SPRING CUP

18 March 2023

DEADLINE

11 March 2023
NO REFUNDS AFTER THE DEADLINE

ELIGIBILITY

Open to MS/HS students

PLATFORM

Online through NSDA Campus

Information

Entry Eligibility:

Middle School Public Forum: All entries must be in the 4th to 8th grade during the 2022-23 school year.
High School Public Forum: All entries must be in the 9th to 12th grade during the 2022-23 school year.

Judging Information:

Obligations
Judges must show up to their rounds 10 minutes before the round start time. If the judge does not show up after 15 minutes from the round start time, the judge will be fined $150.
Judges are obligated 1 elim round past the round that their team drops in. (For example, if none of the teams from a school break to eliminations, then the school’s judges are obligated to judge the first elim and none after that).

Qualifications
Here at The Spring Cup, our philosophy is that every judge you provide should be highly qualified. Highly qualified means your judge is a trained individual, who will actively listen to each debater’s arguments and carefully decide the round.
High schoolers, including freshmen, may judge Middle School students. Middle School students may never judge.

Training
If you are new to judging, please watch the following videos.

Intro to Judging (~16 minutes)
How to Enter a Tabroom Ballot (~6 minutes)
There are many YouTube videos of actual debate rounds. We encourage you to watch them and practice judging that round.

Please also note that:

We encourage, but do not require, judges to write a paradigm on Tabroom. This helps debaters immensely and makes the round as accessible to you as possible.
Judges do not need to disclose their decisions from prelim rounds, but it is strongly encouraged. On the other hand, the last-submitting judge must disclose the winner of an elimination round after the round occurs.

Rules & Conduct:

Speech times: 4-4-3-4-4-3-3-3-3-2-2 (3 minutes of prep time)
Topic: 2023 February Topic. Resolved: In the United States, right-to-work laws do more harm than good.

Flip for side and order in all rounds through Tabroom coinflip.

Tech time: Teams will be allotted 10 minutes of tech time. As soon as a technical issue that impedes the round begins, tech time will begin. If more than 10 minutes pass, it is a tech time failure resulting in forfeiture. In that case, please email us at tournaments@eloquenceacademy.org to report it.

Evidence: Evidence challenges will match standard NSDA rules. In the case of a round terminating evidence challenge, please email us at tournaments@eloquenceacademy.org and report it to us.

Forfeiture: Teams more than 10 minutes late to round will automatically forfeit under all circumstances. Please email us at tournaments@eloquenceacademy.org and report all forfeits to us.

Walkover Policy: In the case that two teams from the same school hit each other, the higher seeded team will advance.

MS Elim Rounds: We are breaking the top 4 seeds to semifinals.

HS Elim Rounds: We are breaking the top 8 seeds to quarterfinals. This will include some 3-2s.

Awards: Awards will be distributed to the champions/finalists (trophies), and the top 3 speakers (medals). Information about the ordering and shipment of trophies will be communicated after the tournament.

Equity Complaint Form: At the Spring Cup, we want to foster a safe environment for all coaches, judges, and competitors. Thus, our participants must uphold moral values. If there is an instance of discrimination, harassment, or any problem that arises, please fill out this form.

Code of conduct: All teams must abide by code of conduct. Failure to do so may disqualify that entry and all other entries from the same school.

Entry Price

PF debate and parent is judging $75
PF debate and parent is OPTING OUT OF judging $175

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.

Tentative Schedule

Please pay attention to the time zones.
As soon as the pairing comes out, please go to the round as soon as possible; the faster the tournament runs, the better. See you this weekend!

Click below to see the schedule. Pay careful attention, because MS and HS schedules are different.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MOSD60uevYNrYd1lQL5_kZR6PXr4ZZ5yfe2-Xp-aOAs/edit?usp=sharing

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

* Indicates required field

Student Name *

First

Last

Student Email (make sure you have a Tabroom account) *

Student Phone Number *

Does the student have a Tabroom account? *

Yes and it is linked with GSA's account(s) Yes but it is not linked and we need you to add to your roster No but I will create one before submitting registration No but I will pay the additional $35 setup fee

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.

Parent Name *

First

Last

Parent Email *

Parent Phone Number *

EVENT SELECTION

Partner Name *

First

Last

Choose your event *

Novice PF

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

Will you (parent) be judging at this tournament? *

Judge Name *

Judge email (Must be linked to a tabroom account. Register first at tabroom.com before completing this sign up) *

Judge phone *

Does your judge have a Tabroom account? *

Yes No but I will create one before submitting registration No but I'll pay the additional $35 setup fee Not judging

Does your judge understand that he/she is responsible for the entire tournament schedule and that missing a round incurs fines from the tournament? *

Yes, understood Not judging but understood as well

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

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 confirm that I have completed all necessary paperwork for this tournament. *

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 understand that I can check my entry status through tabroom.com. *

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

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

Aborn Institute: 2804 Riedel Road, San Jose, CA 95135

SPRING CUP

18 March 2023

Information

​Entry Price

Tentative Schedule

Drop Fee

Contact Info

Registration Form

We would love to have you visit soon at one of our open houses.Check our home page for the schedule!

School year Hours

Telephone

Email (preferred)

Locations

Entry Price

We would love to have you visit soon at one of our open houses.
Check our home page for the schedule!