Hotels

The closest hotel is the Peekskill Holiday Inn. 

That hotel has limited space, so you also want to try hotels in Fishkill and Tarrytown.  Tarrytown is closer.

School Address

1349 East Main Street
Shrub Oak, NY 10588

MS Parliamentary Schedule

Other Events

Friday, February March 3

12-2pm – Registration


2:30 – pairings


3pm – Round 1 (all events)

5:30 pm – Round 2 (all events)

6:30-8:00 – Dinner (included)

8:00 pm – Round 3

10pm – Housing

Saturday, March 4

7:45 – R4 all events
1

11am – R5 – all events


1-2pm -- lunch


2pm – R6 –policy,

1st elim in other events, elims in all other events will continue throughout the day.

Elims in all events except varsity policy will conclude on Saturday.

5pm – 1st elim policy (All 4-2 teams, UP TO 32 teams) in varsity and (4-2 teams, up to 16 teams in novice policy)


7:30 – 2nd elim policy
10pm – housing

Sunday 8am

Remaining elims in policy

Tournament Dates

March 2-3, 2018 
Note: Depending on the number of Policy entries, we may need to have the policy finals on the 4th (we did last year)

Registration is open on Tabroom

Events offered

Varsity Policy
 (semis TOC bid)
Novice Policy
Novice PF

JV PF
Varsity PF
 (finals TOC bid)
Varsity LD

Novice LD

Middle School PF

Middle School Parli

Lakeland PF RR

We will have a Public Forum Round Robin on Thursday, March 1, 2018.  The location of the RR is TBD, but it will be in the New York City. If you are interested, please apply here.

NOTE: Novice is for debaters in their first year of debate.  This does not mean the first year of high school debate.  If you would like to appeal a particular team (for example, if one of the debaters debated at one tournament last year), you can do so by emailing Stefan.Bauschard@gmail.com before the tournament.
JV is for students who have no more than one previous year of debate.  Again, appeals process noted above.

All debate events are “switch side” – students will be expected to debate both sides of the resolution.

Entry fees

$70/team (PF, Policy)

$35/individual competitor (LD

&80/team (Parli – higher fee because of 3 competitors per team)
$50 school fee

The fees include dinner on Friday and lunch on Saturday for all registered participants.
$300 hired judge fee/4 debaters (one judge covers 2 policy teams, 3 PFrs or LDrs).
Judges in other events cannot be used to cover Policy debate entries.
Deadlines

- We will accept registrations until Monday, February 26, 2018 (or until the tournament fills) - The tournament always fills, so enter early if you wish to attend
- In order to discourage frivolous registrations, there is a $10/contestant drop fee for every non- substituted contestant drop after February 1. That fee increase to $25/contestant after February 15th.   Sorry, but people over enter and waste entry space that others want.
- Judge hire fees are frozen on February 15th.

Topics


PF: February NFL Topic (all divisions)
L-D: January/February L-D (all divisions)
Policy: Education topic

We expect that all judges will pay attention in the debates they are judging and will work to provide a fair decision based on the criteria they outline in their judge philosophies.

We also expect judges to behave in a way that is appropriate in a middle school/high school environment. Any judges that exhibit behavior inconsistent with this expectation can and will be removed from the tournament by the tournament director at his discretion. The financial costs of missed rounds will be passed on to the school that entered the judge.

Unless there is a violation of the Conduct policy by the judge or the team(s) in the debate, the tab room views the judge’s decision regarding all arguments made in the debates as final. If the tabroom determines that a judge or the team(s) violates a Conduct policy expectation, the tabroom may alter the decision in a way that it feels is fairest for the debaters involved.

Judge Assignment

We will use a standard ordinal rankings judge placement system in varsity policy and varsity L-D (as numbers permit).

We will not use preferences in the other divisions.

We do not have PF strikes..

Card Clipping

Judges who determine that a debater has “clipped cards” should assign the debater zero speaker points and a loss. This debater will be ineligible for any speaker awards. If the tab room also determines that card clipping occurred, the person will be removed from the tournament.

Forfeits and decision time

All policy ballots are due within 2 hours and 15 minutes (135 minutes) from the scheduled start time of the debate. If the debate you are judging starts late, you will have less time to decide.

Debaters are responsible for finding the room they are debating in. If a debater or team is more than 10 minutes late, his or her 2-person team will be forfeited.


Housing

We can provide housing for the first 50 contestants and we are working to find additional housing slots. If your team is able to stay in a hotel, please do so in order that we can accommodate more programs of more limited financial means.   Sorry, housing is really a thing of the past because of liability issues and it is very difficult to find people willing to house.

Housing can be requested through tabroom.com. Any questions about housing should be directed to Stefan.Bauschard@gmail.com

Independent/Unaffiliated Entries

Like some other tournaments, we accept entries from non-school based individuals and teams. The tournament director does have the discretion to reject an entry if that entry appears to designed to create a “super team” and when other reasonable school-based entry opportunities are available to the students.

Students are not permitted to compete independently if their school and or coach prohibits their participation as a member of their own school team.

Schedule

Friday, February March 3

12-2pm – Registration


2:30 – pairings – we will release them even if your school is “almost to Lakeland.”


3pm – Round 1 (all events)

5:30 pm – Round 2 (all events)

6:30-8:00 – Dinner (included)

8:00 pm – Round 3

10pm – Housing  for the few people who have it.

Saturday, March 4

7:45 – R4 all events
1

11am – R5 – all events


1-2pm -- lunch


2pm – R6 –policy,

1st elim in other events, elims in all other events will continue throughout the day.

Elims in all events except varsity policy will conclude on Saturday.

5pm – 1st elim policy (All 4-2 teams, UP TO 32 teams) in varsity and (4-2 teams, up to 16 teams in novice policy)


7:30 – 2nd elim policy
10pm – housing

Sunday 8am

Remaining Policy rounds