Tournament Details

 NORTH CATHOLIC FORENSIC TOURNAMENT

REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION

FEES:              $6.00 per entry in speech, LD, and congress

                        $12.00 per team in Duo Interp, Parliamentary Debate, and PFD

                         School fee -- $10.00

                        Checks made payable to “North Catholic Forensics”

ENTRIES:       

                         Registration in speech is open UNTIL an event has reached the max that we can hold in that event. At that point, the next entries will be put on a waiting list. Please note that the waiting list pays no attention to schools and the numbers of entries by any school. In other words, register early!

Because of space limitations, some categories may close before the registration deadline.

FORMAT:        There will be four rounds of competition and no final round in speech events.      

                         There will be four guaranteed rounds of debate

JUDGES:         1 per 5 in speech, or fraction thereof

                        1 per 2 in debate, or fraction thereof           

                        1 per 6 in Congress, or fraction thereof

Judges in the asynchronous events on Thursday and Friday can be reused on Saturday.

Judges must be present for all rounds.  If a judge leaves early without notifying the tab room and/or without providing a replacement, that school will be disqualified. Judges may be moved from one event to another if the tab staff feels that is necessary to move the tournament along!

EVENTS:         Asynchronous Events                          

                        Informative, Programmed Interp, DI, HI          10 minutes maximum

                        Storytelling                                                       5 minute maximum

                       PLEASE NOTE  - All asynchronous events can be performed without a mask IF they are taped at home. 
                  If those events are taped in a school setting, then masks must be worn!

                        In Person Events                                 

                        Oratory, Prose, Poetry, Duo Interp                   10 minutes maximum

                        Impromptu                                                        PHSSL time limits and format

                        Public Forum, Lincoln Douglas                          NFL time limits and topics

                        Parliamentary Debate                                        PHSSL time limits

                        Student congress                                              PHSSL rules

PHSSL rules apply for all events except Oratory which will follow CFL rules and POI, Informative, and Storytelling which will follow NSDA rules.

Please note: “The coaches’ of the Pittsburgh NFL district are in agreement with the statement issued by PHSSL after its summer 2000 meeting.”Material that is presented in competition must be suitable for a high school audience. Contestants presenting material that is not suitable may be penalized.” This tournament supports this policy.

CONGRESS:   

                        Congress legislation will come from the district congress bank. Please check the Tabroom website of this tournament.

SNACKS/LUNCH:

                        Snacks will be on sale throughout the day.

                        Orders for lunch must be placed in the morning before rounds begin.
                        Lunch includes pizza, a drink, chips, and dessert and sells for $5.00

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

Asynch ballots will be distributed late on Wednesday night OR early on Thursday morning.  All asynch ballots are due before registration for the in-person part of the tournament opens on Saturday morning .

            All live events         Registration, Academic Wing            7:45   - 8:15     

            Speech:            Assembly                                 8:30   -  8:45

                                    Round  I                                   9:00   - 10:00

                                                II                                  10:00 – 11:00

                                                III                                 11:00 – 12:00

                                    Split Lunches                            11:30 -   1:00

                                                IV                                 12:30  – 2:00

            Congress:         First session                             8:45   -  11:00

                                    Second session                        11:45-  1:45

            PFD, LD, Parli   Round I                                    8:30

             Awards:                                                            3:00

AWARDS:        Plaques will be presented to the top 5 award winners in each live category that has 10 or more contestants                         
                         Medals will be presented to the top 5 award winners in each asynch category that has 10 or more contestants
                         For categories with fewer than 10 contestants, the top 3 will each receive plaques or medals.

Sweepstakes will be divided into two categories: large school (10 or more total entries) and small schools (9 or fewer entries). The top two schools in each category will receive sweepstakes awards.  Sweeps will be based on the top ten entries in all categories.

                        Speech             6 minus each rank for each speaker

                        Debate             5 points for a win, 2 points for a loss

                        Congress         Outstanding Speakers             20 points

DEADLINES:   REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY DECEMBER 10 NOON

Registration can only be done at www.tabroom.com  Create an account if you don’t already have one, then go to the list of tournaments and click on the North Catholic tournament. You can then begin your registration.

Fees for the asynchronous part of the tournament are set at the registration deadline of Wednesday December 8 at 5:00 PM. 

Fees for the in-person part of the tournament are set at the registration deadline of Friday December 10 at noon. Please note that you will not notice these deadlines until after the asynchronous part of the tournament has started.

You may continue to make changes (drops but no adds) to your in-person registration until 8:00 AM on Saturday, but the fees are set on Friday at noon.

MISCELLANEOUS:

Double entries are permitted in all asynchronous events. Double entries are also permitted between any asynch event and ONE live event.

Tournament registration begins at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday.  Call or text 412 398-4174 between 7:30 and 8:15 if there are any problems. If you know that you will be arriving late, please text in drops. We will begin round I as scheduled.

PLEASE USE THE BUS DROP OFF ENTRANCE TO THE BUILDING. This is on the “side” of the building as you come up the back driveway from Hillmont Drive. The main entrance will NOT be open. Busses should park in the side parking lot until lining up on the “busses only lane” at the end of the tournament for pickup.

WE ARE USING ONLINE BALLOTING FOR ALL EVENTS. Please be sure that your judges are linked to your school with a Tabroom account and that they bring a device on which they can input their ballots!!!