Recognitions and Final Notes

RECOGNITIONS AND FINAL NOTES

RECOGNITIONS:  Debaters advancing to the elimination rounds in all divisions will receive individual recognitions. Team debate speaker awards (PROVIDED FOR PARLI, POLICY and PUBLIC FORUM ONLY) are presented at an awards assembly after the first elimination round on Saturday.  (There will be NO LD SPEAKER AWARDS; we only recognition final placement in LD).  Elimination round trophies for LD, Parli, Policy and Public Forum debate are presented immediately following each elimination round. 

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DO NOT BREAK BRACKETS AT THIS TOURNAMENT. IF TEAMS FROM THE SAME SCHOOL ARE SCHEDULED TO MEET IN ELIMINATION ROUNDS, THEN THE COACH WILL BE ASKED TO ADVANCE ONE OF THOSE TWO TEAMS. 

All individual events contestants advancing to the finals will receive recognitions. Special recognitions are presented to the top 10 competitors in both divisions of Congress. Once again, the first place competitors in Congress receive the "Reed-Stockton" First Place Congress Award. The individual events/Congress awards ceremony is held Sunday in one of in the Titan Student Union.

HELP US KEEP CSUF RESPECTED, AND A SAFE & CLEAN PLACE!  

At the previous tournaments held in October and last April, many students, faculty, staff, friends and family members from your schools helped us keep our campus and rooms clean and respected our property.

Unfortunately, there were also a few reckless students who posed challenges to our campus.  Last year, high school/middle school students were identified for making unnecessary noise, walking around on floors that were not reserved for the event, and attempting to open locked doors (including personal offices)

In future tournaments, our tournament staff and campus safety officers will continue to patrol for unruly behavior. We know that the majority of your students are following tournament rules and conducting professional behavior, however, the inappropriate actions of a few students could jeopardize our ability to host future speech and debate tournaments and events.

As such, participation in our tournament requires the following guidelines:

·          All students and guests must respect our campus policies, showing respect to other teams, coaches, or judges, and conducting themselves in a professional manner.

·          We expect that students will keep the noise in the halls to a minimum and clean up after themselves in rounds.  We also expect that students will only use the rooms and floors marked by our signs, as those are the rooms and floors we are assigned for the event. 

·          Additionally, students who are caught littering, re-arranging name plates, compromising bulletin boards, or engaging in otherwise inappropriate behavior may receive a one-way escort by our campus security and will not be allowed to return for the remainder of the competition. 

·          Coaches, please continue to monitor your students at tournaments and inform our staff if student participants and campus guests are engaging in inappropriate behavior.

·          All schools should provide parent chaperones or coaches who are required to accompany students and stay on campus during the entirety of the underage students’ participation in the event.

We work had to uphold a great tradition that many of our prior Forensics coaches helped us to establish many years ago.  Help us keep this going by making sure that our campus is "ready for action" for Monday morning.  Please help us out to continue this great event. 

SMOKE FREE CAMPUS

As of August 1^st 2013, the CSUF campus is completely smoke free. Please inform your coaches, judges and parents that smoking on any part of the CSUF campus is forbidden. This website will provide more information on the smoke free policy including a map of designated smoke free areas (it’s the entire campus): http://smoke-free.fullerton.edu/

Please note that "Smoking" is defined as inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or other lighted smoking product, including electronic cigarettes. “Visitors” include university volunteers, contractors and vendors.

Those who repeatedly disregard the smoke free policy will be asked to leave the tournament.