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Chaos Mond4y: Even Laster Chance will be a hybrid async/sync online tournament taking place from Monday, March 25 through Saturday, March 30, 2024.

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The tournament will take flight in all eleven NFA events. Talk to us about LD. We're still not sure we understand the difference between IPDA.

All events except for Rank Discussion will be judged asynchronously. All collegiate teams and students are invited to attend, but we recommend that competitors submit videos for events they are actively seeking an NFA qual.

In all events with eleven entries or more, the top six entries will advance to the final round. In all events between 8-10 entries, the top 50% of entrants will advance to a final round. In events between 2-7 entries, entrants will be judged in a single-round and the top 50% of entrants will advance to a final, final round. In all events with one entry, the sole entrant will be disqualified until they provide proof they have watched Madame Web in theaters. Alone.

Novice divisions will be offered when applicable. Our tournament defines novices as a competitor that has not yet attended nationals.

As always, Chaos Monday is a ‘come as you are’ tournament. Please feel free to spontaneously record at your team meeting, coaching session, or in the middle of an at-home screening of Meg 2: The Trench.

TBD: Competitors entered in this event will record three videos, with the rules of the event changing each round.

Rank Discussion: Competitors will be entered in a groupchat with no judge and decide as a collective on the ranks. The round will continue until all competitors agree on the ranks. If the competitors cannot agree on the ranks, all competitors will get a 5.

Extemp POI: Competitors will be provided with an article and will have thirty minutes to craft a POI with a minimum time of 90 seconds and a maximum time of seven minutes. The POI must include an intro and the article must be cited in the introduction.

Fixed by the Duet: Competitors will record two videos, one as a prompt and the other as a response to what was said in the first video. During competition, these videos will be randomly swapped so the judge will view the original response followed by a response from a different competitor.

Meg 2: The Trench Explanation: Explain the plot of Meg 2: The Trench. This event has been canceled as our team has gotten too good at it so it wouldn’t be fair.

PKD Event Description: Pitch a new event for PKD. This event has been canceled as - and this is true - every single event is at that tournament!

Subway Surfers: Competitors must give their speech while streaming Subway Surfers. This event has been canceled due to too many competitors getting hit by the Subway.

Thursday, March 28 at 9:30am: live reenactment of “Birds Aren’t Real” duo from two competitors who never saw it.

We highly encourage Extemp performances to be prepped at 6:30am to enhance the experience of Extemp at NFA 2024.

Entry fees are $25 per NFA event. There are no judging obligations, but teams can receive a $25 discount per team judge per ‘round.’ Team judges will have the opportunity to select the number of rounds that they have capacity to judge, or for a flat discount of $75, will receive between 1 and 6 rounds, depending on the roll of a dice.

For judging coverage, each ‘round’ will be defined as having between five and seven speakers, but may involve judging multiple events.

Entry fees can be paid via Venmo; Paypal; Zelle; Coinbase; FTX; DVD, Blu-Ray, VHS copies of Meg 2: The Trench; 102 TikToks of M3GAN with alpha male music in the background.

Prompts will be posted between Friday, March 8 and up to 7 minutes before entries are due.

All finalists will have the ability to click a link to view a picture of a trophy, such as this one.

The top three entrants in each experimental event will earn 1000 points for their team.

Chaos Monday
Email address: st.stern@northwestern.edu
Phone number: 7636149794

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