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Cowtown Swing - Fri/Sat
General information This information is from a tournament in a past season! This is a College tournament in Texas. View manager contact information Cowtown Classic Swing
Hosted by: &West Texas A&M University October 26-28, 2018 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas Dear Forensics Community: The forensics teams of Texas Christian University and West Texas A&M University cordially invite you to the Cowtown Classic Swing, to be hosted on the beautiful sunny campus of Texas Christian University October 26-28, 2018. We invite you to join us for a weekend of competition featuring two complete individual event tournaments with th eleven AFA events, and a debate tournament with Parliamentary and IPDA debate formats. Each individualevent tournament (TCU Invitational on Saturday and WTAMU Invitational on Sunday) will include two preliminary rounds and a final (semi-finals if necessary). Parliamentary Debate will include five, and IPDA six preliminary rounds on Friday, and out-rounds as needed on Saturday. IPDA will include novice, JV, and varsity divisions if warranted by entry sizes of each event. Divisions may be collapsed if small entry sizes warrant. Students may enter in either Parliamentary or IPDA on Friday, but not both. Students may enter three individual events per pattern.Two duos counts as two events.
Further details about the Cowtown Classic Swing follow on the next few pages. We can’t wait to welcome you to beautiful Fort Worth in October! Sincerely,
Amorette Hinderaker, Ph.D.
Connie McKee Friday, October 26 Cowtown Debate
9:00 Registration Saturday, October 27 TCU Invitational
7:00 Registration/Breakfast 7:30 IPDA Elim Round 2 8:30 Extemp Draw Parli Elim 3, IPDA Elim 4 12:30 Extemp Draw 1:00 Flight B Round 2 2:15 Flight A Round 2 3:30 Extemp Draw
4:00 Flight B Finals Pattern A
Impromptu Informative Schedule Sunday, January 22 WTAMU Invitational 8:00 Extemp Draw 8:30 Flight B Round 1 9:45 Flight A Round 1 11:00 Flight A Round 2 12:15 Extemp Draw 12:30 Flight B Round 2 1:45 Flight A Finals 3:00 Extemp Draw 3:15 Flight B Finals 4:45 Awards Pattern B
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Entries Debate Limitations: Students may enter either Parli or IPDA, but not both.The tournament directors reserve the right to collapse divisions of debate if entry size warrants this action. Debate divisions offered: Open Parliamentary Debate. IPDA Varisty, JV, Novice. Individual Event Limitations: Students may enter a maximum of three individual events per pattern. Competitors may enter two duos (with different partners), but this will count as two events in pattern A. Students entered in multiple events will be responsible for making it to their rounds on time, and should endeavor to sign in.The tournament directors reserve the right to limit the number of entries from a school, and to balance rounds to accommodate judging obligations from schools with large entries. Event Rules We will follow AFA rules for individual events. Open internet access will be allowed in extemp prep.
Parliamentary teams will be given 15 minutes of preparation time following topic announcement. IPDA debate will follow IPDA guidelines. Debaters will be given 30 minutes of preparation Fees Individual Events: $10 (one judge covers 6 slots) Judging Fee Per Uncovered Individual Events: $12 ParliTeams: $75 (one judge covers 2 teams) Judging Fee Per Uncovered Parli Team: $50
IPDA: $30 (one judge covers four debaters) Awards Awards will be given to the top six competitors in each individual event, and out-round participants in debate. Debate events will also include speaker awards for the top 3 speakers.The top novice competitor in each category will also be recognized.
Individual Sweepstakes: The top three individual students in individual sweepstakes will receive an award. Eligibility requires students to compete in four events,
Team Sweepstakes: The top three schools will be recognized with an award for individual events sweeps, debate sweeps, and combined debate/IE. Individual Event Preliminaries: 1st – 3 points 2nd – 2 points 3rd – 1 point Individual Event Finals: 1st – 12 points 2nd – 10 points 3rd – 8 points 4th – 6 points 5th – 4 points 6th – 2 points Tournament Practices Debate Preliminaries: Win – 3 points Loss – 1 point
Debate Out-Rounds (except finals): Debate Finals: Win – 12 points Loss – 6 points The WTAMU and TCU may enter novice competitors in their own half of the IE swing, but these students will be ineligible for individual sweeps.TCU and WTAMU competitors will be en- tered in debate events.Tournament directors reserve the right to place students from the same team into the same section of IEs to conserve judges. TCU is a smoke-free campus. Please refrain from tobacco use on campus. A number of food options are available both on campus, and within walking distance. Information will be provided at registration.The tournament will provide pizza for debaters on Friday evening, and continental breakfast and light lunch on Saturday and Sunday. We will also provide a hospitality lounge with snacks for judges and coaches. Hotel Suggestions Fort Worth is home to many hotels that will accommodate all tastes and budgets.We suggest the area around Hulen Mall (south of I-20 on Hulen), the Cityview area (south of I- 20 on Bryant Irvin), or Benbrook hotels (north of I-20 on Winscott Road), which are all near both campus and many food options.The link below will take you to a Google Maps search with hotels in this area highlighted. https://www.google.com/maps/search/hotels/@32.6808093,-97.4057638,15z TCU A detailed map of TCU is available at http://www.maps.tcu.edu. Registration on Friday will be in Rees-Jones Hall. Registration Saturday and Sunday will be held in Moudy South on the corner of University Drive and N. Cantey. NOTE THAT THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE DUE TO CON- STRUCTION ON CAMPUS. FURTHER INFORMATION WILL BE SENT WITH TOURNAMENT CONFIRMATIONS AFTER REGISTRATION. Parking information will be forwarded with your entry confirmation. We hope to see you in Fort Worth in October! Please contact us with any questions: a.hinderaker@tcu.edu or cmckee@mail.wtamu.edu.
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