Evanston
2020 — NSDA Campus // Evanston, WY/US
Dear Forensics Coaches,
The Evanston High School Speech & Debate Team cordially invites you to our inaugural Speak of the Devil Novice/Varsity Virtual Speech Tournament to be held on Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14, 2020. Schools wishing to attend our meet will be entered on a first come, first serve basis. We will accept entries until space is full. Registration will take place at http://evanstonnovicevarsity.tabroom.com
The platform that will be used is NSDA Campus.
EVENTS
We will offer all State events in both novice and varsity categories. There will be 4 rounds of CX, PF and LD and 3 rounds of all other events, plus semis and finals of most events. However, if some events have low entry numbers, these might go straight to finals.
State rules will apply unless otherwise indicated in this invitation.
Debate:
The topics are as follows.
Lincoln Douglas: Resolved: The United States ought to provide a federal jobs guarantee.
Public Forum: Resolved: The United States should adopt a declaratory nuclear policy of no first use.
Policy: Resolved: The United States federal government should enact substantial criminal justice reform in the United States in one or more of the following: forensic science, policing, sentencing.
Novice Policy Case Areas:
Forensic Science: Limit use of facial recognition software.
Policing: Abandon federal efforts to force local police to assist in immigration enforcement.
Sentencing: Abolish mandatory minimum sentences.
Sentencing: Drug decriminalization
Ties in debate will be broken by power of opposition first, followed by speaker points.
Manuscript/visual aid usage: Poetry and POI competitors must use a manuscript. All other events are memorized in the varsity category. Novice competitors may use a manuscript in all events. Informative Speaking competitors may use visual aids.
Congress. Congressional Debate will be in the HOPE pattern.
The legislation will be chosen from the State database corresponding to the competitors who are entered on tabroom on 11/7/20. Please make sure your student’s legislation is in the database prior to that date if you would like it to be on the docket.
We will release the docket to registered schools on 11/10/20.
Super Congress legislation will be taken from various sources, and will be released along with the regular docket.
Extemporaneous Speaking. Questions will be taken from October & November NFHS (available through the link in the State Newsletter Londe sends out each month) and NSDA questions (available on NSDA site). The format will be that of the new state rule passed last fall, and judges will have copies of the speakers' questions. Draw will take place at 7-minute intervals, 30 minute prior to each HOPE round start. Extemp speakers must have their cameras activated (but volume muted) during their prep time.
Internet usage:
Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, and Congressional Debate may all use the Internet in strict adherence to the following rules:
https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Pilot-Internet-Rules-2020.pdf
Additionally, Extemporaneous competitors may use the Internet as permitted by those same rules.
Judging. Many judges will be Evanston community members but we will have a requirement of accompanying judges for each team. (1 judge per every 8 entries). If bringing accompanying judges is an issue for your team, please contact tournament director Brian Hill (bhill@uinta1.com). Most likely, we will need to use some coaches for back-up in case of "no-show" judges. We strongly encourage varsity team members who are not entered in a pattern to judge novice events! Please register your varsity students as judges on tabroom (please make a note on the judging registration about which pattern your students are free to judge in). All judges must have linked tabroom accounts in order to access online ballots.
Click Here for Additional Instructions For Judges
*Please note- all entries will be waitlisted until the media release form is turned in. Due to this, the judging burden will not appear on tabroom until the waitlisted entries have been changed to active status. So please enter your judges early so you are not caught unaware by the judging burden*
ENTRY LIMITS AND DEADLINES
In general, our tournament format encourages double and triple entering. Students who triple within a pattern do so at their own risk. However, Policy Debaters cannot double within the “D” pattern. We discourage Congress competitors from tripling within the HOPE pattern, but if you want to get the experience, go for it! We will even have a triple-threat award for both Novice and Varsity competitors (that is, if Stephanie shares her secret of how to tab that particular award.)
Initial registration numbers are due on Friday, 6 November 2020. Please get them sooner rather than later!
Final registration entry adds are due on Wednesday, 11 November 2020.
Only drops or substitutions will be allowed after the final registration deadline (no adds). Registration will be through tabroom. All changes and drops should be done online, in accordance with the stated deadlines.
Drops on Friday, 13 November 2020, the first day of the meet, may be made online until 11 am, without penalty. They may also be made by calling or texting Londe Gagnon at 307-699-0537. Please do not rely on email.
Event drops received after 11:00 am on Friday, 13 November will be assessed a late drop fee of $10.00 each. First Round "no shows" will be considered late drops as well.
MISCELLANEOUS
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Registration will be held online from 1:30pm-3pm on Friday 13 November.
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All events will synchronous (live) with the exception of Duet.
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Please make sure all participants have signed and turned in the media release form. Copy found here .
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Entries will be waitlisted until the media release form is turned in.
ENTRY FEES
Entry fees are $10.00 across the board, whether single or duo events.
To avoid event drop fees, please call Londe with your drops on Friday morning or record your drops online before that time.
AWARDS
Medals will be awarded to the finalists
First and Second Place Sweepstakes awards will be awarded in 4A, 3A, and 1A/2A categories as determined by WHSAA.
All team entries count as a single entry towards sweepstakes.
Sweepstakes points will be awarded for semi and final round placements only
We look forward to seeing you at the tournament!
Sincerely,
The Evanston High School Speech and Debate Team
TOURNAMENT CONTACT INFORMATION
Brian Hill
bhill@uinta1.org
208-881-4448
Londe Gagnon
lgagnon@tcsd.org
307-699-0537
SCHEDULE - Varsity and Novice Categories will run at the same time