The 5280

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General information

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Your team is cordially invited to “The 5280”: Speech and Debate Tournament to be held at George Washington High School on November 11^th and 12^th.   This tournament is co-hosted by George Washington High School and Kent Denver School and it promises to be BREATHTAKING!

We are doing all registration through WWW.SPEECHWIRE.COM . 

Please set up an account and enter your team. 

TOP REASONS YOU SHOULD ATTEND
 
•    5 PRELIMINARY ROUNDS OF COMPETITION IN BOTH SPEECH AND DEBATE !!!
•    TOC FINALS BID IN PUBLIC FORUM
•    NIETOC BID TOURNAMENT IN HUMOR, DRAMA, DUO, AND ORATORY
•    Hardware for All Break rounds!
•    Multiple Break rounds in both Speech and Debate!
•    Power Matched Debate Rounds Begin After Round 2!

HOTEL INFORMATION: 

If you are coming from out of town, we have reserved a block of rooms at the Holiday Inn in Cherry Creek area of Denver.  Holiday Inn 455 S Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80246 (303) 388-5561 http://www.holidayinn.com/redirect?path=hd&brandCode=hi&localeCode=en®ionCode=1&hotelCode=DENCB&_PMID=99801505&GPC=GWH  

You can also use one of the following phone numbers to call in to make their reservations: 303.388.5561 or 888.388.6129.   Please refer to George Washington High School

 Debate: 

We will be offering Varsity Policy Debate, Novice Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate,Congressional Debate, and Big Question Debate

-You are allowed a maximum of five entries in each debate except Congress where you are allowed to bring up to 10 entries.

-If you would like to bring more than five entries in each debate event or more than 10 in Congress, we will begin a waitlist and will pull students in on a first come first served basis.

-Students MAY NOT double-enter in any debate event.  Students MAY NOT double enter in debate and speech events.

In Novice  CX, we will employ the NFHS Novice case limits with a slight revision, meaning that all teams should limit themselves to these four case areas: 2015-16 Novice Cases

1. Cooperation with China in Outer Space
2. Signing a Bilateral Investment Treaty With China
3. A grand bargain on Taiwan: Repealing the Taiwan Relations Act in exchange for Chinese concessions in the South China Sea
4. Eliminating the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Installations in East Asia in exchange for China’s assistance in stopping North Korean nuclearization.
5. Additionally, in novice CX, the negative cannot use Counterplans or Kritiks.

BIG QUESTION DEBATE:       We will be offering the NSDA's Pilot Debate event called "Big Question Debate."  Students will be debating scientific and philosophical topics in a 50 minute one-on-one debate format.  

The topic this year is:   Resolved: Science leaves no room for free will.

Here is a link to the NSDA Big Question debate page where you can get all the information you need for your students in regards to format, judging criteria and research resources.     https://www.speechanddebate.org/big-questions 

The tournament directors reserve  the right to cancel this event if there are less than 15 competitors entered by the Wednesday prior to the tournament. 

Speech:

We will be offering the following Speech events:  Humor, Drama, Duo, Poetry, Program of Oral Interpretation, Oratory, Informative Speaking,  International Extemp, National Extemp, and Impromptu

            -Students may DOUBLE ENTER in two speech events. 

            -Students may not double enter in speech and debate events.

-We will allow up to five entries in each event.  Once you have reached your five entries, students may be put on a waitlist where students will be brought into the tournament on a first come, first served basis.

-Students will be responsible for getting to their rounds on time, and if they do decide to double enter in a prep event, students might not get their full prep time.

-We will post the rules for POI and Informative speaking.

- The Impromptu draw will occur in the rooms.  The students will have a total of seven minutes for both prep and speaking time.  They can use the time as they wish.  They can prep for two minutes and speak for five minutes, or they can prep for 4 minutes and speak for three. 

- POETRY WILL BE COLORADO STYLE WHERE THE BINDER IS OPTIONAL AND NOT TYPICALLY USED.  IT IS A 10 MINUTE EVENT WHERE IT CAN BE A PROGRAM OF POETRY OR ONE POEM.  

-We will only offer Semi-finals in the speech categories with more than 45 entries.  If an event has less than 45 entries, it will break straight to a final round.  

FEES: (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY)

            Entries:  We will be charging $20 per entry for all individual events and $40 for all partner events (Duo, CX, and PF) Note: At a normal three round tournament, you will pay between $10 and $12 an entry, this works out to $3.34 to $4.00 a round.  Because we are offering five preliminary rounds, we are equating that to you paying $4.00 a round.

            Team Fee: There will be a tiered team fee based on entries.   If you have 1 to 25 entries your team fee will be $50, if you have 25 to 50 entries -- $75, and if you have more than 50 entries your team fee will be $100.   An entry is a slot in an event, if a student is double entered, that is two entries.   These team fees will be based on your entry numbers in the system by Thursday, November 3rd at 5pm.

IF YOU FILL OUR JUDGING REQUIREMENT, THE FEE WILL BE WAIVED.  This is an incentive for you to bring judges and thus, not have to pay the team fee.  We would rather have your judges, than have your money.  In order to get the Judging fee waived, Judges must be entered into Speechwire by the Wednesday prior to the tournament by 6pm MST.  

Judging:

            The tournament will be paying all judges $10 a round in cash with $10 bonus if they judge four rounds and stay through break rounds.  Teams are heavily encouraged to fill their judging quota so that their team Fee can be waived.   If you have students competing in debate events you must provide a judge that can judge debate rounds while your students are still competing.  Your judges are responsible for one round after your team has been eliminated.  If you get a student to qtr finals in PF, then you must have a judge who is available to judge the semifinal round. 

NOTE: You CAN have a judge cover both Events and PF entries.  
      A judge cannot cover LD and Events or CX and Events.
      A judge can cover PF and LD/ CX

You may have two people split the judging commitment.  They can split the day, but they will not count as two judges toward your allotment, they will only count as ONE JUDGE. 

NOTE: A full commitment is from the start of the first waves through the start of Finals.  Judges must be available throughout the entire tournament time.   

The quotas are as follows:

            CX  -- 1 judge for ever 2 entries

            LD – 1 Judge for every 4 entries

            PF – 1 Judge for every 4 entries

            Congress – 1 Judge for ever 10 entries

            Speech events – 1 Judge for ever 7 entries

If you have questions please direct them to Terry Rubin @ 303-770-7660 x234 trubin@kentdenver.org or Maryrose Kohan @  720-891-2818 maryrose_kohan@dpsk12.org

TOPICS:

CX Topic: 2015-2016 NSDA Topic : Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and/or diplomatic engagement with the People’s Republic of China.

LD Topic: Nov/Dec NSDA Topic -- TBA

Public Forum Topic:  November NSDA Topic –  TBA

Congress: 

Legislation should be sent to Maryrose Kohan @ maryrose_kohan@dpsk12.org by TUESDAY, November 1ST.

We will be running  two sessions of Congress and then have a Super Congress Final Round on Saturday afternoon starting at 1pm.  The finalists will be decided by the 6 students with the highest total scores over the two sessions.  Each judge will nominate 4 speakers from their houses.   8 speakers from each house will move into the final Super Session where students will vote at the end of the session to determine the final results.   There will be awards given out to the top 6 members of the Super Session.

AWARDS
•      Hardware will be awarded to the top 6 competitors in each Speech event. 

·       Awards will be given to all debaters who advance to the Quarter Finals and Semi Finals. All Semi finalists in Speech events will also receive awards.

·       Speaker Awards will be given to the top 3 debaters in CX, LD, and PF.  

·       Team trophies will be awarded to the top 3 teams.

SCHEDULE
Registration will take place on Friday, November 11^th from 3:30pm to 4:15pm.  All rounds will begin at 5pm.   Saturday, November 14^th – rounds are scheduled to begin at 8:00am in Debate and extemp and 8:30am in all other events including Congress.  Awards are scheduled for 7:00pm on Saturday. 

PLEASE CALL IN DROPS ON FRIDAY BEFORE REGISTRATION BEGINS (Tournament Phone = 303-549-8352)

 
BREAKING & FINALS IN SPEECH EVENTS
At the conclusion of the fifth preliminary round, the top 12 students in each event will advance to a semi final round.  To determine the students who break to semifinals we will first evaluate cumulative ranks.  Any ties will be broken with reciprocals and then see if there are head to head match ups.  

The top three from each semifinal will move onto the final round.  This tournament is NOT cumulative.

Awards will be determined by the final round judges’ scores only.  Thus, awards are not based upon a competitor’s cumulative scores from preliminary and final rounds.

BREAKING & FINALS IN DEBATE

At the conclusion of the fifth preliminary round, all undefeated teams will advance to the quarter (see the tie-breaking scheme below). We will have three judge panels in break rounds and winners advance. 

We WILL NOT BREAK THE BRACKET TO PREVENT TEAMMATES / TEAMS FROM THE SAME SCHOOL HITTING.  THE COACH WILL DECIDE WHICH TEAM WILL MOVE ON.   WE WILL NOT RUN THOSE DEBATES, IT IS UP TO THE COACH TO DETERMINE WHICH TEAM WOULD MOVE ON.  

The policy of the tournament is that the higher seed rolls over the lower seed if both teams are from the same school IF THE COACH WANTS THE LOWER SEED TO MOVE ON, THEY NEED TO INFORM THE TABULATION ROOM IMMEDIATELY AFTER BREAKS ARE POSTED.

Tie-breaks will be determined by 1) W-L record, 2) Strength of Opposition, 3) Speaker Ranks (CX/PF),
4) Speaker Points.    

SPEAKER AWARDS IN DEBATE

The top 3 speakers in CX and LD debate will be determined from cumulative scores in points from the first five preliminary rounds.  Scores from break rounds will not be included in the determination of speaker awards.  Breaking ties is a complicated process, but it takes into consideration speaker ranks (CX only) and whether the points were earned in a win or a loss.
 

PAYMENT:

Make checks payable to  KENT DENVER SPEECH AND DEBATE, ATTN: Terry Rubin, 4000 E. Quincy Avenue, Englewood, CO 80113  

DETERMINATION OF TEAM AWARDS
•    All Events and Debate:
o    1st Place = 6pts; 2nd place = 5pts; 3rd Place = 4pts; 4th Place = 3pts; 5th Place = 2pts; 6th Place = 1pt    Qtr finalists 1 pt in Debate, Semi-finalists in Debate and Speech – 2pts
•    Congress – finalists 2pts each
o    Outstanding Speaker = 6pts; Superior Speaker = 5 pts; Nomination = 1pt
•    Speaker Awards
o    Top speaker in CX and LD = 2 pts

PRE-REGISTRATION:
    Pre-registration will take place at www.speechwire.com   enter early.  Fees will be assessed based on the entries as of THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD by 5pm.  Please make sure that you enter student names online.  Students in Events are allowed to double enter. 

Email Maryrose Kohan @ MARYROSE_KOHAN@dpsk12.org or Terry Rubin @ trubin@kentdenver.org with any questions.

We look forward to seeing you at ……..

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Terry Rubin
Email address: trubin@kentdenver.org
Phone number: 303-770-7660 x234

Mailing address

Kent Denver School
4000 E. Quincy Ave.
Englewood, CO 80113