Good evening,

thanks to everyone that helped us get through today.  We had some issues but I appreciate your patience while we attempted to resolve them.  I believe that Yaatly has the potential to be an effective platform for online debate, but I do not believe it is ready for the kind of event we are hosting.  We are going to switch from Yaatly to Zoom tomorrow.  We believe that your experience will be much smoother through Zoom.  Here is our plan. 

1. Tomorrow morning, approx. 7:30 a.m. Pacific time, I will email out a Zoom invite to all coaches and judges.  Coaches please share this link with your participants.  Participants, if you haven't received the link from you coach by 8:00 a.m. Pacific time, please email me and I will provide you the link (peters@damien-hs.edu)

2. Please arrive in the Zoom meeting at 8:30 a.m.  We will begin placing debaters and judges into breakout rooms at that time.  (pairings will be posted at 8:45 a.m.) 

3. If you would like to observe the debates, we will place you in your requested room after all the participants have been placed in their debates. 

4. I will post guidelines for Zoom on Tabroom.com later today. 

5. For breaks:  all teams with winning records will clear.  It may be possible that 2-2 with high speaks clear. We cannot make that judgement until after round 4. 

Thanks again for everything, please let me know if you have any questions. 

Donny 

For file sharing please use https://speechdrop.net/ or a similar platform instead of an e-mail chain.  Please keep in mind that many students at the tournament are young and we want to protect privacy as much as possible. 

Resolutions

Lincoln Douglas: Resolved: Predictive policing is unjust.

Policy Topic Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce Direct Commercial Sales and/or Foreign Military Sales of arms from the United States.

Public Forum. Resolved: The United States should remove nearly all of its military presence in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf.

Below is the general schedule.  We will update the Elim Schedule Saturday evening based on anticipated breaks

Schedule

Saturday, May 30  2020 (All Pacific Time Zone)

8:30am Online Check-in (all adult coaches, judges, and students must check-in online to Waiting Room)

9:30-11:45am Round 1

12:00noon Online Check-in (all adult coaches, judges, and students must check-in online to Waiting Room)

12:30-2:45pm Round 2

3pm Online Check-in (all adult coaches, judges, and students must check-in online to Waiting Room)

3:30 - 5:30pm Round 3

Sunday, May 31, 2020 (All Pacific Time Zone)

8:30am Online Check-in (all adult coaches, judges, and students must check-in online to Waiting Room)

9:30am Round 4

12:00noon Online Check-in (Participating adult coaches/judges, student coaches/judges, and students must check-in online to Waiting Room)

12:30-3:00pm first elimination debate

3:30pm Online Check-in (Participating adult coaches/judges, student coaches/judges, and students must check-in online to Waiting Room)

4:30pm  Second elimination debate

7:00pm More elimination rounds to follow as needed.