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Events offered: Parliamentary and Public Forum debate(March NFL topic: Resolved: The United States should suspend all assistance to Pakistan.)*** YOU MUST BRING MEDICAL FORMS AND HAVE A LEGAL, SCHOOL SANCTIONED CHAPERONE REPRESENTING YOUR SCHOOL AT ALL TIMES FOR ALL TOURNAMENTS.Please understand that if your school does not provide an official school-sanctioned chaperone and/or have available medical forms for all students involved in the tournament, ALL ENTRIES FROM YOUR SCHOOL WILL BE REMOVED ON SITE.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
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 per event – one team in each event 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. Friday, March 2. The drop deadline is 5:00 pm Tuesday March 6. Fees will be assessed then. Chris will send invoices to all schools who have not established a league credit after registration has closed and the drop deadline has passed. All changes in between the 6th and the day of the tournament will be billed after the tournament to ensure that all fees are correct. Also, please do not submit multiple checks for your registration fees. Entries dropped after 5 pm 3/6 will be assessed a late fee of $20 per entry. III. Entry Limits:
As per the vote at the Fall meeting: In Public Forum and Parli, each school may enter twelve students plus wild card entries that may be divided between the two events at the coach’s discretion. IV. Fees:$40.00 per debate team. CFL will bill your school directly. V. Judges:
As per judge quotas in by laws, please provide one judge for every student entered (2 judges per team) for every round including finals. We are speeding up the tournament by single-flighting rounds and will need ALL judges to do this! Judges should be prepared to adjudicate both Parliamentary and Public Forum rounds. Judges must be entered into the computer registration system by March 2nd at 5 pm or teams will be dropped. If all students are not represented by a judge, teams will be dropped to ensure the fairest competition and expectations. All judge information (Name and time slot) MUST be entered in Joy of Tournaments by the registration deadline. There is the option to mark your judges AM or PM, please check both if they are judging all day. Please get all information in as you will hold up the tournament if we have to make a significant number of changes at the tournament. If you do not know all of your judge names simply enter fictitious names for your judges and then tell your parents to pick up the ballot for that name. For example, if I didnt know who was covering one of me LD judge slots for the AM and PM, I could put the name "Charlie Batch" into the computer for the entire day. I would then tell the AM judge I assigned for that slot that they should pick up the ballot for "Charlie Batch" and I would tell the PM judge that they should also pick up the ballot with the name "Charlie Batch." The key to this working is that your judges know they shouldn't be looking for a ballot with their name on it if you didn't enter their name directly into the system. VI.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 6 entries each in Parli and Public Forum.) Teams will advance to Finals based on: 1. Overall record 2. Number of individual judges 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 league's 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 "bye" in the Finals.
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