NANO NAGLE

NANO NAGLE TOURNAMENT

10-12 October 2026

DEADLINE

26 Sept 2026

DROPPING AFTER THIS DATE WILL COST YOU THE ENTRY FEE PLUS A FINE

ELIGIBILITY

Open to MS/HS students

LOCATION

Presentation High School in San Jose, CA
(2281 Plummer Ave, San Jose, CA 95125)
Campus Map

Information

We invite you to the Nano Nagle Tournament at Presentation High School in San Jose, CA. We provide competition in Varsity Lincoln Douglas debate and Varsity Public Forum debate. The tournament will use the NSDA September/October topic for all divisions. In the spirit of Nano Nagle, her charism, and our longstanding tradition of PHS Speech & Debate, we will make a donation from the proceeds. We are proud that, over the last decade, we have donated more than $120,000 from the Voices Invitational (renamed Nano Nagle), and look forward to doing so this year.

Tournament Overview
The tournament will be able to accommodate approximately 70 VLD and 65 VPF entries. Once we reach the cap in an event we will start on the waitlist. We will try to prioritize new school admission, smaller schools, and then independent entries. All admissions are subject to the tournament director's discretion. There will be an initial cap of 9 entries in LD and 9 in PF.
Both divisions will feature six preliminary rounds of debate and will clear all winning records to the elimination rounds up to a full double-octafinal.
In VLD, mutual preference judging will be available to all schools whose judges have entered their paradigms on Tabroom. ALL of your judges must have a paradigm on Tabroom in order for you to receive prefs.

The topic is the Sept-Oct NSDA Topics below:
LD - Resolved: Outer space colonization is a moral imperative.
PF - Resolved: The United States federal government should enact a moratorium on hyperscale data center construction.

Location
Presentation High School is located in South San Jose near the Willow Glen neighborhood. Our school address is 2281 Plummer Avenue, San Jose, CA. 95125.
We ask that you park on campus at all times.
Campus will open each morning at 8 am; we look forward to welcoming you!

Tournament Office
The Speech and Debate office is located in room 302 on the side of our Student Center (facing the pool). This office will be where you can stop by to pay fees, ask questions, or express tab concerns. Please check out our campus map or ask a Presentation High School student if you need help finding anything.

Meals & Concessions
Tournament fees include meals for all competitors, judges, and coaches. Snacks and drinks will also be sold each day.
Vegetarian options will always be available for all meals.

Judging

All schools are required to bring qualified, competent judges.
All judges are required to have a paradigm on tabroom.com. If you enter judges without a paradigm, you risk 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 $50 Administration Fee for each judge who needs to be trained or have their tabroom account fixed. In the past, this has caused significant delays to the tournament.
ALL JUDGES ARE STILL OBLIGATED THROUGH THE OCTOFINALS. Judges are then obligated for one round past the exit of their final entry.

Entry Price

PF and parent is judging $155
PF and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $355

LD and parent is judging $210
LD and parent is OPTING OUT of judging $450

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

Preliminary Schedule

Saturday 10/10
8:30 am Pairings Released
9:00 am Round 1
11:30 am Round 2
1 pm Lunch
2:30 pm Round 3
5:00 pm Dinner
6:15 Round 4

Sunday 10/11
8:30 am Pairings Released
9:00 am Round 5
11:30 am Round 6
12:30 pm Lunch
2:30 pm Awards
EVERY JUDGE OBLIGATED THROUGH OCTOS, THEN OBLIGATION IS 1 PAST ENTRY/TEAM
3:00 pm Double Octofinals
5:00 pm Octofinals

Monday 10/12
9:00 am Quarterfinals
11:00am Semifinals
1:00pm Finals

***The tournament tab staff reserves to right to adjust the schedule in case of tight finishes, delays etc. We will do our very best to honor this schedule as published but we are very aware of how things go and want you all to know that we will make adjustments as necessary to maintain a humane and timely schedule.

Although the tentative schedule lists the start and end times, please keep in mind that there are various factors that may arise during a tournament that can cause rounds to be delayed. Therefore, if you are signing up for this tournament, please make sure you do not double book yourselves on these dates. Keep your schedule open and DO NOT leave the tournament without notifying the GSA chaperones first.

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

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).

School Letter for Nano Nagle
Please download this form and have your school administrator sign it. Then, please submit here or forward to Nadia and Victor ([email protected], [email protected]).

STUDENT INFORMATION

* Indicates required field

Student Name *

First

Last

Student Email (DO NOT USE PARENT'S EMAIL) *

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

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 *

School letter *

Max file size: 20MB

EVENT SELECTION

Partner Name (write N/A if none) *

First

Last

Choose your event *

LD PF

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 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?
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

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: [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

NANO NAGLE TOURNAMENT

10-12 October 2026

Information

​Entry Price

Schedule

Drop Fee

Contact Info

Registration Form

We would love to have you visit soon at one of our open houses.Check our home page for the schedule!

School year Hours

Telephone

Email (preferred)

Locations

Entry Price

We would love to have you visit soon at one of our open houses.
Check our home page for the schedule!