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    CRYPTO TOPIC PF FREEZE

    11 December 2021

    DEADLINE
    7 December 2021
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to 5th-12th graders
    ​Public Forum only
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    Technology
    All students are expected to use laptops or desktops with Webcams.

    Cheating
    We are asking all competitors, judges, and coaches to participate and act in good faith to preserve the competitive integrity of the tournament. So any debaters suspected of using extra “help” in the form of parents, coaches, teachers, etc should be exposed and removed from the tournament with no refund.

    Students with excessive camera/mic issues will be removed from tournaments. This is not to punish students, but the issue may drastically throw off rounds. Try to reduce these issues by practicing online and getting tabroom, camera, mic, software, computer, wifi, whatever issues resolved before you debate.

    Public Forum Debate – 2021 November/December Topic Area: Blockchain
    Resolved: Increased United States federal regulation of cryptocurrency transactions and/or assets will produce more benefits than harms.
    ​
    NSDA rules for speech, preparation times and the coin toss.
    Times are all the same for PF except you will have 4 minutes of prep time

    Divisions
    PROPER ABILITY LEVEL PLACEMENT FOR PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE
    • 5-6th Grade PF
    • Middle School PF Rookies - FIRST TIME DEBATING THIS YEAR 2021 (NOT FIRST TIME THIS SCHOOL YEAR, FIRST TIME THIS CALENDAR YEAR!)
    • Middle School JV PF - All students who have debated in the current school year, but not those who have won more than 2 rounds on average in a 4 round tournament, and NO STUDENTS WHO HAVE COMPETED AT ANY TWO DAY TOURNAMENTS
    • Middle School Varsity PF - ALL STUDENTS WITH MORE THAN 1 YEAR EXPERIENCE OR THOSE WHO HAVE AVERAGED MORE THAN 2 WINS PER TOURNAMENT THIS SCHOOL YEAR ONLINE
    • ​High School Rookies PF - FIRST TIME DEBATING THIS YEAR 2021 (NOT FIRST TIME THIS SCHOOL YEAR, FIRST TIME THIS CALENDAR YEAR!)
    • High School PF​

    ​
    Judging
    Please be sure that when supplying judges, each judge has a registered TABROOM account with a paradigm. There will be no judge training at any tournament, but resources to learn on your own can be found below.


    Judge Philosophies
    Public Forum: all judges must submit a judging philosophy to Tabroom. There are no judge strikes.

    ​
    ​​This tournament is hosted by the Metro DC Speech & Debate League aka DCUDL.
    Be sure to test out connections for BEST results. Video must be on, and Mics must work 100% volume

    ​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:  [email protected]

    Nadia Budiman 
    Contact email: [email protected]

    Or [email protected]

    Registration Form


    STUDENT INFORMATION

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

    EVENT SELECTION

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

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

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Telephone

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Email (preferred)

For more info email us at: [email protected]

Locations

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Cupertino: 20432 Silverado Avenue Suite 211, Cupertino, CA 95014

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