Copper Classic 2015

Bingham Speech and Debate would like to formally invite you to attend the Copper Classic tournament! Our tournament is a full service tournament that hosts the following Open and Novice divisions of speech and debate:

Policy Debate

Lincoln Douglas Debate

Public Forum Debate

Congress

National Extemp

Foreign Extemp

Original Oratory

Impromptu Speaking

Spontaneous Argument

Humorous Interp

Dramatic Interp

Duo Interp

Policy debate will use the 2014-2015 high school topic.

Public forum will use the January topic.

Lincoln Douglas will use the January-February Topic.

For Congress, there will be as many houses as necessary for debate.  No more than 25 students will be permitted in each house. Student bill/resolutions should be appropriate and productive in nature a docket will be released prior to the tournament.

Facilities:

Do the size of our tournament speech events and debate events will be split up between facilities at Bingham High School and South Jordan Middle School.

Policy, LD and PF will be at Bingham High School

Bingham High School           

2160 West 10400 South

South Jordan, Utah 84095

All other events will be at South Jordan Middle School

South Jordan Middle School

2700 West 10245 South

South Jordan, UT 84095

Entry Fees

The cost is $7 per studentand $14.00 per team.

School fees are $30 for the weekend.

Double Entry:

Speech and debate events will be held on both days at different locations. This means students WILL NOT be allowed to enter into a speech event and debate event at the tournament. Students may double enter in IE events ONLY.

Preliminary Rounds:

The tournament will offer 6 preliminary rounds in Policy, LD, and PF Debate. The tournament will offer 3 sessions of Congress with one final session. Each speech event will have 5 preliminary rounds and an appropriate number of elimination rounds for the size of the division.

Judges:

In order to run a timely tournament each school is required to bring their judges.  One public forum judge is required for every three public forum teams or a fraction thereof, one judge for every 3 Lincoln-Douglas debaters is required or a fraction thereof, and one policy judge is required for every two policy teams.  One judge is required for every 5 individual event entries.

Food:

Dinner options will be available for students to purchase on Friday evening. Breakfast and lunch options will also be available on Saturday.  Dinner will be available for coaches and judges.  

Awards:

Will take place on Saturday.

We sincerely hope that you will consider our tournament and would be happy to host you and your teams.

- Bingham Speech and Debate

Michael Bausch

Carol Shackelford

Debate Schedule:

Friday Schedule (Policy, PF, LD)

Registration begins at 2:30. 

                Round 1 – 3:00 – 4:45

                Round 2 – 5:00-6:45

                Dinner – 6:45 – 7:15

                Round 3 – 7:30 – 9:00

Saturday Schedule (Policy, PF, LD)

Round 4 – 8:00 – 9:30

Round 5 – 10:00 – 12:00

Round 6 – 12:30 – 2:00

Elims Begin at 2:30

(Friday)

Session 1 – 3:30– 6:00

Session 2 – 6:30– 9:00

(Saturday)

Session 3 – 8:30 – 11:30

Final Session – 12:30 – 3:00

Individual Events Schedule

Panel A – Original Oratory, Impromptu, HI, DI

Panel B: NX, FX, SPAR, DUO

Friday Schedule

Round 1

Panel A – 3:30 – 4:30

Extemp Prep – 4:00

Panel B – 4:30 – 5:30

Round 2

Panel A – 5:45 – 6:45

Extemp Prep – 6:15

Panel B – 6:45 – 7:30  

Round 3 Panel A only

Panel A – 7:30 -8:30

Saturday Schedule

Round 3 Panel B only

Extemp Prep – 8:00

8:00 – 9:30

Round 4

Panel A  - 9:30 – 10:45

Extemp Prep – 10:15

Panel B - 10:45  -  noon

Round 5

Panel A  Noon – 1:30

Extemp Prep – 1:00

Panel B 1:30 – 2:45

Semi Finals ALL Panels (in events needing a semi final)

Extemp Prep – 3:00-3:30

All events – 3:30

Finals ALL Panels

Extemp Prep – 4:30 - 5:00

All Panels – 5:00