Dear Coaches,

Highland Park High School is pleased to invite your team to ICDA 5, an ICDA invitational and Tournament of Champions qualifier, on Saturday, January 21, 2023.

ENTRIES & FEES

Please register all students as varsity debaters on Tabroom.com by Friday, January 13, at 5:00 p.m. The Oversight Committee will automatically move eligible competitors into TOC chambers.

The entry fee is $10 per debater. Please make checks payable to Highland Park High School. If mailing payment, please use the following address:

Highland Park High School, c/o Shawn Tanner, 433 Vine Avenue, Highland Park, IL 60035

DROP-OFF & PARKING

The main entrance on Vine Avenue is closed on weekends, so buses should drive to the back of campus and use the parking circle off Saint Johns Avenue for drop-off. Teams should enter the building through the H-Entrance. Buses can park in the adjacent north parking lot.

See the attached map for further details.

SCHEDULE

Registration: 7:15 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. (at the H-Entrance)

Judges meeting: 8:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. (in the library)

Session 1: 8:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Session 2: 11:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch: 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Session 3: 2:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. (TOC chambers might run late due to reseeding)

Awards: ASAP in Auditorium

JUDGING

Schools are required to provide one ICDA-certified judge for every ten entries.

Judges should expect to serve all three sessions. Your school’s judging obligation will be frozen on Friday, January 13, at 5:00 p.m. based on the number of competitors registered in Tabroom. Subsequent drops will not be considered when making assignments.

Please have judges entered in Tabroom by Wednesday, January 18 at 5:00 p.m. Final judging assignments will be released the day of the tournament.

LOCATIONS

TOC chambers: 1st floor of C-Wing

Varsity chambers: 3rd floor of A-Wing

Judges lounge: Library

Tab Room: Library

Captain’s lunch: Library

Awards Ceremony: Auditorium

FOOD

Debaters will eat lunch in the student cafeteria. Cheese, pepperoni, and sausage pizza is available for purchase through Tabroom. The cost is $16 per pizza.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided for judges and coaches.

QUESTIONS

For questions about rules, please email Tim Waters (tim.waters@d214.org). For questions about tournament logistics, registration, or technology, please email Peter Dong (pdong@imsa.edu). For questions about ICDA 5 or Highland Park High School, please email Shawn Tanner (stanner@dist113.org).

Sincerely,

Coaches Shawn Tanner, Mari Brown, and Slaney Palmer