Judges are committed one round past where their school drops from competition. Judges are assumed to be experienced and prepared to judge their assigned events or debate formats. Debate judges are free to determine style questions at the beginning of each round. Debate judges must have properly linked Tabroom accounts for online ballot entry. School judges who fail to check in to their rounds online when assigned will be fined penalties per round.

    TOPICS
    LD Debate Topic: NSDA Nov/Dec topic  
    Public Forum: NSDA November Public Forum Topic.
    Congress bills - For those of you with Congress students, the Congressional bills have now been posted. You can go here to access the bills.
    ​
    DIVISIONS
    All speech and debate events will offer a novice and open division. We reserve the right to collapse divisions if entry size is too small for two separate divisions. Congress will only have one division.
    Novice is defined as a student’s first year of competition, or not advancing to an elimination round in your first two years of competition, regardless of debate format.

    PATTERNS & DOUBLE ENTRY
    Debate Pattern: Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Congress in one pattern. 
    Speech Events Pattern: Extemporaneous/Dramatic Interpretation /Expository/Original Prose Poetry / Oratorical Interpretation/ Impromptu /Original Oratory /Humorous Interpretation/Thematic Interpretation and Duo Interpretation.  
    Double entries in Speech Events are allowed. Competitors may also enter in one debate event and up to two speech events. However, competitors should be aware of the increased screen time that will come with entering multiple events. 

    GENERAL TOURNAMENT PROCEDURES
    The tournament will consist of six preliminary debate rounds for varsity, five prelims debate rounds for novice, and the three preliminary rounds of varsity and open events. We reserve the right to combine divisions if the entry warrants.  
    Semifinals will be held in individual events with 50 or more entries or the discretion of the tournament director. Undersubscribed events may waive finals. Due to scheduling, we will only be breaking to Double octos for debate, events, entries permitting. ​

    TOURNAMENT CAPS AND WAITLIST
    Due to the size of the tournament, we will be placing caps on the debate events. Each school will be allotted 4 entries per division per debate event. All entries over the caps will be waitlisted.
    Entries may also be waitlisted if the tournament reaches capacity. Schools will be moved off the waitlist as space opens up. Schools that have not already taken up their allotted slots in each event will be moved first, and schools with completed judge entries will also be given preference. Remaining waitlisted entries will be moved on a first-come, first-serve basis.

    GUEST SPEAKER

    We have added a guest speaker to our schedule for Nov 20th, from 1:30-2:15pm. We will be hosting a discussion and Q&A about water policy, with guest speaker Dr. Newsha Ajami, the Director of Urban Water Policy with Stanford University’s Water in the West program. The topic discussion will be from 1:30pm-2:15pm, and will be open to all tournament participants. The first part of this session will be a 20 min discussion about water policy and environmental justice, and the last 15 min will be for Q&A from participants.
    Please note, this does occur at the same time as round 2 of Speech, but students are welcome to join after presenting their speech. Students who are not competing in speech, and only competing in debate, do not have a round during this time block.

    ​Entry Price

    Entry Fees:
    ​
    LD only $102
    LD + 1 Speech $128
    LD + 2 Speech $154

    PF only $86
    PF + 1 Speech $112
    PF + 2 Speech $138

    Congress only $76
    Congress + 1 Speech $102
    Congress + 2 Speech $128

    One Speech Event $76
    Two Speech Events $102

    If you (parent) are opting out of judging, you will pay an additional $130.

    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

    2021 SVUDL & SCU Fall Invitational TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (all times in PST)

    Friday, November 19, 2021
    4:30pm-4:45pm   Check-in with GSA through Slack
    5pm-7pm   Round 1 Varsity Debate/ Round 1 Novice Debate

    7pm-9pm   Round 2 Varsity Debate / Round 2 Novice Debate

    Saturday, November 20, 2021
    7:30am-7:45am   Check-in with GSA through Slack
    8am-9:00am   Check In- All IE only Schools – Vari Hall Room 138

    8am-10am   Rd 3 Debate Varsity and Novice/Congress Rd 1 (Bills 1-2)*
    10am-11:30am   Speech Round 1
    11:30am-1:30pm   Round 4 Varsity and Novice Debate / Congress Round 2 (Bills 3-4)*
    1:30pm-3:00pm   Speech Round 2
    3:00-5:00pm   Round 5 Varsity Debate /Round 5 Novice Debate/ Congress Rd 3 (Bills 5-6)*
    5:00-6:30pm   Speech Round 3
    6:30pm-8:30pm   Round 6 Varsity Debate/Elim 1 Novice Debate 
    8:30pm   Varsity Debate Elim 1

    Sunday, November 21, 2021
    8:30am-10am   Speech Semifinals / Congress Semifinals (Bills 7-8)*   
    10am-Noon   Elim 2 Debate / Novice Debate Quarters
    Noon - 2pm   Speech Finals 
    2pm-4pm   Elim 3 Varsity Debate/Novice Debate / Congress Finals (Bills 9-10)*
    4pm - 5pm   Awards
    5pm - 7pm   Elim 4 Varsity Debate/ Novice Debate 
    7pm - 9pm   Elim 5 Varsity Debate/ Novice Debate

    Drop Fee

    Changes or drops made after the deadline will be charged a nuisance fee by the tournament. 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
    Make sure you have checked the double-entry policies if there are any. We are not responsible for schedule conflicts.
    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.

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

We would love to have you visit soon at one of our open houses.
Check our home page for the schedule!


School year Hours

M-F: 3:45 pm - 8:30 pm 
Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Telephone

510-270-8480
510-470-0531

Email (preferred)

For more info email us at: info@tgsastaff.com

Locations

Fremont: 200 Brown Rd #201, Fremont, CA 94539

Cupertino: 20432 Silverado Avenue Suite 211, Cupertino, CA 95014

Aborn Institute: 2804 Riedel Road, San Jose, CA 95135 

Loving Tree Academy: 36601 Newark Blvd, #83, Newark, CA 94560
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