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    PRIORY ROUND ROBIN

    18-19 May 2024

    DEADLINE
    12 May 2024
    NO REFUNDS AFTER THE DEADLINE
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to MS/HS students
    LOCATION
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    Hosted by Woodside Priory Debate team
    The tournament will be FULLY ONLINE

    We invite you to attend the Priory Round Robin. We will have Open and Novice divisions in Public Forum, which will be available for Middle and High School students.
    ​

    The Tournament
    There will be 6 total rounds with no eliminations. We will start power pairing after the Second round, and awards will be given based on the final seeds and speaker points.

    Topics Offered
    • NSDA PF Apr
      Resolved: The United Nations should abolish permanent membership on its Security Council.
    • NSDA PF Feb
      Resolved: The United States federal government should ban single-use plastics.

    ​Entry Price

    PF debate and parent is judging $65
    PF debate and parent is OPTING OUT OF judging $170

    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.

    Tentative Schedule

    All times in Pacific Standard Time

    Saturday May 18th:
    10:00 AM - Round 1
    12:00 PM - Round 2
    2:00 PM - Round 3
    4:00 PM - Round 4

    ​Sunday May 19th:
    10:00 AM - Round 5
    12:00 PM: Round 6
    2:00 PM: Awards and Final Seeds

    ​​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


    STUDENT INFORMATION
    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.

    EVENT SELECTION
    BOTH partners must fill out form and pay in order to be registered!

    ​JUDGE PROVISION
    Another PF tournament has created these easy-to-use PF judging guidelines and powerpoint. Please take a look at both of them if this is your first time judging.
    PF Judging Guidelines
    PF Judging Slides

    Please do not sign up to judge if you cannot commit to the two-day schedule.

    ​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
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​​
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