Information

NOTE: A coach or authorized adult needs to be available to students from your school for the entirety of the tournament (for as long as students are participating). Students/unauthorized parents cannot be the primary contact with tournament officials.

To access the judges' room and competition rooms, 

please log in to your Tabroom.com account

1. All coaches, judges, and students should familiarize themselves with tabroom.com and Campus prior to the tournament. Tabroom provides a number of different guides appropriate to help coaches, judges, and students at this site.

2. Please stay up to date on emails and messages. It is coaches' responsibility to pass along necessary material to their students and judges.

3. Please see our SDIVSL technical guidance sheet(TGS) for guidance related to technical difficulties. Specific contact points for difficulties during the tournament will be posted.

4. Social Distancing Comment: Students are allowed to compete from the same room; however, these students must be masked at all times. Students competing from different rooms (there must be a closed door between any adjoining rooms) are not required to wear masks. Violation of social distancing policies may lead to disqualification from the tournament.

Entry Limitations: 

This tournament is open only to schools in the San Diego Imperial Valley Speech League. Competitors may enter only one event.

The tournament will feature a Varsity division and a Novice division in all events. In order to be eligible for the Novice division, debaters must not have competed in any high school debate/congress tournament in any event in previous school years. In cases where partners are "mixed" (one Novice, one Varsity), that pair must compete at the Varsity level. 

Judges: 

All judges must have a Tabroom account linked to a school. Each school is required to provide one judge for every four entries, or part thereof. The required number of judges must be present throughout the entirety of the rounds. Schools not meeting their judging commitment at all times during the tournament will be required to drop uncovered entries. Please be sure to enter the correct number of judges on this entry site.

When you enter your judges, you are able to mark shifts that your judges are not available. Be sure that you let your judges know that they need to check in to the judges' room online, and log in at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the round. Also, let them know that time blocks are estimates and actual end times will be determined by the progression of the tournament.  

Do not wait until the last minute to confirm your judges. They will need time to become acquainted with the log in procedure. Also, it is time consuming for tournament officials to have to manually add your judges during the tournament if you didn't straighten it all out in advance.

 Entry Deadline: 

Entries must be posted on www.tabroom.com by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept 8. No new teams or students may add after the entry deadline, even if the site allows these changes. The only changes allowed after the entry deadline is dropping entries (see below). The site tracks entry changes, so any changes made after the deadline will be disallowed.

Drops: 

Dropped entries will be accepted without charge until Thursday, Sept 9, at 5:00 p.m. After that time, the website will be closed and entry fees will be final. Continue to register your drops through your registration page AND email Matt Valji (valjim@bishops.com) notifying him of the change. 

Awards: 

Suitable recognition will be given to all undefeated and 1-loss debate teams.