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Pine Creek Novice Tournament
General information This information is from a tournament in a past season! This is a High School tournament in Colorado. View manager contact information Pine Creek Novice Invitation 10750 Thunder Mountain Avenue Colorado Springs, CO 80909
4 October 2022
Dear Colleague:
Pine Creek High School wishes to welcome you and your team to our IN-PERSON novice tournament to be held on Saturday, October 29, 2022. It is our hope that this tournament will provide your team with a positive beginning to the speech season.
In addition to novice competition, NSDA will be offering a judging workshop. We will offer the general and events portions for judges who have not yet been trained in this, but we will also offer a debate-specific workshop for judges who have already completed the general and events workshop. This is an excellent opportunity for prospective critics such as parents, new teachers, and recent graduates into the program. The workshop will begin at 9:00 a.m. Please email me at Kathryn.spencer@asd20.org with a list of interested potential adult judges’ names so we know how to prepare for training.
PRE REGISTER on speechwire.com. The best way to do this is to FIRST enter your student’s names into your NSDA roster then sync your roster to speechwire. Registration will be open next week. Please register early.
REGISTRATION: Pine Creek High School – 8:00-8:30 a.m. We plan to end around 3:00 p.m.
ENTRIES There is no prescribed limit on the number of entries you may bring in a given event, but please do your best to provide enough varsity student judges to cover your entries or be willing to judge yourself! Note that we will NOT offer CX debate.
EVENTS: THERE IS NO DOUBLING
Duo Drama Humor Poetry Program Oral Interp Foreign Extemp US Extemp OO Informative Speaking PF LD
COST Novice event entries $6.00 per person Public Forum, Duo $12.00 per team Lincoln-Douglas Debate $6.00 per person
Deadline for drops or additions will be October 27, 2022. All drops should be made on Speechwire or sent to Kathryn Spencer’s email (Kathryn.spencer@asd20.org) or phoned/texted in to 719-439-9026. Please register as early as possible.
AWARDS Generous numbers of ribbons only will be awarded for 1st-6th place in both debate and events.
DEFINITION OF A NOVICE COMPETITOR The spirit of our meet is to provide a positive learning environment for NEW forensics students. A novice, therefore, must not have competed in more than one high school forensic meet (in any event) prior to this year. That means a student who “filled in” once last spring could still compete if you believe he is “new” at this. Please use good judgment in deciding which of your students are true beginners.
JUDGING Schools should provide one experienced student judge for every two debate entries. One student judge should be provided for every six students entered in events. If possible, please bring extra judges. Coaches will be used to judge only if needed. We will use as many varsity students as possible to judge each round. Therefore, some sections may have three critics; please “warn” your students. IF YOUR PROGRAM IS NEW and you can’t bring any varsity students, please feel free to compete! We really want to support your efforts. We will be using paper ballots for this tournament, so we will register your student judges in the morning of the tournament.
ROUNDS OF COMPETITION Three rounds of competition will be guaranteed in all areas. No Finals!
RULES CHSAA guidelines will be used in debate and events. Coaches will receive their student’s exact code at registration as well as on speechwire.com. You will need to share these with your students.
DEBATE TOPICS: Lincoln-Douglas: Resolved: The United States ought to implement a single-payer universal healthcare system.
Public Forum: Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its investment in high-speed rail.
Sincerely, Kathryn Spencer, Tournament Director 719-439-9026
Heather Scott
Val Babbitt
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