The Denmark Forensics Team cordially invites you to join us for the Inaugural Denmark Viking Tournament Invitational on Saturday, March 28th, 2015.  Our team is very excited to be hosting its first tournament in conjunction with the Northern Wisconsin District NSDA National Qualifier.  It should be an exciting weekend of competition for all!

 

Our campus conveniently includes 3 schools (high, middle, and elementary). Depending on the number of entries, preliminary rounds may be held in multiple buildings. All final rounds will be at the high school.  Registration, judge and coach hospitality, and student concessions will be at the high school.  

 

Entries:  Your top 25 varsity entries will count toward your team score with a maximum of 4 per category.  Additional entries are welcome.  Students are allowed to DOUBLE or TRIPLE enter; however, students may not double/triple enter if they are in Extemp or Radio.  Those that choose to double or triple enter must be aware that they may be required to go between buildings during a round (they are within a very short walking distance). We will also be offering Oratorical Declamation (freshmen or sophomores only) as an event for those who participate in the NCFL national category. 

 

Rules:  WFCA/NSDA/NCFL rules will be followed for applicable categories. Please go over any rule changes with your students and judges prior to attending the meet.  Rules are available on the website www.wfcaforensics.org.

 

Judges:  Each school must bring one qualified judge for every five entries or fraction thereof.  We will have a VERY limited number of judges available for hire at $100 per judge.  You are responsible for the number of judges that you indicate on your original registration form, plus any adds.  Please be aware that since we are holding our tourney in conjunction with the NSDA national qualifier, judges will be pooled together and may be selected to judge either an invitational round or a national qualifying round.  To that end, please ensure the interp and speech judges provided by your school are qualified as such.  This will make our judge pool more robust and allow for clean, qualified judges for both the invitational and the national qualifying rounds.

 

Deadlines:  Please register via SpeechWire by 5:00 pm on Tuesday, March 24th.  Teams can and should manage their own drops on SpeechWire until 3:00 pm on Friday, March 27th. (Entries dropped after this time will still be charged.) Please call-in or text last minute drops as soon as possible on tournament day to Dave Harper at 920-664-5278.

 

Notes:  Confirmations will be sent out by e-mail the week before the meet.  There will be detailed instructions including numbers to call/text on Saturday morning and the location of each event.  To start the tournament smoothly, each school MUST call confirming their registration by 7:30 the morning of the meet.  

 

Fees:  Entry fees are $8.00 per individual entry and $10.00 for each group entry (Play Acting, Duo Interp, or Group Interp).  Fees will be based on your entries as of 5:00 pm Friday March 27th.  There will be no adds the morning of the meet.  Please make the checks payable to Denmark High School.

 

                                                      Schedule

 

                                    Prior to 7:30..............Call-in Confirmation

 

                                    7:30 – 8:10................Registration

 

                                    8:15.......................Judges Meeting (Hospitality Room)

 

                                    8:15.......................Radio/Extemp. Draw in High School Library

 

                                    8:45.......................Round I All Events

 

                                    10:00......................Round II All Events

 

                                    11:15......................Round III All Events

 

                                    1:15.......................Finals All Events

 

                                    3:30.......................Awards in the High School Cafetorium

 

Awards:  Trophies will be presented to the top three competitors in each category and medals will be awarded to the remaining finalists.  Team trophies will be awarded to the top three schools in two divisions.  Large school awards will be based on team points all other team awards will be based on team average.

 

Food:  Concessions and Lunch will be available throughout the day for students in the high school cafetorium.  Judges and coaches will have continental breakfast and lunch available in hospitality room.

 

Questions:  If you have any questions, please feel free to call.  You can reach me at (920) 664-5278 or (920) 863-4176 or harperd@denmark.k12.wi.us.

 

Thank you and we hope to see you on March 28th!

 

Dave and Jenny Harper

Juanita Ziolkowski

Paula Abbott

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