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La Porte High School Speech Tournament
General information
This information is from a tournament in a past season! This is a High School tournament in Indiana. View manager contact information
Dear Coaches,
We would like to invite you to La Porte High School on November 1 7th, 2012 to compete in the La Porte High Speech Tournament. We will be offering all fourteen of the IHSFA speech events
Registration:
•Done through Speechwire, Please have your competitors and judges entered before 5:00 pm CST on Tuesday, November 14th.,
•Final Registration will be Saturday morning beginning at 7:15 am through 7:45 am. In case of inclement weather, I will try to
notify head coaches as soon as I know if there is a delay or cancellation, so please, as part of your registration, include a
reliable contact number.
•Please try to call between 6:30 and 7:00 am to report any drops. The number to text with drops is (219) 363-8226 or, if possible,
send an email to jwszolek@lpcsc.k12.in.us.
•Please be aware, we will have team rosters with correct codes for the competitors on the morning of the tournament; these may be
different from those on Speechwire Friday night.
Entry Details:
•We will have varsity and novice divisions but may combine these in some events depending on the numbers;
•There is a limit of fifty entries in total per team: No B squads;
•No more than four entries per event per division. If we have to combine events or divisions due to low numbers, this will not apply
to those events or divisions;
•Please bring one judge for every five entries or fraction thereof (so 6 entries = 2 judges)
•Unless otherwise stated below, competitors may double, but no tripling;
•Event specific details:
oDiscussion may not double. (See below for further information)
oExtemp may double in impromptu only. Questions will be drawn from Time, Newsweek, The Economist, and Christian Science
Monitor. The competitors will draw before Rounds 1 & 3. If numbers are small, DX and FX may be combined and then separated
for awards.
oBroadcasting may double in non-prep events.
News broadcast: Come prepared with a three minute news broadcast.
Breaking News/ (information provided)~ We will prep at tournament
Commercial: Come prepared with a one minute commercial for national chain department store (T’is the season…).
On the Spot (information provided)~ (2 minutes) Photo/captions from previous 10 days of USA Today, print or online
edition.
oDuo contestants may not double in another duo event.
Tournament Structure:
•Four straight rounds of competition,
•Extemp will draw at 7:45 am for Round 1 at 8:15 am.
•Awards around 3:30 pm
All coaches, judges and competitors should remain in the building. Food will be available throughout the day in the cafeteria and in the judges’ lounge.
We look forward to seeing you! Jim Wszolek, John Dwyer, Katherine Kinsey, Linda Arney, and Tony Troche.
Instructions for discussion at the LP Speech Tournament:
Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” will serve as a starting point for this tournament’s discussion rounds. The title is hyperlinked to a copy of the story. Technology has become an integral part of our society: for better and worse. Each round will present a question with which to explore this topic.
Round 1: Where will technology take humanity over the course of the next fifty years?
Round 2: What are the benefits and costs of an increasingly technology-based society?
Round 3:What can society do to balance the wonder of technological advances with the resistance (or fear) to/of change?
Round 4:Considering what has been discussed in earlier rounds, what role(s) should technology play in our lives?
Though not required, a little bit of research would be beneficial. The goal is to carry on the discussion without having to resort to statistics. This in no way means opinions should be without base, but facts and data should not be the only source of legitimacy.
Also:
•The competitors will rank their rounds themselves. This will be used to determine awards.
•Judges will complete critiques and assign speaker points, from 1 to 6 for each round (A rubric will be provided to help guide the
allocation of points).
Manager contact information James Wszolek
Email address: jwszolek@lpcsc.k12.in.us
Phone number: 219-363-8226 Mailing address None provided
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