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JV/Novice State Championship Welcome to the 2009 JV/Novice Debate Championships. Eagan High School is happy to play host to the state of Minnesota’s up and coming students of debate. This year’s JV/Novice Championships will feature Junior Varsity Policy, Novice Policy, Junior Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, Novice Lincoln-Douglas, Junior Varsity Public Forum and Novice Public Forum Debate. In all events the first two rounds will be pre-set and all subsequent rounds will be powered high-low within brackets. Brackets in elimination rounds will not be broken so if two debate entries from the same school are matched up in elimination rounds, the decision of which debater will advance will be left to the school’s coaching staff. All policy, public forum and LD events with greater than 50 entries will have 5 preliminary rounds and break to octo-finals all those that fall below 50 entries will have 5 preliminary rounds and than advance to quarterfinals. Any event with over 101 entries will have 5 preliminary rounds and break to double octo-finals. Food: Our parent’s booster club will provide an ample selection for sale to all contestants and other individuals in attendance as spectators down in our student commons area. We ask that everyone stay at EHS and make use of our concession stand in order to keep the tournament running on time. For all of our coaches and judges in attendance our parent’s booster club along with my wife Ceil will be providing the usual array of homemade soup, baked goods and other treats throughout the weekend. Please note that because dinner is a little later than normal on Friday evening we will be providing ample snacks in our coaches/judges lounge for you to snack on as well as selling a wide variety of snacks to our competitors throughout the tournament day. Entry Fees: Policy debate entries will be $25.00 per team, Public Forum entries will be $25.00 per team and all LD entries will be $15.00 per entry. Please make all entries payable to EHS Debate. You can send your entry fees to: Eagan High School Awards: We will present all octo-finalists, quarterfinalists, semifinalists and finalists with award plaques honoring their accomplishments at the 2009 Junior Varsity/Novice State Championships. Speaker awards will be awarded to the top 10 speakers in each of our debate events. Finally, the tournament will award team sweepstakes awards to the top 3 schools based upon points earned by their top 3 entries in each of the competition divisions. Tournament Entries: All tournament entries will be made on the Joy of Tournaments website, which can be found at www.joyoftournaments.com. We would very much like all entries registered on the website no later than Tuesday December 1st at 4:00 PM and all changes to your entry made no later than 5:00 PM on Thursday December 3rd. After 5:00 PM on Thursday December 3rd all drops will incur a $10.00 drop fee. All teams are encouraged to phone Chris McDonald at 651-283-5976 on Friday December 4th to confirm their teams entry is correct on that day before arriving for registration. Event Rules: All debate events will follow Minnesota rules and procedures for speaking times and preparation time. We ask that all judges please record speaker points for every debater they hear on a scale from 24 – 30 with points below 24 being reserved for students who exhibit inappropriate conduct during the course of the round and for points above 28 for outstanding performances. Half point increments are allowable at the JV/Novice Championships. Speaker points should be awarded in all three debate formats (Policy, LD and Public Forum) Judges: All schools are required to provide 1 judge for every 2 policy and 1 judge for every 3 Lincoln-Douglas debaters. All schools with Public Forum teams should provide 1 judge for every 3 Public Forum Teams entered. The tournament will have a very limited supply of judges for hire at a rate of $75.00 per day. Any and all requests for hired judges should be made no later than Monday November 23rd. Senior varsity debaters (this means students who are in 12th grade) will be allowed to serve as a school’s novice division judges but only on the condition that the primary judge for each school be their head coach. Please do not substitute your senior varsity debaters for your judging expertise. Our novice and junior varsity debaters deserve to have the very best judging pool possible. Teams showing up without their full compliment of judges will be charged a $150.00 per missing judge nuisance fee. | ||||
