West Kansas District Tournament
2017 — Newton High School, KS/US
West Kansas District Qualifier
for the 2018 National Tournament
Individual Events Qualifier
West Kansas District
Committee – 2017-2018
Megan Hagaman—Salina South
Russ Tidwell—Garden City
David Williams – Newton
Larissa Carter – Buhler
Curtis Shephard -- Maize
West Kansas Coaches,
Finally, it is time to start thinking about the Individual Events qualifying tournament. This letter will provide IE information.
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
The IE qualifying tournament will be held on April 20th and 21st at Buhler High School in Buhler, KS. Larissa Carter from Buhler High School is host to this event.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Friday, April 20 Registration – Auditorium 2:00 pm
Coaches Meeting – Fine Arts Lounge 2:45 pm
General Assembly – Auditorium 3:30 pm
Round 1 4:00 pm
Round 2 6:00 pm
Saturday, April 21 Round 3 8:00 am
Round 4 10:00 am
Semifinals 12:00 pm
Finals 2:00 pm
Double Qualifier Choices ASAP
Awards – Auditorium ASAP
Reminder: At our summer meeting, we made the decision that if an event has 18 or fewer entries, will go to 3 rounds and finals. If above 18, 4 rounds and finals. A detailed schedule for each event will be released on Monday, April 16th. Your school’s membership and degree total will determine the number of entries your school is allowed. Remember, all events as of this year count as one entry. If there are questions, please ask. The schedule for entries is below…
1 - 15 members and degrees 3 entry 16 - 20 members and degrees 5 entries
21 - 30 members and degrees 8 entries 31 - 40 members and degrees 10 entries
41 - 50 members and degrees 12 entries 51 - 60 members and degrees 13 entries
61 - 70 members and degrees 15 entries 71 - 80 members and degrees 17 entries
81 - 90 members and degrees 19 entries 91 - 100 members and degrees 20 entries
101-120 members and degrees 22 entries 121-140 members and degrees 24 entries
141-160 members and degrees 26 entries 161-180 members and degrees 27 entries
181-200 members and degrees 28 entries 201-230 members and degrees 29 entries
231-260 members and degrees 30 entries 261-300 members and degrees 31 entries
301-350 members and degrees 32 entries 351-400 members and degrees 33 entries
401-500 members and degrees 34 entries 501-600 members and degrees 35 entries
DOUBLE ENTRY
A student may enter two IE events at the qualifier if they have not previously competed in a national qualifying tournament this year (exception: a student may participate at Student Congress and/or Big Questions Debate and still do two events at IE). If a student has competed in a qualifying tournament, they may do one IE event. A student may not compete in two team events (unless it’s the same two students).
DOUBLE ENTRY FORM
Students who participate in two IE events (including Congress) must fill out the National double entry form. On the form you must pick the event the student will take to nationals if the student qualifies in both events. Be sure to get all the signatures. We must have these BEFORE the tournament starts. Filling out the preferances on Tabroom does not include all events, so please print copies of these sheets and bring a paper copy to turn in. Available at https://www.speechanddebate.org/district-tournament-single-entry-letter-of-intent/
ENTRY FEES
Fees are $10 per student (a duo is $20). Make checks payable to West Kansas NSDA. Please also make sure to take care of outstanding NSDA fees or have a purchase order copy as proof of payment.
JUDGES
Each school must provide one judge for every three entries (or portion of) plus one judge, plus the head coach. For example, a full entry of 24 entries would now require 9 judges plus a coach. 3 entries require 2 judges plus a coach. College sophomores may judge the whole tournament. You must have your judges in order for your students to compete.
FILLER ENTRIES
If we have events close to the number needed to qualify three students (That’s 30 for Duo and 38 for Individual Events) we may request that you bring filler students to compete. Those students you will not need to provide judges for. They will compete round 1 and then we will pull them from the competition. (They may not continue on after round 1, or they will count as a real entry.)
PROOF OF MEMBERSHIP
Students must be NFL members on record at the National Office seven days prior to the tournament. I will check membership via the NSDA online point system, but Tabroom double checks this for us. REMINDER: If your students have not registered by creating an account and registering an email address online, they are not an official member and cannot compete.
TWO ADDITIONAL NEW EVENTS
The NSDA has announced there are two new events for students to try and qualify for nationals. Those events are Informative Speaking and Program of Oral Interpretation. The rules for these two new events are the same as all other events as they are fully implemented main events this year. Students can still only enter 2 total events + Congress at the district qualifier tournaments.
Tabroom
Please go to www.tabroom.com to complete your registration. You will enter events, and judges in that location.
Consent Forms
Green Sheets are no longer in existence. Instead you will need to print a consent to compete form for each qualifier that you participate in. The district chair must have these in their hands prior to competition at the IE Qualifier. If you owe a consent form from a past tournament, or are just now attending the district qualifier, please make sure to print and sign this form. You can find the consent from be: 1. Log in to Tabroom 2. Select the West KS NSDA Tournament 3. Choose the NSDA Forms Tab. 4. Select the form for the appropriate qualifier to Print and sign.
ORATIONS and INFORMATIVES
A copy of each oration, plus sources cited, highlighted words, etc. should be brought with you to registration. Remember that NSDA rules require that no more than 150 quoted words are to be used in each of these speech events.
INTERPRETATION RULES
This is a change from prior years expectations: When you register you are required to Input all of your publication materials. All information for Online and/or Printed materials must be included. TBD is not an acceptable answer. You must provide the original published source of each selection you have students performing (microfilm/fiche if original is not available). Without this, the students will not be allowed to compete. We will not be going through each of your pieces and cuttings at registration. HOWEVER: You still need to bring the original with you in the event of a grievance or challenge. If that happens and you cannot produced the original published copy your competitor will be disqualified.
See District Tournament Manual at https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/High-School-Unified-Manual-2017-2018.pdf
EXTEMPORANEOUS RULES
Read the rules carefully in the District Tournament Manual. These rules will be strictly followed. There will be a tub check prior to round 1. Any violations will end in disqualification.
Students may have in their files: books, magazines, newspapers, journals provided they are – the original or Xeroxed copies, the article is intact and uncut, no written material on the copies, a topical index without annotation may be present.
Students MAY NOT have in their files: old speeches, handbooks, briefs, outlines.
Laptops are allowed, but they are not to be connected to the internet. There will be proctors to ensure students are not connected or using materials on laptops that are not allowed.
Extemp areas are chosen by NSDA and questions will be written by them.
Students may do both USX and IX at the qualifier.
HELP?!?!
On Friday, April 20th, the District Committee will be setting up for the tournament. All coaches are welcome to assist. We will start at 10:00 A.M. at Buhler High School. We hope to see you there.
I know this is a lot of information to digest. Please ask questions if you are confused or unsure.