SCJFL ELEMENTARY

SCJFL 1st Quarter Elementary Speech and Debate Tournament

24 October 2020

DEADLINE

To register: 18 Oct
To drop: 18 Oct

ELIGIBILITY

Open to elementary students

PLATFORM

Online through
TBD platform

Information

2020 SCJFL1st Quarter Elementary Speech & Debate Tournament

Greetings to all elementary school speech and debate clubs and schools! On Saturday, October 24th, 2020, we will be hosting the first elementary speech tournament of the 2020-2021 school year virtually. We hope your school or organization will join us!

Online Tournament Guidelines:
-All competitors are required to have a guardian on screen. This is to ensure responsibility and safety.
-All participants (judges and competitors) are required to read this SCJFL Online Tournament Participation Best Practice document.

Double-Entry Policy:
Competitors may not enter more than two events for any given pattern at any SCJFL tournament. Competitors may not double-enter in a pattern if they are also entered in any of the following events in the same pattern: Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, Big Questions, Congress, and Extemp. Triple entry is not permitted.

Pattern A Events:
● Congress (Legislation click here)

Pattern B Events:
● Informative (5 mins. – Audio-visual aids are optional)
● Original Oratory/Persuasive (5 mins.)

Qualifications for Novice:
Per the bylaws, all students who have received a trophy in any event (regardless of what novice event they are applying to enter), are no longer eligible for a novice division. Additionally, any students who have participated in more than four tournaments are no longer eligible for the novice division.

Judging Requirements:
Parents can choose whether or not they want to participate and be a judge at this tournament. If you are not judging, you will pay an additional $70.

Judges will be responsible for their own judge training.
First time judging? Click here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.
Teams who supply grossly unprepared judges will be charged a nuisance fee of $50.
If you signed up to be a judge but do not show up on the day of the tournament, you will be charged a $100 fine.

Postings will be 100% online
Rules: All rules can be found in the SCJFL by-laws. Make sure to review it here.

Online Tournament Help and Judges Room:
During the tournament judges and coaches can sign into our online room for help/assistance at 8x8.vc/SCJFLhelp

Tournament host: Nova 42 Academy
Tournament director: Hafize Ebru Dogan – Nova 42 Academy

Entry Price

One event $60
Two events $70
Three events $80

If you don't provide a judge, you will pay an additional $70.
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.

Schedule

TENTATIVE
8:30 am Judge Check-In & Training at 8x8.vc/SCJFLhelp

Pattern A Debate (Congress)
9:00 am Round 1 Congress
10:30 am Round 2 Congress
12:00 pm Finals for Congress

Pattern B Speech (Informative/Original Oratory)
1:00 pm Judge Check-In & Training at 8x8.vc/SCJFLhelp
2:00 pm Speech Round 1
3:30 pm Speech Round 2
4:30 pm Speech Round 3
5:30 pm Finals
6:45 pm Awards

Drop Fee

Changes or drops after October 18th, 2020 will be charged a $10 nuisance fee. 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

* Indicates required field

Student Name *

First

Last

Student Email *

Student Phone Number *

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
Make sure you have checked the double-entry policies. We are not responsible for schedule conflicts.
In short, you can choose either:

Congress only or
Informative only or
OO/Persuasive or
Congress + Informative or
Congress + OO/Persuasive or
Informative + OO/Persuasive

Entering in all three events is not allowed.

Pattern A selection if any *

Congress none

Pattern B selection if any *

Informative none

Pattern B selection if any *

Original Oratory/Persuasive none

JUDGE PROVISION

Are you supplying a judge? *

Judge email (do not leave blank if judging) *

Judge Name *

Judge phone (do not leave blank if judging) *

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

SCJFL 1st Quarter Elementary Speech and Debate Tournament​