NANO NAGLE

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

* 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 No but I will pay the additional $35 setup fee

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 *

Upload school permission letter *

Max file size: 20MB

EVENT SELECTION

Partner Name (write N/A if none) *

First

Last

Choose your event *

LD PF

JUDGE PROVISION

Are you supplying a judge? *

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 No but I'll pay the additional $35 setup fee Not judging

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

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: 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

NANO NAGLE CLASSIC

8-10 October 2021

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!