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Coast Forensic League PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN SITE- This tournament is NOT at Presentation - Click the school name for directions to Washington High SchoolEvents offered: Parliamentary and Public Forum debate (February NFL topic).
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: Registration: 7:00 – 7:15 a.m.
Drops of entries 7:30 am (for coaches/judges not present by 7:30am)
Judges Instructions: 8:00 a.m. Round 1 8:30 a.m. (Parli topic at 8:15) Round 2 9:30 a.m. (Parli topic at 9:15) Round 3 11:15 a.m. (Parli topic at 11:15) Lunch service 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Round 4 1:15 p.m. (Parli topic at 1:15) Round 5 3:15 p.m. (Parli topic at 3:15) Finals 5:30 p.m. (Parli topic at 5:30) Awards 7:30 p.m. Entry Procedure
I. Eligibility
All contestants must have earned at least one win at a preliminary CFL debate tournament in any head-to-head debate event (Policy, LD, Parli, or Forum). Schools are granted one "exception" entry – one team may be entered without a previous league win. II. Entry Submission
Students are entered via Joy of Tournaments (www.joyoftournaments.com). The entry deadline is 5:00p.m. Wednesday, February 17. Entry Limits
Each school may enter up to four (4) teams total. Schools can divide these teams among the events as they wish; however, any school that enters two teams each in Parliamentary and Public Forum will receive two additional bonus entries. In addition, any parliamentary or Public Forum team that was undefeated in the Varsity division at any CFL preliminary tournament (MA, Milpitas or St Francis) may be entered as a "wild card" in the event in which it was undefeated. Each "wild card" entry will be matched against non-wild card teams twice in the first three preliminary rounds. "Wild card" entries do not take one of the school's 4 entry slots. If you have any questions about eligibility or entry limits, please ask ASAP. We will be checking entries as they come in, but we may not identify every issue until registration is closed. At that point, if you have an ineligible entry, you will have very little time to adjust. It is the responsibility of the coach to enter correctly. Fees $40.00 per debate team Judges Please provide one judge for every student entered (2 judges per team) for every round including Finals. Judges should be prepared to adjudicate both Parliamentary and Public Forum rounds. Awards and State QualificationTOURNAMENT FORMAT: All teams are guaranteed five preliminary rounds. Power-matching begins with either Round 3 or 4, depending on entry size. The Vice President of Debate (or his designee) serves as Tournament Director, and on the morning of the tournament, s/he will announce how power-matching will occur. After Round 5, all undefeated teams will qualify to the State Championships. The sixth and final round will feature a debate for each of the remaining qualifying slots to the State Championships. (Our league is allocated 4 entries each in Parli and Forum.) Teams will advance to Finals based on: 1. Overall record 2. Number of individual judgesÕ ballots won 3. Total speaker points, subtracting highest and lowest scores Once teams advance to the Finals, they will be seeded based on the above criteria, with the top Finalist matched against the lowest seed, the next-highest against the next-lowest, and so on. Adjustments may be made to avoid a debate between two teams from the same school. See Article V, Section 10, Paragraph A, Item 9 of our League By-Laws for further details. The winners of the Final round debates will join the undefeated teams as our leagueÕs entries at the State Championships. Alternates will be ranked according to their seeding entering the Final round. Trophies will be awarded to all Finalists, including the undefeated teams that receive a ÒbyeÓ in the Finals. | ||||
