Good Life Swing In-Person

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General information

This is a College tournament in Nebraska.

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The Good Life

Hello, 

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln and University of Nebraska-Omaha would like to invite you the Good Life Tournament. This will be a one day in person tournament on Saturday February 24, 2024 hosted on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  We will be hosting a 2/1 IE tournament.  Saturday will not be flighted and students are limited to a max of 3 events total.  In special circumstances exceptions will be made for students wanting to enter four events but please contact us. For more information, please contact University of Nebraska-Lincoln Assistant Speech Coach Cassidy Emmerich cemmerich2@unl.edu 308-215-0492.

The asynchronous tournament will be hosted by UNO, February 20th-23rd, 2024.  To give contestants time to record the video for extemp/impromptu, we will make the prompts available on SpeechWire starting noon, Friday February 16^th.  Competitors will record only one speech.  That speech will be used for the entire competition.  For more information, please contact UNO Speech Team Co-Director Amanda VonGoodrich agoodrich@unomaha.edu 402-616-5406.

 
We hope to see you for a  great tournament. 

ENTRY FEES AND JUDGE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE UNL TOURNAMENT

1. Entry fees are $4 per event slot. 

2. Entries should be submitted through speechwire.com no later than 5 p.m. CST Tuesday, February 20th.     

3. Please provide a qualified judge for every six events. Hired judges are available at  $12 per uncovered. 

4. Any entries dropped after Wednesday at 12pm will be assessed the original entry fee plus an additional $10 penalty. 

5. Any judges dropped after Wednesday at 12pm will each be assessed a $20 fee. These fees are in addition to the stated uncovered slot fees. 

6. Finalized fee sheets from SpeechWire for the tournament will be emailed directly to head coaches, along with payment information about how to make out checks. 

7. Payments are due in the form of mailed checks no later than three weeks after final fee sheets are submitted (unless other payment arrangements have been approved prior). 

Checks for the Synchronous Saturday Tournament Make Checks Payable to:

UNL Forensics  

Please send all checks to:

Aaron Duncan 

Director of Speech & Debate 

375 Pound Hall 

University of Nebraska–Lincoln 

Lincoln, NE 68588-0329 

 ENTRY FEES AND JUDGE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE UNO ASYNCH TOURNAMENT

1. Entry fees are $4 per event slot. 
2. Entries and videos should be submitted through speechwire.com no later than 5 p.m. CST Tuesday, February 20th.     Fees will be assessed at that time.
3. Please provide a qualified judge for every six events. Hired judges are available at  $12 per uncovered. 
4. Prelims will feature two rounds and run from 8 pm Tuesday February 20th through 12 pm Friday February 23rd.  Final results will be posted/announced by 4pm.
5. Finalized fee sheets from SpeechWire for the tournament will be emailed directly to head coaches, along with payment information about how to make out checks. 
6. You can pay one of two ways.  1) If you are attending the tournament at UNL, you can pay for the asynch tournament at that time (cash or check) during registration.  2) If you want to pay by mail, payments are due in the form of mailed checks no later than three weeks after final fee sheets are submitted (unless other payment arrangements have been approved prior). 

 Checks for the Asynchronous- Make Checks Payable to:

UNO MAVFORENSICS

Please send all checks to:

Amanda VonGoodrich

Co-Director of Mavforensics

Dodge Campus: ASH 105M

University of Nebraska-Omaha

Omaha, NE 68182

COMPETITION AND AWARDS 

1. Both tournaments will offer 2 rounds of preliminary competition and a final round.  

2. We will recognize the finalists in each event, the top three individual sweeps winners, and the top three schools at each tournament.  Please note that we will not be giving physical awards and this is why we have lowered the per slot fee for the tournament to $4.  

3. The top three teams will be recognized. 

4. We will use AFA-style rules and tabulation. 

5. Should the need arise, we reserve the right to institute entry caps and to put students of the same team in the same section in order to make their team judges usable  

Judges Code of Ethics:

We believe it is important to create a positive educational environment for all students participating at the tournament.  Any judge found to be making comments on ballots that are deemed to be racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory by the tournament director will be removed from the judging pool immediately.  It is also our expectation that all judges make supportive comments and do use not use overly penal speaker points.  If judges are found to be engaging in those behaviors, they will be asked to change immediately or be removed from the judging pool.  Any schools that have judges removed from the pool will be charged for uncovered slot fees.  

Individual Events:  

• No student may enter more than three (3) events at either tournament.   
• Finalists will advance based on lowest cumulative rank, then highest cumulative rating points, then highest reciprocal. 

• First place will be awarded to the competitor with the lowest cumulative rank.  Ties in finals will be broken first on predominance of 1’s, second judge’s preference, and finally rating points.  Ties in team points and individual sweepstakes will be broken on numbers of finals followed by number of 1, 2, 3’s.  Individual sweepst akes is open to any competitor who has three or more events. 
• All rules for the 11 AFA events should follow the “AFA-NST Description of Events” found at http://www.mnsu.edu/cmst/niet/eventdescriptions-new09-10.htm

Sweepstakes Formula:

IE Preliminary Rounds – 1^st  - 3, 2^nd - 2, 3^rd - 1. 

IE Finalists 1^st -12, 2^nd - 10, 3^rd - 8, 4^th - 6, 5^th - 4, 6^th - 2. 

IE Non-advancing Semifinalists - 1. 

Host

Cassidy Emmerich, MA

Assistant Coach Husker Speech

University of Nebraska–Lincoln 

Co-Hosts

Amanda VonGoodrich                                           

Co-Director of Mavforensics                             

University of Nebraska-Omaha      

Saturday Schedule (All times CST)

  8:30    Registration (Louise Pound Hall 1^st floor) 

  9:00    Extemp Draw 

  9:30    Round 1 

  10:45  Extemp Draw

  11:00  Round 2 

  12:30  Lunch   

  12:45  Extemp Draw 

  1:00    Finals     

ASAP   Awards  

Manager contact information

Cassidy Emmerich
Email address: cemmerich2@unl.edu
Phone number: 3082150492

Mailing address

None provided