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Sharen B. Althoff Rotary Invitational
General information
This information is from a tournament in a past season! This is a High School tournament in Ohio. View manager contact information
The Sharen B. Althoff Rotary Invitational
Welcome to our official tournament website! We are once again hosting a Two-Person Policy PDQ (January 16-17, 2015), and competition in Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, Congressional Debate, and all OHSSL sanctioned Individual Events (January 17, 2015). This year we are proud to announce that we are a TOC bid tournament. All tournament information can be quickly and easily located on this website, including:
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Tournament Basics: Competition locations, registration information, judge quotas, and tournament fees.
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Schedule: The master schedule for the tournament. We will attempt to host final rounds in all categories this year, including an intermediary semifinal round in IE, entries permitting. We are committed to providing the best competition possible within a reasonable timeframe. Arriving and registering on time will help to make this goal a reality!
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Topics: A review of the scheduled topics in debate, extemp., and impromptu speaking.
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Awards and Sweepstakes: Individual and team award opportunities / scoring explanation.
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PDQ Info.: Rules for Pre-district qualifying tournaments in 2-Person Debate (provided by the OHSSL).
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Area Lodging Information: In case you plan to stay overnight, here are some locations you may wish to consider for your trip.
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Directions: Driving directions to tournament locations.
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Contact Information: Questions, comments, concerns? Please review all of the information carefully and contact us if you have any questions. As always, we will strive to provide the very best tournament experience possible.
The Wooster High School Coaching Staff
Awards and Sweepstakes Information
Awards will be given to places 6th-1st in Individual Events & Congressional Debate, to the quarterfinalists and above in Public Forum and Lincoln/Douglas Debate, and to the semifinalists and above for the two-person PDQ competitors.
Team sweepstakes awards will be determined by the best contestant(s) in each event for each team (preliminary rounds only):
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IE: 3 pts. for each “1” ranking, 2 pts. for each “2”, and 1 pt. for each “3”
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L/D and PF: 2.5 points per win.
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2-Person PDQ: 1.8 points per win.
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Congress: 3 points for each “6” or "5" ranking, 2 pts. for each “4”, and 1 pt. for each “3”
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No more than 9 points will be awarded per category.
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Sweepstakes trophies will be awarded to the top six teams competing.
Congressional Debate
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Congressional Debate will use the OHSSL legislation reserved for the weekend of January 16-17.
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The Docket can be downloaded from the FILES FOR DOWNLOAD tab on or before January 5. The legislation has been split between the sessions and supers. Competitiors will only be allowed to debate the assigned legislation during each session.
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The number of students breaking to super chamber will be determined by the number of preliminary chambers. [3=5 per chamber; 4=4 per chamber; 5=3 per chamber; 6=3 per chamber]
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Base will be used during preliminary sessions to determine who will break to Super Session. Base will then be used during Super Session to determine the top six speakers. Once the top six in Super Session have been determined, judges will rank these top six students using judge preference.
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Chamber Expectations:
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Each chamber will be responsible for determining how they will set the docket. Because only 3 bills will be used for each preliminary session, the tab staff strongly recommends that the chambers use the voting method (one vote per contestant).
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For prelims, chambers will be allowed to elect up to 3 different presiding officers
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Precedence/Recency will NOT reset during prelims
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Legislation RESERVED for super chamber is not to be used during prelims
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Super Chamber will be allowed to elect two POs and will debate for 2 hours
Topics
Policy Debate: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its non-military exploration and/or development of the Earth’s oceans.
Lincoln/Douglas: the January/February topic
Public Forum: the January topic
Extemp.: Current event topics of notable interest during the past three months.
Student Congress: OHSSL legislation corresponding to January 17-18. Docket will be available in Files for Download.
Contact Information
To avoid multiple replies and overlap, please refer all questions, comments, or concerns via email:
to: Holly Custer, Co-Head Coach [holly.humes@gmail.com]
cc: Bill Franck, Co-Head Coach [wstr_wfranck@woostercityschools.org]
For emergency/immediate inquiry/concerns, phone either:
Holly cell (330) 592-2856
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Bill cell (330) 604-1975
Manager contact information Holly Custer
Email address: holly.humes@gmail.com
Phone number: 330-592-2856 Mailing address Wooster Speech Parents Association
515 Oldman Rd.
Wooster, OH 44691
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