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    SPARTAN CLASSIC AT MSU ​

    5 December 2020

    DEADLINE
    1 Dec 2020
    ​NO REFUNDS

    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to Congress students
    PLATFORM
    Online through TBD

    Information

    Spartan Classic at MSU InvitationDear Colleague:
     
    On behalf of Michigan State University, we are pleased to invite you to participate the 2020 Spartan Classic Debate Tournament. We’re planning to host it fully online but are still committed to our partnership with Okemos High School (OHS). All fees paid to the tournament will be directly donated to the OHS Debate Team. Any operations costs will be covered by MSU Debate. The tournament will run December 4-6, 2020. We will also be hosting a Congressional division on Saturday.
     
    Scheduling
    Our goal in hosting the Spartan Classic is to provide a service to regional programs – both in fundraising for OHS Debate and in creating a competitive opportunity for students at a regional tournament held in Michigan. With the move online, we’ve opted to keep our tournament schedule largely to accommodate the Eastern Time Zone in order to continue to serve those schools and programs. Schools from other time zones are certainly encouraged to attending but we wanted to provide a rationale for our scheduling choices.
    Most than in past years there’s the potential that we’ll change our tentative schedule. We’ll be watching as other tournaments are held in the virtual format to determine if there’s a better schedule to use.
     
    Tournament Format – Congressional Debate
    The number of entries will determine the number of chambers. NSDA rules and time limits will apply; see the NSDA website www.speechanddebate.org for further details.
    Please see the template for Congress legislation on the NSDA website at: http://www.speechanddebate.org/congress. Legislation is expected to be of sound quality and the tournament personnel reserve the right to exclude legislation that does not meet that standard. Legislative packets will be posted on the website for each participating school to download by October 18th.
     
    Awards
    At this time, we only plan to ship physical awards to the finalists of each division. Given our desire to provide a low-cost option for online participation while donating fees to OHS Debate, we’ve tentatively opted to not ship more individual/team awards. If a physical award is important to a program’s school, students, etc. we can talk about options following the tournament.
     
    Families
    The Spartan Classic will be continuing our effort to have our tournament be more “family friendly.” We will give any parents debates off to accommodate families with children. Just let us know how to best accommodate your schedule.
     
    Thanks for considering the 2020 Spartan Classic Debate Tournament!

    Sincerely,
    Carly Watson
    MSU Debate Project and Events Coordinator

    ​Entry Price

    Congress and parent is judging $70
    Congress and not providing a judge $140

    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 TIME ZONE.

    SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5TH
    8:00 a.m. – Registration
    9:00-11:30 – Session 1
    12:00-1:00 – Lunch Break
    1:00-3:30 – Session 2
    4:00-6:30 – Super Session
    6:45 – Awards in finals chamber

    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

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

    EVENT SELECTION

    ​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.

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

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School year Hours

M-F: 3:45 pm - 8:30 pm 
Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Telephone

510-270-8480
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Email (preferred)

For more info email us at: info@tgsastaff.com

Locations

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