Limited prep event procedures

CATHOLIC CLASSIC PREP PROCEDURES

Welcome to our invitational.  We hope you have a good competition experience.

Some of y'all are new to Extemp/Impromptu altogether, and almost all of you are new to doing it as an online experience.  We are equally new to hosting it.  Accordingly, we will all be learning together about how to make this event function in an online environment.  We ask that you familiarize yourself with the procedures listed here and follow them to the best of your ability.

The prep room is a zoom room:  address     , password STASJA.  Competition rooms are located on NSDA campus and are accessed through Tabroom.com; those of you who debated this fall (presumably most of you) will already be familiar with tabroom procedures and accessing competition rooms.



EXTEMP:

Draws begin at 7:30, 9:00, and 10:30.  Draw must proceed in the order competitors are listed on the competition schedule, and at ten minute intervals--thus, if you have the second draw for round one, you are drawing at 7:40 and speaking at 8:10.  We are aware that some of you are in similar speaking positions in multiple rounds; this is how tabroom does things and is necessitated by Impromptu double entries.  In particular:  if you are double-entered in Impromptu you are almost certainly early in the order for all extemp draws.

Draw is conducted via the main screen by the hosts.  At the scheduled draw time, the hosts will screen-share a list of three topics in each event.  ALL speakers with first draw will have the same three topic options, regardless of room.  Select one.  Efforts will be made to keep the topic selections for the draw period up as a shared screen for the full ten minutes but you're safest to be there when draw is scheduled.  If you miss draw by more than ten minutes, the topics will be unavailable to you; you will need to report to the competition room at the scheduled time and inform the judge to rank you last.

Spend your prep period in "prep room" and report to the competition room 30 minutes after you draw.  Provide your topic to the judge verbally before you begin speaking.

IMPROMPTU:

Note that these procedures are different from those in extemp.

Draws begin at the scheduled round start time:  8:00, 9:30, and 11:00.  This mean the first impromptu draw is simultaneous with the fourth extemp draw.  Draw must proceed in the order competitors are listed on the competition schedule, and at ten minute intervals--thus, if you have the second draw for round one, you draw at 8:10.  We are aware that some of you are in similar speaking positions in multiple rounds; this is how tabroom does things and is necessitated by Impromptu double entries.  In particular:  if you are double-entered in extemp you are almost certainly late in the order for all impromptu draws.

Draw is conducted via the main screen by the hosts.  At the scheduled draw time, the hosts will screen-share a list of three topics in each event.  ALL speakers with first draw will have the same three topic options, regardless of room.  The topics will stay up for as much of the ten-minute draw interval as is possible, but this is not guaranteed and you would be very wise to be on time for draw.

Select one of the three topic options and proceed IMMEDIATELY to your competition room via tabroom.com; give your topic to the judge verbally when you enter the room.  You will both prep AND speak in front of the judge in the competition room.  This means you have, functionally, ten minutes total to prepare and deliver your speech; how that time is divided is at your discretion.  The time that it takes you to get from the draw to the competition room comes out of that period.  Judges have been instructed that when the next competitor enters the room, your speech time is over.


EVERYBODY:  YOU REALLY, REALLY HAVE TO BE ON TIME FOR PREP.  In order to enable people to double enter extemp and impromptu we have put ourselves on a tight schedule. There are in most cases no extra slots at the ends of rounds to plug you into and no extra topics to provide you--so if you miss draw for any reason, including tech issues, unless the tournament caused the problem somehow, you have to take bottom rank in the round.  Please try not to put us in this position.