LA COSTA

LA COSTA CANYON WINTER CLASSIC

2-4 December 2022

DEADLINE

20 Nov 2022
NO REFUNDS AFTER THIS DATE

ELIGIBILITY

Open to middle and high school students
*Unless students and their parents book their rooms and travel on their own, we can only take the first 21 students who sign up. The GSA team will likely rent cars and drive down to San Diego.

LOCATION

In-person in San Diego
La Costa Canyon High School,
1 Maverick Way, Carlsbad, CA 92009

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 52nd Annual La Costa Canyon Winter Classic Speech and Debate Tournament. We offer Policy, LD, Congress, Public Forum, Parliamentary Debate, Extemp, OPP, Impromptu, OO, OA, Info, HI, DI, POI, DUO and Declamation.

We are proud to announce that we are a TOC and NIETOC Bid Tournament!

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 entry size.
NIETOC Qualification Information can be found at their website: http://nietoc.com

We consistently offer quality competition to over 50 schools with more than 1000 competitors from at least four states. IE's will continue to run over Saturday and Sunday and will be divided into two patterns. This will allow students to triple and quadruple enter if wanted! Judges and coaches will enjoy amazing food and respectful treatment, while competitors enjoy a friendly atmosphere and a beautiful campus.

As someone who attended La Costa Canyon and helped run the tournament for the past decade, I understand how important and impactful this tournament is to our community. We could not be more excited to invite you to continue this grand tradition of competitive excellence and camaraderie, and we hope to see you in San Diego come December.

INFORMATION

Events Offered:

Debate: Policy, Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Congress
Pattern A: Impromptu, Informative, Original Prose & Poetry, Program Oral Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, Original Advocacy
Pattern B: Extemporaneous, Duo, Humorous Interpretation, Declamation, Original Oratory

Double Entry Information:
Students who double enter are responsible for getting to their rounds on time. Entry limitations will be strictly enforced; violations may lead to a student being dropped from an event at the Tournament Director's discretion. Refunds will not be given for missed rounds.

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 enters Extemp may not enter a second Pattern B event.
- Competitors who enter in 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.

Campus & Supervision:
We are pleased to announce that all events—including Policy—will be hosted solely on the LCC campus! This should allow for simpler team supervision.
All schools must be accompanied by an adult and must remain under adult supervision throughout the tournament. No exceptions.

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.
While we will do our best to keep pools separate, there is a chance we will need to collapse judging pools to keep the tournament running.
Judges are committed to judge one round beyond when the last student from that school is eliminated from competition.
Fines will be levied if a team’s judges repeatedly miss their call. Ensure your judges are in the judge lounge 30 minutes prior to each round. If fines are not paid, a team may be withheld from outrounds.

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. We also reserve the right to break more entries 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. Teams with a 4-2 record or better will advance to the octa-final elimination round (We may pull up if needed). Brackets will not be broken in elims. LD, PuFo, & Policy Debaters may use computers in rounds, but observers may not use computers or cell phones during rounds. Parli Debaters are not permitted to use computers during rounds, and may not have access to internet during prep.

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 octa-finals in debate events, which will be distributed in-round. The top 10 PuFo, Policy, and Parli speaker 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.

**Sweepstakes awards: In order to be eligible for debate sweeps, you must only be entered in debate events; to be eligible for speech sweeps, you must only be entered in speech events; to be eligible for overall sweepstakes, you must be entered in both speech and debate events.

We do not know if we have access to a student warm room this year, so please plan accordingly. Our campus gets very chilly at night.

CAMPUS & WIFI INFO
Link to Campus Map:
http://lc.sduhsd.net/documents/About/Campus%20Map/LCC%20Campus%20Map.pdf
Wifi: Guest-SDUHSD
Username: lcvisitor
Password: learning

Entry Price

The fees below assume that parent will be judging, will take their child to San Diego, and will book their own accommodations).
If you are leaving your child to travel with the GSA team, we will collect a $150 deposit on top of the judge opt-out fee. The final expenses per student minus the deposit will be invoiced once we know the final cost.

PF only $75
PF + 1 Speech $90
PF + 2 Speech $105
PF + 3 Speech $120

LD only $100
LD + 1 Speech $115
LD + 2 Speech $130
LD + 3 Speech $145

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 $100
If parent is not judging, the OPT-OUT fee for those whose students are doing debate only is $160
If parent is not judging, the OPT-OUT fee for those whose students are doing speech and debate is $180

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

52nd Annual LCC Winter Classic Tournament Schedule

Debate: LD, PF
Pattern A: Impromptu, Informative, OPP, POI, DI, OA
Pattern B: Extemp, Duo, HI, DEC, OO

Friday, December 2nd
5:00 PM --- Debate Round 1
7:00 PM --- Debate Round 2

Saturday, December 3rd
8:00 AM --- Speech Pattern A Round 1
9:30 AM --- Debate Round 3
11:00 AM --- Extemp Draw
11:30 AM --- Speech Pattern B Round 1
1:00 PM --- Debate Round 4 & Congress Semis
3:00 PM --- Speech Pattern A Round 2
4:30 PM --- Debate Round 5 & Congress Finals
6:00 PM --- Extemp Draw
6:30 PM --- Speech Pattern B Round 2
8:00 PM --- Debate Round 6

Sunday, December 4th
8:00 AM --- Speech Pattern A Round 3
9:00 AM --- Extemp Draw
9:30 AM --- Speech Pattern B Round 3
11:00 AM --- Debate Octofinals (Double-Octos for PF)
12:00 PM --- Speech Pattern A Semifinals
1:00 PM --- Debate Quarterfinals (Octos for PF)
2:00 PM --- Speech Pattern B Semifinals, Extemp Draw
3:00 PM --- Debate Semifinals (Quarters for PF)
3:30 PM --- Speech Pattern A Finals
4:30 PM --- Debate Finals (Semis for PF), Extemp Draw
5:00 PM --- Speech Pattern B (Finals)
6:00 PM --- Finals for PF
7:30 PM (or ASAP) --- Awards
  *Schedule may change as needed prior to tournament*

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.

* Indicates required field

Student Name *

First

Last

Student Email (make sure you have a Tabroom account) *

Student Phone Number *

Does the student have a Tabroom account? *

Yes and it is linked with GSA's account(s) Yes but it is not linked and we need you to add to your roster No but I will create one before submitting registration No but I will pay the additional $35 setup fee

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.

Parent Name *

First

Last

Parent Email *

Parent Phone Number *

EVENT SELECTION
Make sure you have checked the double-entry policies. We are not responsible for schedule conflicts.

Competitors may only enter one event in the Debate Pattern.
Competitors may enter two Pattern A events and two Pattern B events.
- Competitors who enters Extemp may not enter a second Pattern B event.
- Competitors who enter in 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.

JUDGE PROVISION

Will you (parent) be judging at this tournament? *

Judge Name *

Judge email (Must be linked to a tabroom account. Register first at tabroom.com before completing this sign up) *

Judge phone *

Does your judge have a Tabroom account? *

Yes No but I will create one before submitting registration No but I'll pay the additional $35 setup fee Not judging

Does your judge understand that he/she is responsible for the entire tournament schedule and that missing a round incurs fines from the tournament? *

Yes, understood Not judging but understood as well

Click here to complete the highly recommended Cultural Competency judge training course

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 literally 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 encourage judges to have a paradigm 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. For example: "I am a parent, please speak clearly and slowly and avoid technical jargon".

More tournament resources can be found here.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

I will keep a copy of this form for reference. *

YES

We are signing up with the understanding that my child will work to be ready by the tournament date. If we choose to drop out because my child is not ready that will be considered when making assessments for future classes. *

YES

I understand that if I fail to drop the tournament before the deadline that I will still be responsible for the fees of both my son or daughter, along with that of his or her partner and the fines. *

YES

I understand that if payment is not received we won't be registered and our spot will be given up to someone else. *

YES

I confirm that I have completed all necessary paperwork for this tournament. *

YES

I understand that The Golden State Academy has no control over tournament entries other than the initial sign up. I understand that my child's priority will be based on either the last time I signed up OR the date paid, whichever is latest. *

YES

I understand that my child must check in and check out periodically at the tournament with the coach and that if I do not my child will be barred from participating in following tournaments. This is to ensure coaches can see where students are at competitively and to give any initial feedback for improvement. *

YES

I understand that I can check my entry status through tabroom.com. *

YES

I am a consenting adult. I understand that by submitting this form I agree to all that has been covered. *

YES

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

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