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Dear Lone Star NFL District Coach, The Lone Star NFL District Tournament (IEs and Debate) will be held on March 9-10 at Plano West Senior High, 5601 West Parker Road Plano, TX 75093. Please consider bringing as many students as your school is allotted. The District Tournament is a wonderful experience and our District offers some of the best talent in the entire country. Even your younger, less-experienced students will benefit from observing outstanding competitors from across the metroplex. The larger the entry numbers, the more qualifications spots our district will have at the national tournament. Each year, incredibly talented and deserving students are left at home because some schools do not use their maximum entry numbers. Students must be members of the NFL; the total number of members and degrees on file 7 days before the tournament determine a school's allotment of entries. It is important that your student's points be entered in a timely manner to ensure maximum participation in the District Tournament and at NFL Nationals. Four entries (maximum) per event per school are allowed in IE’s and debate. The formula for allotting entries to each school is indicate in the NFL District Tournament Manual, which can be found at nflonline.org We will be using the California plan of advancing through the IE tournament. Double entries will be allowed, but students will be required to submit single letters of intent at registration. NFL requires that speaker order be unchanged, so students who double enter and cannot make it to one of their speaker times on time will be ranked last in the round. The judge recruitment form will be emailed to numerous judges that have judged for Lone Star in the past. Please email the form to any highly qualified judges that won’t be coded against 2-3 schools in our district. Such coding will preclude their use during the tournament so we won’t be able to hire them. We need help from all Lone Star coaches in our search for judges. **** Please note that decision on full availability is decided by committee, not by person submitting form. Judges will be paid at the tournament/s. Schools bringing large entry numbers should not encourage their own alum to apply as it will be difficult to use those judges. Lone Star coaches will not be utilized in the judge pool except as a last resort, but coaches from other districts may be recruited. Judge recruitment forms, when completed by the applicant, should be emailed to Cindi Timmons, Lone Star District Chair, at cktimmons@aol.com, for review. The Lone Star District Committee will notify those judges that will be hired. The deadline for judge applications to be emailed to Cindi Timmons is February 20. Fees you will need to send BEFORE registration at the tournament: 1) Fees owed to the NFL national office 2) Lone Star District membership dues, 3) Entry fee check made payable to Lone Star NFL, mailed to our District Treasurer, Patti Weinbrenner, John Paul II High School, 900 Coit Road, Plano, TX 75075. Materials you will need to have at registration: 1) School entry from the [Entries] page of Joy of Tournaments or from nflonline.org 2) School membership printout 3) Single entry letters of intent 4) Tournament registration with signature pages including the principal 5) Interp materials (review requirements in the District Tournament Manual) 6) Oratory copy (review requirements in the District Tournament Manual) District registration form download
If you have any questions please contact Cindi Timmons at cktimmons@aol.com or 214-683-3356.
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