Tournament of Champions
2020 — Lexington, KY/US
The William B. Tate TOC Team Excellence Award
We are excited to award the Fourth Annual William B. Tate Tournament of Champions Team Excellence Award (TEA), a sweepstakes award for the TOC sponsored by the National Speech & Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League).
A school’s best-performing entry in each division (CX, LD, PF, and Congress) shall count toward that school’s Team Excellence Award (TEA) calculation. TEA points shall be determined by each entry’s seed rank at the end of preliminary rounds, based on the seed rank as determined within each division. Only schools and entries that are current, paid members of the NSDA are eligible for this honor, as well as the runner-up and third place awards.
TEA Calculation
|
Seed Rank |
TEA Pts |
# Seeds in Bracket |
See Note à |
} Note: Inverse increase in points, proportionate to number of seeds in each bracket. |
|
1 |
20 |
1 |
+4 pts. |
|
|
2, 3, 4 |
16 |
3 |
+3 pts. |
|
|
5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
13 |
5 |
+3 pts. |
|
|
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 |
10 |
7 |
+2 pts. |
|
|
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 |
8 |
8 |
+2 pts. |
|
|
25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 |
6 |
10 |
+2 pts. |
|
|
35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 |
4 |
12 |
+1 pts. |
|
|
47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58 |
3 |
12 |
+1 pts. |
|
|
59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 |
2 |
12 |
+1 pts. |
|
|
71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80… 88 |
1 |
12+ |
|
The TEA award shall be calculated with the following priorities:
a). Sum total TEA points (higher value prevails)
b). Number of events in which school has entries (higher value prevails)
c). Sum of seed ranks in each division (lower value prevails)
d). Sum of reciprocal fractions of seed ranks in each division (higher value prevails)
e). Highest number of lowest seed ranks (1st seeds, 2nd seeds, 3rd seeds, etc.)
f). Include the school’s second entry from each division in the sum total, and repeat steps a-d.
For Congressional Debate, seed rank shall be determined by grouping each chamber’s prelim ranks (all firsts, all seconds, all thirds, etc.), and calculating ranking within the group through the following priorities:
a). Cumulative rank total (lower value prevails)
b). Sum of rank reciprocal fractions (higher value prevails)
c). Cumulative rank, adjusted by dropping high/low ranks (lower value prevails)
d). Sum of rank reciprocal fractions, after dropping high/low ranks (higher value prevails)
e). Number of ranks vs. non-ranks (9s)
f). Number of 1sts, 2nds, etc.
Congressional Debate Example (using 2011 results):
|
Student |
Chamber |
Cume Rank |
Reciprocal |
Adj. H/L |
H/L Recip |
Prelim Rank |
Seed Rank |
|
Rodriguez |
2 |
29 |
5.708 |
20 |
4.583 |
1 |
1 |
|
Schaeffer |
4 |
29 |
4.667 |
22 |
3.5 |
1 |
2 |
|
Neubauer |
1 |
38 |
4.889 |
28 |
3.778 |
1 |
3 |
|
Slaughter |
3 |
46 |
4.5 |
36 |
3.389 |
1 |
4 |
|
Bakke |
3 |
38 |
4.769 |
28 |
3.658 |
2 |
5 |
|
Bernstein |
1 |
45 |
4.047 |
35 |
2.936 |
2 |
6 |
|
Laporte |
4 |
52 |
2.841 |
41 |
2.23 |
2 |
7 |
|
Sella |
2 |
53 |
2.954 |
43 |
1.843 |
2 |
8 |