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This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a High School tournament in Ohio.

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You and your team are invited to the 45th Annual Austintown Optimist Forensic Tournament held at Austintown-Fitch High School.  This year the format will include a power round and a power sweepstakes award in individual events.

 

Date:  Saturday, November 16th

Events: LD/PF Debate, Individual Events, and Student Congress

*** Policy will be offered at this tournament for practice purposes only***

     Entry Restrictions are open a long as there is enough room and numbers do not get too high- schools                will be notified if this is the case

        Please limit your debate entries to 6 in each event

       

PF will use the November NFL topic

LD will use the November / December NFL Topic

 POLICY DEBATE

3 preliminary rounds of competition only. We will use the 2013-2014 NFL Topic.

Since the Youngstown District does not regularly offer Policy Debate, no guarantees are  made about the number of entries or number of schools represented in Policy Debate at this tournament. It is possible the field will be limited.

As a result, Policy Debate will NOT count toward a team's score in either sweepstakes.   A certificate will be given for the top 7 speakers.

Additionally, depending on the number of entries and schools involved, the type of scheduling will be determined once registration numbers are known. It is highly unlikely that a power-pairing system will be utilized. Please be mindful that if only a few teams bring Policy Debaters, the following could happen:

> Schools might not be protected.

> Judges might have to judge an entry from their school.

We will do our best to optimize Policy Debate based on the entries and judges entered.

 

NO students will be added the day of the tournament.

 

Registration :  All teams are to register online at www.speechwire.com.

All contestants must be registered by Monday, November 11th at 3:00 PM

All judges must be registered by Friday, November 15th at 8:00 PM.

 

Awards:  Trophies will be awarded to the top 7 in Debate and all finalists in individual events. Policy top 7 will be awarded a certificate.

 

Judges:  1 judge for every 2 debate entries.

1 judge for every fraction of 5 in IE.

1 judge for each team bringing congress entries.

 

Drops in registration do not allow a drop in judges required.  Any school that fails to bring their required number of judges will be fined $30.00 for each missing judge.

 

Fees:  $3.50 per student.  Team events count as two.  Any drops in registration after the close of registration must be paid for.  Make checks payable to Austintown Fitch Speech and Debate Team

 

Sweepstakes:  Your top ten entries of the day will count towards sweepstakes

Debate:  2.25 per win       Speech:  1=3  2=2    3=1     Congress:  Score of 6=3  5=2   4=1

 *** Policy WILL NOT count for sweepstakes

Power Sweeps will follow OHSSL state sweeps guidelines.  Congress and debate will not be part of Power Sweeps.

 

Schedule 8:00-8:30 Re-register in the main office

     8:30 General assembly for all participants, coaches, and judges in the cafeteria

     9:00 Extemp draw/ Round one/ and shuttling to AMS

     Power rounds in IE will begin immediately after round three tabulation

 

Lunch:  Available after round 3:  Youngstown Rules apply

 

Impromptu:  Quotations and OHSSL procedures

 

Extemp:  Prep room is in the media center off the cafeteria

 

Tabroom:  Closed to everyone by the district committee.

 

Shuttle:  A shuttle will take students to and from Austintown Middle School for Debate.  All judges and participants should report to the high school in the morning. 

 

Note:    There is a new road to the High School From Idaho Road, it is called Lloyd Loop, this will take you around the Intermediate and around Fitch.  You can also enter from Burkey Rd.  or Raccoon Rd by the Austintown Library.

 

Hope to see you at Fitch:

Andrea

 

 

Andrea Folsom

English Department/Director of Forensics

Austintown Fitch High School

Manager contact information

Andrea Folsom
Email address: aust_amf@access-k12.org
Phone number: 330-718-9038

Mailing address

4560 Falcon Dr.
Austintown, OH 44515

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