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This is a High School tournament in Indiana.

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Dear Coach and Speakers,

Welcome to the BEN DAVIS GIANT SPEAKERS Invitational Speech Tournament on January 7th, 2017.  The meet will be held at Ben Davis High School located at 120 N Girls School Road, Indianapolis, IN 46214.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING

Please park in the front of the building.  Buses, please use the bus lot.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

All Registration will be done on www.speechwire.com. No emails, faxes or paper entries will be accepted. We strongly encourage that entries be made as early as possible (like right now, so you don’t forget) Registration will be locked (meaning no adding of entries can be added) on Monday, January 2nd, 2017 at 5:00 PM.  Coaches will be able to make names changes and such until Thursday, January 5th, 2017. 

TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE

This will be a varsity only tournament with three rounds of competition and a final round.  However, if an event is extremely large we will go to a semi-final round.   We will notify you of the structure on the day of the tournament.

Entry Per Team: 40

Event Limitation: None. You can enter as many students in any event as long as you do not breach the team cap of 40 entries.

Non- Sweeps Team Allowed: NO

Pickup Drops Allowed: NO

Additional Teams Allowed: NO

NOTE (added 12/5/2016) - STUDENTS MAY ONLY ENTER in FOUR (4) events.  Either 2 in B or C Flights or a  combination of A, B, C Flight but only 4 events.

TOURNAMENT RULES:

We will follow the rules established for IHFSA with the following exceptions:

o   Discussion is limited to 30 minutes only. Students in discussion may not double in Extemp.

o   DUO - Both duo partners may double using the same duo partner or a different one in a scripted, memorize and op duos.  Duos cannot compete using the same piece in more than one duo.  So in other words, you can have one duo entered in the tournament twice.  However, for teams that are the same for Scripted and Memorized, you must identify which entry is scripted (SCPT) or mem (MEM).  Please see example below.

Example:

John Doe (SCPT) and Susie Doe (SCPT)

John Doe (MEM) and Susie Doe (MEM)

CAUTION: Students may compete against themselves in a round.  The office will not adjust the schedule for this occurrence.  Students performing the wrong piece under the wrong number will be disqualified if caught.  So, this is a risk you take.

o   Students may enter up to 4 events at their own risk – no more than two events per flight

CAUTION:  After the first round is completed, any student missing a round will be ranked last by the office. We will not re-run any round due to student error.

o   Extempers may double in any FLIGHT B or C event at their own risk.  Extempers may not double in discussion.

 

EVENTS OFFERED/DETAILS

FLIGHT A –DISCUSSION

FLIGHT B – DRAMA, EXTEMP (US/IX), ORIGINAL ORATORY, ORIGINAL PERFORMANCE, PROSE

FLIGHT C – DUO, HUMOR, IMPROMPTU, INFORMATIVE, POETRY, PROGRAMED ORAL INTERP (POI), RADIO

 

Congressional Debate – Bills will be released on January 2, 2017

(12/16/2016) - Students may not double in Congress

(12/9/2016) - Merry Christmas - Releasing the Bills Early for You

Morning Session:
#7 A Bill to Require Backdoor Technology
#8 A Bill to Defined Implied Consent for Presidential Appointees
#9 The Transportation and Economic Growth Act of 2016
 
Evening Session:
#2 A Resolution to Create a Demilitarized Zone in the South China Sea
#5 A Bill to Create an Indian Free Trade Agreement
#6 A Resolution of Establish an Embassy in Iran

DISCUSSION

We will be using the Socratic Seminar format.  Artifacts will be posted on the Speechwire for download on January 2nd, 2017. No electronic devices will be allowed to be used or seen in the round.  Students who bring electronic devices to the round will be instructed to place those devices on a table away from the competition until the round is over.  ALL ROUNDS WILL BE 30 MINUTES LONG.

 

EXTEMP

Extemp will draw each round. The topic areas are as follow:

 

ROUND ONE: Europe & Asia

ROUND TWO: US ECONOMY

ROUND THREE: Foreign Economy

FINAL ROUND:  Domestic Social Issues

 

RADIO

We will follow the new radio format.  The radio prompts will be available on January 2nd, 2017 after 5:00 pm.  Radio students can quadruple.  If a radio student doubles in Flight B, the student must go to radio 1st. Radio students may not use any prepared outlines.

(NEW 12/09/2016) - Radio Format
 
Rd 1: News Program (Music lead­in/lead­out, Commercial, Newscast) ­­ 5 min.
 
Rd 2: Pre­written editorial ­­ 2 min.
 
Rd 3: On The Spot ­­ 2 minutes to prepare, speak for 2 minutes
 
Rd 4/Finals**: News Program (Re-­use Round 1 material) ­­ 5 min.

BALLOT RETURN

All judges should return their signed and properly scored ballots and completed critique sheets at the end of each round to the ballot table located in the S HALL.  Judges are expected to stay for the entire meet.

 

 

CONCESSIONS

There should be no leaving the building as food for students will be served in the cafeteria. Complimentary food for judges, coaches and bus drivers will be HARVEST AKA  Le Gallery.

 

JUDGE REQUIREMENTS

Each school MUST bring one judge for every 5 contestants  entries (1/3/2016) and every fraction thereof. Teams that do not bring enough judges may not be eligible for IE sweepstakes placement.

 

AWARDS

Our tournament is dedicated toward the individual achievement so team sweepstakes trophies will not be given.  We will acknowledge the Top 5 schools i.e. a shout-out from the podium.

So, who gets trophies?  The kids.  We will be awarding trophies or medals to the top 5 individual contestants with the most number of points (An incentive to double or even quadruple).  Tournament Event Champions will receive a ribbon and medal.  The TOP 12 students (Next-In and Finals) will receive ribbons.

Questions: If you have any questions please email fred.douse@wayne.k12.in.us. (Effective 12/20/2016 - mrfredspeech@hotmail.com) 

We want to thank you for coming to the Ben Davis GIANT Speakers IE Tournament.

Warmly,

The Ben Davis GIANT SPEAKERS COACHING STAFF

Manager contact information

Fred Douse
Email address: fred.douse@wayne.k12.in.us
Phone number: (317)737-4122

Mailing address

None provided

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