Rules/Awards

1. KSHSAA rules are in effect for all KSHSAA events. We intend to run the IE tournament as close to KSHSAA rules as possible with the following modifications: add info7, IDA, the potential of greater than 16 entries, top 16 entries across all Saturday IE events count towards sweeps max of 4 per event + best single Novice IE entry per on Friday night per event. Same KSHSAA state Sweeps points formula otherwise.

2. We will award medals to the top 6-8 in each event on Friday night + Speaker awards. We will have medals through 8th place in case of an unbreakable tie to finals on Saturday. 1st-3rd sweeps plaques Saturday. Best 1 entry in Friday night Novice IE's counts too. We will also announce the top non-advancing novice entry on Saturday. Mark your novices correctly in Tabroom.

3. Freestate novices will likely enter the novice version of all events on Friday night. We will skip ourselves when announcing awards.

4. Entry limits - 4 entries initially in every event, we anticipate being able to accept every entry into the tournament. We will start clearing the waitlist on March 7th.

5. Individual Sweeps - those from the college IE’s world know this as Pentatholon. Top 3 individuals earning sweeps points will be recognized at awards. These individuals must be entered in at least one event from 3 of 4 categories Limited Prep (IX/DX/Imp2), Platform (OO/Info), Memorized Interp (HI/DI/DUO), Book events (Prose, Poetry, and POI). The 5th in “Pentathlon” would be a Friday debate event in our case, but we will exclude that for now.

6. Saturday IE's Breaking Procedures, borrowed directly from the KSHSAA manual. In short, we will follow the KSHSAA manual to the letter. We will hold a Semi-finals in all events regardless of entry numbers.

Minor modification, we will snake R3 based on R1 results using the Snaked Prelim setting in Tabroom.

Final Placement Procedures
1. Advancing from preliminary to semifinal rounds
A. The minimum number of entries advancing to semifinals in each event shall be 12 (or 16 in an event with 55
or more participants who actually compete in Round 1).

B. Advance the top entries according to these criteria, in order.
i. Total preliminary round ranks, truncated to no more than five (5) (lower is better)
ii. Sum of reciprocals of preliminary round ranks, truncated to no more than five (5) (higher is better)
iii. Total quality points in preliminary rounds (higher is better)
iv. If still tied, advance all tied entries to semifinals.

C. Semifinal rounds should be “snaked” as much as possible to balance power. The ideal sectioning is 1-4-5-8-9-
12 and 2-3-6-7-10-11. The manager should adjust sections as needed to avoid members of the same school
seeing each other, when possible. Speaker order in semifinals should be randomized.

2. Determining sweepstakes points for semifinals (cumulative ranks)
A. The cumulative rank for each semifinal round is used for sweepstakes purposes only; it is not a factor indetermining which students advance to finals.

B. Rank each semifinal section according to these criteria, in order:
i. Total actual (not truncated) ranks in semifinal rounds (lower is better)
ii. Judge’s preference in the semifinal round
iii. Sum of reciprocals of ranks in the semifinal round alone (higher is better)
iv. Total quality points in the semifinal round alone (higher is better)
v. If an unbreakable triple tie is still not resolved, all three contestants shall be given the middle rank.

3. Advancing from semifinal to final rounds
A. The minimum number of entries advancing to finals in each event shall be six (6).
B. Advance the top entries according to these criteria, in order:
i. Total truncated ranks in prelims plus actual ranks from each judge in semifinals (lower is better)
ii. Sum of reciprocals of all truncated preliminary ranks and actual semifinal ranks (higher is better)
iii. Total quality points from all preliminary and semifinal ballots (higher is better)
iv. If still tied, advance all tied entries to finals.
C. Speaker order in the final round shall be randomized. When possible, entries from the same school should not speak consecutively.

4. Determining final placement
Final placement in each event will be determined using the criteria below, in order:
i. Total cumulative ranks, adding truncated preliminary ranks, actual semifinal ranks, and actual final ranks(lower is better)
ii. Judges’ preference in the final round only
iii. Rank total in the final round only (lower is better)
iv. Sum of reciprocals of ranks in the final round only (higher is better)
v. Sum of quality points in the final round only (higher is better)
vi. Sum of quality points on preliminary, semifinal, and final ballots (higher is better)
vii. If a three (or more) way tie remains unbreakable, all will be awarded the tied highest placement and the next placements will not be awarded. (Example: Triple tie for 1st = 1st, 1st, 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th)