Beavercreek Speech/Congressional Classic and the University of Dayton Junior Flyer Fling

Saturday, 5 December 2015
at Beavercreek, OH

Welcome to the first Forensics Fling tournament between Beavercreek High School and University of Dayton

• Debate registration at UD will be from 8:30 to 8:45 with round 1 of debate beginning at 9. Debate will be at the Phillips Humanities Building at University of Dayton
• Speech registration at Beavercreek will run til 9:15. The goal is for extemp prep to begin at 9:30. Speech will be held at Ferguson Middle School 2680 Dayton Xenia Rd, Dayton, OH 45434
• The goal is to finish IE awards in time for teams to consolodate at UD by the end of debate awards. Awards will be held separately
• We hope to offer 3 rounds in IE and Congress, and 4 in LD and PF Debate with an additional finals. THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
• Double-entries are allowed in all Speech events. We are encouraging double-entry, so the second entry will be $3 cheaper!  (Will be done manually at check-in; Speechwire won't do it automatically.)  NO DOUBLE ENTRY BETWEEN BOTH EXTEMPS. Both entries can be in Duo, but each must be with a different partner.

Judging:

•       1 judge covers up to 2 LD, PF, or Policy entries; up to 5 IE entries; or up to 6 Congress entries.
 

Fees:
$10 per school, plus:
•       $5 per IE/Congress entry ($10 per Duo)
($3 discount for each double-entered student)

•       $10 per LD/PF entry

Please make checks out to "Beavercreek City Schools".

If you will not be bringing cash/check to the tournament, please send to:

Beavercreek High School
ATTN: Rahul Guha, Speech & Debate
2660 Dayton-Xenia Rd.
Beavercreek, OH 45434

BEAVERCREEK WILL INVOICE FOR BOTH DEBATE AND IE. If paying by cash or check please pay at Beavercreek. If there are any questions on payment, please contact Rahul Guha

Debate Topics will be the December Resolutions:

• PF will debate: “On balance, standardized testing is beneficial to K-12 education in the United States.”
• LD will debate “In the United States criminal justice system, jury nullification ought to be used in the face of perceived injustice.”  

Congressional Debate Rules:

• In Congress, authorship rights will be given to students from the submitting school, if any are present in the chamber.  This means that students from that school will have priority over all other students to give the first affirmative speech, trumping precedence and recency rules.  This only applies to the first affirmative speech on each item.
• Debate on bills and resolutions must begin with an affirmative speech.  If there is no affirmative, the PO shall table the item without a vote.  It can be removed from the table if an affirmative speech arises later.
• One-sided debate should be discouraged, and it reflects poorly on the debaters who continue to beat the dead horse, however POs have no power to end debate on their own (even heavily one-sided debate) until the previous question is called by a member on the floor or no speakers rise to debate on either side.
• Only the OHSSL-recommended items for the Dec 5th weekend may be debated.  (They can, of course, be amended as needed.)

Extemp:

• Students are responsible for their own electrical power, if needed.  We don't guarantee access to outlets in the prep room, so do not expect to plug in. Internet access is not provided at Beavercreek.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Note: None of our coaches work in the school during the day, so if you need to reach me, e-mail is best raguha@gmail.com (call/text also works 513.593.9017).  If you contact the school directly, the best they could do is take a message.

Thanks for coming!