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Le-Win/Orangeville Novice/Varsity Invitational
General information
This information is from a tournament in a past season! This is a High School tournament in Illinois. View manager contact information
You are invited to the January 9, 2016 Le-Win/Orangeville Novice/Varsity Invitational Speech Tournament. It's our third name change in as many years. The name has always reflected our coop status, but coops are funny things. They come and go in various configurations, but the tournament lives on.
The biggest change this year is the tournament will be HELD IN THE HIGH SCHOOL instead of the Elementary/Junior High portion of our campus. We've had quite a bit of new construction and remodeling of our schools this year. The change that affects us is the moving of our home high school sporting events from the high school to the elementary gym, AKA the Panther Den. Because there is always a girls basketball tournament on the same day as our speech tournament, the other buildings in our campus will not be available. Because our tournament is relatively small, we will still have sufficient room for everyone. Plus, no one will have to sit in 3rd graders' desks.
As I've stated in past years, ours is a good tournament for younger kids (AKA novices), so if you were planning on sending your "A" team into the suburbs that day, send your other kids to us. It may be one of the final times this season they hear their names called out on stage. By the same token, our tournament kicks off the second half of the season for many of us, so it's also a good chance to get your top varsity kids tuned up a little bit more in preparation for the State Series in February.
Because we're inconveniently located in the provinces and our tournament is in January, it wouldn't be a bad idea if you planned on getting here around 7:15. If we get hit with snow, it may take you longer than planned to get here. This year, your buses will park in the high school lot on the left hand side of the road after you turn onto Fremont Street. You will enter the front doors facing the street.
Here are the basics:
FEE- $100. Send it now or bring it with you.
JUDGES- One per every five entries.
ENTRIES- Kids may be double entered. The official number of entries per category will be set at three. If you wish to bring more than three per any one category, send me a note first, and we'll talk about it. IF I do say it's OK, my only request is for you to find another judge or two. I'd rather have judges than more money through higher entry fees (but, I won't turn down a few extra bucks either).
STRUCTURE- There will be two preliminary rounds and one final. The first round will be double judged and the second one single judged. Last year, we didn't have novice finals because of the tournament's small size. It worked out well that way and we may do the same thing this year. We merely called the top six novices in each category during awards and gave them 1st through 6th place ribbons. Varsity finals will be triple judged if we have the judges. I'm not concerned about ties. If more kids hear their names called out to receive an award, then great.
RADIO & EXTEMP- One prep for radio and extemp (7:45 AM) prelims and one for finals. We provide radio material.
AWARDS- Medals for varsity finalists, ribbons for novice, and trophies for the top three teams.
FOOD- Good and relatively inexpensive
COMMENTS, QUESTIONS- Call me at 815/616-0926 (cell) or 815/233-0383 (home)
Hope to see you next January.
Tom Fore, Le-Win/Orangeville Speech Coach
Manager contact information Tom Fore
Email address: foret@le-win.net
Phone number: 815-616-0926 Mailing address 516 Fremont St.
Lena, IL 61048
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