HSL TOURNAMENT #5

WHAT Speech and Congress Online Non-Qualifying Tournament

WHERE NSDA Campus

WHEN Saturday, December 12, 2020

ENTRY DEADLINE Friday, December 4, 2020 for registration, congressional bills, and judges.

PARTICIPATION Open to all HSL member schools that have paid their HSL membership dues and submitted their signed membership form.

LIMITS: There is no school limit for this tournament. Double entries ARE at this tournament.

JUDGES: Each school must provide one (1) judge for every three (3) speech entries and (1) unaffiliated judge for congressional debate entries. Schools that do not provide the required number of judges may have entries withdrawn from the tournament. We will be grateful for any additional judges you can provide.

ONLINE SPECIFIC INFO

Your recordings must begin with the introduction "My name is (First Name Last Name) from (School Name). I am presenting the following (Event Name) for the HSL December Speech Tournament." This will serve as proof that your recording is intended for competition in this tournament only. If the introductory phrase is not present, it will not be scored by judges.

Contestants in Duo Interpretation are not to perform in the same room. If you are looking for ways to make this possible, the NSDA put together a video for their 2020 National tournament that would meet the criteria well. https://www.speechanddebate.org/duo-interp-split-screen-demo-nats-2020/

There are to be no in person audiences during the recording.

Recordings are to be made from a single camera in a fixed position.

Editing of recordings is not permitted and there should be no breaks in recording.

Unless otherwise noted, all rounds will be judged using a single video submission throughout the tournament.

Video submissions for prepared speech events are due December 9th at 9:00 PM.

IMPROMPTU AND EXTEMP:

Topics will be released on Tabroom on 12/9 at 3:00 PM. There will be three rounds, each with six topics from which to choose.

Video submissions are due December 9th at 9:00 PM.

Students should not receive assistance from anyone while preparing their speeches.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO (Adapted from link)

After recording the performance with the program of your choice, complete these steps

CREATE A YOUTUBE ACCOUNT, if you do not already have one.

PUBLISH YOUR VIDEO: Log in to www.youtube.com, click “upload” at the top of the front page. Upload in standard and not high-definition.

EDIT VIDEO DETAILS: The title of your video should be the event followed by your name (ie STORYTELLING -Your Name). In the description, add the TITLE of your selection, along with your NAME.

EDIT VIDEO VISIBILITY: When creating the Visibility, change the audience option from “Public” to “Unlisted” to ensure the privacy of your video; only those with a link to the video can watch. Do not make your video “Private” or “Public”

Confirm Viewability: After your video is fully uploaded, please ensure that your video has no technical issues with sound/video and that the performance is viewable from beginning to end. You might share the link with someone you trust in order to double-check that the link works.

Submit your video to this Google Form. Be sure that you select the correct division and event, and be doubly sure that your name in the form matches your Tabroom account name.

Send this URL to your coach immediately so they may upload it to Tabroom.