**We will use TWO buildings, eliminating the need to debate in the gym.   

All PF, Congress, and Parli will be held in the Middle School

 3417 Old Yorktown Rd, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

All Policy and LD will be held in Lakeland High School. 

 1349 E Main St, Shrub Oak, NY 10588

**The events in the MS will start a bit later because the MS dismisses later 

ARRIVAL

*Due to a change in security requirements, it is not possible for non-Lakeland people to enter the  Lakeland High School the building before 2:02 PM or Lakeland Copper Beach Middle School before 4:00 PM.

Given this, please DO NOT ARRIVE BEFORE THESE TIMES.

Also, both parking lots will be fill before 2:02 pm.

If you arrive before this time, please wait at the ACME parking lot across the street and then enter the building at 2:10 PM. 

You will then go STRAIGHT TO YOUR DEBATES (in both the MS and the HS). You can pay during round 2 at the information desk.

AGAIN, TO MAKE THIS WORK, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU MAKE ANY REGISTRATION CHANGES ON YOUR OWN IN TABROOM BEFORE YOU ARRIVE ON FRIDAY. 

The schools are within a mile of each other

SPECIAL ON SITE REGISTRATION NOTICE

All programs can register at the HIGH SCHOOL between 12pm and 2pm.

Programs that do not register between these times can drop checks in the respective building tab room during the tournament.

THERE WILL BE NO REGISTRATION CHANGES ACCEPTED AT REGISTRATION BECAUSE THERE IS NO REGISTRATION.  Coaches must make them online and/or email BEFORE

POLICY AND LD SCHEDULE – LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL

2:10 PM -- ARRIVE AT THE BUILDINGS

2:30 – pairings


3pm – Round 1 (all events)

5:30 pm – Round 2 (all events)

6:30-8:00 – Dinner (included)

8:00 pm – Round 3

Saturday, March 4

7:45 – R4 all events


11am – R5 – all events


1-2pm -- lunch


2pm – R6 –HS policy

1st elim in other events, elims in all other events will continue throughout the day.

Elims in all events except varsity policy will conclude on Saturday.

5pm – 1st elim policy (top 16  in varsity and (All 4-2 teams in novice policy)


6pm -- 2nd elim in novice policy

7:30 – 2nd elim policy
 varsity policy

8pm -- least elim in novice policy

Quad champions in novice policy

Sunday 8am

Remaining elims in varsity policy

*PUBLIC FORUM SCHEDULE – MIDDLE SCHOOL

Friday

4 – get in the building, no registration. Please note that you cannot enter the building before  4pm, because school dismiss at 3:40pm. Coaches and students will enter the building and GO STRAIGH TO THEIR DEBATES.

4:30  R1 All divisions

6:15 R2 All divisions

8:15 R3 HS divisions, no MS round

Pizza will be available in off flights

Saturday

8am – R4 HS, R3 MS division

10:30  am – R5 HS, R4 MS

1 pm – R6  HS, R5 MS

3:30 – 1^st elim V, N, JV (1st MS elim) [top 24 teams in MS, all 4-2s in HS] - all single flighted

4:45PM – 2^nd elim V, N, JV (2^ns elim MS) - double flighted varsity

7:00 – 3rd elim, V, N, JV (3^rd elim MS) - single flighted

8:15 – 3^rd elim  V, N, JV (as needed in N, JV) (4th elim MS) - single flighted

9:30 – last elim – V, N, JV (as needed in N, JV) (Finals MS) - single flighted

*MS Parliamentary Schedule at the Middle School

FRIDAY
4:30      Round 1 Prep

4:50      Round 1 (guaranteed)
6:30      Round 2 Prep
6:50      Round 2 (guaranteed)

Dinner available during Round 2 off-flights

SATURDAY

7:45      Round 3 prep

8:05am  Round 3 (guaranteed, power-paired)
11am    Round 4 Prep
11:20    Round 4 (guaranteed, power-paired)
1:00pm  Mixer/Partial Octo Prep
1:20pm   Partial Octos (simultaneous)
3:00        Quarter-final Prep
3:20        Quarter-finals
4:00        Semi-finals Prep
4:20        Semi-finals
5:00        Finals prep
5:20        Finals and awards

Lunch available during Octo/Mixer off-flights

*MS Congress Schedule at the Middle School

4:30 00pm      Session1

6:30p 00m      Session 2

(Dinner)

SATURDAY

9am --  Session 3 

12pm – Elim esssion

Sunday 8am

Remaining elims in policy

Tournament Dates

March 1-2, 2019 
Note: Depending on the number of Policy entries, we may need to have the policy finals on the 3rd (we did last year)

Registration is open on Tabroom

Events offered

Varsity Policy
 (semis TOC bid)
Novice Policy 
MS Policy
Novice PF

JV PF
Varsity PF
 (finals TOC bid)
Varsity LD

Novice LD

Middle School PF

Middle School Parli
Middle School Congress

Lakeland PF RR

We will have a Public Forum Round Robin on Thursday, March 1, 2018.  The location of the RR is TBD, but it will be in the New York City. If you are interested, please apply here.

NOTE: Novice is for debaters in their first year of debate.  This does not mean the first year of high school debate.  If you would like to appeal a particular team (for example, if one of the debaters debated at one tournament last year), you can do so by emailing Stefan.Bauschard@gmail.com before the tournament. 

JV is for students who have no more than one previous year of debate.  Again, appeals process noted above.

All debate events are “switch side” – students will be expected to debate both sides of the resolution.

Entry fees

$70/team (PF, Policy)
$35/individual competitor (LD, Congress)

&80/team (Parli – higher fee because of 3 competitors per team) 
$50 school fee

The fees include dinner on Friday and lunch on Saturday for all registered participants. 

$300 hired judge fee/4 debaters (one judge covers 2 policy teams, 3 PFrs or LDrs). 

Judges in other events cannot be used to cover Policy debate entries. 
Deadlines

We will accept registrations until Monday, February 25, 2019 (or until the tournament fills) - The tournament always fills, so enter early if you wish

to attend
- In order to discourage frivolous registrations, there is a $10/contestant drop fee for every non- substituted contestant drop after February 1. That fee increase to $25/contestant after February 15th.   Sorry, but people over enter and waste entry space that others want.
- Judge hire fees are frozen on February 15th.

Topics


PF: February NFL Topic (all divisions) 
L-D: January/February L-D (all divisions) 
Policy: Education topic

We expect that all judges will pay attention in the debates they are judging and will work to provide a fair decision based on the criteria they outline in their judge philosophies.

We also expect judges to behave in a way that is appropriate in a middle school/high school environment. Any judges that exhibit behavior inconsistent with this expectation can and will be removed from the tournament by the tournament director at his discretion. The financial costs of missed rounds will be passed on to the school that entered the judge.

Unless there is a violation of the Conduct policy by the judge or the team(s) in the debate, the tab room views the judge’s decision regarding all arguments made in the debates as final. If the tabroom determines that a judge or the team(s) violates a Conduct policy expectation, the tabroom may alter the decision in a way that it feels is fairest for the debaters involved.

Judge Assignment

We will use a standard ordinal rankings judge placement system in varsity policy and varsity L-D (as numbers permit).

We will not use preferences in the other divisions.

We do not have PF strikes..

Card Clipping 

Judges who determine that a debater has “clipped cards” should assign the debater zero speaker points and a loss. This debater will be ineligible for any speaker awards. If the tab room also determines that card clipping occurred, the person will be removed from the tournament.

Forfeits and decision time

All policy ballots are due within 2 hours and 15 minutes (135 minutes) from the scheduled start time of the debate. If the debate you are judging starts late, you will have less time to decide.

Debaters are responsible for finding the room they are debating in. If a debater or team is more than 10 minutes late, his or her 2-person team will be forfeited.