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    NANO NAGLE CLASSIC

    8-10 October 2021

    DEADLINE
    29 Sept 2021

    DROPPING AFTER THIS DATE WILL CAUSE YOU THE ENTRY FEE PLUS A FINE
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to 8th-12th graders ONLY

    ​Requires school permission

    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    Varsity competition in the following DEBATE EVENTS: Lincoln Douglas, Public Forum
    Tournament of Champion Quarterfinals bids in both LD and PF
    Virtual Tournament on October 8-10
    All rounds are hosted on NSDA Campus 

    We cordially invite you and your team to attend the second annual Nano Nagle Classic formerly known as the Voices Invitational.  We have chosen to honor our school's foundress and the spirit of charism that personifies our tournament.  This allows us to honor our roots and still maintain our commitment to supporting speech and debate and non-profits with a significant portion of the money we raise each year. 

    THE TOURNAMENT
    Once we reach the cap in an event we will start a waitlist that will prioritize new school admission and then smaller school entries. There will be an initial cap of 5 entries in LD and 5 in PF per school.
    All debate divisions will feature six preliminary rounds of debate and will clear all winning records to the elimination rounds up to a full double-octafinal. VLD will use mutual preference judging and it will be available to all school's whose judges have entered their paradigms on Tabroom. 

    LOCATION
    Classic: ALL ONLINE...see you on NDSA Campus

    TIME
    Please note that all times are PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (PST). 
     
    ONLINE REGISTRATION INFO:
    1.  Digital Bus Forms due by Thursday before the tournament (TBA).
     
    JUDGING
    All schools are required to provide qualified, competent judges.  All judges are required to have a paradigm on tabroom.com. If you enter judges without a paradigm you are at risk of having your prefs turned off.  All judges must be familiar with using Tabroom.com for ballots and are required to do so. We will charge a $75 Fine for each judge that is unprepared and needs to be trained or have their tabroom account fixed. In the past, this has caused significant delay to the tournament. If you do not have a judge who is competent as an adjudicator *and* with using the e-balloting, do not sign them up. We'd rather solve that issue beforehand.  We will assess fines in real time.  No entry from your school will be allowed to advance to elim rounds if fees are unresolved. 
    Judges are obligated for one round past the exit of their school's final entry.  

    2021 SCHOOL ENTRY POLICY
    NO MIDDLE SCHOOL ENTRIES THIS YEAR- We anticipate the field will grow this year so we are restricting entries to grades 8-12 only.  Until then, please only enter students in grades 8-12.  We will not allow 6th and 7th graders to enter this  year.
    We do not offer "school protection" for these students to not have to debate each other. We also will not provide school protection between a high school and their affiliated middle school. 
     
    TOURNAMENT HELP DESK ON THE DAY OF THE TOURNAMENT (DO NOT EMAIL BEFORE THAT AND ALWAYS REACH OUT TO GSA FIRST)
    We have created a special email for ALL tournament help desk concerns including but not limited to: missing judges, competitors, judge concerns, and platform access issues. Please email:  sphssd@presentationhs.org

    PUBLIC FORUM UPDATE
    We will use the NSDA rules in Public Forum meaning we will use these time limits:
    First Speaker - Team A 4 minutes 
    First Speaker - Team B 4 minutes 
    Crossfire 3 minutes 
    Second Speaker - Team A 4 minutes 
    Second Speaker - Team B 4 minutes 
    Crossfire 3 minutes 
    Summary - First Speaker - Team A 3 minutes 
    Summary - First Speaker - Team B 3 minutes 
    Grand Crossfire 3 minutes 
    Final Focus - Second Speaker - Team A 2 minutes
     Final Focus - Second Speaker - Team B 2 minutes 
    Prep time 3 minutes.

    ​Entry Price

    PF and parent is judging $90
    PF and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $240

    LD and parent is judging $130
    LD and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $280

    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

    LD/PF SCHEDULE


    Friday 10/08
    1:00 pm Check-in with GSA through Slack

    ***DECISION TIME IS 65 minutes.  Debates must start/finish and have a decision in that time.   

    1:30 pm Pairings released for both pre-set rounds 1 and 2.  
    2:00 pm Round 1
    4:30 pm Round 2
    6:30 pm Dinner
    7:30 pm Round 3


    Saturday 10/09

    ***DECISION TIME IS 65 minutes...Debates must start/finish and have a decision in that time.  

    7:15 am Pairings Released. 
    8:00 am Round 4
    11:00 am Round 5
    12:30 pm Lunch
    2:00 pm Round 6
    5:00 pm  DINNER 
    6:00 pm Pairings Released
    6:30 pm Partial Trips

    **ALL JUDGES ARE OBLIGATED FOR  THE FIRST FULL OUT-ROUND AND THEN ONE ROUND PAST YOUR SCHOOL'S FINAL COMPETITOR! SO THAT MEANS ALL JUDGES ARE OBLIGATED FOR THE DOUBLES ROUND at 8am on Sunday!    


    Sunday 10/10

    7:15 am Pairings Released
    ​
    YES IF YOUR SCHOOL'S KIDS LOST IN Partial Tripos YOU STILL HAVE TO JUDGE THIS DOUBLE OCTAFINAL ROUND! ALL JUDGES ARE OBLIGATED FOR ONE ROUND PAST YOUR SCHOOL'S FINAL ENTRANT. 

    8:00 am Double octafinals
    11:00 am Octafinals
    12:00 pm Lunch
    12:30 pm Quarters
    2:00 pm Semifinals
    3:30 pm Finals 

    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

    ATTENTION!
    You must submit a school letter (an approval, in the form of a signed official letter, to compete by your school's administration and acknowledging the name of your chaperone/coach as a school-approved chaperone/coach).

    nano_nagle_school_letter.docx
    ​
    Please download this form and have your school administrator sign it. Then, please submit here or forward to Nadia and Victor (vrivasumana@tgsastaff.com, nbudiman@tgsastaff.com).

    STUDENT INFORMATION

    PARENT CONTACT INFORMATION
    Your email address will be the one included when we send the logistics email.
    Max file size: 20MB

    EVENT SELECTION
    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.

    ​Judges are encouraged to add 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".

    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

Polygon Academy (Cupertino): 1025 S. DeAnza Blvd, San Jose, CA-95129

Aborn Institute: 2804 Riedel Road, San Jose, CA 95135 

Loving Tree Academy: 36601 Newark Blvd, #83, Newark, CA 94560
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