Schedule

2:30 – 3:00 Registration

Debate & IE Schedule

3:15-4:45 Round 1 (PFD Flight A: 3:15; Flight B: 4:00)

4:45-6:15 Round 2 (PFD Flight A: 4:45; Flight B: 5:30)

Eat dinner in between rounds, no official break

6:15 – 7:45 Round 3 (PFD Flight A: 6:15; Flight B: 7:00)

7:45-9:15 Round 4 (Flight A: 7:45; Flight B: 8:30)

Awards ASAP!

We will accelerate the schedule whenever possible. We plan to flight PF to accommodate the anticipated high number of entries. Those entered in PF may enter in 1 IE to compete in when they are not competing. Those not entered in a debate event may enter in as many IE's as you feel comfortable.

*IF at the end of the week we do not receive the high number of entries as posted in the who's going where document, we may choose to NOT flight the tournament to accelerate the schedule. In such an event, your students would be unable to compete in both IE's and debate.

Congress Schedule

3:15 - 5:00 Session 1 Leg. 1&2

5:00 - 6:45 Session 2 Leg 3&4

7:15 - 9:00 Supersession Leg 5&6


Speech Power Matching Defined:

Speech is power matched via snakeing. So that the best entries are spread throughout the sections. The goal when power-matching speech is to spread out the best entries throughout different sections to give everyone a fair shot. Its what used at the NSDA qualifier, NSDA nationals, and any tournaments that break to a semifinals in speech. It does NOT put all the best entries in the same section. Speech might better be described by the term "power protect." The ultimate goal is to give everyone a fair shot so that one entry does not get randomly assigned to the same room as multiple other "good" entries in a row.

As an example, assume there are 4 rooms of Poetry, rooms A, B, C, and D, and 16 competitors, labeled 1-16 by their rank. For this example we're going to assume all are from different schools. The competitors would be placed as follows:

Room A would be competitors 1, 8, 9, 16

Room B would be competitors 2, 7, 10, 15

Room C would be competitors 3, 6, 11, 14

Room D would be competitors 4, 5, 12, 13

The actual pairings are not going to quite follow this because there is still school protection on, but it should closely mimic the snaked round above.

The reason it is called a snake is that if you follow the ranks up and down, in order, they make a snake shape.