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    5TH ANNUAL VIKINGS INVITATIONAL

    postponed, possibly to May

    DEADLINE
    11 February 2022
    ELIGIBILITY
    Open to middle and high school students
    ​Lincoln Douglas only
    PLATFORM
    Online through Tabroom and Zoom

    Information

    Welcome to the 5th Annual (Virtual) Vikings Invitational!

    Irvington High School’s Debate Team is proud to be hosting the 5th annual Vikings Invitational. The tournament will be a two-day tournament on February 18-19, open to novice and open LD debaters. Our tournament is auto-approved by the National Parliamentary Debate League and will be offering TOC points for the varsity parliamentary division only. We do not offer bids for LD.


    Tournament Format
    We are planning on hosting the tournament virtually. We will be using the usual Tabroom settings; pairings, results, RFDs (reasons for decisions), and ballots.

    Tabroom pairings will specify each Zoom meeting that judges and competitors will be in for each round. The following link will take you to a spreadsheet where each “Room #” will have a “Meeting ID”, “Password”, and “Meeting Link” that will take you to your Zoom meeting. Thus, please ensure that all competitors and judges have installed Zoom as an application on their preferred device. Make sure that you have updated your Zoom to version 5.3.0 or higher.


    Entry Eligibility
    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 the debate format. All students who do not fit this definition should be placed in Open/Varsity. 


    LD-Specific Notes
    This is our first year incorporating LD divisions into the Vikings Invitational; we are excited to meet many new faces! For issues not explicitly indicated below, we’ll be following NSDA guidelines on LD rules and procedures.

    The forfeit time for each round will be five minutes after preparation time ends to minimize delays with the schedule. Additionally, we will be providing a total of five minutes for each team that can be allotted for technology issues. If teams are found to be using this time to prepare, entries will automatically be disqualified from the tournament. 


    LD Round Structure
    Affirmative Constructive - 6 minutes
    Cross Examination - 3 minutes
    Negative Constructive/Rebuttal - 7 minutes
    Cross Examination - 3 minutes
    Affirmative Rebuttal - 4 minutes
    Negative Rebuttal - 6 minutes
    Affirmative Rebuttal - 3 minutes
    *Prep time for each debater - 4 minutes

    Changing speech times is not permitted except for if debaters opt to not use all their speech/cross-x time. This time cannot be transferred to other parts of the round.


    LD Topic
    Both Novice and Open divisions will be debating the January-February 2022 NSDA topic:
    “Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.”


    LD Evidence Ethics
    Upon request, evidence read in rounds must be made available to the opponent.
    Debaters may contest evidence quality as part of arguments made in round due to bad author qualifications, inability of the opponent to provide evidence upon request, etc. Such issues can affect a judge's decision making, however they do NOT stop the round. 
    If claims are made that a debater is fabricating evidence, this DOES stop the round as it would violate NSDA guidelines, if true. At that point, judges would determine the round's decision on the basis of the evidence challenge alone.


    Elimination Round Procedures
    Tiebreakers for breaks will be in the following order:
    1. Number of wins
    2. Opponent seed
    3. Speaker Points
    4. Random (Coin Flip)
    We will break brackets based on school affiliation.

    ​Entry Price

    If you (parent) is judging, the LD entry fee is $100 for NOVICE
    If you (parent) is judging, the LD entry fee is $100 for VARSITY
    ​

    If you (parent) is OPTING OUT OF JUDGING, the LD entry fee is $180 for NOVICE (one-day)
    If you (parent) is OPTING OUT OF JUDGING, the LD entry fee is $230 for VARSITY (two-days)

    All students who drop after 11 February 2022 will not receive a refund.

    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 PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (PST).

    We plan to offer five preliminary rounds for each varsity division and four preliminary rounds for each novice division. The tournament reserves the right to adapt the amount or structure of elimination rounds if required by tournament logistics.

    The forfeit time for each round will be five minutes after preparation time ends to minimize delays with the schedule. Additionally, we will be providing a total of five minutes for each team that can be allotted for technology issues. If teams are found to be using this time to prepare, entries will automatically be disqualified from the tournament. 

    VARSITY LINCOLN-DOUGLAS

    Friday, February 18th (2/18)
    4:00-4:30 PM: Registration & Check-In
    4:45 PM: Round 1 Starts
    6:15 PM: Round 2 Starts
    7:45 PM: Break
    8:00 PM: Round 3 Starts

    Saturday, February 19th (2/19)
    8:40 AM: Coach Check-In
    9:00 AM: Round 4 Starts
    10:30 AM: Round 5 Starts
    12:00 PM: Break
    12:30 PM: Quarterfinals
    2:30 PM: Semifinals
    4:30 PM: Finals

    NOVICE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS

    ​Saturday, February 19th (2/19)
    ​8:40 AM: Coach Check-In
    9:00 AM: Round 1 Starts
    10:30 AM: Round 2 Starts
    12:00 PM: Break
    12:30 PM: Round 3 Starts
    2:30 PM: Round 4 Starts
    4:30 PM: Finals

    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
    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.

    EVENT SELECTION

    ​JUDGE PROVISION

    ​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
Submit/take to payment

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Check our home page for the schedule!


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Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Telephone

510-270-8480
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Email (preferred)

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