The New London Forensics Team is pleased to welcome you to our annual Student Congress on Friday, March 11th and Forensics Tournament on Saturday, March 12th, 2016!  We are looking forward to a full day of exciting, high quality competition and can't wait to welcome you to our district.  Some helpful information:

 

*Competition will be held at NLHS and NLMS. Buses will be available to shuttle people between the two buildings.  

 

*Concessions will be available for purchase in the commons at the HS.  Food for coaches and judges will be available in the Judges' Lounge at the HS in B119.  Food/beverages will NOT be available at the MS.

 

*Rounds: Registration - 7:00 - 8:00am, Extemp/Radio Draw - 8:15am in HS Library, ROUND I ALL EVENTS: 8:45, ROUND II ALL EVENTS: 10:00, ROUND III ALL EVENTS: 11:15, POWER ROUNDS : Approximately 1:00pm, AWARDS: 2:45pm.

 

*OIL order will be determined by coin toss at 7am, March 12th.

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ENTRIES: Each school may submit up to 25 varsity entries. No more than 4 varsity entries per category. NOVICE Prose and NOVICE Poetry have been renamed "Prose Reading" and "Poetry Reading" this year. These two NOVICE events will be offered to FIRST YEAR forensics students only.  Double AND triple entries are allowed, but it is the student's responsibility to inform the judge of their status.  Please refrain from double or triple entry in the categories of Radio and Extemp.

 

FEES: Entry fees are $10.00 per individual entry and $12.00 per group entry. Schedules will be adjusted to account for adds and drops until 4:00pm on Friday, March 11th.  We will do our best to accommodate any late adds that occur beyond this time, but not all late adds may be honored due to space limitations.

 

JUDGES: Each school must provide one judge for every five entries or portion thereof. We have a limited number of hired judges available for you at a cost of $100 per judge. Teams with over 50 entries/10 judges are required to hire judges from the tournament. Total entries are not capped.

 

AWARDS: Individual trophies will be awarded to the top three finishers in each category. All finalists will receive medals. Team trophies will be awarded to the the top four large teams, top three medium teams, and top two small teams with more than 5 entries.

 

RULES: All WFCA rules will be followed. Please note changes from last year. We will offer Oratorical Declamation. NCFL rules and critiques will be used.  If you are interested, more information on this event can be found at: http://www.ncfl.org/declamation. 

 

FOOD: On Saturday, food will be provided for judges and coaches in room B119 of the high school. We plan to operate out of two buildings, there will NOT be a hospitality room located at the middle school.  Additional food will be available for purchase in our commons area at the high school. 

 

STUDENT CONGRESS: Student Congress will run on Friday evening.  Please email entries AND legislation to mervin@newlondon.k12.wi.us by Friday, March 4th, at 5pm.  I will email all legislation to participating schools. Dinner is included in registration fees and a Lenten/vegetarian-friendly option will be available. Congress entries will not be reflected in your Speechwire invoice but should be added when you submit your registration fees to your district's financial office. Please note: New London is also hosting the NCFL Student Congress qualifier on this date. Please keep this in mind and register your participants accordingly. Any entries for the NCFL Congress qualifier must be sent to Ron Steinhorst at rsteinhorst@waupacaschools.org.

 

SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS:  If you have a student, coach, judge, or other member of your party that requires unique accommodations, please contact Mariah Ervin to arrange accommodations.

 

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you! Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions.

 

Sincerely,

 

Head Coach: Mariah Ervin                Assistant Coach: Joanna Ledgerwood         Middle School Coach: Aleah Friemark

920-540-6464                                    920-982-8420 x1033                                         920-982-8432

mervin@newlondon.k12.wi.us       jledgerw@newlondon.k12.wi.us                    afriemar@newlondon.k12.wi.us

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