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    LA COSTA CANYON WINTER CLASSIC​

    3-5 December 2021

    DEADLINE
    27 Nov 2021
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to MS/HS students
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    The administration of La Costa Canyon High School, the members of the Maverick Speech and Debate team, and I would like to invite you and your squad to attend the 51st Annual La Costa Canyon Winter Classic Speech and Debate Tournament. We had hoped to have you all join us in person this year, to help finish off this pandemic for good, we will remain virtual this year. 

    We will offer Policy, LD, Congress, Public Forum, Extemp, OPP, Impromptu, OO, OA, Info, HI, DI, POI, and OI. 

    TOC QUALIFICATION INFORMATION
    ● Public Forum:
    • Gold TOC qualifier at Quarterfinals!
    • Silver TOC qualifier at Octafinals!
    ● Congress:
    • TOC qualifier for all students making the Top Six!
    ● Speech
    • Dependent on event size
    ​
    We are also an NIETOC Bid tournament! 

    As many tournament directors and coaches across the country are dealing with, incredibly tough decisions must be made to help balance the competitive nature and accessibility of tournaments. As teams have been able to get more access to their classrooms and technological support, along with trying to give students an authentic experience, all events will be held live on NSDA Campus this year. 

    Our schedule is tight, but it will allow students to compete in up to 4 speeches, as well as a debate. That being said, it is a lot of time in front of a screen, so please consider your own well-being before quintuple entering!​

    As someone who competed at Winter Classic many moons ago, and consistently brought students throughout my coaching career, I understand how important this tournament is to our community. We may need to continue to adapt this year, but we are still ecstatic to invite you to continue this grand tradition of competitive excellence and camaraderie, and hope to see you come December.


    Events Offered:
    • Debate: Policy, Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas, Congress
    • Pattern A: Impromptu, Informative, Humorous Interpretation, Program Oral Interpretation, Original Oratory
    • Pattern B: Extemporaneous, Original Advocacy, Dramatic Interpretation, Original Prose & Poetry, Oratorical Interpretation

    Double Entry Information:
    Students who double enter are responsible for getting to their rounds on time.
    • Competitors may only enter one event in the Debate Pattern.
      • Competitors who enter Policy may not enter any other event.
    • Competitors may enter two Pattern A events and two Pattern B events.
      • Competitors who enter Extemp may not enter a second Pattern B event.
      • Competitors who enter Extemp may enter a Debate and Pattern A event, but additional extemp prep time will not be given to students if Debate Pattern or Pattern A is running late.

    Debate Topics:
    ​Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum:
    We will be using the November/December NSDA Topic

    Judging Requirements:
    • All judges must be over the age of 18 and out of high school.
    •  School judges are committed to judge one round beyond when the last student from that school is eliminated from competition.
    • Please make sure your judges are available for their full commitment.
    • If you cannot bring experienced LD judges, you must pay the opt-out fee.

    Event Rules and Guidelines:
    Speech & Congress: Standard CHSSA rules will be followed as closely as possible for all speech and debate events. In the Speech events we will break 14 to semi's unless this is more than half the field, at which point a prelim round would occur before breaking directly to finals. We also reserve the right to break 21+ to semis in events with large fields. We will take seven to finals in all speech events. We will take 30 to semi's in Congress and 15 to finals. A separate P.O. contest will be held if there is enough interest to warrant.
     
    Debate: Starting with Round 3, all prelim rounds will be power matched. Dependent on event pool size, Top 16 entries may break to Octos, or Top 32 may break to Double-Octos (fewer will break in the case of unbreakable ties). Brackets will not be broken in elims.
    • The TOC and NDCA guidelines will be used for Policy, and CHSSA guidelines will be used for all other debate events.
    • The exception to this is that we will be using the new PF times that are being piloted for NSDA.

    Awards: Individual awards will be presented to all debaters advancing to the quarter-finals in debate events, which will be mailed following the tournament. The top 5 PuFo, Policy, LD, and Parli speakers through prelims will also receive an award at the awards ceremony. All finalists in speech events and Congress will be presented awards. 1st and 2nd place Presiding Officers will also receive awards.

    ​Entry Price

    PF only $73
    PF + 1 Speech $88
    PF + 2 Speech $103
    PF + 3 Speech $118

    LD only $95
    LD + 1 Speech $110
    LD + 2 Speech $125
    LD + 3 Speech $140

    Congress only $65
    Congress + 1 Speech $80
    Congress + 2 Speech $95
    Congress + 3 Speech $110

    One Speech Event $65
    Two Speech Events $80
    Three Speech Events $95


    If parent is not judging, the OPT-OUT fee for those whose students are doing speech only is $110
    If parent is not judging, the OPT-OUT fee for those whose students are doing debate only is $150

    If parent is not judging, the OPT-OUT fee for those whose students are doing speech and debate is $170

    Each person in a Policy team would be responsible of providing their own judge, so one Policy 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

    All Events
    Click here to see the schedule page

    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
    ​
    Suggested attire for the tournament can be found here.

    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. We are not responsible for schedule conflicts.
    Our schedule is tight, but it will allow students to compete in up to 4 speeches, as well as a debate. That being said, it is a lot of time in front of a screen, so please consider your own well-being before quintuple entering!​
    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 less than a minute.

    ​First time judging? Click here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.

    ​There are also these training cards available that include a summary of each event's rules and comments.​

    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

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


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Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

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Email (preferred)

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