Stratford Wake Up and Fall Back Novice Invitational
2021 — NSDA Campus, CA/US
Hello everyone!
Welcome to the annual Stratford Schools Novice Wake Up and Fall Back Tournament! We are excited to be hosting and look forward to hosting a second event in Spring 2022! As with most tournaments in our present environment, this will be an online event.
This will be a speech & debate tournament. We will have a full day of debate on Saturday, followed by a day of Speech on Sunday. The speech rounds will be synchronous, in order to give competitors the experience of performing live.
Fees will be $30/student ($60 for one PF team), with a one-time $50 team entry fee. Please make checks out to "Stratford Schools" and send them to the address on your invoice. We are working on getting some sort of digital payment system, but it may not be ready in time for the event.
EVENTS
Novice in this instance refers to Middle School competitors only.
We will be running PF, LD, and Congressional this year for debate, and our IEs will be Dramatic Interp, Duo Interp, Expos, Humorous Interp, Impromptu, Oratorical Interp, and Original Oratory.
Double-Entry is allowed. PF and LD competitors may sign up for 2 speech events, or for Congressional (but not both Speech and Congress). Speech competitors may sign up for 2 different events if they so choose. There will be no double entry between IEs and Congressional, unfortunately, because they will be happening concurrently.
Coaches may double-enter judges to cover their obligations with one caveat: a judge can only cover one debate event in addition to speech, otherwise, they will be running non-stop to judge the whole weekend. We recommend registering your speech judges first, then double-entering them for one debate category.
For Novice Speech, the regular 10-minute maximum times will be in place for those who prepare to use the full time. Oratorical Interp has no minimum time, but a hard-maximum of 10 minutes with no grace period. Impromptu and Expository will have their regular 7-minute time limits.
For PF and LD, it will be the September/October topics. For Congress, it will be the NSDA October docket.
LOGISTICS
This tournament will be all digital. Rounds will be announced via e-mail and SMS, ballots will be tabulated digitally. Students and judges should also register their e-mail and phone number (if applicable) with their tabroom account so that informati
Looking forward to another great weekend of debate! This page will be updated regularly between now and the weekend of our tournament. Please take a look at the judging requirements below:
Judging Obligations
School Judges: Please register judges accurately. Because we will be using entirely electronic ballots in debate and using tabroom based “rooms” it is important that judge registration be accurate.
The deadline to register judges is also Wednesday, November 3rd at 5:00 PM. If you do not have judges registered by this deadline, you will be charged for missing / hired judges Saturday and Sunday judges need to be indicated on tabroom. There will be no AM/PM judge split. Novice PF/LD needs 1 judge per 2 teams/entries. Speech and Congress needs 1 for every 5 entries.
All judges must be qualified to judge the division which they are covering. Novice LD and Novice Public Forum and congress may be used in other events. Speech judges will be used in all speech events.
Debate Schedule(REMEMBER TO SET YOUR CLOCKS BACK ON SATURDAY NIGHT):
Saturday:
Check in: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Round 1 Buffer: 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Round 1 LD/PF: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Break/Overflow: 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Round 2 Buffer: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Round 2 LD/PF: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Lunch: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Round 3 Buffer: 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Round 3 LD/PF: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Break/Overflow: 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Round 4 Buffer: 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Round 4 LD/PF: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Overflow: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speech Schedule(DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME: please adjust clocks):
Sunday 11/7:
Check in: 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Round 1 Buffer: 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
IE Round 1: 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Congress Round 1: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
IE Round 1 Break/Overflow: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
IE Round 2 Buffer: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Congress Break/Overflow: 11:30 AM - 12:30 AM
IE Round 2: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Congress Round 2 Buffer: 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
IE Round 3 Buffer: 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
IE Round 3: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Congress Round 2: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
IE Round 3 Break/Overflow: 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
IE Round 4 Buffer: 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
IE Round 4: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Overflow/End of Day: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM