General Information (Updated 10/12)

2021 La Costa Canyon Winter Classic

Events Offered:

●     Debate: Policy, Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Congress

●     Pattern A: Impromptu, Informative, Humorous Interpretation, Program Oral Interpretation, Original Oratory

●     Pattern B: Extemporaneous, Original Advocacy, Dramatic Interpretation, Duo, Original Prose & Poetry, Oratorical Interpretation

●     World Schools Debate: This year we are excited to offer World Schools Debate on Sunday, December 5th. Schools may field teams ahead of time, or may use reregister non-advancing students Sunday morning. More information will be available under the "World Schools Debate" tab as it becomes available.

Entry Limitations:

●     Debates will be limited to 4 per school at first, though more will likely be added (No Limits for World Schools)

●     Congress will be limited to 10 entries per school

●     Speech events will be limited to 7 per school per event

After November 12th, we will decide if we can allow more entries to the tournament and still maintain the quality of the competition. 

Double Entry Information:

Students who double enter are responsible for getting to their rounds on time.

●     Competitors may only enter one event in the Debate Pattern.

○       Competitors who enter Policy may not enter any other event.

●     Competitors may enter two Pattern A events and two Pattern B events.

○       Competitors who enter Extemp may not enter a second Pattern B event.

○       Competitors who enter Extemp may enter a Debate and Pattern A event, but additional extemp prep time will not be given to students if Debate Pattern or Pattern A is running late.

Debate Topics:

Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum:

We will be using the November/December NSDA Topic

Policy:

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its protection of water resources in the United States.

We will be following CHSSA style in regards to Parli Topics.

Entry Deadline:

All entries must be received no later than 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25th. Entries will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.

Drops:

Drops without charge will be accepted via the Tabroom website up until Wednesday, November 25th at 3:00 p.m. All fees will be final after that time. Please email any drops through Wednesday, December 1st to cameron.martin@sduhsd.net. The subject should read: Drops--Your School Name. Please provide the name of the student dropped and event(s).

Judging Requirements:

All judges must be over the age of 18 and out of high school.

Each judge provided by a school covers entries at the following ratios:

●     Policy: 1 judge for every 2 teams or fraction thereof.

○     Policy judges will only judge Policy.

●     LD: 1 judge for every 4 entries or fraction thereof.

●     Public Forum: 1 judge for every 4 entries or fraction thereof.

●     Parli: 1 judge for every 2 entries or fraction thereof.

●     Speech/Congress: 1 judge for 6 entries or fraction thereof.

Each school that has entries not covered by a judge from the school will be assessed a fee of $100 per judge per day that we have to hire, with the exception of Policy. Schools with uncovered Policy teams will be assessed a $125 fee per judge per day we must hire. If you cannot bring experienced Policy/LD judges, you must hire one.

A single judge may cover one Debate and one Speech, but must then be prepared to judge non-stop throughout the tournament. School judges are committed to judge one round beyond when the last student from that school is eliminated from competition. We will do our best to meet any needs your judges may have. Please make sure your judges are available for their full commitment.

Fees

Entry Fees:

$50 School Fee

$90 per Policy entry

$45 per LD entry

$45 per Public Forum entry

$45 per Parli entry

$15 per IE/Congress entry

$30 per Duo team

$65 per World Schools team

$100 per hired judge per day

*See “Fees & Payment” Tab on Tabroom

Event Rules and Guidelines:

Speech & Congress: Standard CHSSA rules will be followed as closely as possible for all speech and debate events. In the Speech events we will break 14 to semi's unless this is more than half the field, at which point a prelim round would occur before breaking directly to finals. We also reserve the right to break 21+ to semis in events with large fields. We will take seven to finals in all speech events. We will take 30 to semi's in Congress and 15 to finals. A separate P.O. contest will be held if there is enough interest to warrant.

Debate: Starting with Round 3, all prelim rounds will be power matched. Dependent on event pool size, Top 16 entries may break to Octos, or Top 32 may break to Double-Octos (fewer will break in the case of unbreakable ties). Brackets will not be broken in elims.

●     The TOC and NDCA guidelines will be used for Policy, and CHSSA guidelines will be used for all other debate events.

●     The exception to this is that we will be using the new PF times that are being piloted for NSDA.

Awards: Individual awards will be presented to all debaters advancing to the quarter-finals in debate events, which will be mailed following the tournament. The top 5 PuFo, Policy, LD, and Parli speakers through prelims will also receive an award at the awards ceremony. All finalists in speech events and Congress will be presented awards. 1st and 2nd place Presiding Officers will also receive awards.

**Sweepstakes awards: In order to be eligible for debate sweeps, you must only be entered in debate events; to be eligible for speech sweeps, you must only be entered in speech events; to be eligible for overall you must be entered in both speech and debate events.