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    PENINSULA INVITATIONAL​

    23-25 January 2021

    DEADLINE
    20 Jan 2021
    NO REFUNDS ALLOWED

    ​DEADLINE TO ADD JUDGE IS 16 Jan 2021

    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to middle and high school students
    PLATFORM
    Online through classrooms.cloud

    Information

    Colleagues and friends:

    We’re happy to invite you to the fourth annual Peninsula Invitational, hosted by Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in Rolling Hills Estates, California. This year we will be hosting the event on the Classrooms.cloud platform. Events will begin on Saturday, January, 23, 2021 and end on Monday, January 25, 2021. We will offer novice and varsity divisions of Policy, Lincoln- Douglas, and Public Forum debate, plus Parliamentary and Congressional Debate as well as all CHSSA and NIETOC speech events. We are a TOC semifinals bid tournament in the varsity Lincoln-Douglas division, a finals bid in the varsity policy and public forum divisions, and a top six bid in Congressional debate. We are also a bid tournament in speech for both NIETOC and the TOC hosted by The University of Kentucky (UK).
     
    Varsity Policy debate, Lincoln-Douglas debate, and Public Forum debate will begin on Saturday, January 23 and conclude on Monday, January 25. Parliamentary and novice debate divisions will begin on Saturday and conclude on Sunday. Congress will take place on Saturday only and speech events on Sunday only. This year we are only allowing debaters entered in parliamentary debate and congressional debate to double-enter in speech events.
     
    Please register early. We are setting an initial cap of 176 in varsity LD debate, 84 in other varsity debate events, and 42 in novice debate events. That number allows 4-2s to break to LD triples, 4-2s in other debate events to break to doubles, and 3-1s in novice events to break to octas on Sunday. It’s possible we adjust the schedule and/or entry limits but we want to break as large a percentage of entries with winning records as possible while maintaining a manageable schedule.
      

    TOURNAMENT RULES AND ENTRY GUIDELINES
     
    Double Entry Limitations:
    Students may only compete in one debate event. Students competing in Congress may double-enter in speech events in either pattern. Students may not enter more than two speech events per pattern. Students who double-enter are expected to get to their rounds on time.
     
    Patterns:
    Speech Pattern A: Dramatic Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Thematic Interpretation/Program Oral Interpretation, Original Prose/Poetry
    Speech Pattern B: Extemp, Impromptu, Original Oratory/Advocacy/Persuasive, Informative/Expository, Oratorical Interpretation/Declamation
     
    Debate Topics:
    The Policy debate topic will be “Resolved: The United States federal government should enact substantial criminal justice reform in the United States in one or more of the following: forensic science, policing, sentencing.
    The LD topic will be "Resolved: States ought to ban lethal autonomous weapons."
    The Public Forum topic will be "Resolved: The National Security Agency should end its surveillance of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents."
     
    Judging:
    In order to save us 15-20 minutes between rounds, while eliminating any possibility of tab entry error, all balloting will be done electronically.  All judges need to be linked to a Tabroom account to be registered. Seasoned competitors in their third or fourth year of competition are permitted to judge the novice division of their event.
     
    All judges are required to have judge philosophies on Tabroom. Failure to do so will result in losing preferences/strikes and/or not having the judge count towards fulfilling the school’s judging obligation.
     
    Judges must be available during the whole tournament schedule. Failure to do so and missed rounds will result in fines being assessed.
     ​
    Event Rules and Guidelines:
    NIETOC rules will be followed for Oratory, DI, HI, POI, Informative, and Duo Interpretation. http://nietoc.com/full-details/
    CHSSA rules will be followed for Extemp, Oratorical Interpretation, Original Prose and Poetry, and Impromptu. http://www.chssa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Updated-CHSSA-Rules-and- Regs.pdf
    The TOC rules and procedures document will be followed for Policy Debate, LD, PF, and Congressional Debate. https://ci.uky.edu/UKDebate/tournament-procedures

    ​Entry Price

    Novice LD and parent is judging $110
    Novice LD and NOT providing a judge $220

    Varsity LD and parent is judging $140
    Varsity LD and NOT providing a judge $250

    Novice PF/Policy and parent is judging $80

    Novice PF/Policy and NOT providing a judge $190

    Varsity PF/Policy and parent is judging $95
    Varsity PF/Policy and NOT providing a judge $205

    Congress and parent is judging $75
    Congress and NOT providing a judge $185

    One Speech Event and parent is judging $65
    Two Speech Events and parent is judging $80
    Three Speech Events and parent is judging $95


    One Speech Event and NOT providing a judge $175
    Two Speech Events and NOT providing a judge $190
    Three Speech Events and NOT providing a judge $205

    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

    Please note that all times are in PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (PST).

    ​All Events
    Click here to see the schedule page

    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

    To participate at this tournament, you are required to sign the liability form(s) below. Make sure to do so before you proceed with the registration.
    ​

    STUDENT INFORMATION

    PARENT CONTACT INFORMATION
    Your email address will be the one included when we send the logistics email.

    EVENT SELECTION
    Make sure you have checked the double-entry policies if there are any. We are not responsible for schedule conflicts.
    Students may only compete in one debate event. Students competing in Congress may double-enter in speech events in either pattern. Students may not enter more than two speech events per pattern.
    • Pattern A: DI, Duo, HI, POI, OPP
    • Pattern B: Extemp, IMP, OO/Advocacy/Persuasive, Info/Expos, OI/Declamation​
    BOTH partners must fill out form and pay in order to be registered!
    TOURNAMENT POLICY:
    FOR THOSE ENTERING IN PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE, BOTH PARTNERS MUST COME FROM THE SAME MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL.
    IF NOT, YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED WITHOUT REFUND. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.

    ​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 two minutes.

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

    ​This tournament requires 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".

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

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Telephone

510-270-8480
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For more info email us at: info@tgsastaff.com

Locations

Fremont: 200 Brown Rd #201, Fremont, CA 94539

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