SUNVITE

2023 SUNVITE

6-8 January 2023

DEADLINE

22 Dec 2022

ELIGIBILITY

Open to middle and high school students

LOCATION

Hybrid:
Online or Nova Southeastern University

Information

Reminder, all events will be IN PERSON except Varsity Public Forum which will be HYBRID.

Dear Friends,
On behalf of the NSU University School, we cordially invite you to attend the Sunvite Tournament to be IN PERSON on January 6-8. We promise to continue our tradition of top-notch competition, exceptional judging, and amazing trophies!

LD/PF/Policy judges will be required to have paradigms published online. Those paradigms will be audited prior to registration, and if blank or deemed inappropriate the school will be charged an uncovered judge fee. For every uncovered judge you will be charged $60/round in debate or $150/day for Speech. Any rounds missed by judges from your school, will result in an additional $50 fee per round in prelims and $100 per round in elimination rounds. It is not our goal to make a profit off of missed rounds; however, having present/competent judges is vital to running a successful tournament. We will be using online ballots for all events.

Prefs/Strikes: Prefs will be available in LD. Strikes will be available for Public Forum. We will make every effort to strike AT LEAST 12% of the PF pool, and ordinal prefs in LD.

Entourage Rule: All coaches watching rounds, communicating with the tournament, coaching or in any way actively contributing to the competitive success of their team must be in for at least 3 rounds of debate or 1 day of speech. The determination of eligible/qualified is left up to the tournament staff. The penalty for violations of this rule may range from loss of MPJ/Strikes, forfeiture of your entries, or additional fines.

Resolutions/Topic Areas: We will be using the January topic in PF and LD. Congress legislation, Impromptu, and Extemp topic areas will be posted no later than December 15th. If you’d like to submit

Debate: We will run SIX rounds in PF/LD/Policy. The first two rounds will be pre-set randomly and will take place Friday afternoon. Rounds three through six will be power matched (high-low within brackets). Both LD and PF will break to partial or full Triple-Octafinals, depending on the number of entries. The order of tie-breakers is 1) wins, 2)opposition wins, 3) drop high-low speaker points, 4) ZScore 5) total speaker points. Public Forum will use the tabroom coinflip to flip before rounds. PF will not be side locked in elimination rounds if they previously hit.

Speech: Wearedropping the lowest prelim rank and we will use clean breaks--not cumulative ranks--in each elimination round. We will break to quarterfinals in any speech event with more than 70 entries, if there are more than 100 we will have a octofinals round. There will be NO section with more than 6 speakers. Speech competitors can double-enter within each pattern, so an ambitious competitor can compete in four different speech events. Breaks will be determined by total ranks in prelims, followed by recips. Whenever possible we will break the number of competitors on total ranks, using recips only when absolutely necessary.

Speech Patterns
A: DI, DUO, OO, MX, ADS
B: HI. POI, IMP, INFO

VPF HYBRID MODEL
For VPF what this looks like is if EITHER team is virtual then the entire round will be virtual. If a team is on campus they’ll be assigned a classroom w/ a room monitor to do the round. If both teams are in-person we will prioritize an in-person judge for that room. Judges judging virtual debates will have the Media Center, and theatre to judge from. I will have NSDA Campus w/ Observers so coaches can watch rounds if they choose.

Entry Price

Online PF and parent is judging $100
Online PF and parent is OPTING OUT OF JUDGING $280
If you choose to travel to the tournament in-person with the GSA team, we will be collecting a $400 deposit. Please keep in mind that the final travel cost may be higher.

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

Please note that all times are in Florida time, EASTERN STANDARD TIME (EST).

TENTATIVE PF/LD SCHEDULE

Friday
Round 1: 5pm (Pairings at 4:30pm) --- 2:00 PM PST
Round 2: 6:45pm (Pairings at 6:15pm) --- 3:45 PM PST

Saturday
Round 3: 9:00am (Pairings at 8:30am) --- 6:00 AM PST
Round 4: 11am (Pairings at 10:30am) --- 8:00 AM PST
LUNCH 12p-1p (Lunch provided by the tournament) --- 9:00 AM PST
Round 5: 1:45pm (Pairings at 1:15pm) --- 10:45 AM PST
Round 6: 3:30pm (Pairings at 3pm)   --- 12:30 PM PST
Elim 1: 5:30pm (Pairings at 5pm)   --- 2:30 PM PST

Sunday (as needed per event)
Elim 2: 9:00am (Pairings at 8:30am) --- 6:00 AM PST
Elim 3: 11:00am (Pairings at 10:30am) --- 8:00 AM PST
LUNCH 12p-1p (Food trucks!) --- 9:00 AM PST
Elim 4: 1:30pm (Pairings at 1pm) --- 10:30 AM PST
Elim 5:3:15pm (Pairings at 2:45pm)   --- 12:15 PM PST
Awards at 5pm (Presentation of the Skimboards & Speaker Awards)   --- 2:00 PM PST
Decision Time 1 hour 15 after start.

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 (DO NOT USE PARENT'S EMAIL) *

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

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 (write N/A if none) *

First

Last

Choose your event *

In-person JV PF In-person Varsity PF Online Varsity PF

JUDGE PROVISION

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 have a paradigm on Tabroom? *

Not judging and will pay the opt-out fee Yes, the judge has paradigm on Tabroom

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.

This tournament requires 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

2023 SUNVITE

6-8 January 2023

Information

​Entry Price

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!