Western Slope NSDA Nat Quals Main Events

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General information

This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a High School tournament in Colorado.

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Extemp Topics

DX: coming soon! Waiting on NSDA to release!

FX: coming soon! Waiting on NSDA to release!

All speech events will hold 3 preliminary rounds plus 1 finals round (if at least 8 entries in the event)

All debate events will hold 4 preliminary rounds plus at least 1 finals round (additional elimination rounds are not very likely but could possibly be needed)

Please review the attached Coach's Guide for National Qualifying Tournaments prior to registering your students. 

Tabroom Registration:

Register your students at Speechwire.com. Please do so as soon as possible so that we can know how many judges/rooms we will need. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. 

For ALL interp and prepared speech events, please make sure you include the Title and Author of the piece on the Speechwire registration page. This MUST be done before students compete. Failure to do so may result in your competitors being ineligible.

For ALL interp & speaking events it is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE that you bring with you and have available if the need arises at the time of REGISTRATION:

1. Interp - the ORIGINAL copy of the piece (book, script, etc) and/or the NSDA district approved website(s) it was taken from

2. Interp - the SCRIPT (including the original intro) that the student plans to perform

3. OO & INF - the entire speech with all quoted words highlighted and the total number of quoted words counted and placed on the first page in the upper right-hand corner and then SIGNED BY student and COACH. All pieces should also include a bibliography page.

**Please spend time with your students getting this together. Failure to produce any of this information at the tournament will result in your student being disqualified.

Forms:

You will need to print, fill out and sign the Single Entry Letter of Intent form for every student competing in more than one event. These must be filled out PRIOR to the meet and given to the district chair at the time of registration. If you have already submitted this form for students who competed in Congress, you do not need to submit an additional one.

www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/District-Tournament-Single-Entry-Letter-of-Intent.pdf

Failure to produce these forms will result in your students being ineligible to compete. Please prepare paperwork ahead of time. 

Fees:

Fees are $10 per entry for both Congress and Main Events. Fees must be paid prior to the student competing. 

Payable to: Western Slope NSDA, ℅ Caleb Ferganchick. Mesa County District teams may initiate a fund transfer. Ensure it is transferred to the Speech & Debate NSDA account under Central HIgh School management.

Schedule:

Saturday:

7:15 AM - Registration

7:30 AM - Judge Training

7:45 AM - WAVE A, Round 1

8:45 AM - Extemp Draw

9:30 AM - WAVE B Round 1

We will continue to run rounds until we have 2 qualifiers in each event.

Debate Qualifying System:

Nat Quals debates will have 4 preliminary rounds and then finals using the Single Elimination Bracket system (after prelims, 1st vs last, 2nd vs 2nd to last, 3rd vs 3rd to last, and so on) until we have a clear 1st and 2nd place.

Sometimes this ends up being 6 or more rounds of competition. 

Students need to be in the waiting area and listening for updates and new round postings. We will not hold a round trying to find a student who is missing.

Topics:

We will be using MARCH topics for debate

Extemp topic areas will be emailed out and uploaded to Tabroom the week prior to the tournament.

Coaches ALL HANDS ON DECK

All coaches will have a job. This is a large tournament with a lot of moving parts. Please plan on you and your assistant coach(s) being present to help out where it is needed. See assignments below: 

Judge Training: Caleb

(checking in on judges, ensuring they have food, etc.) 

Check In / Judge Table: Jasmine & Danielle

(reviewing ballots & notifying Tab if a judge needs to leave) 

Food Management: Alexis

Ballot Prep/Posting: Diane

Ballots to Judges: Heather

Team Folder Stuffing:  Sophie

Extemp Draw: Genevieve 

Speech Tab: Tracy 

Interp Tab: Ally 

Debate Tab: Katy

** unassigned coaches will assist TAB and Ballot Prep as needed* 

As of Feb 11:

Important tournament rooms

Domestic Extemp Draw - 201
Foreign Extemp Draw - 207

Manager contact information

Caleb Ferganchick
Email address: calebfergan@gmail.com
Phone number: 970985875

Mailing address

550 Warrior Way
Grand Junction, CO 81504