HSL TOURNAMENT #10

WHAT:                             O‘AHU DISTRICT DEBATE STATE QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT

 WHERE:                          NSDA Campus

 WHEN:                              March 13, 2021

 ENTRY DEADLINE:      Wednesday, March 3, 2021

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

EVENTS AND DEBATE

1.       PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE (BEGINNING and ADVANCED): NSDA 2021 March PFD —“Resolved: On balance, the benefits of creating the United States Space Force outweigh the harms.”

2.       LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE (NOVICE and CHAMPIONSHIP): NSDA 2021 January/February LD Topic—“Resolved: States ought to ban lethal autonomous weapons.”

3.       POLICY DEBATE (JUNIOR VARSITY and VARSITY): NSDA 2020-2021 Topic—“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.”

 REGISTRATION

       Registration must be processed using https://www.tabroom.com.

 LIMITS

       Each school may register a maximum of eighteen (18) entries (with each Policy Debate and Public Forum team counting as one entry). DOUBLE ENTRIES ARE NOT ALLOWED.

 FEES

       $8.00 per participant. As a reminder, Public Forum Debate and Policy Debate entries must be paid according to number of participants, not number of entries.

       All PAST DUE fees must be paid before participation in this tournament.

 PAYMENT

       Payment is due before participation in the tournament. CASH PAYMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED!

       Make check payable to:                                    HAWAI‘I SPEECH LEAGUE

       Checks may be mailed to the Treasurer:     Karen Miyakado

                                                                                      1051 Mokuhano Street

                                                                                      Honolulu, Hawaii 96825

JUDGES

Schools must provide one (1) judge for every Policy team, one (1) judge for every two (2) LD debaters, and one (1) judge for every two (2) Public Forum teams.  Schools that do not provide the required number of judges may have entries withdrawn from the tournament. We are grateful for any additional judges you can provide.

     Register judges on https://www.tabroom.com. Please direct all changes to your judge’s panel and questions regarding judges to Rebecca Afalava, HSL Judges’ Chairperson. You can e-mail her at <rebecca.afalava@gmail.com> or call her at 808-351-5902 (cell).

SCHEDULE       Saturday, March 13, 2021

                             7:00 – 8:00.................................... REGISTRATION – “Check-In Online”

                             7:45      .......................................... JUDGES CHECK-IN AND INSTRUCTIONS in Zoom

                             8:00 – 10:00................................. ROUND 1

                             10:30 – 12:30............................... ROUND 2

                             1:00 – 3:00.................................... ROUND 3

                             3:30 – 5:30.................................... ROUND 4

                             6:00 – 8:00.................................... ROUND 5

                             * This schedule is tentative and may change based on number of entries.

 AWARDS

       Competitors who have already qualified for the State Forensic Championships are not eligible for any awards. Certificates and medals will be awarded to all competitors who qualify for the State Forensic Championships. A certificate will be awarded to the alternates to the State Forensic Championship.

 DROPS/NO-SHOWS

       Please contact Carol Halbur immediately if there are changes to your entries. You can e-mail Carol at <chalbur@punahou.edu> or call her at 943-3651 (office) or 728-3672 (cell). All means will be used to reschedule the drops/no-shows prior to the start of the tournament. However, if rescheduling will result in extensive delays, the first round will commence with the no-shows included.

ONLINE DEBATE SPECIFIC INFO

·       Debaters should establish an email chain with their opponents, and possibly the judges, with which to share evidence and cases. Debaters may want to use email addresses not associated with their school.

·       During preliminary rounds, LD and policy debaters are pre-assigned an equal number of affirmative and negative rounds. Make sure you are debating the side you were assigned and that the judges’ ballot agrees. We have to manually go in to make the 5^th round of LD be a flip round right before the 5^th round starts.

·       We will NOT be using the NSDA coin flip. Determine your own method to flip a digital coin.

·       Second flight LD and PF debaters can wait 45 minutes before going to their room.

·       If we have an odd number of competitors in a category, everyone in that category will debate 4 times and have a bye for one round. That bye will count as a win for every competitor until after the finalists have been chosen. I will try to eliminate those byes after the tournament so students don’t get NSDA points for a debate that never happened.

·       We are still learning how to power match finalists so TabRoom chooses the correct final places. Please bear with us.