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Chanhassen High School Speech Tournament

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General information

This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a High School tournament in Minnesota.

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Tournament Information:

 

Registration Deadline:

Monday, January 19th, 2015 (Initial Team Entry Deadline)

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 at 3:00pm (drops and adds – all drops after this point will not result in a change of statement)

 

Entry Limits:

There are no team or category entry limits

 

Entry Fees:

$7 per entry/$14 per duo

Checks payable to Chanhassen High School

**New this year, we will be charging a $25 team fee to cover the cost of transportation from Pioneer Ridge Middlge School to the the high school for those novice members competing at the middle school. 

 

Entry Changes:

Entry changes (drops or adds) can be made on the speechwire.com tournament site up until the end of registration. We can also accommodate drops and adds at the registration table the morning of the tournament. We will be site scheduling all rounds of competition in order to make sure rounds are equal and fair. For this reason, registration must be completed promptly by 8:00 AM or a phone call to 612-408-7139 must be made to report your team drops.

 

Novice/Varsity Split:

Because this tournament is so early in the season, we will be splitting novice and varsity competitors in all categories where we have enough entries to do so (at least 2 sections of both novice and varsity competitors). We will not be offering novice final rounds, but novice competitors can still earn trophies and team sweepstakes points based on their preliminary rounds. It would be our hope that novice competitors would go to the varsity final rounds for their categories to watch their eloquence. A novice competitor is a first year speech competitor or one who has switched from PA to Interp or the other way around.

If registration demands it, as it likely will, we will be housing some of the novice categories at Pioneer Ridge Middle School. We will keep discussion and all of the novice draw categories at the high school. The middle school is only 3 minutes away. 

 

Double Entering/Triple Entering:

Double entering is allowed in ALL categories, including discussion. Discussion will have start 15 minutes early to accommodate those double entries (discussants should not double enter in a draw category). Draw category double entries are allowed, but students should not double enter in 2 draw categories. Triple entry will be allowed as long as the student is not in more than 1 draw category. Students double and triple enter at their own risk!! Novice discussion and extemp speaking entries will not be allowed to double enter in other novice events. 

 

Judging Requirements:

Teams need to bring 1 judge for every 7 entries or fraction thereof. A small number of judges will be available for hire at $85 for the day. Please email Travis Rother if you need to hire a judge by Monday, January, 13th.

 

Judging Finals:

We ask that ALL judges be available to judge final rounds (even those judges who are exclusively at Pioneer Ridge with the novices. Those judges will have plenty of time to get from Pioneer Ridge to Chanhassen High School for final round judging). If you have any coaches at the tournament who are not judging, please consider making them available for final rounds, it will make our lives much easier. We would like to offer panels of 5 judges for varsity finals if we can make it work. Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.

 

Tournament Format:

Novice: Three preliminary rounds

Varsity: Three preliminary rounds and a final

 

 

Minnesota State High School League Event Info:

Extemp. Reading Prose Stories 1-9 (students can repeat a cutting from their preliminary rounds in finals)

Extemp. Reading Poems 1-20 (students cannot repeat a cutting from their preliminary rounds in finals)

Storytelling Stories 1-8 (novice) and 1-10 (varsity) -  (students can repeat a story from their preliminary rounds in finals)

Discussion Topic 1

 

NFL Rules:

At this tournament, National Forensics League (NFL) rules apply to NFL categories - Extemp Speaking, Humorous, Duo Interp., Serious Drama, Serious Prose, Serious Poetry, and Original Oratory. For non-NFL categories, MSHSL rules will apply. This includes the 10 minute time limits in the interp. categories and O.O.

 

Team Sweepstakes:

Team trophies will be available for the top 3 teams. We will also have a team SMALL SCHOOL championship trophy available for teams with UNDER 30 entries! Novice ranks will have a strong influence in team's sweepstakes in order to encourage teams to continue to develop their novice competitors. Also, we will be awarding a Novice Championship trophy to the school with the highest cumulative point total by novice competitors.

 

Tentative Schedule:

 

All Varsity and Novice Discussion, Novice Storytelling, Novice Ex. Reading, and Novice Ex. Speaking (Chan High School)

Novice (Pioneer Ridge Middle School)

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Registration at Chanhassen High School (head coaches should register at Chanhassen H.S. before heading the middle school with novices)

 

8:15 AM

Draw Meeting

 

8:30 AM

Draws Begin for RD 1

Round 1 – All Categories

8:45 AM

Rd. 1 Discussion

 

9:00 AM

Rd 1 – All Categories Except Discussion

 

9:45 AM

 

Round 2 – All Categories

10:00 AM

Begin Draws for Rd 2

 

10:15 AM

Rd 2 – Discussion

 

10:30 AM

Rd 2 – All Categories Except Discussion

 

11:00 AM

 

Round 3 – All Categories

11:20 AM

 

Buses Begin Running Between Middle School and High School

11:30 AM

Begin Draws for Rd 3

 

11:45 AM

Rd 3 – Discussion

 

Noon

Rd 4 - All Categories Except Discussion

 

2:00 PM

Finals Posted

 

2:15 PM

Finals

 

4:30 PM

Awards

 

 

 

 

Directions to Chanhassen High School:

Chanhassen High School is located at the intersection of Audubon Rd and Lyman Blvd in Chanhassen, Minnesota. There is easy access to Lyman Blvd. by going north on Powers Blvd off of Highway 212. The address is 2200 Lyman Blvd.

 

Pioneer Ridge Middle School:

1085 Pioneer Trail
Chaska, MN 55318

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Manager contact information

Travis Rother
Email address: rothert@district112.org
Phone number: 612-408-7139

Mailing address

Chanhassen High School
2200 Lyman Blvd
Chanhassen, MN 55317

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