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74 Swing: The 5th Dan Smith Invitational at Bradley
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August 24, 2016
Dear Friends,
The forensics teams at Illinois State University and Bradley University are pleased to invite you and your
team to participate in the 2016 74-Swing. Saturday, October 1st will be hosted by Illinois State University
and take pace on the ISU campus and the second half of the swing, entitled the Dan Smith Invitational, will
be hosted on the Bradley campus on Sunday, October 2nd.
The 74 Swing offers you and your students quality Open and Novice competition in 11 AFA events. In those
events numbering 60 or more contestants, we will hold semi-final elimination rounds. This invitation should
provide all of the necessary tournament information, but please call if we can be of any further assistance.
As always, we look forward to welcoming you and your students to Central Illinois. We take pride in running
on-schedule tournaments that are friendly and fun, and the weekend will be well worth your time. Hope to
see you in October!
Sincerely,
TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Entries: Each student may enter a maximum of six events; no more than three per grouping. There is no
limit on the amount of entries a school may enter per event; however, for schools with larger entries we may
have to artificially move competitors to utilize judges from that school. The deadline for receiving entries
for both halves of the swing is 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 27. No adds will be accepted after this
time. Drops will be accepted after the deadline without penalty until 12:00 p.m. Wednesday, September
28. Entries for both halves of the swing should be submitted to Speechwire.com.
IE Judges & Fees: Entry fees are $8.00 per entry slot (no additional charge for entering quadrathon). A
nuisance fee of $6.00 per slot will be added to the original entry fee for every drop after 12:00pm on
Wednesday, September 28. Drops at registration will incur a $15.00 nuisance fee per slot in addition to the
original entry fee. Each school should furnish one judge for every six slots. Hired judges are available at
$10.00 per uncovered slot. Judges dropped after the Wednesday, 12:00 p.m. deadline will result in a
nuisance fee of $25.00 each plus the additional cost of hiring a judge. ALL fees are assessed as of 12:00
p.m., Wednesday September 28. Due to the difficulties of maintaining a pool of high-quality hired judges,
we strongly encourage every school to bring at least one judge.
Please make checks for the ISU portion out to “ISU Forensics” and for the Bradley portion please make
checks out to “Beta Sigma Tau.” We cannot give cash change for checks that are written over the entry fee
amount, but we will gladly mail you a check for the amount of the change due. Thank you in advance for
understanding.
Quadrathon: Students entered in at least four events including at least one from two different genres
(interpretation/public address/limited preparation) will be eligible for the quadrathon awards. If a student is
entered in five or six events, his or her best four will count toward quadrathon. Novice finals will not count
toward open quadrathon, but if entries warrant we will present a “Top Novice Quadrathon” Award.
Novice Events: A separate novice division will be created in each individual event where we have at least
12 novice entries. A novice is a student who is in their first year of collegiate competition OR has competed
in three or fewer collegiate tournaments.
ISU and Bradley Competitors – ISU and Bradley students will be competing at the 74 Swing. On
Saturday, Bradley students will compete, and ISU novices will compete in open division events. On Sunday,
ISU students will compete, and Bradley novices will compete in open division events.
Sectioning: We will use Speechwire to take ALL entries, and section IE rounds and assign IE judges.
Awards: The top six contestants in each event will advance to open finals and receive awards. The top
three quadrathon entries will receive awards based on final rounds. Sweepstakes trophies will be awarded
to the top five schools. In open finals, winning first place earns 12 points...and sixth place earns two
points. Other open finalists, and all open semifinalists, will earn 1 point each. In novice final rounds, winning
first place earns 6 points ... and sixth place earns 1 point. Finally, an award will be presented to the Top 2-
Year school in sweepstakes (if entries warrant, the top three 2-year schools will receive awards).
RULES OF EVENTS
General: All programs and speeches must not have been used in competition prior to September 1,
2016. A novice is a student who is in their first year of collegiate competition OR has competed in three or
fewer collegiate tournaments. Competitors must be undergraduates working on their first degree.
NFA event descriptions will be used for all events except Program Oral Interpretation
(http://www.nationalforensics.org/competition/individual-events). AFA event description will be used for
Program Oral Interpretation.
Both tournaments will use AFA-style speaker points and tie breaks (sans a majority of 1s).
Impromtpu: “Prompts will include ideas that can be comprehended and interpreted quickly such as
quotations, both actual (from history or contemporary culture) and fictional (from movies, plays, novels etc.),
single-frame cartoons, song lyrics, proverbs, rhetorical situations etc."
Extemp: Students will be permitted access to the Internet during preparation, but access to the Internet is
not guaranteed. Both Bradley and ISU will do its best to obtain guest access for our competitors, but
competitors relying on the Internet should be prepared to provide their own access.
GROUP A GROUP B
Extemporaneous Speaking Informative Speaking
Persuasive Speaking Impromptu Speaking
Duo Interpretation Dramatic Interpretation
Prose Interpretation Communication Analysis
Program Oral Interpretation Poetry
After Dinner Speaking
ACCOMMODATIONS
Hotels: All reservations must be a transaction between your school and the lodging establishment. This
year we have brought in the folks at Travel Advocates to help you negotiate the lowest rates on the hotels
YOU prefer. To take advantage of this free service, please contact:
Melody Carlisle
Sales Manager, Travel Advocates
201-222-1990x207 or melody@traveladvocates.com
Parking at Illinois State (Saturday): Please park in the Visitors’ lot in the lower level of the South
University Parking Deck near the College of Business Building or in the Visitor's lot at the Bone Student
Center. Directions to campus and printable maps (city, campus and parking) are available
at: www.ilstu.edu/map. Meters and “Reserved” (handicapped, business, medical and numbered)
spaces are enforced 24/7. You will be ticketed! Saturday is NOT a football game day! Hooray!
Lunch Options at Illinois State (Saturday): There are several places around the ISU quad to stop in for a
quick lunch. We will have a list of delivery options available at Registration:
Northeast of the quad (Uptown Normal): Visit http://www.uptownnormal.com/dining/ for the
most current list of restaurants. You can find gyros, burgers, vegetarian/vegan, Jimmy Johns,
coffee, Indian and sit-down options.
Southwest of the quad: Jimmy John’s, Potbelly, Noodles, Avanti’s, Chipotle, Meatheads, Buffalo
Wild Wings, McDonalds.
Parking at Bradley (Sunday): Park in any legal parking space, Bradley does not ticket on weekends.
Lunch Options at Bradley (Sunday): There are several places to eat around Bradley's campus and in the
adjacent Campus Town including:
• Avantis
• One World
• Jimmy Johns
• McDonalds
• Bellacino's
• Subway
• Starbucks
TENTATIVE 74 SWING SCHEDULE
The schedule for the first half of the swing hosted at Illinois State University is as follows:
October 1, 2016
8:15 – 9:00 am Registration – Fell Hall Lobby
9:30 am Extemp Draw
10:00 am Round 1A (Ext, Per, Duo, ADS, Pro, POI)
11:15 am Extemp Draw
11:45 am Round 2A
1:30 pm Round 1B (Imp, Poe, Info, CA, DI)
2:45 pm Round 2B
3:45 pm Extemp Draw
4:00 pm Finals A and all IE Semifinals
4:15 pm Extemp Finals
5:30 pm Finals B
ASAP Awards
Early registration for the Bradley half will happen immediately after awards.
The schedule for the second half of the swing hosted at Bradley University is as follows. NOTE:
Everything is one hour earlier!
October 2, 2016
7:15 – 8:00 am Registration – Neumiller Lecture Hall inside of Bradley Hall
8:30 am Extemp Draw
9:00 am Round 1A (Ext, Per, Duo, ADS, Pro, POI)
10:15 am Extemp Draw
10:45 am Round 2A
12:30 pm Round 1B (Imp, Poe, Info, CA, DI)
1:45 pm Round 2B
2:45 pm Extemp Draw
3:00 pm Finals A and all IE Semifinals
3:15 pm Extemp Finals
4:30 pm Finals B
ASAP Awards
No tab sheets will be released until after the last final round has started.
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