Grapevine Classic

2015 — TX/US

28th Annual Grapevine Classic Speech and Debate Tournament

3223 Mustang Drive, Grapevine, Texas 76051  

 (817) 251-5248

entries:  joyoftournaments.com/tx/grapevine

September 9-10, 2016

 
 
 
Dear Colleagues,
Please accept this as your personal invitation to attend the 28th Annual Grapevine Classic TFA and TOC qualifier to be held September 9-10, 2016  at Grapevine High School. We are excited about the schedule of events, level of competition, quality judging and seeing good friends. We hope you can attend.
 We expect a large number of entries so you will want to enter as early as possible.  Remember though, only school officials may enter. Grapevine CANNOT accept unaffiliated entries. An adult sponsor must be at the tournament as long as his/her school is competing.  
 Please note that The Grapevine Classic is a Quarter-Finals qualifier for the National Tournament of Champions (TOC) in CX and Public Forum, Semi-finals qualifier in LD and a finals qualifier in Congress.  Grapevine is honored to be named a NIETOC qualifier. (National Individual Events Tournament of Champions)  Continuing past traditions:  all debate will have 5 preliminary rounds before going into the required elimination rounds depending on entries.
We do have entry limits for the Grapevine Classic. Entries in CX will be limited to 2 entries, 4 entries per LD per school, and 4 entries in PFD. We will have a waiting list for schools who might want more than their limit, but that list will only be used if the entry total is below our maximum. Entries are limited in student congress to 10 from each school with a wait list available for more entries, and it will run on a schedule that Congressional Debate entries may enter one Individual Event in Section B of IE as well. Entries are limited in all Individual events to 8 per school per event with a wait list. We will be offering HI, DI, USX, FX, OO, as well as prose and poetry. Grapevine will also be offering both Duo Interp AND Duet Acting again this year. Individual events will be Saturday only with every IE entry guaranteed 2 preliminary rounds for each event before going into the required elimination rounds depending on the entry.  ALL Debate may only enter that event only - no cross entries for any debate entries. Brackets will not be broken in any debate event.  We will also be planning to have panels in all elimination rounds, if possible. For IE, Duo, and Duet, we will have 8 in finals for the events that meet the TFA standard for 8 in a final round.  
 
Grapevine Classic will be moving to the ON LINE BALLOTS through TABROOM.COM.  ALL JUDGES will need to get a FREE account at Tabroom.com to access the ballots. Schools are expected to bring QUALIFIED  judges. Schools may not “buy out” their obligations unless they are traveling at least 400 miles one way to our tournament. School judges must be available for both days (all rounds)  or will be charged for a judge for the day (rounds) they are not available. If you have a judge on Friday, you must also have a judge on Saturday or you will pay for a judge on Saturday. Schools must provide 1 judge per section they enter before they may pay for a judge (unless they are come 400 miles or more to the tournament). All judges must have a paradigm available on https://judgephilosophies.wikispaces.com/
 
Anyone wishing to be hired by the Grapevine Classic should email Jane Boyd at: jane.boyd@gcisd.net
 The LD topic will be the September/October NSDA topic.
 The CX topic will be the high school 2016-2017 Policy topic.
 The PFD topic will be the NSDA topic for September/October.  
Contact us if you need event rules for the TFA events, which can be found at  www.txfa.org. Congress legislation is available in the same location.
Initial entry on the website is necessary.  NO phone or fax entries will be accepted.  Entries will be accepted until 4:30 pm on Thursday, September 3  but it is HIGHLY recommended to enter earlier  because we will close entries as we reach our limit.  We will only be accepting entries and changes on line.   See the information page about specific drop deadlines and fees.
Remember to nominate a Senior Debater for the Jonathan Brody Service to Debate Award given since 1997.  Information is included on this site. Nominations are due on Tuesday, September 8 by 4pm.   We are proud that the Jon's parents are awarding a $1000 scholarship to the Brody Award Winner each year.
Sincerely,
Jane Boyd
Director of Speech and Debate
 
Grant Hahn
Director of Oral Interpretation
 
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Dates & Deadlines

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Tournament Dates Sep 11 to Sep 12 2015
Registration Opens Tue Aug 11 at 5:00 PM
Registration Closes Thu Sep 3 at 4:00 PM
Fees Freeze After Tue Sep 8 at 5:00 PM
Judge Information Due Fri Sep 4 at 4:30 AM
Drop online until Thu Sep 10 at 11:59 PM
Change fees apply after Thu Sep 10 at 12:00 PM

These deadlines are set in Tabroom for technical purposes. Always consult the invitation or tournament notices for official policies about deadlines and procedures.