Kathryn Klassic Winter tournament at California State Universit
2014 — CA/US
Update
The tournament update document states we will have 5 judge panels for doubles, but that is an error. We will be consistent with USC and have 3 judge panels for doubles and 5 judge panels for Octafinals, Quarters, Semis, & Finals. My apologies for the confusion.
KATHRYN KLASSIC 2014 Announcements
Welcome to the 2014 California State University, Fullerton Kathryn Klassic Winter Debate Tournament. We hope that you have a great tournament experience with us! Below you will find important announcements and information pertaining to the tournament.
SCHEDULE:
January 6: Registration at the Marriot, 6-8 pm. PREFS DUE BY 5PM.
Pairings released following registration (as soon as they are available)
January 7: Rounds 1-4
Breakfast* 7:15 am
Round 1 8 am
Round 2 11:30 am
Lunch*
Round 3 3:15 pm
Round 4 6:45 pm
January 8: Rounds 5-6
Pairings/Breakfast* 8 am
Round 5 9 am
Round 6 12:30 pm
Lunch*
Awards Approx. 3:45 pm; Location: Central Quad
Double Octos Pairings released immediately following the awards. Start time TBD
January 9: All remaining elimination rounds begin at 8:00 am at the Marriott.
All remaining novice out rounds will occur in College Park Building.
Pairings 7 am
Octofinals 8 am
Remaining elims 12:30 pm, 4 pm, 8 pm
* All food located in SGMH courtyard unless otherwise noted on pairings/Tabroom. Light snacks and drinks will be provided throughout the day.
JUDGE PROCEDURES
A detailed tournament judge procedure document was released on CEDA Forums and Facebook prior to the tournament. Below you will find some highlights of that document:
· We will employ a mutual preference judge system for all divisions using a nine category system that counts each judge based on the number of rounds they are committed to judge. We consider a mutual seven or above an exceptional placement.
· We are committed to using all judges to their full commitment.
· We will adopt the “Double Z Score” as part of the calculation for speaker points at the Kathryn Klassic. The Double Z Score’s calculation is based on the NDT’s formula that was adopted at the 2013 NCA for use at the 2014 NDT.
· All judges are obligated through the octofinals on the morning of January 9th. We will have 5 round elimination panels for all elimination rounds from double-octo finals through the final round. The elimination pool includes committed judges and all volunteers.
· We will engage in aggressive elimination round placement of a diverse judges (for all under-represented groups) by placing at least one diversity enhancing judge on each panel.
· If you wish to volunteer to remain in the judging pool as part of a group of diversity-enriched judges or after your team is no longer obligated to provide judging, please email Erika at erthomas@fullerton.edu or let us know at registration.
VARIOUS OTHER RULES & REMINDERS:
· All Round Decisions due 2:45 from announced start time; coins tossed after that.
· Judges should pick a single winning team in each debate, differentiate each speaker and use a 30-point speaker scale with decimals (increment of one-tenth of a point) – no ties allowed. The accepted speaker point range is typically between 27 and 29.
· If you are judging, please ENTER YOUR DECISION BEFORE YOU ANNOUNCE TO THE DEBATERS.
· All other issues are generally specified in the original tournament invitation. Any additional issues are governed by the Council of Tournament Directors best practices document or consistent with USC.
PAPERLESS BALLOTS: We will be using paperless tabulation. Like, USC we are using the cloud-based platform of tabroom.com so all ballots can be entered online. All ballots will be distributed electronically via Tabroom. If you are judging, you will receive an email or a text message. Pairings are available on Tabroom or via email/text if you registered for it at Tabroom prior to the tournament. If you need assistance with the online ballot, please find a representative from CSUF.
ELIMINATION ROUNDS:
Like USC, the open division will advance the top 32 teams with winning records into an elimination bracket. The novice division will break to a partial quarters round. The first novice elim round will take place during the open doubles debate and resume on the morning of the 9th.
INTERNET ACCESS: There are two options for Internet access; You can register as a guest user by entering your email. Please be aware that you may be logged out periodically. You can also use the campus secured wifi by entering the username: DebateComm, and the password: t1tans@CSUF
BUILDING REMINDERS:
· DO NOT TAKE FOOD INTO THE ROOMS IN SGMH. It’s awfully nice to have the building so close to the hotel, but the business people are very protective of their new space and WILL yank the rooms from subsequent tournaments if the policies of the building are violated. Seriously, eat outside or in the lobby.
· Please keep in mind that intersession college classes are being held in buildings where you compete so please keep noise in the halls to a minimum and clean up after yourselves in rounds.
ACCESSIBILITY ADDENDUM:
CSU, Fullerton Debate recognizes that disabled students and coaches are among our growing debate community. We strive to make this space accessible for everyone in our community. We suggest your team consider ways that everyone can create accessible space and have positive interactions, keeping in mind that many disabilities are invisible. Our tournament will be making strides toward accessibility in the following ways:
1. We have arranged for rooms on the first floor of Mihaylo Hall to be set aside for disabled students and/or coaches. To reserve one of these rooms for the prelim rounds, please contact erthomas@fullerton.edu or dopeters@fullerton.edu. Students or coaches who reserve these rooms will be assigned to them all weekend regardless of competitive success. A coach who reserves an accessible room for themselves will have all of the debates they judge in the same room. A student who reserves an accessible room will have all their prelim debates in the same room.
2. We have arranged for a dedicated room we will call the “Quiet Room” which will allow debaters and coaches to have a space to go to in between rounds. This room will be SGMH 1109, located on the first floor of Mihaylo Hall and will be accessible to anyone at the tournament as a place to alleviate the sensory overload that often comes with tournaments. The creation of this space is an attempt to allow non-neurotypical people an alternative resting zone that is not the crowded lobby or noisy patio. We encourage debaters and coaches to use this space for decompression rather than prep. This room will have noise restrictions (headphones okay) and low lighting to allow for relaxation.
3. Two of our debaters have agreed to be points of contact for additional issues of accessibility during our tournament. If you have issues of accessibility, suggestions or thoughts on how to create more accessible space, or have an accessibility need that is not being met, please contact Dan Stanfield at stanfield.dan@gmail.com or Sara Beth Brooks at sarabrooks@gmail.com.
Unprofessional Conduct/Harassment
Please note if any of our guests engage in or report destructive, threatening, violent, or harassing behavior, we are obligated as university employees to report the issue to our appropriate campus offices and follow the university’s procedures. Additionally, in accordance with the CEDA constitution, any issues will be forwarded to the CEDA Professional Review Board. We recommend that any guests with similar or anonymous complaints also contact the PRB directly. We trust that these actions will not be needed; however, we wanted to make you aware of the university’s requirement and the tournament’s procedures.
DIRECTIONS TO CAMPUS/ON CAMPUS:
If you are staying at the Fullerton Marriott, you do not need to drive to campus! To get to campus, walk out the entrance, turn right and cross Folino Drive. If you need to park on campus, use the Eastside Parking Structure (EPS) or Lot E. Parking permits are $8.00 a day and may be purchased from the permit machines located on all Levels. The permit machines accept credit cards, debit cards and one and five dollar bills only.
The tournament hub is the SGMH or “Mihaylo Hall.”
Debates may also occur in the following buildings, LH (Langsdorf Hall), and UH (University Hall), H (Humanities) and MH (McCarthy Hall).
Open elimination rounds will be held in the Marriott. Elimination JV and novice elims on Monday will be at CP (College Park), across the street from the Marriott.
COFFEE
You can find coffee at the following locations: (1) Panera brews provided by the tournament (2) The hotel (3) Jay’s across the street from the Marriott.
DO NOT SMOKE
…anywhere on campus…especially in the SGMH courtyard!
…in your hotel room, or you will be charged!
As of August 1st 2013, the CSUF campus is completely SMOKE FREE! Please inform your coaches, judges, and students that smoking on any part of the CSUF campus is forbidden. Smoking of tobacco products (including cigarettes, cigars, pipes and e-cigarettes) are prohibited on all California State University, Fullerton, property, including off-site facilities, such as the Cal State Fullerton Irvine Campus, College Park, Fullerton Arboretum and elsewhere. The closest designated smoking area is at on the other side of Folino Drive (on the Marriott property) or across Nutwood. This website will provide more information on the smoke free policy including a map of designated smoke free areas (it’s the entire campus). http://smoke-free.fullerton.edu/ Those who repeatedly disregard the smoke free policy will be asked to leave the tournament.
SPECIAL AWARDS: We have two special awards that are awarded based on nominations from the community. The first award is the “Best of Forensics” Award, which is presented to an undergraduate competitor. The second award is the Toni Nielson “Best of Forensics” Coaching Award named after CSUF’s former Assistant Director.
Please nominate “Best of Forensics” candidates. Nominations for the Best of Forensics Award may come from judges and coaches, and need not reflect performance at the tournament. We encourage nominations for the Toni Nielson “Best of Forensics” Coaching Award from competitors or any other party, Email nominations to erthomas@fullerton.edu or Donny Peters at dopeters@fullerton.edu (or turn in written nominations at registration, to any ballot table or the tab room). Descriptions of each Award are provided below.
“BEST OF FORENSICS” AWARD
Speaker awards go to the best speakers, and as we all know, the best speakers are sometimes really cool people and sometimes they are not. We believe that the best in our activity are not simply those who debate well, but those who respect their opponents, treat others well, and who use their talent to make debate an enriching experience for everyone they compete with and against. At this tournament, we will be taking judge nominations for a special “Best of Forensics” Award. Judges and coaches should consider nominating debaters who go beyond the call to help others, de-escalate tension, turn nasty situations around, and generally exhibit extreme coolness.
TONI NIELSON “BEST OF FORENSICS” COACHING AWARD
Toni Nielson was the Assistant Director of Forensics at California State University, Fullerton from 2005 - 2012, and is currently the Director of Teacher Engagement at Bay Area Urban Debate League. During her time at CSUF, Toni was instrumental in helping all of the CSUF teams attain competitive success at the novice, JV and Varsity level and engaged in service local high school programs, like the Southern California Urban Debate League. If you talk to any of Toni’s former students, they will tell you that they were not only coached effectively to win debates, but that Toni’s approach to debate coaching and instruction fundamentally impacted their life and made them the people that they are today. Toni has always taught her students to aspire to be good members of the debate community; encouraging them to use debate as an activity that makes them better people, teaching them to value community building before the pressures of competition, and emphasizing that the debate community is a place to learn about yourself, develop long-lasting friendships, and gain indispensible knowledge. Following in the same spirit of the “Best of Forensics Award” and our award’s namesake, nominations for the Toni Nielson “Best of Forensics” Coaching Award should be reserved for those coaches that, regardless of their team’s competitive success, make a positive impact on their students and the debate community at large.
THE MIKE DOLNY SEMI-MEMORIAL 99TH SPEAKER AWARD
MIKE DOLNY never debated in high school. At his first tournament in college he literally tried to cross a river and got swept away by a current, but showed up and debated anyway. He was 0-8 at the Kansas fall tournament in 1984 but cleared the next weekend at the Emporia tournament. Once, when told he was a conformist in a sociology class because he was wearing clothes, he stripped naked and spent the rest of class in the nude. He had 7 different step-fathers when growing up and taped every episode of the Simpsons ever. At the 1986 NDT, Mike’s only goal was to finish in the top 100 speakers. Mike was the 101st speaker, but one team at the tournament borrowed evidence that ended up being fabricated, and due to NDT rule they were each awarded zero speaker points, bumping Mike up to 99th.
We, at CSUF, like all debaters. We like a bunch of them who win awards every weekend. We like less spoiled upper-echelon debaters who get really whiny when they lose in octos or don’t get a high enough speaker award or who make a big public showing of quitting the activity because “its not fun anymore” when they’re sitting on a pile of trophies that Mike Dolny never saw. We believe that we need more awards to recognize those debaters who arrive at tournaments realizing that they will probably not get a speaker award, but who show up every weekend and give their all to an activity for nothing more than the intellectual challenge and the sense of community and who realize that not giving up is a much better indicator of success than a bunch of trophies that will do little more than gather dust over time. A cash award of $99 will be given to the 99th speaker at this year’s Fullerton Winter Collegiate Debate Tournament.
Historical footnote: Mike got a Ph.D. in Sociology and is currently a senior administrator in the Arizona prison system. The Sociology Professor Mike took as an undergraduate has given up the practice of proving that everyone is a conformist by pointing out that they are wearing clothes.