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    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
    Max file size: 20MB

    STUDENT INFORMATION

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

    EVENT SELECTION
    Make sure you have checked the double-entry policies if there are any. We are not responsible for schedule conflicts.
    BOTH partners must fill out form and pay in order to be registered!

    ​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.

    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
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 

Loving Tree Academy: 36601 Newark Blvd, #83, Newark, CA 94560
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