General Tournament Information

General TFA State 2023 Information

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Registration will take place at the host hotel Wednesday, March 8th from 6 pm-9 pm.

Please notify Nathaniel Council at nathanielcouncil@gmail.com if you have an emergency that will not allow you to make late registration.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

• Friday, February 3, 2023 – Schools may begin entering TFA State-qualified students on tabroom.com. Please register all qualifiers AND any students who may qualify before the end of the TFA competitive season. Please send your check as soon as possible. Refunds for any overpayments immediately will be made following the conclusion of the state tournament. It is better to pay for students who don’t end up qualifying than it is to send your check with insufficient funds.

• February 17, at 5:00 PM CST – Last day to check TFA website for accuracy of the IQT reports for all TFA State qualifying entries and submit any necessary corrections to the IQT Coordinator (Nicole Cornish at ncornish@athensisd.net).

• February 19, at 11:55 PM CST – LAST DAY – All schools and entries must be entered on the tabroom.com website. Entry fees are also locked at this time - drops after 11:55 PM CST on this date will be charged the original entry fee.

• February 28, All t-shirt orders must be finalized by 12 midnight CST. Based on your order, Brian Alford will update your tabroom.com invoices. You will see your updated invoice on your tabroom.com fees sheet by March 1st. Please be aware that if you order late you will have a balance to be paid in full at registration.

• March 1, at 5:00 PM CST – LAST DAY – All schools may DROP entries without an additional Drop Fee (schools will lose entry fee as of Friday, Feb. 25th). After March 1st at 5:00 PM CST, schools will be charged twice the entry fee for dropped entries.

• March 1, Judge paradigms due on tabroom.com.

• March 3, Total payment for tournament entries, fees, and shirts must be received by Brian Alford at:

  Texas Forensic Association

  Attn: Brian Alford

  253 Navarro Dr.

  College Station, TX 77845

• Fees can also be paid on CheddarUp at https://tfa-finance-portal.cheddarup.com

• If full payment is not received at or prior to registration schools that have not paid will not be able to compete at TFA State 2023 and dropped entries will be assessed a day of drop fee.

• All Original Oratory, Informative Speaking, and main event oral interpretation manuscript(s) titles and/or ISBN numbers must be submitted ONLINE on the tabroom.com website by Friday, March 3rd 5:00 PM CST.

CROSS-ENTRY INFORMATION

· A student may enter a maximum of three IE events (DUO, DUET, DI, HI, POI, OO, INFO, USX, or IX) in total, but a student may only enter a single division of extemp.

· A student may enter both Duo and Duet.

· A student may enter only one debate event (LD, CX, PF, Congress, or WS).

· Students in debate events may enter up to 2 IEs excluding Duet AND Duo.

PROTEST INFORMATION/PROCEDURES

• All coaches have a responsibility to check pairings and/or give students MJP/strike information to ensure students are not being judged by individuals that have been struck. Concerns must be raised before the round in question begins. Protests associated with struck judges will not be heard after the round in question has begun.

• If the need to file a protest arises, the coach of the protesting school must put the protest in writing on the official protest form that will be available online. Our Ombudsperson room will be located in the library throughout the tournament, but the official protest form must be filled out completely and submitted either online or in-person to the Ombudsperson to discuss the protest. Procedures for filing protests shall be followed as found in the TFA Constitution.

DISSEMINATION OF BALLOTS

TFA State Tournament will be utilizing tabroom.com this year. All ballots will be made available for viewing online for COACHES OF RECORD ONLY after each round of tabulation has been completed. Please DO NOT come to the Tabroom asking for ballots – they will be made available after each ballot is submitted and tabulated for that round.