Santa Clara University

Spring Invitational Philalethic Society

Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament

Saturday-Sunday, April 2-3, 2016

Dear Coach:

Santa Clara University Philalethic Debating Society invites you and your squad to our annual Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament to be held on Saturday-Sunday, April 2-3, 2016. The tournament is designed to foster interscholastic communication and reasoning activities outside the classroom in a supportive, educational atmosphere.  Middle schools and home schoolers 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.

We will use the March/April LD and March  Public Forum topics.

Parliamentary debate will be given one topic per flight per round. All Individual Events will be combined into one pattern.  Double entries in Events are allowed.  We will offer two divisions 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 up to noon Monday, March 23, 2015 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.

Make drops and adds on the web page.  Judge names must be entered by March 31, 2016 or you will be charged for penalty fees.

As of noon Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 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, March 30, 2015 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. We will also be implementing caps. Each school will be allowed 4 entries per event per division, policy will have a cap of 5. Entries past the cap will be waitlisted and will be moved into the tournament if space is available.  TBA entries must have names by March 14, 2016. After this date, TBA entries will be placed on the waitlist and will not be removed.

Tournament Hotel/Lodging Info 

Frances  Alfonso  | Sales Coordinator

Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott, San Jose Airport

1755 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95112

Phone: (408) 453-3133 ext 415

Fax: (408) 452-1849 Email: frances.alfonso@marriott.com 

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Double Queens

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. Schools will be required to fulfill at least 50% of their judging obligation, otherwise their entry may be reduced. 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 March 31, 2016 or we will assume you are not bringing judges and penalties accordingly will be assessed.

FEES:

____ School fee X 1 = $50

____ number of Event entries /Congress entered X $20= _____

____ number of Parli/Public Forum/ Policy entered X $60 = _____

____ number of LD X $50 = _____

Judge Penalties

____ Event entries/Congress/Duos uncovered X $30 = _____

____ Parli/Public Forum/ L-D/ uncovered X $75 = _____

____ Policy Teams uncovered X $100 = _____

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 March/April Topic

2015-2016 Policy Debate Topic

Public Forum: March Topic .

Divisions:

Novice and Open Division in Debate, Congress and Events.   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 the three preliminary rounds of 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:

Students may double enter in Events. 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 octofinals if entry warrants.  Check the schedule at registration to determine divisions going to octofinals. In Parliamentary Debate we provide 1 topic per round per flight. There are speaker awards in team debate events only. Sides will be assigned in Public Forum, and aff will speak first. Coin flips will only be used when teams are not sidelocked.

Computers:

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

Congress Rules:

Congress will have open and novice division.  Please designate the PO's with a 'po' for every five entries.  PO’s should emailed to me at mjaich@scu.edu. Congress bills will be posted closer to the tournament.

2015 Spring Invitational Speech & Debate Tourney

SCHEDULE 

PLEASE NOTE UPDATED AND REVISED SCHEDULE

(Parking is Free on Saturday & Sunday)

Saturday, April 2, 2016

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

8:00-10:00 am Debate Round 1 Congress Rd 1 Bills 1-2

10:00-12:00 p.m.  Debate Round 2 Congress Rd. 2  Bills 3-4

12:00-12:30 pm Extemp Prep

12:30-2:00 pm Events Round 1

2:00-4:00 pm Debate Round 3 Congress Rd 3 Bills 5-6

4:00-4:30 pm Extemp Prep

4:30-6:00 pm   Events Round 2

6:00-8:00pm  Debate Round 4

10:00 pm  Congress Breaks Posted Online

Sunday, April 3, 2016

8:00-8:30 a.m. Extemp Prep

8:30-10:00 a.m. Individual Events Round 3

10:00-12:30 pm  Debate Round 5 / Congress Finals Bills 7-8

12:30-2:30 pm  Individual Events Elim (Extemp Prep at 12:30 pm)

2:30-4:30 pm  Debate Elim 1

4:30 p.m. Debate Elimination 2

6:30 pm Debate  Elimination 3

8:30 pm Debate  Elimination 4

 Schedule may be amended on Sunday for elimination rounds.

Congress legislation is posted on the right side of this page. They can also be found in the Tournament Invite.