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Phillipsburg Fall Spooktacular
General information This is a High School tournament in New Jersey. View manager contact information
Dear Forensic Moderators and Coaches: The Phillipsburg High School Forensics Team cordially invites you to its annual Phillipsburg Fall Spooktacular on Saturday, October 26, 2024. We hope you can join us for an educational and enjoyable day of in-person forensics competition.
We are offering competition in the following events:
MASKS Students can choose to wear a mask while performing, and they will not be penalized for doing so.
FOOD Teams will have the option of pre-ordering pizzas for lunch. There will be other hot items for sale along with breakfast items, baked goods, candy, fruit, and soda. To preserve the environment, NO BOTTLED WATER will be sold. Instead, reusable NJSDL water bottles will be sold. Food will be provided for all judges and coaches.
COMPETITION There will be three preliminary rounds and a final round in all individual speech events, as well as two sessions & a final round of Congress. If an event has fewer than 4 contestants, the event will not be held. There will be four single-flighted rounds of Parliamentary, LD, and PF debate. Each will have 3 divisions: novice, JV, & varsity, which will be collapsed if numbers warrant. Novice is only open to 9th or 10th graders in their first year of debate. In addition to the high school events, we will also be offering 3 middle school speech events this year. All NSDA and NJSDL rules for registration, source integrity, ethics, and timing are in effect. **Please remember that the same piece can NEVER be used in 2 different events.** Students may double enter in any of the speech events but may not double enter if competing in student congress or debate (LD, PF, or Parli ). Mavericks in PF are not permitted. We ask that you make sure to mark all your novice high school speech competitors (in their first year of competition) in registration so that we can recognize the highest-placing novice at awards or hold novice honors rounds if numbers allow it.
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.
REGISTRATION All registration must be done online at www.SpeechWire.com. If you need assistance using this site, let us know. Only 6 entries per school per category will be registered. The rest will be placed on a waitlist for review to ensure rooms are balanced.
Registration will begin Saturday at 8:00 am and continue until 8:45 am at the community entrance of Phillipsburg High School. We hope to begin Round 1 promptly by 9:15 am. A complete tournament schedule will be available on speechwire.com as well as on a livedoc that will be shared a few days before the tournament.
DEADLINES Please submit all Congress bills to fraulaurie@hotmail.com by Friday, October 18. We will upload the bills to SpeechWire by Saturday, October 19. We will try to utilize all pieces of legislation submitted, but if the number is excessive, some may not be used.
REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22nd @ 3PM. We will begin to assess nuisance fees for any registration changes other than name changes after this deadline. The names of all judges are due on Thursday, October 24, 2024 @ 3pm.
FEES Please send payment in the form of check or purchase order. Make payments out to: Phillipsburg Forensics Team
JUDGES/JUDGING QUOTAS LD & PF Debate
Parliamentary Debate
IE Events and Congress
Judge Requests
**Please stress to your judges that they are obligated for the entire tournament and must be available to judge the final round of any event. 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. 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 comfortable doing other events. However, speech judges will be used to judge Congress. Please let your judges know this. Please make sure your judges are trained prior to the tournament because we will not have the time to adequately train them before the tournament begins. Schools will be holding judges training sessions throughout the month of October. Please see the NJSDL website for the dates. If any of your judges would like to attend my in-person training session, tell them to come to PHS on Wed, Oct. 9th from 7 – 8:45 pm in Room 227.
AWARDS CEREMONY The awards ceremony will be held in the auditorium. The top 6 Congress entries, speech high school & middle school finalists, contestants in debate events, top non-advancing novices, and sweepstakes awards will be presented. As we get closer to the 26th, I will send out updates with more details about the schedule, ordering pizzas, and how the tournament will run. Please feel free to direct any questions not answered in these updates to Laurie Schmid on her cell (908) 619-1812, or at either of these email addresses: fraulaurie@hotmail.com or schmid.laurie@pburgsd.net Hope to see you in person at the end of October! Best wishes for a successful forensics season! Laurie Schmid & Kyle Parker Phillipsburg High School Forensics Coaches
Laurie Schmid Mailing address Phillipsburg High School SpeechWire Tournament Services - Copyright 2004-2024 Ben Stewart. All Rights Reserved. Terms of use - Privacy and Security Policy
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