Hello and welcome back to a new year!

 

Our first PFCL tournament of the season is scheduled for October 6, 2018 at Unionville High School. This is a PCFL tournament for PCFL member schools. We will offer both varsity and junior varsity levels of competition.  Registration fees are $1 per student. 

 

Registration is via Tabroom.com and is due by 5pm on Thursday, October 4, 2018.  No exceptions! Remember that nuisance fines are in force this season.

 

Location info

Schedule

This will be our second annual Showcase September event where we will be running mock rounds of each event featuring a seasoned competitor.  If you know that you have any experienced students or judges attending this tournament, please email me.  We will need a student in each speech event and 2 teams/individuals for all 3 debate events. 

 

Showcase	8:30-10:30
Round 1 Policy/Congress Session 1	10:30-12:30
Round 1 LD/PFD/Speech	10:30-11:45
Round 2 LD/PFD/Speech	12:00-1:00
Round 2 Policy/Congress Session 2	1:00-3:00
Round 3 LD/PFD/Speech	1:45-3:00
Lunch/Awards/Ballot Packets	3:00-3:30

 

*The tabroom staff will do everything in our power to push things up as the opportunity arises.  We thank you in advance for your flexibility. 

 

Lincoln-Douglas Topics

Just a quick reminder that varsity will use the national September-October topic, while JV will use the novice national topic.

 

Congress

Congressional debate in both junior varsity and varsity will begin with bill #1. 

 

Judges

Each team is required to fulfill their judging quotas as follows:

 

·         One speech judge covers up to five speech/congress entries;

·         One Lincoln-Douglas judge covers up to two LD entries;

·         One policy judge covers up to two policy entries;

·         One public forum judge covers up to two PFD entries.

 

 

Drops and Changes

Please report any drops or changes to Ashley Murphy at AMurphy@ucfsd.net as soon as possible. 

 

Concessions

There will be pizzas available for sale for $11 per pie. Please try to have all orders in by Thursday, October 4th. In addition, there will be a bake sale available for students. Breakfast and lunch will be provided for judges in the judges lounge.