Blazing-Sun Invitational

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General information

This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a High School tournament in Colorado.

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Events

Events will be offered in two waves.  Students in PF and events may enter any two events, even two in the same wave, with the following restrictions:  Students in PF may not double enter in NX or FX.  Extempers may not double enter in both extemp events nor in PF.  Extempers who choose to double enter may not get their full prep time. Students entered in LD, CX, and Congress may not double enter.  Teams are limited to five competitors/teams per event with the exception of Congress where teams may have unlimited entries.

CX Topic: 2013-2014 NFL Topic

LD Topic: Jan/Feb NFL Topic

Public Forum Topic:  February NFL Topic

Congress: Legislation is due to Adrienne Razavi by Tuesday, January 21st @ arazavi@cherrycreekschools.org

Awards

• Trophies will be awarded to the top 6 competitors in each event and PF.  All debaters who are undefeated after the three preliminary rounds will receive awards. 
• Speaker Awards will be given to the top 3 debaters in CX and LD. 
• Team trophies will be awarded to the top 3 teams.

Schedule

Registration will take place from 7:00am-7:30am.  Extemp Draw, CX, and LD will begin at 7:45 am.  Other Sun Devil wave events will begin promptly at 8:00am.  Blazer Wave events will begin at 9:30 am. All events will have three guaranteed rounds of competition.  Awards are scheduled for 7:30pm.  PLEASE CALL IN DROPS BEFORE REGISTRATION BEGINS (Tournament Phone = 303-549-8352)

Breaking & Finals in Events

At the conclusion of the third preliminary round, the top 6 students in each event will advance to a final round.  To determine the students who break to finals we will first evaluate cumulative ranks.  Any ties will be broken first by speaker ratings and then by speaker points. 

Awards will be determined by the final round judges’ scores only.  Thus, awards are not based upon a competitor’s cumulative scores from preliminary and final rounds.

Breaking & Finals in Debate

At the conclusion of the third preliminary round, all undefeated teams will advance to a 4^th runoff round (in the case of an odd-number of undefeated teams, the top ranked team with 1 loss will be drawn into this runoff round—see the tie-breaking scheme below).  After this 4^th runoff round, the top 2 teams will advance to a final round.  The bracket will only be broken to avoid pairing teams from the same school against each other.

Tie-breaks will be determined by 1) W-L record, 2) Strength of Opposition, 3) Speaker Ranks (CX/PF),

4) Speaker Points.   

Speaker Awards in Debate

The top 3 speakers in CX and LD debate will be determined from cumulative scores in points from the first three preliminary rounds.  Scores from break rounds will not be included in the determination of speaker awards.  Breaking ties is a complicated process, but it takes into consideration speaker ranks (CX only) and whether the points were earned in a win or a loss.

Congress

Any bills and resolutions should be sent as word documents to Adrienne Razavi by Friday, January 18th.  Dockets will be available on www.speechwire.com by Wednesday, January 23^rd. Simply click on the “View Legislation” link.

Fees

There will be a $12 fee for each competitor based on pre-registration numbers.  Pre-registration is due by Friday, January 24th.  We will close when all sections are full, so enter as soon as possible. 

In an effort to increase the quality and size of the judging pool, this year all entering schools will be required to provide pre-entered judges in the following allotments or pay associated judging fees:

            1 events judge per 10 events entries (or portion thereof)

            1 LD judge per 5 LD entries (or portion thereof)

            1 CX judge per 3 CX team entries (or portion thereof)

            1 PF judge per 5 PF team entries (or portion thereof)

NOTE: You CAN have a judge cover both Events and PF entries. 

             A judge cannot cover LD and Events or CX and Events. 

A judge CAN cover both CX and LD but not CX and PF or LD and PF due to those events running on different schedules and needing the debate judging pool to be available throughout the day at all times.

Schools who do not have judges covering their judging requirement as outlined above will be charged $25 for each uncovered judge slot NOT each uncovered entry.

Judging fees will be calculated on Friday, January 24th, so all judges should be entered by 5pm on that date to avoid the assessment of fees.

Make checks payable to KENT DENVER SCHOOL FORENSICS, Attn: Kurt MacDonald 4000 E. Quincy Avenue, Englewood, CO 80113.

Judging

Please see the new judge obligation requirements outlined in the “FEES” section above!

Judges are essential to the smooth operation and quality of a tournament.  All non-coach judges will be paid $8.00 per round CASH. In addition, any critic who judges four or more rounds and is available for finals will receive a $10 bonus.  This includes judges who are pre-registered and serving to fulfill a school’s judging commitment.  

Please try to preregister your judges and the time they are available prior to the tournament.  It will help us stay on time and get first round running on time, which will make the whole tournament run on time.

Determination of Team Awards

• All Events and Debate:
  • 1^st Place = 6pts; 2^nd place = 5pts; 3^rd Place = 4pts; 4^th Place = 3pts; 5^th Place = 2pts; 6^th Place = 1pt
• Congress
  • Outstanding Speaker = 6pts; Superior Speaker = 5 pts; Nomination = 1pt
• Speaker Awards
  • Top speaker in CX and LD = 1 pt

Pre-Registration:

            Pre-registration will take place at www.speechwire.com   Last year we closed before the deadline, so please

enter early.  Fees will be assessed based on the entries as of Friday, January 24^th.  Please make sure that you enter student names online.  Students in Events are allowed to double enter within waves or between waves.  Students entered in Public Forum may only double enter in the Blazer Wave.  CX, LD, and Congress competitors are not allowed to double enter.

Call Terry Rubin at 303.549.8352 or email trubin@kentdenver.org with questions.  We look forward to seeing you on February 1st.

Manager contact information

Terry Rubin and Adrienne Razavi
Email address: trubin@kentdenver.org
Phone number: 720-933-6984

Mailing address

12400 E. Jewell Ave.
Aurora, CO 80012