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    LAKELAND

    28 February - 2 March 2025

    DEADLINE
    22 Feb 2025
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to middle and high school students
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    The entire 2025 tournament will run online on NSDA Campus on the evening of March 1st (Friday) and all-day Saturday, March 2nd. There will be some remaining elimination rounds on Sunday based on the total # of entries.
    ​​
    The tournament is a finals bid in varsity PF.
    ​No more than 16 LD entries will clear.
    No more than 32 PF entries will clear.

    Divisions offered:
    • MS Novice PF
    • MS Open PF
    • HS Novice PF
    • HS JV PF
    • HS Open PF
    • Varsity LD
    • Novice LD

    NOTE: Novice is for debaters in their first year of debate. This does NOT mean the first year of high school debate.
    JV is for students who have no more than one previous year of debate.

    Topics
    LD: NSDA Jan/Feb
    PF: February

    JUDGES REQUIREMENTS
    • We expect that all judges will pay attention in the debates they are judging and will work to provide a fair decision based on the criteria they outline in their judge philosophies.
    • We also expect judges to behave in a way that is appropriate in a middle school/high school environment. Any judges that exhibit behavior inconsistent with this expectation can and will be removed from the tournament by the tournament director at his discretion. The financial costs of missed rounds will be invoiced to the judge.
    • Unless there is a violation of the Conduct policy by the judge or the team(s) in the debate, the tab room views the judge’s decision regarding all arguments made in the debates as final. If the tabroom determines that a judge or the team(s) violates a Conduct policy expectation, the tabroom may alter the decision in a way that it feels is fairest for the debaters involved.

    ​Entry Price

    LD event and parent is judging $90
    LD and parent is OPTING OUT OF JUDGING $230

    PF and parent is judging $70
    PF and parent is OPTING OUT OF JUDGING $190

    Each person in a PF/Duo team would be responsible of providing their own judge, so one PF/Duo 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).
    Green listed times have been converted into PST.

    Public Forum

    FRIDAY
    6:30 PM -- Pairings released   --- 3:30 PM PST
    7 PM ET R1   --- 4:00 PM PST
    8:30 ET R2   --- 5:30 PM PST

    SATURDAY
    10 AM ET -- Round 3   --- 7:00 AM PST
    12:00 AM -- Round 4   --- 9:00 AM PST
    2:00 PM -- Round 5   --- 11:00 AM PST
    4:00 PM -- Round 6    --- 1:00 PM PST
    6:00 PM -- Elim 1    --- 3:00 PM PST
    7:30 PM-- Elim 2    --- 4:30 PM PST
    9:00 PM -- Elim 3    --- 5:30 PM PST

    SUNDAY
    Elim 4/5 as needed    --- TBD
    (Tentatively 10 and 11:30 Eastern -- IF two Sunday rounds are needed).
    Please note that all times are in EASTERN STANDARD TIME (EST).
    Green listed times have been converted into PST.​

    Lincoln Douglas

    FRIDAY
    Pairings released -- 4:30 pm   --- 1:30 PM PST
    ​Round 1 -- 5:00 pm    --- 2:00 PM PST
    Round 2 -- 7:00 pm    --- 4:00 PM PST

    SATURDAY
    9 AM ET -- Round 3   --- 6:00 AM PST
    10:45 AM -- Round 4   --- 7:45 AM PST
    1:00 PM -- Round 5   --- 10:00 AM PST
    3:00 PM -- Quarters    --- 12:00 PM PST
    5:00 PM -- Semis    --- 2:00 PM PST
    7:00 PM-- Finals    --- 4:00 PM PST
    Final Numbers will Determine Which Elim Round Each LD Division Will Break To

    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:  [email protected]

    Nadia Budiman 
    Contact email: [email protected]

    Or [email protected]

    Registration Form


    STUDENT INFORMATION
    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.

    EVENT SELECTION
    BOTH partners must fill out form and pay in order to be registered!

    ​JUDGE PROVISION

    ​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?
    This is a great collection of short videos that one of the leagues have put together to learn each event: click here.
    ​There are also these training cards available that include a summary of each event's rules and comments.​
    ​Click here to find other training and official certification resources. Or watch our Youtube playlist here.
    ​

    ​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
Submit/take to payment

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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: [email protected]

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 

​​​​Dublin: Loving Tree Academy, 6693 Owens Dr, Pleasanton, CA 94588​​
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