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WFCA State Tournament (POSTPONED)
Student Congress info
State Congress Director: Tim Scheffler (608-628-3114, timscheff@aol.com or state-congress@wfcaforensics.org)
Important Dates:
3/25: Legislation due by 5:00 pm to timscheff@aol.com or state-congress@wfcaforensics.org
3/30: Entries due
4/1: Chamber groupings due
4/3: Competition
The WFCA State Congress is scheduled for Friday, April 3, 2020, at the Eau Claire Library (with some rounds in City Hall and School District buildings).
Entries: Each WFCA school may enter up to 16 legislators by Monday, March 30. The fees and drop penalties that apply to the Saturday tournament apply to Congress. Students will be distributed to create balanced chambers of 13-25 delegates apiece. Upon arrival, students will be furnished with name cards.
Registration:
Once all registrations are received, and the number of preliminary chambers determined, coaches will be given the opportunity to group their students by Wednesday April 1. Schools not submitting groupings will have students randomly grouped. If a student wishes to serve as a presiding officer, please indicate this so presiding students may be balanced across sections. Pre-identified students have a guarantee to serve before a nominated student from the floor. Adjustments to groupings due to drops the day of the event will not be permitted so as not to delay the start of the event.
Legislation: Up to 3 items of legislation may be submitted per school, following these guidelines:
Legislation must be original to your school this season
Schools submitting more than one piece of legislation must indicate which item will be given priority to be debated at the top of the agenda, provided a member of that school is in the chamber. (Article V(C)(5)(c)(i) of the WFCA rules gives each school an opportunity to have at least one item at the top of the agenda). Finals legislation will be selected from the “non-priority” submissions.
Please review the WFCA formatting guidelines in the WFCA Handbook – legislation must be one page, double spaced; it is the coach's responsibility to ensure submitted legislation substantially meets the formatting requirements as legislation which is not in substantial compliance may be rejected without the ability to resubmit.
Submit via e-mail to: state-congress@wfcaforensics.org by 5 p.m., Wednesday March 25; no legislation may be introduced from the floor, and late submissions will be rejected if there are already sufficient items to fill a docket. Please include the authoring school’s name.
Legislation will be posted on the WFCA Web site, www.wfcaforensics.org, by Friday, March 27; notification of posting and confirmation will be e-mailed to all schools registered for the congress at the time the packet is posted. The packet will also be posted on speechwire.
Should you have any questions or electronic/Internet issues, please contact the congress director, who will be happy to help!
Judges: Each school must provide one judge (out of high school for at least 18 months), who will be assigned to serve either as a parliamentarian or scorer. Scorers will be assigned to avoid school conflicts to the greatest extent possible; parliamentarians will be assigned based on experience. Schools with a large quantity of entries resulting in a student in each chamber are encouraged to bring an unaffiliated judge if possible. All judges are on stand-by to judge the final round. You may designate a different judge who is available for finals than your prelim judge. A missed assignment for final round incurs a $150 missing judge fine per WFCA rules, so please schedule accordingly. Special accommodations may be possible if requested before the registration deadline.
Schedule: The preliminary session features four hours of debate, divided in two segments (for rotating judges). Additional time has been allocated for presiding officer elections in each segment.
Before 8 a.m. Call in Drops to Tim Scheffler @ 608-628-3114
8:30-9:30 a.m. Registration at Eau Claire Library
9:45 a.m. Opening meeting and proceed to locations
10:15-12:45 p.m. Session 1
12:45-1:45 p.m. LUNCH (on your own)
1:45-3:45 p.m. Session 2
3:45-3:55 p.m. Voting for chamber Best PO
ASAP Super Session Finalists Announced
4:30-7:15 p.m. Super Session
All Awards on Saturday
Additional Information:
To allow students to prepare for the event the following guidelines will be provided regarding procedure:
The first (of 4) presiding officers will get a randomized speaker list to use as a guide for determining initial precedence/recency.
Precedence/recency will NOT reset during the prelims. Thus, students should plan their participation accordingly.
In the super-session no speaker will be recognized to speak for a third time prior to the introduction of the final item on the agenda. The supersession will conclude once all speakers have spoken twice OR some speakers have spoken twice and those who have not have declined to speak on either side of the final item on the agenda.
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