REGISTRATION WILL BE HELD AT https://forensicstournament.net/orcup/19 

PLEASE DON'T REGISTER ON TABROOM

OC6  Schedule - Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 [tentative! if we can move times up, we will, don't leave campus!]

07:30 - 07:45   Judge Orientation
07:45 - 07:55   Round 1 Judging Assignments
08:00 - 09:00   Round 1 - Pattern A (Cong, Expos, OO, OCC)
09:05 – 10:05  Round 2 - Pattern A
10:10 - 11:10   Round 3 - Pattern A
11:15 - 11:25    Round 2 Judging Assignments
11:30 - 12:30   Round 1 - Pattern B (Imp, SpAr, OrigProse, Actuación)
12:35 – 01:35  Round 2 - Pattern B 
01:40 - 02:40   Round 3 - Pattern B
02:45 - 02:55    Round 3 Judging Assignments
03:00 - 04:00   Round 1 - Pattern C  (DI, HI, Story, Duo, Dec, Binder Interp)
04:05 - 05:05   Round 2 - Pattern C
05:10 - 06:10   Round 3 - Pattern C
06:30 - 06:40  Final Round Judging Assignments
06:45 - 07:45   Finals - all events with 2x+ entries (all Patterns)
08:00 - 09:00   Awards in Auditorium (elementary first, middle school second, etc...)

Velásquez Academy hosts OC6 @Pacoima Charter!

Welcome to the 6th Annual Orator's Cup 3rd-12th Grade Fundraising Tournament, hereinafter referred to as OC6. We will again be offering divisions for elementary, middle & high school competitors, though we may have some divisions compete together if entries are too few. There are no school fees, and the costs for each event is $15 (including Duo), not including the $15 fine per "uncovered " event slot when a team does not maintain a ratio of one judge for every 4 events registered (judges must be juniors in high school or older). Fees are due at 1pm on Sat May 25th (via Zelle online payment to velasquezacademy@gmail.com), so as to allow the purchase of the costly & pretty trophies which we have come to be known for. Failure to pay by the 25th  will result either in dropping of all students or the assignment of a fee for every late entry. WE WILL NOT BE REGISTERING NOR ACCEPTING PAYMENTS ON THE DAY OF THE CONTEST, so teams new to our contest need to understand that our payment timeline is a prepay situation, similar to the invitationals run at Stanford, Harvard, TOC or Nationals. We reserve the right to close events with entry thresholds too low or to move events to other patterns as dictated by entry numbers, and number of judges and rooms available, so plan to be on campus all day, for changes may be announced while you're away.

Please also keep in mind that video and audio recording is PERMITTED for (educational and non-commercial uses only, we reserve the right to require that an abusive upload of a recording from OC be taken down) for all rounds, so your team's entry by your designee constitutes group acceptance and acknowledgement of your permission to be filmed (do NOT register a student if filming is opposed by that student's parents). We will close events (and reimburse fees if already paid) if entries are below three or four, so please register early if you have interest in keeping afloat an event which might not survive the "three entry minimum." Students may double-enter in any pattern, but they alone are responsible for alerting judges of being late. The tournament will not be responsible for complications arising from having entered in too many events in a single pattern, leading to tardiness or the inability to fully participate. If you enter SpAr, do that event first, then go on to your other events. If entering Congress, do your other event FIRST, then go on to do Congress.

Rules: High School events will generally follow NSDA rules (with the exception of Congress, which cannot be allowed to run three hours per prelim), unless they only exist in CA, at which point we turn to CHSSA rules. Middle School events will follow NSDA rules (with the exception of Congress length again). Elementary School events rules will be generally lax, due to so many leagues/organizations imposing different time limits. We will generally allow a 5-10 minute time limit, except for certain events: ES Storytelling will be 5 minutes maximum, with a grace period of 30 seconds. ES & MS Impromptu will use a running time of 7 minutes (student may choose to start speaking at any time during the 7 minutes) with a single, blank index card allowed and no referencing to pre-written notes during the prep period. HS Impromptu is the same but loses access to the index card when speaking. SpAr will be 1 min prep, 1 min 1st Aff, 1 min 1st Neg, 3 min mutual Q&A, 1 min Neg Summary, 1 min Aff Summary. Congress will have four resolutions, one for each prelim and a Final, if necessary. The event Original Comic Commentary is analogous to the college event Speech To Entertain or After Dinner Speaking, albeit with a shorter time limit and no props. Interp with Binder (7 min) combines allows those with Prose, Poetry or POI pieces to compete despite their event not being offered in name at this contest. Actuación (5 min) is basically Interp for Spanish Speakers, designed to allow those who are recent immigrants to compete despite not yet having the mastery to compete in English. The selection can be original or from a published source, with power of impact and message being the overriding criterion for the Spanish speaking judge.