Santa Clara University

Philalethic Society

Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament

Saturday-Sunday, April 6-7, 2013

Dear Coach:

Santa Clara University Philalethic Debating Society invites you and your squad to the our annual Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament to be held on Saturday-Sunday, April 6-April 7, 2013. The tournament is designed to foster interscholastic communication and reasoning activities outside the classroom in a supportive, educational atmosphere.  Middle schools and home school teams are very welcome to attend and compete fully in the tournament.

Debate will have 5 preliminary rounds. All individual events and debate formats will have a Novice and Open Division.

Since we like giving out awards we will use both the January/February and March/April LD plus the March and April PF topic in novice and open divisions of their own.

Parliamentary debate procedure will be given 3 topics per round; each team allowed one strike each.  All Individual Events will be combined into one pattern.  Double entries in Events are allowed.  We will again offer one division of Student Congress with bills at the end of this invitation.

Web Based Entry Procedures:

Entries will only be accepted on-line. It will take you a few minutes to set up your school's account, but once that is done the system is a breeze.  Plus, the system will enter all your judges and competitors - so when you enter the next tournament that uses this system you will not have to type the judges and competitors names again.  You will also be able to make changes to your entry up to noon Monday, April 1, 2013 with no additional fees. To enter go to tabroom.com. If you are new to the online system, you will need to first "Set up a new account" for your school.  After the account is set up, go to "View Tournament Calendar" and it will let you click on "Entry." Please note that high school tournaments and college tournaments are separated.

Please contact me at mjaich@scu.edu if you cannot get the website to accept or change your entries. Make drops and adds on the web page.  As of noon Wednesday, April 3, fees will be set.  Please note that drops after fees assessment will be charged.  There is a fee computation sheet to figure out how much you will owe at registration; you should use this form rather than the website.  Changes or drops after Wednesday, April 3 will be charged a $10 nuisance fee.

All space in debate and events will be allocated on a first come, first served basis; register early.

Judging

Schools should bring qualified judges. One judge for every two debate teams (Parli or Policy); four Public Forum teams/ four Lincoln Douglas debaters/duo entries or five event entries in each pattern. Please call if you have questions about your judging requirements. Schools will pay a judging penalty fee per event slot, Congress entry, Lincoln Douglas/Duo Interp or debate team not covered by school judges.  

For this tournment we will allow senior high school debaters to judge novice division debate who are not competing in the tournament.

Tournament Hotel

The San Jose Airport Garden Hotel will be the designated tournament hotel with a special rate for Dempsey participants with rooms for up to four people at a $79.00 rate. Please contact the Holiday Inn Hotel group reservations at 408.993.1234 to make arrange housing. Our contact person is Adam in Sales, Holiday Inn San Jose if you have any issues.  

The hotel also has free shuttle service to/from SCU via the VTA #10 bus so you don't need to rent a car if you fly into SJC Airport.

FEES:

____ School fee X 1 = $35

____ number of Event entries /Congress entered X $15= _____

____ number of Parli/Public Forum/ LD/ entered X $35 = _____

____ number of Policy Teams X $45 = _____

Judge Penalties

____ Event entries/Congress/Duos uncovered X $15 = _____

____ Parli/Public Forum/ L-D/ uncovered X $45 = _____

____ Policy Teams uncovered X $75 = _____

Total Fees = ____________

Please make checks payable to "Santa Clara Debate".

C/o Communication Dept., SCU, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053

Topics:

2 L/D Topics: January/February plus March/April Topic:

2011-2012 Policy Debate Topic

2 Public Forum Topics: March and April Topics.

Divisions:

Novice and Open Division in Debate and Events except Congress.   Novice is normally defined at the first year of competition.

Patterns:

Debate Pattern: Policy, Parliamentary, Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas Debate plus Congress.  

Events Pattern: Extemporaneous/Dramatic Interpretation /Expository/Original Prose Poetry / Oratorical Interpretation/ Impromptu /Persuasive /Humorous Interpretation/Thematic Interpretation and Duo Interpretation.

General Rules:

School registration in part or whole may be rejected due to space considerations. The tournament will consist of five preliminary debate rounds and the three preliminary rounds of events.   All divisions will receive awards.  We reserve the right to combine divisions if the entry warrants.  Sorry, we don’t do sweepstakes awards for the Spring Tournament.  

Events Rules:

Students may double enter in Events.  Generally we use CHSSA rules but not in all cases.  Exceptions include: Persuasive will include both advocacy and other "persuasive" speeches. Extemp is combined national and international.  Semifinals will be held in individual events with 50 or more entries or at the discretion of the tournament director. Under subscribed events may waive finals.

Debate Rules:

We will accept hybrid teams in debate.  We do not accept single person teams. Team debate must be two person. Brackets will be broken to avoid teams from the same school hitting each other.  Debate will hold octofinals if entry warrants.  Check the schedule at registration to determine divisions going to octofinals. In Parliamentary Debate we provide 3 topics each round with one strike per team.

Computers:

Computers are allowed in Extemp Prep, Policy Debate and preparation for Parliamentary Debate prep.  Computers are not allowed in Public Forum or during the round in Parliamentary Debate.

Congress Rules:

Congress will have one open division only.  Please designate the PO's with a 'po' for every five entries.  PO’s should emailed to me at mjaich@scu.edu. Please see tournament invite for legislation. The tournament invite is posted on the tournament's webpage. Download the file to open it. 

Santa Clara Philalethic

Spring Invitational Speech & Debate Tourney

2013 SCHEDULE

(Parking is Free on Saturday & Sunday)

Saturday, April 6, 2013

7:30-8:30 a.m. School Registration & Fees  (Daly Science Center Room 206)

8:30-10:30 am  Debate Round I Congress Rd. I  Bills 1-2

10:30-11:00 a.m. Extemp Prep

11:00-Noon  Events Round I

12:30-2:30 pm  Debate Round II Congress Rd. 2 Bills 3-4

2:30-3:00 pm  Extemp Prep

3:00-4:00 p.m. Events Round II

4:00-6:00 pm   Debate Round III  Congress Rd. 3 Bills 5-6

6:00-6:30pm Extemp Prep

6:30-7:30pm  Events Round III

9:30 pm  Events/Congress Breaks Posted

Sunday, April 7, 2013

8:30-10:30 a.m.  Debate IV Congress Finals Bills 7-8

10:30-11:00 am Extemp Prep

11:00-12:30 p.m. Individual Events Finals

12:30-2:30 pm  Debate Round V

2:30 pm Awards for Individual Events/Congress/Debate Speakers

4:00 p.m. Debate Elimination 1

6:00 pm Debate  Elimination 2

8:00 pm Debate  Elimination 3 

10:00 pm Debate  Elimination 4 (if needed)