Expectations and Information

1. It is the responsibility of each program to train its students and judges in the use of Tabroom, Classrooms.Cloud, and any other relevant tournament software and procedures. We consider this an important element of best practices and shared community effort in order to decrease the likelihood of errors, issues, and other quandaries. Fees, drops, and other actions will be taken in cases where this can be determined.

2. Under no circumstance should any judge, competitor, coach, or other participant suggest or move the round/event to a non-sanctioned hosting platform (i.e. Zoom, Google Hangout, etc.). Any individual found in violation of that policy will be potentially subjected to fines, loss of entry, judge removal + penalty, and any other additional penalty proportionate to the worst-case scenario of negative impact that the shift caused.

3. We expect all entries to complete all preliminary rounds unless extreme conditions occur. We expect all entries to respect the integrity of the tournament.

4. Judges are not able to be assigned to multi-hour increments; we are only accepting per-day commitment exceptions.

5. On the horrific off-chance that Classrooms.Cloud suffers a technological collapse, we will provide an alternative Zoom site for the remainder of the outage.

6. Judges should communicate/disclose their decision prior to leaving the virtual room. Judges choosing not to disclose should submit their ballot prior to leaving the virtual room. In the event your judge leaves the room and falls out of contact prior to ballot submission and after the elapsed decision time, penalties will be assessed.

7. For Public Forum: In order to keep the tournament running at an efficient pace, any and all evidence will be shared via an email chain sent prior to the beginning of the correspondent speech. Students concerned about sharing personal emails should use their school emails. Coaches worried about students using their school emails should create a "team email" that is only used for the purpose of those students sending files back and forth to opponents. Disclosure is also important as an effective community practice and norm that prepares students to effectively navigate academic integrity and ethics in a virtual world--to lightly borrow from our friends at Greenhill, "We know some people disagree with that expectation. We respect that area of disagreement, we just ask that you compete elsewhere."

8. The Tournament Director, Tim Lewis (M.A. in Social Justice in Higher Education Administration), will serve as the Equity Officer and Ombudsperson for all ethical and/or identity-related disputes. Judges are responsible for navigating clipping violations.