Information & Travel

ENTRY FEES:
Entry Fees will be assessed as follows:

Individual Speech Entries: $10

Duo Interpretation Entries: $20

Lincoln-Douglas Entries: $15

Public Forum Entries: $20

Congressional Debate: $10

Checks should be made payable to “RHS STUDENT ACTIVITIES.”

All fees will be assessed on Wednesday, January 23rd at 11:00pm. Any changes or drops will be 
assessed as follows:

School Registration after 1/23 (@11:00pm) - $50.00

Adds between 1/23 (@11:00pm) and Friday, 1/25 (@3:00pm) -  Regular Entry Fee + 5.00 (space permitting)

Drop between 1/23 (@11pm) and Friday, 1/25 (@3:00pm) - Entry Fee + $5.00

Adds/Drops after 1/25 (@3:00pm): Entry Fee + $10.00

No adds after the deadline will be permitted unless space permits. All payment must be made at registrations; purchase order forms are an acceptable form of payment.

JUDGE REQUIREMENTS:
Individual Events (Speech) & Congress: 1 judge per 5 entries (+fraction thereof).  If you have six speech entries, you are responsible for two judges.

Public Forum & Lincoln-Douglas: 1 judge per 3 entries (+fraction thereof).  PF and LD are separate judge pools and will be assessed individually. 

Junior/Senior students with significant experience may be entered as Novice LD and Novice PF judges.  Please indicate in your registration.  These judges may only cover your 'novice' judging commitment. 

Hired Judging Fee $90.00.    

We ask that you supply as many ‘qualified’ judges possible.   Judges are expected to be trained and knowledgeable of tournament procedures prior to arriving to the event.  Please ensure they are aware of the NJFL rules (available at www.njflonline.org) and are prepared to stay for the duration of the event.  Schools will be assessed $25 per round that their judge fails to show.  

AWARDS
Awards will be presented to all outround participants.  Semifinals will be offered in any event that exceeds 48 students.  A special novice final will be offered for the top six novice students who do not advance to the regular final rounds in events with 30 or more total students.  In events with less than 30, the top nonadvancing novice will be honored at the award ceremony.  The top six schools will receive sweepstakes awards with a 'sweepstakes honors' award being presented to the highest achieving school with less than 15 entries.  

HOUSING
A block of rooms is being secured at the following hotel:

Courtyard Basking Ridge
595 Martinsville Road
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

Up until January 14th, coaches may call 800.321.2211 and reference the Ridge Debate
Tournament Room Block at the Basking Ridge Courtyard by Marriott to make reservations at the 
group rate.  The rate for a King room is $89. The rate for a Queen/Queen room is $99.00.  These are lower than the posted rates on the Marriott website.  

You can access King rooms directly by clicking here.  You can access Queen/Queen rooms directly be clicking here.

MEALS
Concessions, including warm foods, will be available to purchase throughout the tournament.  Food is not included in the entry fee.  

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Saturday, January 26th

Registration: 8:00-8:30am

Speech Events:

Extemp Prep: 8:45

Round I: 9:15am

Round II: 10:45 (Extemp Prep: 10:30am)

Round III: 12:30pm (Extemp Prep: 12:15pm)

Semi-Finals: 2:30pm

Finals: 4:00pm (Extemp Prep 3:30pm)

Awards: 6:00pm.

Debate Events:

Round I: 9:15-11:00

Round II: 11:00-12:30

Round III: 1:00-2:30

Round IV: 3:00 - 4:30

Final Round: 5:00pm.  (If we have enough judges, we will single-flight in order to advance to more outrounds)

Congress:

Morning Session: 9:15-12:00

Afternoon Session: 1:00-3:30pm

A supersession will be incorporated into the schedule if entry numbers allow.