Putnam City Original “Neverland” Invitational

5300 NW 50^th Street, Warr Acres, OK 73122

January 22^nd and 23^rd

You are cordially invited to Putnam City High School’s inaugural “Neverland”  Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament.  All necessary information is listed below. Please contact Mr. Daniel L Smith with any questions or concerns. (dsmith@putnamcityschools.org, or via cell at 405-613-9521)

ENTRY PROCEDURES:  PLEASE READ! Entries should be emailed by Monday, January 18^th, by 5:00 pm to dsmith@putnamcityschools.org. NEW: You can also register for this tournament using tabroom.com GO TO à neverland.tabroom.com. Please refer to the OSSAA manual about late entries and add/drop fees for the tournament. All OO’s must be received by registration Saturday morning. You may email them to dsmith@putnamcityschools.org, or you can bring the traditional paper copy in a sealed envelope.

ENTRY CONFIRMATION:  If you do not receive your entry confirmation and revised schedule by Thursday, January 21^st, please contact me.

JUDGES:  All judges and their qualifications are due Wednesday, January 21st before 4:00pm.  - A school must provide one coach OR a person who meets the qualifications for judging to serve as a judge for each of the following in which the team has entries:

One (1) IE Judge per twelve (12) individual event entries

One (1) LD Judge per four (4) LD debate entries

One (1) CX Judge per two (2) CX debate entries

One (1) PFD Judge per two (2) PFD debate entries

Failure to provide judges will result in an additional flat fee (see OSSAA book for amounts). At this time, there are no limits to entries as long as everyone provides required judges.

All 5A and 6A IE’s, Policy and Lincoln Douglas and PFD debate will be held as well as Champs in all events. If a student has qualified, you must enter them as Champs. 

We will be running three prelim rounds of debate on Friday, and will break all 2-1’s to Saturday.

DROPS AND ADDS:  Entry fees will be assessed as of Tuesday at 5:00pm.  We will follow OSSAA rules and guidelines, which means we will be charging for late adds as well.

SCHOOL RULES: 

*No Smoking (including E-Cigs), drugs, or alcohol in the building or anywhere on our campus at all by anyone.  We must disqualify any student smoking on our campus. 

*No food or drinks in the classrooms.

*Students should not enter a classroom until a judge arrives.

ARRIVAL ON FRIDAY: 

Putnam City’s school day does not end until 3:10 pm. However, you are welcome to arrive as early as 2:15 pm. Please enter in the front of the school through “Pirate Hall.” We will hold in the auditorium until 3:30 pm, at which time we will move to the cafeteria. The first round will begin at 4:00pm. Please contact me if you need to arrive earlier in the day and I will make arrangements. (405-613-9521 or dsmith@putnamcityschools.org)

BUSES: Please park buses in the lot directly behind our athletic training facility (in front of our baseball field). This is located on the east side of the school, north of the baseball fields. You will enter the parking lot from NW 50^th Street on to Pirate Cove. Depending on arrival time, it will be easiest to park and walk due to bus traffic. Our buses flow through the same area from east to west. You will get stuck if you get in the bus line