Manhattan High School Forensics Tournament 2017

Dear Coach:

The Manhattan High School Forensics team would like to invite your squad to compete at our tournament on Friday, March 17 and Saturday March 18.

Student Congress, LD, and PFD will be held on Friday.

We will offer the following events on Saturday: IX, DX, IMP, Oration, Informative (KSHSAA), Informative 10 (NSDA), DI, HI, Duo, Poetry, Prose, and Program of Oral Interpretation (NSDA).

Initial registration will take place on Tabroom.com.  Registration will open on March 1 at 5:00 pm and close on March 15 at 5:00 pm.  Any drops after that date will need to be communicated directly with me.

Entries: Students may enter three events. With the following stipulations: Do NOT enter the same student in two draw events (unless one is impromptu), and they may not hold up the tournament waiting to perform any of their events. 

We will medal the top six in each event, along with giving a gavel to the outstanding P.O. in each chamber.  The top three schools in sweepstake points will receive trophies.  Sweeps will be based on the top two entries from events on Saturday.  Your entry fees are $5.00 per entry.

Schedule:

Finals: Final results will be Cumulative.  Also, there will be cross-ex finals in Extemporaneous Speaking. There will be a 3 minute rapid fire cross-examination period instituted. Speaker #6 will cross-ex speaker #1, speaker #1 will cross-ex speaker #2, etc… Contestants will be assigned an order to perform. Be aware it may not be in the order of placement. (This will happen only if there are not more than two double entries in finals.)  Every effort will be made to avoid a speaker from a school questioning another speaker from his/her school.

Locations:  Tab will be in the Little Theatre on the stage. Ballots will be made available ASAP in the Little Theatre at the top of the stairs.   Hospitality will be in the Alumni Room.

Results will be posted in a timely manner at Tabroom.com in a timely manner.

Judges:  We should have enough judges, but if we get desperate, we might ask you to judge.

Time limits: Judges will be informed of time limits for individual events as posted below. There may or may not be a timekeeper for all rounds. If there are no timekeepers, judges will be the final arbiters of time infractions.

                               Event                                                   Max Time

                        Oration                                                            10

                        Informative                                                     7

                        Extemp.                                                           7

                        IMP                                                                  5

                        Dramatic/ Humorous Interp                           10

                        Duo Interp                                                       10

                        Prose/Poetry                                                   7

                        Info 10                                                             10

                        POI                                                                  10

+  Extemp and Impromptu topics will be emailed the week of the tournament

+  The PFD Topic that will be debated is the March NSDA topic: Resolved: The United States should no longer pressure Israel to work toward a two-state solution.

+  The LD topic that will be debated is the March/April NSDA topic: Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee the right to housing.

Performance Order Expectations:  Any student who does not perform within the time limits of the round as posted will not be allowed to perform or will receive the last rank in the round. This is at the discretion of the tournament director. 

Rounds / Rooms will be CLOSED for additional performances at 9:45 am, 11:30 am, and 1:15 pm.

+  Extemp Contestants:  All extempers will be expected to perform in the order as posted.  They should then arrange to participate in additional event(s) either before their scheduled “draw” time, or after their scheduled speaking time.  Extempers that are triple entered are NOT guaranteed that they will be able to perform in all 3 of their events.  Extempers enter 3 events at their own risk.

Thank You!:  We would like to thank you in advance for attending and allowing Manhattan students the opportunity to host and your students the opportunity to participate!  Also, we would like to send a big thanks to all of the coaches that have fielded questions and given suggestions to a new coach and growing team!  And finally, thanks to Mr. Davis for everything you did to help with the preparation and execution of this tournament!!!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please contact:  Kristal Ann Kleiner at 785-370-5259 or kristalk@usd383.org

Kristal Ann Kleiner

Manhattan High School

Debate and Forensics Coach