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The members of Discovery Canyon’s Forensic teams would like to invite you and your team to the DCC Hollywood Invitational Tournament on February 3rd , 2024. Please register on Speechwire.com Our theme this year will be HOLLYWOOD. Each team is encouraged, but not required, to pick a movie or TV show and dress as the cast of that show (The more recognizable the better!!:) ) We HIGHLY encourage you to dress the theme😊. We will be running a wave style tournament, including powered PF/LD debates, doubling (No doubling in PF and LD.) and finals in all events (min 7 competitors for finals). All competitors will be held to CHSAA rules for their event(s). If you have any questions please call Jeremy Beckman (DCC) at 509-307-2931 (Jeremy.Beckman@asd20.org) or Tiia Shea at 719-463-7746 (Tiia.Shea@asd20.org)

NOTE WE USE THE FEBUARY NSDA PF TOPIC: Resolved: The United States federal government should ban single-use plastics.

Wave A Event(Purple Wave): Drama, Humor, OO, Poetry, Lincoln Douglas, International Extemp, National Extemp

Asynch Event: Storytelling (for those new to our tournament, your judge pool for this is elementary students in K-12 in our district, best feedback you will ever get!!!)

1810 North Gate Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80921. Please use the 9-12 entrance. Your bus may park in the front of the school.

Competitors more than 10 minutes late to a round shall forfeit that round. Competitors will speak in

The space for our tournament is limited (a maximum of 100 competitors in each event), so please register as soon as you can. You may have up to 6 entries per competition event and competitors may register for 1 event in each wave plus storytelling. (However, no doubling in debate events) If you have more, email us and we will see if we have rooms for it) We will charge $15 per single entry and $20.00 per team/debate (Duo/PF/LD) entered in the tournament. Registration will open on January 16^th , 2024. Registration will be handled through Speechwire.com Your tournament entry fees will be based on your pre- registration numbers. Pre-Registration will be closed at , 2023 at February 1^st at 5PM, your fees will be locked and all adds must be emailed to Jeremy.Beckman@asd20.org. No same day adds at this tournament.

Please make checks payable to Discovery Canyon Debate ATTN Jeremy Beckman. Any drops made after the February 1^st , 2023 at 5PM deadline will be subject to the forfeiture of the entry fee. Your final invoice will be emailed to the head coach on Speechwire’s email address on Monday Feb 5^th 2024 (we will credit any judge donation to your invoice)

If you are running late the morning of the tournament, please call Jeremy’s cell phone (509-307-2931) to let one of us know when you will be arriving. Also, please text same day drops as soon as you know to 509-307-2931 so we can get round one out ASAP. If you arrive after 7:30 AM, you may be dropped from round one.

This will take place 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start of all rounds, with the exception of round one. For this round draw will start promptly at 7:45 AM, and speaking will begin at 8:15 AM. Extemp draw is in room 508. Extemp topics will be emailed out to all teams that have pre-registered on Speechwire on Sunday 1/28/2024.

Please help us out by bringing judges. The more judges you bring, the more smoothly the tournament will run. Each school must provide judges based on competitors: trained judge for every 5 event entries (or portion thereof) and 1 trained judge for every 2 debate entries (or portion thereof). Any school not meeting their quota of judges will be fined a $50 fee. This is unpleasant for everyone, so please spare us all. Please remind your judges to turn in ballots within 10 minutes of a round’s completion.

We are running electronic ballots so please have your judges bring a laptop to submit ballots on. All judges will need to check in via our raptor system. They will need to bring a valid ID.

Students may enter in one Wave A and one Wave B event (But they cannot double in two debate events). Extempers who double need to understand that they may lose part of their prep time if their other event goes long.

Awards: 1^st-3^rd Place will be given an award straight from Hollywood, an Oscar😊

First place will be awarded a large plaque. Second and third place finishers will be given a small Other finalists will be given a ribbon. Team Sweepstakes will be given a Large Oscar award as well.

Breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided for judges and coaches. Competitors will need to bring their own food or purchase food available at our concessions stand. Fast food places are not readily available to competitors and Doordash etc usually just drop off wherever they find a door. If your kids choose to use a delivery service, they need to make sure of a delivery spot. DCC staff will not be at the front to meet them.

For lunch, we will sell Domino’s large, single topping pizzas for $12 each for lunch. Order them in the cafeteria between 7-8AM on day of. Pizza can be added your teams invoice if the coach orders them.

PF debaters will use the February 2023 NSDA Varsity Topic (Resolved: The United States federal government should ban single-use plastics.)

LD debaters will use the January/February 2023 NSDA Varsity Topic (Resolved: The United States ought to substantially reduce its military presence in the West Asia-North Africa region.

 The tournament will be governed under the rules set forth by CHSAA, and Academy School District 20

 The Academy District 20 schools are tobacco-free, marijuana-free, and alcohol-free campuses.

 Anyone caught violating school or district rules while at the tournament will be disqualified.

 Furniture shall not be re-arranged. We need to respect the teachers who allow us to

Jeremy Beckman
Email address: jeremy.beckman@asd20.org
Phone number: 5093072931

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