Congratulations to the following competitors for earning a bid to the 2024 the National Individual Events Tournament of Champions!

· 1^st—Eshawnvie Kallu (Lambert) in Persuasive speaking/Original Oratory

· 1^st--Anika Mangla (Irvington) in Dramatic Interpretation

· 1^st—Eric Chang (Valencia) in Humorous Interpretation

· 1^st—Molly Block (Harvard-Westlake) in Thematic Interpretation

· 1^st—Liam Kyle (Nova 42) in Informative Speaking

· 1^st—Andrew Zheng (Acalanes) in Extemporaneous Speaking

For more information, visit the NIETOC site at http://nietoc.com/

Also congratulations to the Top Middle School and Novice speakers from events that collapsed (these don’t show up on the results page so I am posting them here):

· Ashritaa Palavalli (Brooks Debate) Top Middle School in Novice Informative Speaking

· Aarav Mugur (Golden State) Top Middle School in Open Extemporaneous Speaking

· Haadiyah Pathan (Irvington) Top Novice in Open Impromptu Speaking

· Solee Ketema (Marist) Top Novice in Open Persuasion

· Eitan Epstein (De Toledo) Top Novice in Open SPAR

CSUF Tournament Updates/Reminders #3 (for Saturday Oct 12):

Welcome to the CSUF Fall virtual MS and HS Tournament! This email has many important announcements so please read it thoroughly.

Debate Judge Zoom Room & Tabroom

At our virtual tournament, it is not necessary to come to a Zoom room to check-in. Pairings will be blasted via email or text (depending on your settings) and the expectation is that judges will just go to their virtual room. If, however, you run into any issues, contact our tournament Help Rooms and Tabulation Rooms for judge changes or problems on this link:

https://fullerton.zoom.us/j/82561179665?pwd=6pQwnU8lHePOGB5vCEfbs3JcZ5BR6R.1 Meeting ID: 825 6117 9665

Passcode: csuf2024

Please note that CSUF tournament staff will be in the Zoom beginning at 7:15 am PST. We have created multiple break-out rooms. Please only report to the debate tabulation room in the case of last-minute drops, judge changes, connectivity issues, or situations that require tabroom intervention/advice. Otherwise, please check in with CSUF staff regarding general judge questions.

Periodically, we encounter that the website did not electronically push or link assigned ballots to judges. Please advise your judges to check online pairings to verify that they did not receive a ballot before assuming they have the round off. Unassigned judges can wait in Zoom to verify that all and any pushed ballots are assigned and help us start rounds on time.

If we have a different Zoom link for IEs on Sunday, we will follow-up with this information on Saturday.

The Congress Schedule has been updated as advised by tab staff:

9 – 9:30 am Mandatory Judges Meeting

Students, arrive 15 minutes prior to session.

9.30 – 11:45 am Session 1

11:45 am– 1 pm Lunch

1 – 3:15 pm Session 2

3:45 – 6 pm Session 3 for HS

4 – 6:15 pm Finals for MS

Unlinked Students

Please assure that all your students have LINKED email accounts. We still have some competitors marked as UNLINKED. It is not just that they should have a tabroom.com account, they also need their personal tabroom email linked to your school, institution, or academy’s account. We have found that correcting this before the start of the tournament, resolves many technical errors that would otherwise occur when round details and pairings are announced.

Honor Codes/Digital Paperwork:

Please find links to the following (below):

Judge Code of Conduct

Please have judges complete form prior to their first rounds.

https://forms.gle/51K3uHggUXJSHEow7

Coaches/chaperones, please complete one form before the start of your students’ competition.

To simplify the process, I have made one form for one supervising adult to sign to verify that all students competing for the school are aware that. as participants, they should follow the code of conduct. (Please sign this form after informing all students of the honor code, which is also available on the website).

https://forms.gle/hxaDq7GTwMzuybGW7

Debate/IE Double Entry

A reminder that if you have double-entered any students in debate and IEs, you need to the information here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HNrwNQ_iuvLlgahS5RVrg5jPkjKvZNrlkXHe3t5NiGc/edit?usp=sharing

Credit Card Payments (Eventbrite), W9 for SCUDL and Check Instructions:

Reminder that we have an Event Brite payment link for credit cards that will include a service fee. Each school with have a ticket with their amount. Many changes have occurred yesterday and today. Please check the amount against your Tabroom invoice. If you notice a discrepancy or believe the amount is incorrect, please contact me before paying. I have been warned that refunds are an often lengthy process and would rather we fix the ticket first. The cite for payment is open until all weekend and through Tuesday, October 15 for your convenience. We highly suggest paying by awards if you can, but if not, we understand.

Event Brite is found at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1021262161617?aff=oddtdtcreator

Some schools have requests a W9; that is now available and will be added to the main page under “Forms”). I will also follow-up to any emails requesting the document this afternoon.

We prefer credit card payments through Eventbrite. However, if you need to pay by check,please make checks payable to Southern California Urban Debate League or "S.C.U.D.L,"which is the specific club account under the entity, Associated Students, Inc.

In the instance, your institution requires a W9, checks can also be made out to "ASI" or "Associated Students Inc.," and sent to the address on the W9 BUT please note that the check is for the specific account, SCUDL, on the check's memo line.) Thank you.

Preferred mailing address:

Forensics Program or c/o co-Director of Forensics

Human Communications Studies Department

College Park STE 420-1

2600 Nutwood Ave

Fullerton, CA 92831

Judging Training Instructions

We encourage judges who are new to judging (or ones that would like a refresher) to view the following video from 2020 tournament’s virtual judge training(the run time is almost 90 minutes). However, there are explanations of every event so you can feel free to watch the events that are most relevant to you.

The video begins with general tab room/judging instructions and then is followed by debate event explanations. Explanations of judging the various Individual Events begins at about 48:40.***(see below for changes to IEs since this video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKDNDoO7uVA

Additionaljudge instructions are available for download on the Tournament’s main page. You can also find debate topics, Congress legislation, the student code of conduct, and the invitation with schedules (links are on the right side under “Pages & Uploads”).

A reminder about how judges should handle possible technological problems:

If a debate competitor’s connection cuts out, we would like you to give them at least 10 minutes for reconnecting (for debate) before alerting our tab staff.

If an IE competitor's connection cuts out, the guideline for reconnecting is 45 minutes from the start of the round, or if they can reasonably get their speech in before the round ends. If they still are not reconnecting, judge the part you did watch of their speech.

If technological issues persist or impact the round, the student and/or judge should notify the tabroom. In debate, we will do whatever we can to help the student reconnect before we need to reasonably call the round to stay on schedule.

For IEs, don't spend time helping the student reconnect--direct them to the Zoom room for help so you can keep the round going. Do wait a few reasonable minutes to see if they will pop back in, but if they don't, move on to the next student, and once they come back, then let them finish their speech. Your priority is to make sure the round is running on time, and our priority is to make sure they get the help they need :)

Please let me know if additional questions arise.

THE FOLLOWING IE DIVISIONS HAVE BEEN COLLAPSED:

· Novice Impromptu (collapsed into open)

· Middle School Extemporaneous (collapsed into open)

· Middle School Informative (collapsed into novice)

· Novice Persuasive (collapsed into open)

When collapsed, the top Middle School/Novice competitor will be recognized at awards.

REVISED IE SCHEDULE for Sunday:

There will be no semifinals, so finals will be moved up to the semis time slot. Events with no final will have a round 3 during that time slot.

Revised IE Schedule Sunday October 13, 2024

REVISED SPAR SCHEDULE for Sunday:

There will be no semifinals, so finals will be moved up to the semis time slot. Events with no final will have a round 3 during that time slot.

Revised SPAR Schedule Sunday October 13, 2024

The extemp prep room link for Sunday is a zoom breakout room:

https://fullerton.zoom.us/j/82561179665?pwd=6pQwnU8lHePOGB5vCEfbs3JcZ5BR6R.1

Meeting ID: 825 6117 9665

Passcode: csuf2024

Extemp questions will be provided for all speakers in this virtual Extemp Prep Room.

· Go to breakout room “Extemp Prep”.

o If you don’t see the breakout room options, go to “more” at the bottom of your zoom and click on “breakout rooms” and scroll down to the extemp prep room.

· Students do need to make themselves known to the extemp proctor before leaving the room, but they do not need to stay in that room after receiving their assigned speaker questions.

· The extemp proctor will post the questions into the chat window at the specified time.

· The students are allowed one notecard for notes during the speech presentation.

· There aren’t time signals but they can time themselves in the round.

Just a reminder if you have students in extemp who are also double entered in pattern A, to go to the extemp prep room at the start of prep, and make sure to prioritize performing their extemp first before their other event.

Thank you!