START TIME FOR THE 4X4 IS NOW 8:10PM. GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN THE LIBRARY LOUNGE.

WE WILL BE DOING ONLY ONE ROUND THIS EVENING. ROUNDS 2-6 WILL BE ON SUNDAY.

ALL PRELIM ROUNDS HAVE BEEN PAIRED. ROOMS TBA. CLICK PAIRINGS ABOVE.

ASHLAND SQUARE PODS WITH TEAM CODE:

Vertex

Ashland Kistler & Preskenis (104)

Bentley Brogan & Hubinger (113)

Bishop O'Dowd Moeglein & Hester (100)

Oak Hill Henry & Myagkov (107)

Scalene

Ashland Davis & Pryor (109)

Bentley Burshteyn & Stamm-Kirk (114)

Bishop O'Dowd Basrai & O'Rafferty (105)

Oak Hill Carrier & Hagen (108)

Radius

Ashland Stallman & Ropp (101)

Bentley Partsuf & Rubsamen (115)

OR Independent Wang & Race (102)

Sacramento Newspaper Independent Schwartz & Karlson (111)

Point

Bentley Booth & Pracar (116)

Oak Hill Sproul & Taylor Ladd (106)

OR Independent Sprengelmeyer & Leve (103)

Prospect Keskar & Flores-Jones (112)

Debaters, Ashland High School & Point of Information are proud to announce The POI 4x4: State of Jefferson Edition (aka "The Ashland Square") on January 28-29, 2017! The Ashland Square will start as the Grizzly Invitational is coming to an end.

The Ashland Square will see 4 pods of 4 teams debate 6 preliminary rounds with a break to partial-quarters. The top team from each pod will advance along with two wild cards. The top-two teams will receive byes with seeds 3-6 battling it out to see who gets to semis.

The cost of participating in The Ashland Square will be $50 per team plus a per school $150 judge bond that will be refunded on-the-spot after a school's judging obligation is satisfied. If the judging obligation is not fulfilled, the $150 will be forfeited to the tournament. The Ashland Square is single-flighted, so bring 1 judge for every two entries or fraction thereof (so if you enter 3 teams you need to bring 2 judges).

We will be capping entries at 4 per school. Teams from the same school will not be entered in the same pod. We will not be breaking brackets in elims so coaches should prepare for walkovers if necessary. Each team will debate each team in its pod twice, once on aff and once on neg. Pods will be determined by the randomness of blind draw. You might be in the pod from hell. It happens, it's forseeable, so no complaining. Just debate better.

In elims, teams will be seeded 1-6. The four pod champions will be seeded 1-4 and the wild card teams will be seeded in the 5 and 6 spots. The top two teams will receive byes to the semifinal round and elims will continue with H/L seed pairings. Tiebreakers for the pods will be: (1) win-loss record, (2) head-to-head, (3) speaks dropping high and low, (4) speaks dropping 2x high and low. Speakers points will be on a 0-30 scale and tenths of a point are very acceptable.

There will be six policy resolutions. Rounds 1, 3, and 5 will be conducted under California prep rules with no restrictions on what you may use during prep time. Rounds 2, 4, and 6 will be conducted under Oregon prep rules, so no prep materials, just blank paper. For all rounds, only partner prep is allowed. Coach and team prep are forbidden. Quarters and finals will use California prep rules. Semis will follow Oregon prep rules.

We will be using these speaking times: 7-8-8-8-4-5

Teams should bring the best judges they can. Coaches and college debaters are preferred. Experienced parents with 2+ invitationals under their belt are welcome. Judges with only a few rounds of experience should be given the weekend off.

The Ashland Square is casual. We understand that some of you might be wearing suits coming out of the Grizzly Invitational, so that's understandable, feel free to change if you'd like. Jeans and hoodies should be your template for Saturday.

Awards: Certificates for quarters, sems, and top-three speakers. Finals competitors will receive original artworks by Bay Area graphic novelist Thien Pham. He's created original pieces for every 6x4 tournament. To see his work, please visit http://thienisawesome.blogspot.com.

And the tenative schedule is:

Saturday, January 28

7PM - Roll call, hoodie pick up, and a brief summary of the rules.

7:15PM - Round 1

8:35PM - Round 2

Sunday, January 29

9-10:20AM Round 3

10:20-11:40AM Round 4

11:40AM-1PM Round 5

1-2PM Lunch Forum on Geographic Inclusion

2-3:20PM Round 6

3:50-5:10PM Partial-Quarters

5:10-6:30PM Semis

6:30PM - Finals

Please note that The Ashland Square starts as the Grizzly Invitational is wrapping up with IE finals. We've offset the times a bit, so if you think you have a good shot advancing to IE finals (congrats) and want to be in time for the 4x4 round 1 topic announce, it's doable, but there's no guarantee that you'll be out of IE finals in time. In short: we won't hold up The Ashland Square in order to wait for your arrival.

We believe that paired with the Grizzly Invitational, we're looking at a stellar weekend of debate! We hope to see you in competition! People from California, come on up! We'd love to have you here. It's time to bring the two communities closer together. So come on and enter the square.

For more info on the Grizzly, please visit: https://www.tabroom.com/index/tourn/index.mhtml?tourn_id=6494