Tournament info

Entry Patterns:

Pattern A: HI, Poetry, Duo, OO, USX, IX

Pattern B: DI, Prose, Duet, Info, Impromptu, POI

All debate events except CX can cross enter into Pattern A

No debate events can cross enter into Pattern B

Judges:

Our plan is to single flight LD/PF prelims. We can only do that if A) your judges are timely and show up when they are supposed to and B) we do not allow oral critiques in preliminary rounds. Write it on the ballot and keep the tournament moving.

We are going to try to consolidate judging requirements into just 2 categories, as we feel that judging skills are cross-curricular, if you will. This also makes it easier to accommodate when one school has a lot of entries in events and thereby requires a lot of judges, but those judges can't be used (what happens to Plano East at most tournaments). Speech & Congress is one judge category, WS/PF/LD/CX is the other category.

1 Congress/IE judge for every 8 combined congress/speech entries.

1 debate judge for every 4 combined world schools/public forum/lincoln-douglas/policy entries.

We will have a mandatory judge training for all judges at 7:30am. We will cover how to use tabroom, judge etiquette, brief to-do/not-to-do list, and provide physical copies of event rules and judging guidelines. All of this is in the hopes of avoiding common mistakes. We will post these resources HERE when fully compiled.

A large portion of the judge pool is Plano East parents.

Miscellaneous Notes:

Debate brackets will not be broken.

Debates will break to the TFA points - we are anticipating quarters in PF/LD and semis in WS/CX/Congress. Schedule adjustments will be announced via email if needed. We plan to panel all elimination rounds, as long as judges are available.

Plano East will compete in the tournament including elimination rounds.

All qualifying events follow TFA rules. PRO/POE will follow TFA rules, but selections that fit either of the UIL categories will also be allowed. IMP will follow NSDA rules (7 minutes combined prep and speak).

INDEPENDENT ENTRIES ARE NOT PERMITTED. All competitors must be registered with their schools and accompanied by a school district employee.

Sweeps formula

Speech

1st place - 20 pts

2nd place - 15 pts

3rd place - 10 pts

4th place - 10 pts

5th place - 5 pts

6th place - 5 pts

7th place - 5 pts

8th place - 5 pts

Congress

1st place - 20 pts

2nd place - 15 pts

3rd place - 10 pts

4th place - 10 pts

5th place - 5 pts

6th place - 5 pts

7th place - 5 pts

8th place - 5 pts

9th-12th place - 2 pt

Debate

1st place - 20 pts

2nd place - 15 pts

Semis - 10 pts

Quarters - 5 pts