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The Hawken School Speech & Debate team cordially invites you and your team to attend the 6th Annual Larry H. Banks Memorial Invitational named in honor of our team's founder, Larry H. Banks.  This year's tournament will be held on Saturday, November 12th, but we have added a PDQ with three extra rounds for Policy Debate on Friday, November 11th!
 
As tournament hosts, Hawken School commits to the following statements:
 
  • The OSDA “welcomes everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or political affiliation, to participate with equal opportunity in the Speech and Debate community within our participation guidelines.” We stand by this promise during these challenging times, and we pledge to work harder to increase the diversity of our community and break down existing barriers for underrepresented and underserved groups.
  • IN THE INTEREST OF EQUITY, WE ASK ALL JUDGES TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:  We are all influenced by implicit bias, or the stereotypes that unconsciously affect our decisions. When judging, our implicit biases negatively impact traditionally marginalized and disenfranchised students. Before writing comments or making a decision, please take a moment to reflect on any biases that may impact your decision making.  
TOURNAMENT DETAILS:
 
This is an in-person tournament in the Cleveland District.  All events for this tournament will be live and in-person at Hawken School.
 
****PLEASE NOTE THAT BECAUSE BALLOTS FOR THIS TOURNAMENT WILL BE COMPLETED ON-LINE, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT COACHES ENTER A VALID EMAIL FOR EVERY JUDGE AND COMPETITOR.****.
 
Tournament Location:   All Events will compete at our Gates Mills Campus, 12465 County Line Road, Chesterland, OH 44026
                                       
Tournament Events
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debate: We will offer four (4) rounds of competition. We will be using the November/December NSDA Topic, Resolved: The People’s Republic of China ought to prioritize environmental protection over economic growth. 
  • Policy Debate: We will offer five (5) rounds of preliminary competition plus elimination rounds. We will be using the 2022-2023 NSDA Topic, Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its security cooperation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in one or more of the following areas: artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity.
  • Public Forum Debate: We will offer four (4) rounds of competition. We will be using the November/December NSDA Topic, Resolved: The United States’ strategy of Great Power Competition produces more benefits than harms. 
Student Congress: We will be utilizing the November docket assigned from the OSDA for preliminary round legislation.  That docket is available to all the schools on Speechwire. We will have 2 preliminary sessions of Congress and one finals session with room for eliminated congressional debaters to observe.  Each session will be approximately 2 hours.   We will be scoring based on judge preference. We will also be using direct questioning. 
  
Schedule
REGISTRATION WILL RUN FROM 3:30-3:45 ON FRIDAY AND 7:45-8:15 ON SATURDAY.
 
Hawken will provide a singular Google doc to all coaches and judges in our Friday email so that only one link is needed to get to everything at the tournament.    Throughout the tournament, we will post announcements there as well share information with coaches, judges, and competitors.  
 
We have posted the schedule for rounds, but these times are approximations.  Judges and competitors are responsible for following notifications of actual times as they are sent out.
 
Awards - 4:00 pm or asap thereafter for everyone in the Kennedy Auditorium at the Gates Mills Campus
 
Deadlines:
Deadline to add/drop entries: Tuesday, November8th @ 12:00pm. 
Deadline to add/edit judges: Thursday, November 10th @ 8:00 p.m.
*ENTRY FEES LOCK AT 12:00pm on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th – ANY DROPS AFTER THAT POINT WILL INCUR THE ENTRY FEE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT ENTRY.
 
Registration Fees:
$30.00 per entry in Policy, $20.00 per entry in PF, and Duo and $10.00 per entry in all other events.  This fee includes a $5.00 per person charge for the warm lunch that will be served by our dining staff on both campuses.  Because we offer no vending options for students, this lunch fee is not optional, but coaches may contact Susan McGraw at susan.mcgraw@hawken.edu with any questions or special circumstances.
 
Judge Requirements:
IE:  One (1) judge for every five (5) IE entries (a Duo team counts as one entry)
PF/LD/CX: One (1) judge for every 2 debaters/teams.
Congress: One (1) scorer or parliamentarian for each school that has Congress entries.
All judges will be served lunch at no charge.
 
HIRED JUDGING INFORMATION:
We will have some judges available for hire if you are unable to cover your judging commitment. ALL HIRED JUDGING REQUESTS MUST BE MADE BY TUESDAY, 11/8 AND APPROVED BY THE TOURNAMET ON A FIRST COME BASIS – Please Use the link that follows here to request a judge.  
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-1X38q6eK8nqjjvjGvWjj_Gk2FnnSVBuaiuGqkMhgLnRgAg/viewform?usp=sf_link
 
Fees are assessed by each uncovered entry:
$10 per uncovered CON entry
$10 per uncovered IE entry
$30 per uncovered LD/PF
$35 per uncoved Policy entry
 
MAKE AND MAIL PAYMENT FOR FEES TO:
Hawken School
PO Box 8002
Gates Mills, OH 44040
 
Awards:
Our tournament trophies are being created in the Hawken Fab Lab by Hawken students! 
  • Trophies will be awarded to the top six placements in all events.
  • School sweepstakes will be presented based on the top competitor in each event for each school. There will be a team sweepstakes trophy for the top 6 teams.
 
 
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Susan McGraw at susan.mcgraw@hawken.edu or Bob Shurtz at rhshurtz@gmail.com  
 
We look forward to hosting you on Saturday, November 12th! (Friday Nov 11th as well for policy)
 
See you soon,
Bob Shurtz, Susan McGraw, David Childree, Eva Lamberson, Lynn Beason, Kate Mozynski, and the Entire Hawken School Speech & Debate Team
 

Manager contact information

Susan McGraw
Email address: susan.mcgraw@hawken.edu
Phone number: 954-802-6142

Mailing address

PO Box 8002
Gates Mills, OH 44040

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