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    BLACK BEAR DEBATE TOURNAMENT
    (PREVIOUSLY CALLED LITTLE AID)

    ​Saturday, 24 September 2022

    DEADLINE
    20 September 2022
    ELIGIBILITY
    ​Elementary and Middle School
    PLATFORM
    ​Zoom with breakout rooms​

    Information

    GENERAL
    • ​Debate events available: PF, LD, SPAR
    • 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

    ​LINCOLN DOUGLAS
    • ​Topic: The United States ought to implement a single-payer universal healthcare system.

    PUBLIC FORUM
    • Topic: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its investment in high-speed rail.

    JUDGES
    • Judges must have/must create a personal Tabroom account before the tournament and have personal devices that can connect to the internet. We will be doing e-ballots.
    • ​Judges must judge throughout the day.​
    • If a judge does not show up for a round, they will have to pay a fine.​
    • ​Click here to complete the highly recommended Cultural Competency judge training course
    • 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.​
    • ​More tournament resources can be found here.

    ​Entry Price

    One PF event and parent is judging $25
    One PF event and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $100

    One LD event and parent is judging $30
    One LD event and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $100

    One SPAR event and parent is judging $25
    One SPAR event and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $100

    *Tournament credits cannot be applied at this tournament.
    **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.

    All students who drop after Wednesday will not receive refunds and drop fees are $10 each.

    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.

    Tentative Schedule

    • Start Time: 8:30-10:00 (PST)
    • Second Round: 11:00-12:30
    • Third Round: 2:00-3:30
    • Fourth Round: 4:30-6:00
    • *Results will be out by 9:00 PM PST​

    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

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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