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    SVUDL SPRING INVITATIONAL

    10-11 April 2021

    DEADLINE
    3 April 2021
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to middle and high school students
    PLATFORM
    Online through NSDA Campus

    Information

    Dear Colleagues, 
    ​

    THE SILICON VALLEY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE (SVUDL) PRESENTS:
    The Spring SVUDL Invitational. April 10-11

    All proceeds from this tournament will go to the Silicon Valley Urban Debate League, a local non-profit organization whose mission is to empower Silicon Valley students, regardless of their race or socioeconomic status, to reach their full potential to become professional and community leaders by teaching critical thinking and communication skills through speech and debate programming.

    We will be using the platform NSDA Campus for our online tournament.

    All speech events will be done live.
    All debate events will also be done live.

    Tournament Waitlist
    Entries may also be waitlisted if the tournament reaches capacity. Schools will be moved off the waitlist as space opens up. Remaining waitlisted entries will be moved on a first-come, first-serve basis.
      
    Judging Requirements
    Judges are committed one round past where their school drops from competition. Judges are assumed to be experienced and prepared to judge their assigned events or debate formats. Debate judges are free to determine style questions at the beginning of each round. Debate judges must have properly linked Tabroom accounts for online ballot entry. School judges who fail to check in to their rounds online when assigned may have their team fined penalties per round.
     
    Topics: 
    LD Debate Topic: NSDA Mar/Apr Topic  
     
    Divisions  
    All speech and debate events will be synchronous (live). 
    All speech and debate events will offer a novice and open division. We reserve the right to collapse divisions if entry size is too small for two separate divisions.
    Novice is defined as a student’s first year of competition, or not advancing to an elimination round in your first two years of competition, regardless of debate format.
     
    Patterns
    Debate Pattern: Lincoln-Douglas Debate plus Congress in one pattern. 
    Speech Events Pattern: Extemporaneous/Dramatic Interpretation /Expository/ Oratorical Interpretation/ Impromptu /Original Oratory /Humorous Interpretation.

    Double Entry Policy
    Double entries in Speech Events are allowed. Competitors may also enter in one debate event and up to two speech events. However, competitors should be aware of the increased screen time that will come with entering multiple events. 

     
    General Tournament Rules
    School registration in part or whole may be rejected due to space considerations - please register early! Every year several schools cannot attend or have their entries restricted.
    The tournament will consist of six preliminary debate rounds for varsity, five prelims debate rounds for novice, and the three preliminary rounds of varsity and open events. We reserve the right to combine divisions if the entry warrants.  
    Persuasive will include both advocacy (Original Advocacy) and other "persuasive" speeches (Original Oratory).  Extemp is combined national and international. Semifinals will be held in individual events with 50 or more entries or the discretion of the tournament director. Undersubscribed events may waive finals. Due to scheduling, we will only be breaking to Double octos for debate, events, entries permitting. 
     
    Congress  
    Please designate the PO's with a 'po' for every ten entries via email to cruznmariel@gmail.com. 
    Bills will be posted on the tournament webpage on Tabroom.com a couple weeks prior to the start of the tournament. To submit bills for consideration, please email cruznmariel@gmail.com, with the subject line - Congress Bills, SVUDL tournament. ​

    ​Entry Price

    One speech and parent is judging $66
    Two speech and parent is judging $82

    LD and parent is judging $81
    LD & 1 speech event and parent is judging $97
    LD & 2 speech events and parent is judging $113
    ​
    Congress and parent is judging $66
    Congress & 1 speech event and parent is judging $82
    Congress & 2 speech events and parent is judging $98

    If you are not providing a judge, you will pay an additional $110.

    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 - PST

    TENTATIVE SCHEDULE - April 10-11 (may be adjusted if necessary)
     
    Saturday, April 10
    Debate Round 1 - 8:00am
    Speech Round 1 - 10:00am
    Debate Round 2 - 11:30am
    Speech Round 2 - 1:30pm
    Debate Round 3 - 3:00pm
    Speech Round 3 - 5:00pm
    Debate Round 4 - 6:30pm
     
    Sunday, April 11
    Debate Round 5 - 8:00am 
    Speech Semis - 10:00am
    Debate Elim 1 - 11:30am
    Speech Finals - 1:30pm
    Debate Elim 2 - 2:30pm
    Debate Elim 3 - 4:30pm
    Debate Elim 4 - 6:30pm
    Debate Elim 5 - 8:00pm (if needed)
    Elims rounds may be moved up if time allows

    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
    Got any questions? Please email nbudiman@tgsastaff.com, info@tgsastaff.com, vrivasumana@tgsastaff.com

    ​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 less than a minute.

    First time judging? Click here to learn how to do it! Or watch our Youtube playlist here.

    ​Tournaments recommend 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".

    TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Submit/take to payment

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Email (preferred)

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