Santa Clara University

Philalethic Society

Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament

Saturday-Sunday, April 12-13, 2014

If you have any problems registering for the tournament, please see the tournament invite for instructions on how to register for the tournament. The Tournament invite is located on the right side of this tournament registration page. 

Dear Coach:

Santa Clara University Philalethic Debating Society invites you and your squad to the our annual Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament to be held on Saturday-Sunday, April 12-13, 2014. The tournament is designed to foster interscholastic communication and reasoning activities outside the classroom in a supportive, educational atmosphere.  Middle schools and homeschoolers are very welcome to attend and compete fully in the tournament.

Debate will have 5 preliminary rounds. All individual events and debate formats will have a Novice and Open Division.

Since we like giving out awards we will use both the January/February and March/April LD plus the March and April PF topic.

Parliamentary debate will be given 3 topics per round; each team allowed one strike each.  We will also have Public Forum competition this year.  All Individual Events will be combined into one pattern.  Double entries in Events are allowed.  We will again offer one division of Student Congress.

Web Based Entry Procedures:

Entries will only be accepted on-line at tabroom.com. It will take you a few minutes to set up your school's account, but once that is done the system is a breeze.  Plus, the system will enter all your judges and competitors - so when you enter the next tournament that uses this system you will not have to type the judges and competitors names again.  You will also be able to make changes to your entry until noon Monday, April 7, 2014 with no additional fees. To enter go to tabroom.com. If you are new to the online system, you will need to first "Set up a new account" for your school.  After the account is set up, go to "View Tournament Calendar" and it will let you click on "Entry." Please note that high school tournaments and college tournaments are separated. Congress is listed under IE's.

Please contact me at mjaich@scu.edu if you cannot get the website to accept or change your entries.

Please note, due to the size constraints of this tournament, we will not allow placeholder entries, meaning you will not be allowed to have any TBA entries. Coaches will be notified, and all TBA entries will be dropped.

Make drops and adds on the web page.  Judge names must be entered by Monday, April 7 or you will be charged for penalty fees.

 As of noon Wednesday, April 9, fees will be set.  Please note that drops after fees assessment will be charged.  There is a fee computation sheet to figure out how much you will owe at registration.  Changes or drops after Wednesday, April 9 will be charged a $10 nuisance fee. All space in debate and events will be allocated on a first come, first served basis; register early.

Judging

Schools should bring qualified judges. One judge for every two debate teams (Parli or Policy); four Public Forum teams/ four Lincoln Douglas debaters/duo entries or five event entries in each pattern. Please call if you have questions about your judging requirements. Schools will pay a judging penalty fee per event slot, Congress entry, Lincoln Douglas/Duo Interp or debate team not covered by school judges.  We will allow senior high school debaters to judge novice division debate.  Judge names must be posted by Monday, April 7 or we will assume you are not bringing judges and penalties will be assessed.

If you will have different judges for each day of the tournament, or will have multiple judge changes throughout the tournament (ie AM or PM shift judges), please enter your judges as School Name 1, School Name 2, etc. For example, SCU 1, SCU 2. Judge names may also be entered with the judge’s last name only and the school name. For example, Smith SCU, Johnson SCU, etc. This will make it easier for the judges table to hand out ballots.

Tournament Hotel

The San Jose Airport Garden Hotel will be the designated tournament hotel with a special rate for Dempsey participants with rooms for up to four people at a $89.00 rate. Please contact the hotel for group reservations at 408.993.1234 to make arrange housing. Our contact person is Adam in Sales, San Jose Airport Garden Hotel.  The hotel also has free shuttle service to/from SCU via the VTA #10 bus.

FEES:

____ School fee  = $35

____ number of Event entries /Congress entered X $15= _____

____ number of Parli/Public Forum/ LD/ entered X $35 = _____

____ number of Policy Teams X $45 = _____

Judge Penalties

____ Event entries/Congress/Duos uncovered X $20 = _____

____ Parli/Public Forum/ L-D/ uncovered X $50 = _____

____ Policy Teams uncovered X $75 = _____

Total Fees = ____________

Please make checks payable to "Santa Clara Debate".

C/o Communication Dept., SCU, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053

Topics:

L/D Debate January/February OR March/April Topic

2013-2014 Policy Debate Topic: Latin America

Public Forum: March OR April Topics

Divisions:

Novice and Open Division in Debate and Events except Congress.   Novice is normally defined as the first year of competition.

Patterns:

Debate Pattern: Policy, Parliamentary, Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas Debate, plus Congress.  

Events Pattern: Extemporaneous/Dramatic Interpretation /Expository/Original Prose Poetry / Oratorical Interpretation/ Impromptu /Persuasive /Humorous Interpretation/Thematic Interpretation and Duo Interpretation.

General Rules:

School registration in part or whole may be rejected due to space considerations. The tournament will consist of five preliminary debate rounds and three preliminary rounds for events.   All divisions will receive awards.  We reserve the right to combine divisions if the entry warrants.  Sorry, we don’t do sweepstakes awards for the Spring Tournament.  

Events Rules:

We will be implementing new rules for Events for this tournament.  Due to scheduling constraints, students entered in either Parliamentary debate or Extemporaneous will NOT be allowed to double enter. Students entered in all other events may be allowed to double enter, but triple entries will NOT be allowed.

Generally we use CHSSA rules but not in all cases.  Exceptions include: Persuasive will include both advocacy and other "persuasive" speeches. Extemp is combined national and international.  Semifinals will be held in individual events with 50 or more entries or at the discretion of the tournament director. Under subscribed events may waive finals.

Debate Rules:

We will accept hybrid teams in debate.  We do not accept single person teams. Team debate must be two person. Brackets will be broken to avoid teams from the same school hitting each other.  Debate will hold up to octofinals, if entry warrants.  Check the schedule at registration to determine divisions going to octofinals. In Parliamentary Debate we provide 3 topics each round with one strike per team.   There are speaker awards in team debate events only.

Computers:

Computers are allowed in Extemp Prep, LD, Public Forum, Policy Debate and preparation for Parliamentary Debate prep.  Computers are not allowed during the actual round in Parliamentary Debate.

Congress Rules:

Congress will have one open division only.  Please designate the PO's with a 'po' for every five entries.  PO’s should be emailed to me at mjaich@scu.edu.

Santa Clara Philalethic

2014 Spring Invitational Speech & Debate Tourney

SCHEDULE

(Parking is Free on Saturday & Sunday)

Saturday, April 12, 2014

7:00-8:00 a.m. School Registration & Fees  (Daly Science Center Room 206)

8:00-8:30 am Extemp Prep 

8:30-10:00 a.m. Events Round I

10:00-12:00 p.m.  Debate Round I Congress Rd. I  Bills 1-2

12:00-12:30 pm Extemp Prep 

12:30-2:30 pm  Events Round II

2:30-4:30 p.m. Debate Round II Congress Rd. 2 Bills 3-4

4:30-6:30 pm   Debate Round III  Congress Rd. 3 Bills 5-6

6:30-7:00pm Extemp Prep

7:00-8:30pm  Events Round III

10:30 pm  Events/Congress Breaks Posted Online

Sunday, April 13, 2013

8:30-10:30 a.m.  Debate IV Congress Finals Bills 7-8

10:30-11:00 am Extemp Prep

11:00-12:30 p.m. Individual Events Finals

12:30-2:30 pm  Debate Round V

2:30 pm Awards for Individual Events/Congress/Debate Speakers

4:00 p.m. Debate Elimination 1

6:00 pm Debate  Elimination 2

8:00 pm Debate  Elimination 3

10:00 pm Debate  Elimination 4

*See Tournament invite for Congress Bills.