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    ​SAN FRAN BAY DISTRICT TOURNAMENT

    25-26 March 2023

    DEADLINE
    16 March 2023
    NO REFUNDS ALLOWED AFTER THIS DATE
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to high school students
    LOCATION
    ​James Logan High School
    Union City, CA

    Information

    Welcome to the NSDA San Francisco Bay District Qualifier Tournaments home page. You will find information posted on the right-hand side that I hope will address most questions/concerns about our 2023 district tournaments, but please feel free to contact me directly with any questions.
    ​
    ​AUDIT PROCEDURES
    As required by the NSDA, we will follow strict audit procedures to minimize the chances of any tabulation errors. It is critical that all coaches pay close attention to these matters.
    After each debate round, we will make ballots and results available to all coaches for review. It is the responsibility of every coach to carefully review results for his/her students and raise any questions or concerns with the tab staff promptly.
    Rounds 1 and 2 are pre-set, but beginning with round 2 we will allow a 15-minute period after publishing round results to coaches for any protests before proceeding with pairing the subsequent round.
    And it will be particularly important for coaches to review results after round 4 because those results will determine which debaters advance to elimination rounds.
    Thanks for your help ensuring that we have the best possible national qualifying tournament!

    ​DEBATE TOURNAMENT PROCEDURES
    ​For our 2023 qualifier, we will be employing the NSDA's option for a single-elimination bracketed tournament with four preliminary rounds.
    All debaters will compete in four preliminary rounds, after which all debaters/teams with prelim records of 4-0 or 3-1 will advance to a single-elimination bracket.
    We will use three-judge panels in all rounds of all debate events.

    ​BELONGING & INCLUSION STATION
    ​The Belonging and Inclusion Station (BIS)--formerly Equity Office--exists to address violations of harassment and discrimination policies and provide a safe space for individuals who report harassment and discrimination incidents at NSDA district and national tournaments.
    The BIS may serve as a resource for any student, coach, judge, or official participating at an NSDA-sponsored tournament. Complaints may be filed if an individual feels as if an instance of harassment and/or discrimination has occurred. Examples include:
      • Perceived discriminatory practice on the basis of (but not limited to) race/color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity/expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, and/or veteran or military status.
      • Perceived retaliation, harassment, or intimidation due to an individual’s filing of a complaint or participating in an intake regarding a violation of the NSDA’s harassment and discrimination policies.
    There will be a Belonging & Inclusion Advocate onsite at the following locations:
    Sunday, March 12 -- Lowell High School Library
    Saturday, March 25 & Sunday, March 26 -- James Logan High School room 411
    Belonging & Inclusion Advocate: Justin Kurup (jkurup@nhusd.k12.ca.us)
    Other BIA include Dr. Tommie Lindsey, Jr. & Kimberly Fradelis
    ​

    National Speech & Debate Association Harassment and Discrimination Policy
    The National Speech& Debate Association is committed to providing its participants, judges, coaches, and staff the opportunity to pursue excellencein their endeavors. This opportunity can exist only when each member of our community is assured an atmosphere of mutual respect. The NSDA prohibits all forms of harassment and discrimination. Accordingly, all forms of harassment and discrimination, whether written or oral, based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by any applicable federal, state, or local law are prohibited, whether committed by participants, judges, coaches, or observers. Individuals who are found to have violated this policy will be subject to the full range of sanctions, up to and including removal from the tournament premises.
    Disclaimer: Individual school district policies may vary. This policy is not intended to replace established school district procedures. If you adopt this policy, please replace our name with your tournament or school name.
    Judge Resources
    A free cultural competency & judge training online program is made available by the NSDA.

    ​Entry Price

    PF debate and parent is judging $70
    PF debate and parent is OPTING OUT OF JUDGING $200

    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

    These times are what we anticipate, but we will expedite the schedule for PF/LD on Saturday if we have enough judges to single flight a round.
    We will use three judges in every round and all teams/debaters will compete in the four prelim rounds. All teams/debaters with prelim records of 3-1 or 4-0 will advance to elimination rounds (which will be a single-elimination bracket).

    SATURDAY, March 25
    8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Debate 1 CX 1, LD 1, PF 1
    10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Debate 2 CX 2, LD 2, PF 2
    12:45 PM LUNCH BREAK
    1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Debate 3 CX 3, LD 3, PF 3
    4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Debate 4 CX 4, LD 4, PF 4

    SUNDAY, March 26
    8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PF/LD Elim 1
    8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Policy Elim 1
    10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PF/LD Elim 2
    11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Policy Elim 2
    12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PF/LD Elim 3
    2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Policy Elim 3 (unlikely to be needed)
    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM PF/LD Elim 4 (unlikely to be needed)

    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
    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

    ​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? Click here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.
    ​There are also these training cards available that include a summary of each event's rules and comments.​

    ​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

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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 
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