NUEVA

NUEVA INVITATIONAL

9 January 2022

DEADLINE

2 Jan 2022

ELIGIBILITY

Open to middle and high school students
Public Forum only

PLATFORM

Online through NSDA Campus

Information

BEST GREETINGS FROM NUEVA DEBATE!

We hope your school will attend the fifth annual Nueva Parli Invitational, which is also the first annual Nueva Public Forum Invitational, to be held online on Sunday, January 9. We’ll run junior and open divisions of Public Forum debate, with at least four preliminary rounds and finals.

ELIGIBILITY – We will accept middle school teams and/or high school teams. A high school debater may debate with a middle school debater from their affiliated middle school, and vice versa. We will accept hybrid teams if we receive written authorization from both school administrators. Otherwise, students must attend the same school and must compete as authorized representatives of the school they attend. Coaches may place teams in either the junior or open division using their reasonable discretion.

REGISTRATION is through tabroom.com. All entries will be waitlisted pending tournament approval. We are setting an initial limit of five teams per school per division.

JUDGES – Schools owe one judge per two entries. Very experienced high school parli debaters may judge in the junior division, with prior approval. All judges must have linked tabroom.com accounts, and we hope that open division judges will have posted paradigms. A limited number of hired judges may be procured (through our Procurement Office) for $120 for the day. We expect to have some excellent guest judges. If you know of people we should hire, please let us know.

RULES? Team prep and coach prep are OK.

FEES - $45 per team; $120 per hired judge; fees are frozen on January 6. We have to take checks, payable to The Nueva School, sent to Les Phillips c/o The Nueva School, 131 E. 28th Avenue; we have to have them by Friday, January 7.

SCHEDULE -- We will have a “virtual bus” checking at 7:30 am on Sunday, January 9. The tournament should be done by 6:30 pm.

ETC. -- The parli topic committee will be Sam Timinsky, plus whoever else we can trick into service. We will announce a topic area for two of our rounds not later than January 1. Team and coach prep are fine. Judges’ decisions are not subject to appeal or protest. Public Forum will follow NSDA rules/format.

We will send more detailed information as we wend our way through the various online complexities. Feel free to contact me with questions. We very much look forward to hosting you!

Entry Price

All PF events $70
If you are opting out of judging, you will pay an additional $90

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.

Schedule

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

CRYPTO Topic
Resolved: Increased United States federal regulation of cryptocurrency transactions and/or assets will produce more benefits than harms.

Round 1 - 10am --- 7:00 AM PST
Round 2 - 11:30am --- 8:30 AM PST
Round 3 - 1:00pm --- 10:00 AM PST
Round 4 - 2:45pm --- 11:45 AM PST
Round 5 - 3:30pm (if needed for breaks) --- 12:30 PM PST

All rounds Eastern Standard time and subject to slight change depending on technical fluidity

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
Suggested attire for the tournament can be found here.
More tournament resources can be found here.

* Indicates required field

Student Name *

First

Last

Student Email (make sure you have a Tabroom account) *

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 *

EVENT SELECTION

*MS Rookies is ONLY for middle schoolers who have just started debating this 2021.

Partner Name *

First

Last

Choose your division, but keep in mind that if enrollments are low some divisions may be collapsed into one *

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 two minutes.

First time judging? Click here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.

Tournaments recommend judges to have a judge philosophy 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).

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: 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

NUEVA INVITATIONAL

9 January 2022

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!