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Colorado Grande NFL District December 9, 2011 Dear Colleagues, This shall serve as your invitation to our Colorado Grande NFL National Qualifying Congress which will be held at Pueblo East High School on January 27-28, 2012. Nancy Groves is our site host, and she will provide me with a hotel list and with Coaches’ Meeting Luncheon details soon. I will forward those to you soon. Legislation and P.O. Intent to Run Letters: Please email me those no later than Thursday, January 5 at noon so that I can return a legislation packet to you by the 10th. Remember that legislation must be in correct format; please use the templates located on the NFL site. Deadlines: Anyone who wishes to bring students to congress must do the following: 1. email me at renee.motter@asd20.org by Friday, December 16, 2011 to let me know that your school intends to participate and to tell me how many students you intend to have competing, 2. register on Joy of Tournaments (http://www.joyoftournaments.com/nfl/ColoradoGrandeSC/) by January 10 (I’ll let you know when registration officially opens on Joy)—you will receive legislation when I receive your registration, 3. snail mail your printed registration forms from Joy of Tournaments as well as your signature sheets to me so that it ARRIVES to me by January 13. That form must have your signature, your principal’s signature and each competing student’s signature. In addition, provide signatures for any possible alternates so that you don’t have to scramble! You must MAIL registration and signature forms to me. This form can not be faxed or emailed. I must have original signatures! Remember, I must have the READABLE signatures (NOT autographs!!) of each of your competitors as well as your signature and your principal's signature. REMEMBER, you must list the competitor’s name as it appears on the NFL web site! Fees: You may bring your checks with you made out to Colorado Grande NFL District. The fee for the entire Congress is $16.00 per congress person. There will also be a lunch fee for you and for any adult with you who will be attending the coaches’ luncheon meeting; I’ll send that information out with the hotel and luncheon information. Late Fees:
Who May Be Seated: ONLY NFL members who are on record and who have PAID memberships at least one week prior to the opening of the congress may be seated. Therefore, it is imperative that you get your students registered as members and that you get their fees paid. The number you may seat is dictated by the number of degrees you have on record one week prior to the opening of congress. Get those points updated. Below I have provided the chart of how many congress persons you may seat. Remember that each school is allowed to seat two senators but that the number of representatives is determined by the number of degrees your school has on record. By sending new points in now you may continue to increase that number up until January 20 at 2:00 p.m. Schedule for the Congress: Registration will be held from 12:30 until 1:00 p.m. with Session I opening at 1:30. The committee is looking at doing a few different things with the schedule this year since we can start earlier. I’ll send you a schedule as soon as we iron things out. Chart Listing number
you may bring: # of degrees Senate House 1 – 20 2 2 21 – 35 2 3 36 – 55 2 4 56 – 75 2 5 76 – 100 2 6 101 – 150 2 7 151 – 200 2 8 201 – 250 2 9 *If you log onto NFLonline.org and then log on as your school and then click on District Tournament Report on the left side of the screen, the chart shows you exactly how many degrees you have on record, and it shows you how many slots you have for NFL National Qualifying Districts and for National Qualifying Congress. Coaches Luncheon Meeting: If you have any items that you wish to have placed on the agenda, please email them to me. Remember, this is the meeting where you announce to run for next year’s committee. Should you wish to run, yet you know you will not be in attendance, please email me your candidate statement, and I will read it for you so that everyone knows you wish to be considered! Judging Responsibilities: There will be two Senates; one person from each school is seated in each Senate. The number of Houses depends on the number of entrants. Schools must divide evenly. This means that for any school with up to 75 degrees, they will have only one member in a House. Those schools with 76 to 250 degrees will have two representatives in one or more Houses. No, you may not put team members together for comfort reasons. It is imperative that we have coaches working to ensure the quality of each chamber. Therefore, each school must provide a parliamentarian and/or scorer for two of the three sessions. Please email me the name(s) of the one who will work the two sessions for your school. And yes, that person may be you. Your NFL committee is still working on figuring out how our district will implement the new NFL rules for congress which take place this year. Supervision (a reminder): We have been over this before, but a reminder never hurts. Remember, a coach must be on site with your students AT ALL TIMES. This cannot be someone you simply ask to fill in for you; it must be an OFFICIAL coach recognized by your principal which includes a letter with an ORIGINAL signature indicating that your principal approves that other coach (this may NOT be a parent) being in charge of your kids. Additionally, because each individual coach has responsibilities that must be fulfilled in order to run the tournament, you must provide someone to work/judge the tournament; the coach in charge of your students can NOT take on this responsibility as we have to have enough people to run the tournament. One other important thought: We are limited in the number of houses we can run based on the number of students we have attend. Unless you want your kids debating in rooms of 30, PLEASE plan to bring your full allotment of slots. PLEASE make sure you fill your allotment. Even if you have kids with conflicts later on Friday and/or on Saturday, we can probably work something out to help us out with numbers. I know NONE of us want our kids trying to get speeches with rooms of 30, and I know we ALL want to send as many kids to Nationals as possible. Thanks! Renee C. Motter Colorado Grande District Chair Air Academy High School (719)310-3809 | ||||
