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Dear Coach:
You are cordially invited to participate in the 23rd Annual KESDA Senior State Tournament, February16-18, 2012. The tournament will be held at the Clarion Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn-North) in Lexington, KY.
KESDA, the Kentucky Educational Speech and Drama Association, gives senior high students a competitive arena where they can apply the effective communication skills acquired in the classroom and coaching sessions. You’ve worked hard all year, and the KESDA Tournament is the ideal place for your entire team to share their best work with judges and competitors from across the state. This tournament provides your students with both an educational opportunity and an enjoyable weekend of competition and interaction with other schools, including a dance on Friday night (open to all competitors) and an Awards Banquet on Saturday evening.
The 1st place student in each event will be awarded a $5000/year scholarship to Georgetown College, renewable up to four years for a total of $20, 000. Each 1st place student or team will also receive a U.S. Savings Bond worth up to $200.
A school may enter as many entries in each event as desired. Only the top three in each event count toward team sweepstakes. A student may enter a maximum of 5 events (and Group Interp for a total of 6) but cannot do more than 2 events in any given flight. Schools may enter no more than three group interpretation teams. Student Congress will also be offered.
The tournament will be held at the Clarion Hotel in Lexington. We use motel rooms for the preliminary rounds. Each school will be assigned their motel rooms and some of those rooms will be used during the tournament. If you have team parents who do not wish their rooms to be used for competition, they must make their own separate arrangements without any mention of KESDA. They will be offered the walk-in room rate; those rooms will not be eligible for the KESDA discounted rate. Make sure parents understand that if they book a room through your school to get the KESDA rate, then their room is open to use for competition.
Each school will have a minimum of one "safe room,” provided at least five rooms are reserved. Safe rooms will not be used for competition so that you can keep valuables in there or simply use this room as a gathering-spot for your students between rounds. In the event that a school uses less than five rooms, we will attempt to have at least one of your rooms designated a safe room, but this may not be possible. The safe room(s) must be indicated on the rooming list and the people sleeping in that room(s) cannot be changed unless the motel is so notified.**Each school will be entitled to one late Saturday checkout room per five rooms rented. Late check-out is 5:00 p.m. From 5:00 until 6:30 p.m., 1/2 day rate will be charged.
Individual awards will be presented for 1st-6th place in each event, pentathlon and team sweepstakes. We also recognize the top, non-advancing novice in each event. Up to three team awards will be given for the “Greynolds Sweepstakes,” open to schools with twenty or fewer entries. The traveling trophy will be awarded to teams of at least seven students with a combined entry of at least twenty entries. The team must also have attended KESDA three years in succession to be eligible. The award will be based on squad efficiency. Details are available in the current KESDA Handbook.
There are several rules changes and other important information attached. We hope that you will consider this your personal invitation to join us February 16-18, 2012 in Lexington.
We look forward to seeing you at the 2012 KESDA Senior State Tournament.
Sincerely,
Dr. Edward B. Smith & Betsy B. Smith
Dr. Edward B. Smith & Betsy B. Smith Executive Directors, KESDA Georgetown College, 400 East College Street Georgetown, KY 40324 1-502-863-8042; kesda@georgetowncollege.edu
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