SUNVITE

2021 SUNVITE

DO NOT SIGN UP, CLOSED FOR REGISTRATION

8-10 Jan 2021

DEADLINE

ELIGIBILITY

Open to middle and high school students

PLATFORM

Online through classrooms.cloud

Information

Dear Friends,
On behalf of the NSU University School, we cordially invite you to attend the Sunvitational Tournament to be held virtually through classrooms.cloud on January 8-10th. We promise to continue our tradition of top-notch competition, exceptional judging, and amazing trophies!

Deadlines/Entries: If you drop any entries after the deadline, you will forfeit the entry fee. If you drop any entries after January 6th at 12pm, you will be charged the entry fee plus an additional $25. If you drop an entry on January 7th or do not report a drop you will be charged an additional $75 plus the entry fee.

Judging Requirements: 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 $40/round. Any rounds missed by judges from your school, will result in an additional $50 fee per round. 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 policy and LD. Strikes will be available for Public Forum. We will make every effort to strike AT LEAST 10% of the PF pool, and ordinal prefs in LD.

Entourage Rule: While this is a virtual environment we will still atempt to regulate this. We think this makes our judging pools diverse and of higher quality. All coaches watching rounds, communicating with the tournament etc. must be in for at least 3 rounds. 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 (see below).

Debate: We will run SIX rounds in PF/LD, 7 rounds in Policy. The first two rounds will be pre-set randomly and will take place Friday afternoon. Rounds three through six (or 7) 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) head-to-head, 3) opposition wins, 4) drop high-low speaker points, 5) total speaker points. Public Forum will use the tabroom coinflip to flip before rounds. LD will use MPJ and PF will allow for strikes.

NOVICE/JV GUIDELINESNovice = MS OR First year of HS competition
JV = 1st or 2nd year of HS Competition

Speech: We are dropping the lowest prelim rank and we will use clean breaks--not cumulative ranks--in each elimination round. We will break to quarterfinals in a 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
B: HI. POI, IMP, INFO

EXTEMP/IMPROMPTU TOPIC AREAS

Extemp
Prelims
Biden Administration
Latin America and Corruption
US Economy
Public Health (international/domestic)
Europe and the Environment
International Hotspots
Political cartoons
Hypotheticals

Impromptu
Holidays
Quarantine Hobbies
Disney Quotes
Popular Netflix Shows/Movies
Dr. Seuss Quotes
Children’s Books
Scenarios
Memes

Congress: Congress will have 3 preliminary rounds, semis and finals. PO’s will be recognized at awards. Congress Chambers will be posted January 6th (assuming no late drops). Congress legislation is due by Friday, December 10th at 5:00pm. Please email legislation to afiebran@nova.edu with the subject “Sunvite Legislation.” Legislation will be posted no later than December 15th. Assuming on time legislation submissions.

Entry Price

Novice LD only $100
Novice LD + 1 Speech $140
Novice LD + 2 Speech $180
Novice LD + 3 Speech $220

Varsity LD only $130
Varsity LD + 1 Speech $170
Varsity LD + 2 Speech $210
Varsity LD + 3 Speech $250

PF only $100
PF + 1 Speech $140
PF + 2 Speech $180
PF + 3 Speech $220

One Speech Event $90
Two Speech Events $130
Three Speech Events $170

If you don't provide a judge, you will pay an additional $110
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).

LD/PF
Click here to see the schedule page

Speech
Click here to see the schedule page

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

To participate at this tournament, you are required to sign and submit the image release form below. Make sure to do so before you proceed with the registration.
sunvite_image_release.pdf

* Indicates required field

Signed Image Release Form *

Max file size: 20MB

STUDENT INFORMATION

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
Make sure you have checked the double-entry policies if there are any. We are not responsible for schedule conflicts.

Partner Name (write N/A if none) *

First

Last

JUDGE PROVISION

Are you supplying a judge? *

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 extra $110 fee Yes, the judge has paradigm on Tabroom

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.

For this tournament, 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. Paradigm 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).

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

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

2021 SUNVITEDO NOT SIGN UP, CLOSED FOR REGISTRATION

8-10 Jan 2021

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

2021 SUNVITE

DO NOT SIGN UP, CLOSED FOR REGISTRATION

Entry Price

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