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JV/Novice State Championship Welcome to the 2011 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. Policy Debate will have 5 preliminary rounds with the first 2 rounds being pre-sets and the rest being powered high/low within brackets. JV Policy Debate will break to quarterfinals and Novice Policy Debate will break to Octofinals. Lincoln-Douglas Debate will have 6 preliminary rounds with the first 2 rounds being pre-sets and the rest being powered high/low within brackets. In LD all 4-2 records will clear to elimination rounds. LD Debate will be single flighted at this year's JV/Novice State Tournament. In order to accomodate this action we are going to have to utilize a handful of creative competition spaces. Public Forum Debate will have 6 preliminary rounds with the first 2 rounds being pre-sets and the rest being powered high/low within brackets. In Public Forum all 4-2 records will clear to elimination rounds. Public Forum Debate will be single flighted at this year's JV/Novice State Tournament. In order to accomodate this action we are going to have to utilize a handful of creative competition spaces. 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 $30.00 per team, Public Forum entries will be $30.00 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 2011 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 5 schools based upon points earned in competition through the first elimination round in each event. 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 Wednesday November 23rd at 5:00 PM and all changes to your entry made no later than 5:00 PM on Wednesday November 30th. After 5:00 PM on Wednesday November 30th any and all changes will incur a one-time $25.00 nuisance fee. All teams are encouraged to phone Chris McDonald at 651-283-5976 on Friday December 2nd 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 26 – 30 with points below 26 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 2 Lincoln-Douglas debaters. All schools with Public Forum teams should provide 1 judge for every 2 Public Forum Teams entered. The tournament will have a very limited supply of judges for hire at a rate of $100.00 per day. Any and all requests for hired judges should be made no later than Monday November 21st. 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. No more than 1/2 of your team's judges in any given novice format may be current seniors in high school. This requirement helps us to be able to schedule elimination round judges. All judges are required to stay through the first full elimination round of competition after their competitors are eliminated. 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 day fee for each missing judge. | ||||
