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    LAKELAND WESTCHESTER CLASSIC 2022

    4-6 March 2022

    DEADLINE
    26 Feb 2022
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to middle and high school students
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    ​The March 4-6, 2022 tournament is online
    PF & LD is on March 4-5 only, but it's possible that varsity PF semi and finals will be held on Sunday (the 6th), depending on the size of the division).

    ALL ROUNDS WILL BE SINGLE FLIGHTED

    ​
    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.
     All debate events are “switch side” – students will be expected to debate both sides of the resolution.
    ​
    Topics:
    PF: The topic is the February NSDA topic (NATO-Turkey)
    You can pick the topic division, but the TOC bid is only available to those competing in the Varsity PF NSDA February topic division.

    LD: January/February LD (all divisions) 


    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.

    Judge Assignment 
    We will use a standard ordinal rankings judge placement system in varsity policy and varsity L-D (as numbers permit).
    We will not use preferences in the other divisions.

    ​Entry Price

    LD event and parent is judging $80
    LD and parent is OPTING OUT OF JUDGING $200

    PF and parent is judging $65
    PF and parent is OPTING OUT OF JUDGING $185

    Each person in a PF/Policy/Duo team would be responsible of providing their own judge, so one PF/Policy/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 - EST

    Please note that all times are in EASTERN STANDARD TIME (EST).

    Full schedule click below, pay attention to the specific events:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BqNzEvw6YoJYiJHaqz1Jxzusmi3dOSA3PT_bfrR9j3E/edit?usp=sharing

    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
    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? 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
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: 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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