The Golden Gate Speech Association (GGSA) is proud to host our third Parliamentary Debate tournament of the school year online using Tabroom and NSDA Campus on Saturday, January 8, 2021!

 Please note that JV is now flighted with Novice and starts prep at 8:30 AM.

SCHEDULE

8a Judges report to Parli Judge Room, debaters to Prep Room

830a Round 1a Prep Novice/JV

900a Debate Round 1a JV

910a Debate Round 1a Novice

 (Debaters and judges not receiving ballots should use this time to check their equipment!)

930a Round 1b Prep Varsity

10a Debate Round 1b Varsity

1040a Round 2a Prep Novice/JV

1110a Debate Round 2a JV

1120a Debate Round 2a Novice

1140a Round 2b Prep Varsity

12:10p Debate Round 2b Varsity

LUNCH

1p Round 3a Prep Novice/JV

130p Debate Round 3a JV

140p Debate Round 3a Novice

200p Round 3b Prep Varsity

230p  Debate Round 3b Varsity

Awards

Notes:

  1. "Prep" time is when debaters should be in the prep room. Topic announce is 30 minutes before round start time for Novice, and 20 minutes before round start time for JV and Varsity. 

  2. JV and Varsity debaters may prep with partner only. Novice debaters may prep with other novice, JV, and Varsity debaters. DEBATERS MUST BE IN THE PREP ROOM DURING THEIR PREP TIME, BUT MAY COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR PARTNER VIA ANY MEANS.

  3. Schedule may be revised in light of final registration.

  4. Note: Each team will have 10 minutes of Tech Time per round, to resolve any technical issues. If a team exhausts its tech time and is not able to resolve its tech issues, the team will receive a forfeit for the round. 

DEADLINES

Entries are due by 5:00 PM on Friday, Dec. 31. Please enter all competitors and judges in tabroom.com

Drops made by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 5 will pay half of the entry fee. After that point they will pay the full entry fee.

COMPETITORS

All competitors must have Tabroom accounts that are linked to their email. Coaches, please see this video for the procedure.

Registration and fees: Coaches and judges must sign in at 8:00am. Entry fees are $10.00 per student. Checks to be made payable to GGSA and mailed to:

GGSA
c/o Lowell Alumni Association
PO Box 320009
San Francisco, CA 94132

JUDGES

Thank you for joining our all-volunteer organization in donating your time and energy to empower youth through speaking and listening!

All judges must be entered on Tabroom.com by 5 pm on Jan. 5, 2022.

All judges must have Tabroom.com accounts with cell phone numbersand email addresses. Make sure that all judges know the email address and password for their tabroom account. This is sometimes a problem when coaches or students create a tabroom account for a parent judge. Judge tabroom accounts must be linked to the school they are judging for.

Judge Instructions: All judging instructions will be posted on the GGSA website and sent to coaches to distribute to their judges.

Please address these matters in advance of the tournament. Dealing with them on Saturday morning delays the start of the tournament, and causes everyone to go home later.

Coaches, please make sure your judges and their technology are ready to judge. In the event of a judge being unable to judge an assigned round, tab staff reserves the right to substitute the coach from the school as the judge for that round, so please make sure that both your judges and you are prepared.

VOLUNTEERS

Per our league rules, each school is responsible for providing a coach volunteer in addition to your judge quota. Please email us by 5 p.m. on December 31st with the name, email address, and phone number of your coach.

CONTACTS

Nate Berls - Parli Director:  nate.berls@gmail.com

PARLI SPECIFICS

     New novice rules: For this school year, GGSA has voted to give novice teams 30 minutes of prep time, with 5 minute constructive speeches and 3 minute rebuttals (555533)

     Judging requirements: please provide one judge for every four teams, or fraction thereof (e.g. 5 teams = two judges).