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Randolph Fall Classic
General information This is a High School tournament in New Jersey. View manager contact information Dear Speech and Debate Coaches and Moderators:
The Randolph High School Speech & Debate Team is pleased to invite you to the 36th Annual Randolph Fall Classic Speech & Debate Tournament to be held on Saturday, November 23, 2024. We are very excited to be hosting our tournament IN PERSON. We will be offering competition in many different events at various levels of competition this year – including a middle school division! We are hoping to hold our World Schools Debate in-person, but can offer it virtually if there is sufficient interest! We are also excited to announce that we can offer NIETOC and TOC bids depending on the event and tournament size! Please try to sign up as soon as possible – as the school will have limited space and we will have to cap events based on previous history of this tournament!
We are excited to use our tournament for good once again this year, and we are offering a small prize for the team that donates the most to our drives. As teams check in during registration, there will be a coach registering donations and keeping track of points to award our prize.
Judging Requirements: We will adhere to all judging requirements common to the NJSDL and explained further in this document. We also ask that all judges take advantage of the judging courses offered through the NSDA at https://www.speechanddebate.org/learn/judge-accreditation/
Middle School Divisions: This year, we are excited to offer several events specifically for our middle school students! These include Declamation, Interpretation, Oratory, Congress, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Public Forum Debate. While the running of these events will ultimately depend upon interest and numbers from registration, we hope to offer all of these events for our youngest members of the league. If divisions have to be collapsed, every attempt will be made to keep middle school students competing against other middle school or novice high school students. Please ensure that you complete registration correctly, signing up high school students for high school events and middle school students for middle school events. If there are any questions, please contact me directly at kburke@rtnj.org.
Food: We will be offering an option to pre-order lunches. Coaches will be able to complete this order during registration. More information will come out closer to the event. Packaged snacks will be sold in the RHS Commons (cafeteria) and food will be provided for judges. Breakfast will be served from 8:00am to 8:30am. Lunch will be provided at posted times during the day.
E-Ballots for All Events:
EVENTS & COMPETITION
Our tab rooms will be staffed with Randolph student officers, coaches, and other NJSDL officers and board members and volunteers.
All NSDA and NJSDL rules for registration, source integrity, ethics, and timing are in effect. If you have questions, please consult the official NSDA and/or NJSDL rules.
Awards will be given to the top 6 competitors in all categories. Sweepstakes trophies will be awarded to the top 5 teams competing.
Lincoln Douglas & Public Forum Debate There will be four single-flighted preliminary rounds with breaks to finals only if time permits. Please register your students for the appropriate division based on NJSDL rules. We will be using the NSDA Nov/Dec topics.
Parliamentary Debate This two-person event will run as closely as possible to the LD & PF schedules. Impromptu topics will be given 15 minutes before each round begins in the Parliamentary Debate prep room. Public Forum judges should be prepared to judge this event.
World Schools Debate This three-person event is newer this year! It will run as closely as possible to the LD & PF schedules. Impromptu topics will be given out 30 minutes before each round begins and each round will be impromptu. For more information, please visit the NSDA website located here.
Speech There will be three preliminary rounds in all individual event (IE) categories with breaks to finals; in categories with sufficient numbers, we may break to semifinals and/or novice honors rounds, time permitting.
Congressional Debate There will be two sessions and a final round of Congressional Debate, with the possibility of a novice division depending on the number of entries. While there will be a judges category for Congress judges specifically, speech judges should be prepared to judge this event, as they will be the primary pool of judges.
REGISTRATION All registration must be completed via speechwire.com. If you have never used this site before or would like assistance, please let us know and we can assist. Speechwire will accept up to four (4) entries per school per category. We reserve the right to place any further entries on a waitlist, subject to room and judge availability. Coaches will receive notifications if and when we are able to clear the waitlist.
Only students who are sponsored by a degree-granting institution are permitted to compete. No individual or “lone wolf” entries are permitted. We do allow double-entries across all the IE events only. Mavericks in Public Forum are not permitted. There are no double-entries permitted in any debate event, or across speech and debate events.
Please mark all speech novices as such in your registration. If there are enough novices in each category, we may be able to hold novice honors rounds concurrent with the final rounds, judged by volunteers and/or experienced Randolph team members. At minimum, we will give an award to the top non-advancing novice in each category that does not proceed to a novice honors round.
On-site school registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. and the first round will begin promptly at 9:15 a.m. A complete tournament schedule will be available on speechwire.com and printed on the day of. Please refer to the following page for details.
DEADLINES We need somewhat stable students counts so that we can best prepare our venues for your arrival. To that end, we will begin assessing nuisance fees for any registration changes other than name changes after 8:00pm on November 20. We will lock registration at 4pm on the day before the tournament. Any changes after that point must be communicated directly to the tournament staff via email or at on-site registration the next day.
All Congress bills must be emailed to Katie Burke (kburke@rtnj.org) by 10:00am on Monday, November 11. Please make certain that you are following the NJSDL guidelines for legislation, including proofreading, educational value, and suitability for the event. All legislation must be sent by coaches; direct submissions from students will be returned.
JUDGES Judging quotas are based on the following:
When registering your judges, if you have a judge who is able to judge your own team without conflict, please mark him or her as “clean” on the drop-down menu. Judges like these are very valuable to the tournament. If a “dirty” judge is marked clean, a judge fee may be assessed to your team.
We may be forced to assign judges based on need, regardless of category. This is something we will try never to do, but if circumstances demand it, it would be helpful for coaches to let us know of any judges who would feel more comfortable doing this. That said, speech judges can and will be used to judge Congress rounds. PF judges can and will be used to judge Parliamentary Debate. Please prepare your judges for this possibility.
We will, as usual, conduct a brief overview session for judges at approximately 8:30am. While we strive to alleviate confusion and answer all questions, we cannot spend the time to fully train judges. If you have untrained judges, please consider attending one of the free NJSDL judge training sessions (njsdl.org), or the NSDA online course. E-BALLOTS All coaches must have a team roster with accurate email addresses uploaded onto Speechwire. Likewise, coaches must ensure that judges are trained to complete electronic ballots and have a linked Speechwire account. Coaches should also ensure that their judges bring the appropriate chargers for their devices. Extra chargers or devices will not be available at Randolph High School.
FEES Please note that our fees have increased this year. This is due to the extreme costs of renting the building space to offer this tournament. I understand that this may be a barrier for some teams and I do apologize from the bottom of my heart. Unfortunately, it could not be avoided and is out of my control. Please contact me directly at kburke@rtnj.org if there are issues with the new costs of attending our tournament.
Our fee structure is below. All payments should be made out to the Randolph Forensics Boosters Club. We accept payments before, at, or immediately after registration; or, in case of a purchase order, after the tournament. Please send payments to:
Randolph Forensics Boosters Club attn. Katherine Burke 511 Millbrook Avenue, Randolph, NJ 07869
*** We look forward to seeing you in November! Please contact Katie Burke (kburke@rtnj.og) with any questions. Until then, we wish you the very best start to the 2024 – 2025 season.
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