LOGISTICS

2016

Senior State Debate and Speech Tournaments

Logistics Packet

Because of the changes in buildings resulting from the demolition of the Student Center and the loss of Gatton College, please follow this guide to getting around UK for the Senior State tournaments.  If you are a Junior division coach, details will change (although some similarities between the two will remain), and the Junior State Logistics packet will be out around 16 March.

Please print this packet for your judges and students.

Because of the changes in our locations, the steps for each day are detailed specifically, at the risk of repetition.  Please follow the particular day’s Logistics Dance Card!  Your competitors and judges should read, mark, and inwardly digest this information—it is intended to keep the tournaments running on time.

COMMONS IS HOME BASE FOR KHSSL ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.  WE WILL BE BASED IN BOWMAN’S DEN AND FUNKHOUSER ON SATURDAY.

The Google Map is found at http://bit.ly/1TUTDKt.  To see what location an icon represents, left click on it.  To get directions to a location, right click on the icon.

 Please also refer to the Master Tournament map on the league website.

 Food for judges and competitors will mainly be at The 90 and Bowman’s Den.

 When you see Parking “Structure 7” you should think both “convenient” and “may have limited space”.  Structure 5, although on the far side of campus from Commons, has many more spaces.

 The 90 has reusable to-go trays available for $5, or you may eat there.

 I recommend that everyone wear comfortable shoes for walking.  I’m working to reduce the footprint of this tournament, but it will be big regardless.  Competitors may change shoes on reaching competition rooms.

 JUDGES AND COMPETITORS:  DO NOT GO OFF CAMPUS FOR FOOD DURING THE TOURNAMENT.  MISSING JUDGES SLOW THE TOURNAMENT DOWN AND MISSING COMPETITORS WILL BE SUBJECT TO FORFEITS.

BUSES: 

After drop off on each day, buses can either return to hotels OR

Wait at the Purple Lot off Wildcat Court, as marked on the Google Map.  There’s no shuttle from that lot.

THURSDAY, 10 MARCH 2016

ARRIVAL

·         If you are coming by BUS:

Drop off is on Sports Center Drive, behind the Commons.  To get to this location, find directions from your school/hotel to the Google Map’s Bus Icon at “Cooper Drive and Sports Center Drive”.  Then head in on Sports Center Drive to the intersection with Complex Drive.  Near there you will be able to unload from the bus and walk down to Commons.  Buses should then depart.

If you are coming by CAR:

Follow the directions to the Bus Drop off, but before you get to Complex Drive, you may turn into Parking Structure 7.  This structure is a pay lot—you’ll find the cashier on exit, and it’s open until midnight.  Stairwell C is closest to Commons.  E lots are available for free after 730 pm.  The E lots are in blue on this map. 

REGISTRATION AND LUNCH

·         Registration will be from 10 to 11 am in The Commons.

·         Please eat LUNCH before 1130 and be back in the Commons by that time—all competitors and Judges are expected there—you may bring food to Commons.

·         Lunch is available in The 90.  The 90 includes several possibilities as noted in the right-most column on page 5.  The Fresh Food Company is an all-you-can-eat dining hall; breakfast is $7, lunch is $9, and dinner is $10.  Please do NOT go to Bowman’s Den for Lunch today.

ROUNDS

·         Congress Session I starts at Noon; Congress sessions are at Noon, 230, and 530 pm

·         Debate Round I, Flight A starts at noon

·         Debate Rounds I and II schematics will be posted at 1130 am. 

·         Ballots for All Flights of Rounds I and II will be distributed at 1130 am.

·         Since many debates and congress sessions will be on North Campus, a ballot drop off location will be available in Grehan EGJ in addition to The Commons, at least during Debate Rounds I and II.

·         Once all judges have finished their Round II obligations, they should return

·         For Debate Rounds III – V, ballots should be picked-up and dropped-off in The Commons.

·         Get dinner between rounds.  Dinner will be available at The 90 from around 430 pm.

·         You may be able to snag food in Bowman’s Den, but DO NOT RISK being late for rounds.

·         Ideally, the first elim. debate round will take place around 745pm on Thursday, in The Commons and The 90.

DEPARTURE FOR THE NIGHT

·         Buses should pick up where they dropped you off.  It’s likely to be congested.  Have the bus wait at the Purple Lot until you call for it.  The Purple Lot is noted on the Google Map and is described on page 1

·         People leaving by car should go to the parking garage and head to their hotels.

FRIDAY, 11 MARCH 2016

DEBATE

·         Drop-off by 730 am per Thursday’s drop-off (or below).  If you are a debate-only school, park your car in Structure 7.  If you are staying for the Speech Tournament, consider car parking in Structure 5 (you might choose to move during the day) as discussed below.

·         Breakfast will be available in The 90.  The Commons is open for us, also.

·         Debate Elimination rounds begin around 8 am and continue until done.  Congress final session is at 830 in the UKAA Auditorium of the William T. Young Library (across from The 90).

·         Debate Awards begin as close to 1230pm as possible in the UKAA Auditorium.

·         Lunch is available as below. 

SPEECH ARRIVAL

Try to time your arrival for 1010 – 1045 pm, 1110 – 1145 pm, or 1210-1245 pm

·         If you are coming by BUS:

Drop off is on Sports Center Drive, behind the Commons.  To get to this location, find directions from your school/hotel to the Google Map’s Bus Icon at “Cooper Drive and Sports Center Drive”.  Then head in on Sports Center Drive to the intersection with Complex Drive.  Near there you will be able to unload from the bus and walk down to Commons.  Buses should then depart.

·         If you are coming by CAR:

Follow the directions to the Bus Drop off if you can drop people off.  You may use Structure 7, but it is a pay lot.  Structure 5, near the location of the old Student Center and marked on the map, is free if you exit after 6 pm.  Structure 5 is open until midnight. You might choose to move during the course of the day.  People will be steered in that direction at the end of the day. 

REGISTRATION, LUNCH, AND OPENING

·         Registration is in The Commons from 1030 am to 115 pm. 

·         COMMONS IS HOME BASE ON FRIDAY, 11 MARCH

·         Lunch is available in both The 90 and Bowman’s Den.  Please note that the lines will be very long at 1055, 1155, and 1255, especially at Bowman’s Den.

·         The Judge Session and Student Information Session are both at 130.

·         Rounds start at 2 pm.  Start times for all rounds/flights are at 2, 330, 5 and 7 pm.

·         Food is available in both Bowman’s Den and The 90 until 730 pm; please get food and make it to rounds on time.  Panda Express (in Bowman’s Den) will reopen around 5 pm.

·         We hope to have a satellite ballot station in Grehan throughout the day.

·         Rooms for the 7 pm round will largely be on North Campus.  PLEASE BRING EVERYTHING WITH YOU when you go to your 7 pm round. 

·         EXTEMPERS—prep will be in a different location on Saturday.  Do not leave anything behind.  Prep location on Friday is TBA. 

DEPARTURE

·         BUSES:  Pick up students and coaches (and judges, too) on Administration Drive as noted on the Google Map.

·         CARS:  If you parked in Structure 5, take the bridge across S. Limestone (from off of Administration Drive), and head back to the hotel.  Otherwise, retrieve your car from where you parked, and we’ll see you Saturday!

SATURDAY, 12 MARCH 2016

 SPEECH ARRIVAL 

·         Plan on being on campus by 730.

·         If you are coming by BUS:

Drop off is on Administration Drive, marked on the map.

·         If you are coming by CAR:

Structure 5 is open all day, and is free.  That would be the place to park.  Other available E parking lots are on Funkhouser Drive and off of Scott Street as noted on the Google Map.

·         COMPETITORS—Schematics will be posted on-line by 730.  In addition, they will be posted in Bowman’s Den, Funkhouser, Grehan, the College of Law, and Classroom Building.

·         JUDGES—Ballots will be distributed from Funkhouser 200 on Saturday.  All judges should report to FB 200 by 745 am on Saturday.

·         FOOD—is available from 730 am in Bowman’s Den. 

SEMIFINALS 

·         Extemp Prep begins at 745 am. 

·         Extemp and Broadcasting Prep will be in Funkhouser on Saturday.

·         Judge call is at 745 am in Funkhouser 200. 

·         Ballot Pick-up and Drop-off on Saturday will be in Funkhouser 200.

·         Judge call for Semifinals Flight B is at 930 in Funkhouser 200.

·         Semifinals Flight B is at 10 am. 

FINALS 

·         Final Round postings will be made as close to Noon as possible in Bowman’s Den and on-line.  Postings will also be made in Classroom Building and Funkhouser.

·         Final Round Judge call is at Noon in Funkhouser 200.

·         Finals begin at 1230pm

·         Lunch will be available in Bowman’s Den from 1030 to 2 pm.

·         Awards begin in Memorial Hall at 3 pm. 

DEPARTURE

·         BUSES:  Pick up students and coaches (and judges, too) on Administration Drive as noted on the Google Map.

·         CARS:  Return to where you parked and head back home!