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The 5280
General information This information is from a tournament in a past season! This is a High School tournament in Colorado. View manager contact information
Your team is cordially invited to “The 5280”: Speech and Debate Tournament to be held at George Washington High School on November 11th and 12th. This tournament is co-hosted by George Washington High School and Kent Denver School and it promises to be BREATHTAKING! We are doing all registration through WWW.SPEECHWIRE.COM . Please set up an account and enter your team.
HOTEL INFORMATION:
If you are coming from out of town, we have reserved a block of rooms at the Holiday Inn in Cherry Creek area of Denver. Holiday Inn 455 S Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80246 (303) 388-5561 http://www.holidayinn.com/ You can also use one of the following phone numbers to call in to make their reservations: 303.388.5561 or 888.388.6129. Please refer to George Washington High School
We will be offering Varsity Policy Debate, Novice Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate,Congressional Debate, and Big Question Debate -You are allowed a maximum of five entries in each debate except Congress where you are allowed to bring up to 10 entries. -If you would like to bring more than five entries in each debate event or more than 10 in Congress, we will begin a waitlist and will pull students in on a first come first served basis. -Students MAY NOT double-enter in any debate event. Students MAY NOT double enter in debate and speech events. In Novice CX, we will employ the NFHS Novice case limits with a slight revision, meaning that all teams should limit themselves to these four case areas: 2015-16 Novice Cases
BIG QUESTION DEBATE: We will be offering the NSDA's Pilot Debate event called "Big Question Debate." Students will be debating scientific and philosophical topics in a 50 minute one-on-one debate format. The topic this year is: Resolved: Science leaves no room for free will. Here is a link to the NSDA Big Question debate page where you can get all the information you need for your students in regards to format, judging criteria and research resources. https://www.speechanddebate.org/big-questions The tournament directors reserve the right to cancel this event if there are less than 15 competitors entered by the Wednesday prior to the tournament. Speech: We will be offering the following Speech events: Humor, Drama, Duo, Poetry, Program of Oral Interpretation, Oratory, Informative Speaking, International Extemp, National Extemp, and Impromptu -Students may DOUBLE ENTER in two speech events. -Students may not double enter in speech and debate events. -We will allow up to five entries in each event. Once you have reached your five entries, students may be put on a waitlist where students will be brought into the tournament on a first come, first served basis. -Students will be responsible for getting to their rounds on time, and if they do decide to double enter in a prep event, students might not get their full prep time. -We will post the rules for POI and Informative speaking. - The Impromptu draw will occur in the rooms. The students will have a total of seven minutes for both prep and speaking time. They can use the time as they wish. They can prep for two minutes and speak for five minutes, or they can prep for 4 minutes and speak for three. - POETRY WILL BE COLORADO STYLE WHERE THE BINDER IS OPTIONAL AND NOT TYPICALLY USED. IT IS A 10 MINUTE EVENT WHERE IT CAN BE A PROGRAM OF POETRY OR ONE POEM. -We will only offer Semi-finals in the speech categories with more than 45 entries. If an event has less than 45 entries, it will break straight to a final round. FEES: (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY) Entries: We will be charging $20 per entry for all individual events and $40 for all partner events (Duo, CX, and PF) Note: At a normal three round tournament, you will pay between $10 and $12 an entry, this works out to $3.34 to $4.00 a round. Because we are offering five preliminary rounds, we are equating that to you paying $4.00 a round. Team Fee: There will be a tiered team fee based on entries. If you have 1 to 25 entries your team fee will be $50, if you have 25 to 50 entries -- $75, and if you have more than 50 entries your team fee will be $100. An entry is a slot in an event, if a student is double entered, that is two entries. These team fees will be based on your entry numbers in the system by Thursday, November 3rd at 5pm. IF YOU FILL OUR JUDGING REQUIREMENT, THE FEE WILL BE WAIVED. This is an incentive for you to bring judges and thus, not have to pay the team fee. We would rather have your judges, than have your money. In order to get the Judging fee waived, Judges must be entered into Speechwire by the Wednesday prior to the tournament by 6pm MST. Judging: The tournament will be paying all judges $10 a round in cash with $10 bonus if they judge four rounds and stay through break rounds. Teams are heavily encouraged to fill their judging quota so that their team Fee can be waived. If you have students competing in debate events you must provide a judge that can judge debate rounds while your students are still competing. Your judges are responsible for one round after your team has been eliminated. If you get a student to qtr finals in PF, then you must have a judge who is available to judge the semifinal round.
NOTE: You CAN have a judge cover both Events and PF entries. The quotas are as follows: CX -- 1 judge for ever 2 entries LD – 1 Judge for every 4 entries PF – 1 Judge for every 4 entries Congress – 1 Judge for ever 10 entries Speech events – 1 Judge for ever 7 entries If you have questions please direct them to Terry Rubin @ 303-770-7660 x234 trubin@kentdenver.org or Maryrose Kohan @ 720-891-2818 maryrose_kohan@dpsk12.org TOPICS: CX Topic: 2015-2016 NSDA Topic : Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and/or diplomatic engagement with the People’s Republic of China.
Congress: Legislation should be sent to Maryrose Kohan @ maryrose_kohan@dpsk12.org by TUESDAY, November 1ST. We will be running two sessions of Congress and then have a Super Congress Final Round on Saturday afternoon starting at 1pm. The finalists will be decided by the 6 students with the highest total scores over the two sessions. Each judge will nominate 4 speakers from their houses. 8 speakers from each house will move into the final Super Session where students will vote at the end of the session to determine the final results. There will be awards given out to the top 6 members of the Super Session.
AWARDS · Awards will be given to all debaters who advance to the Quarter Finals and Semi Finals. All Semi finalists in Speech events will also receive awards. · Speaker Awards will be given to the top 3 debaters in CX, LD, and PF. · Team trophies will be awarded to the top 3 teams.
SCHEDULE
PLEASE CALL IN DROPS ON FRIDAY BEFORE REGISTRATION BEGINS (Tournament Phone = 303-549-8352)
The top three from each semifinal will move onto the final round. This tournament is NOT cumulative. We WILL NOT BREAK THE BRACKET TO PREVENT TEAMMATES / TEAMS FROM THE SAME SCHOOL HITTING. THE COACH WILL DECIDE WHICH TEAM WILL MOVE ON. WE WILL NOT RUN THOSE DEBATES, IT IS UP TO THE COACH TO DETERMINE WHICH TEAM WOULD MOVE ON. The policy of the tournament is that the higher seed rolls over the lower seed if both teams are from the same school IF THE COACH WANTS THE LOWER SEED TO MOVE ON, THEY NEED TO INFORM THE TABULATION ROOM IMMEDIATELY AFTER BREAKS ARE POSTED.
Tie-breaks will be determined by 1) W-L record, 2) Strength of Opposition, 3) Speaker Ranks (CX/PF),
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