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23rd Annual Maine NFL District Tourney Edward Little Saturday, February. 27, 2010 You are cordially invited to the 23nd Annual Maine NFL District Qualifier
to be hosted by Edward Little High School on Saturday February 27, 2010. The 2 top
competitors in each event (if sufficient entries are registered) will have the
opportunity of representing his/her school, district and state in the National
Tournament, where competitors will be “Jazzin’ it up” in The deadline for online registration
will be Thursday, February 11, 2010. REMEMBER – Only students with at least 25 points on record with
NFL at least 7 days prior to the tourney are eligible to participate! Please be sure to log your points as soon after
the CFL qualifier as possible, or sooner if your school is not attending. In addition, schools must be paid in full with NFL prior to the District
Tourney. Schools with outstanding
bills to NFL (including new memberships) must pay them in full PRIOR to being
allowed to compete. You can make this
payment at the tournament by check or cash along with your registration fee. Any school unable to pay their bills and
registration fees at the District Tournament will not be allowed to participate. Categories: Speech Events - Original Oratory, Domestic Extemp, Foreign Extemp,
Dramatic Interp, Humorous Interp, and Duo Interp. Please consult your manual regarding sources. Please also have cuttings and source material
present in case of protest. Burden of
Proof will be on the student/coach as per NFL guidelines. Lincoln/Douglas Debate – January/February Topic Public Forum – February topic Student Congress – 1 Senate and 1 House (if numbers allow for 2
chambers) Judging Requirements: As always, we all need to do our very best to ensure that the
judge pool is a competent and discriminating group with as much expertise as
possible! Judging requirements are 1 judge per 3 Speech entries and all
fractions thereof. Public Forum requires one judge per 2 teams, LD requires one judge per 2 debaters. Stuco
requires one judge per house division per school. Be sure to specify particular strengths on
your registrations, please. I would like to continue the MFA rules for supplying unaffiliated
judges. I cannot at this time guarantee
a large pool of For-Hire judges. Please
help us all by fulfilling your stated requirements and by supplying the
requisite number of judges. If you have access to extra judges, I can make
arrangements for payment, but be sure to contact me to confirm this. A reminder – Parents may NOT judge the event in which their child
is competing – absolutely no exceptions to this rule are allowed! BE AWARE OF THIS FOR DEBATE JUDGING
ASSIGNMENTS!! Please also note that all judges are expected to be available for
ALL rounds of competition. Fines will be
assessed for any and all early departing judges. Speed and expediency are secondary to a
well-run tournament and to the best interests of our students. Registration: DEADLINE – Thursday February 11, 2010
Online (using Joy of Tournaments) and faxed or email copy of
registration paperwork. Fax to 333-6324
(please call first so I can hit the button on the fax machine) or email to deveau@megalink.net. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAND
DELIVER THE REGISTRATION TO ME AT CFLs, I WOULD BE THRILLED TO ACCEPT IT. A hardcopy of your registration paperwork sent via snail-mail by Friday February 12, 2010. This seemingly early registration is due to
the February vacation break. Address: Kris Deveau REGISTRATION AND SINGLE ENTRY LETTER OF INTENT FORMS ARE AVAILABLE
ON THE NFL WEBSITE or can be printed from the Joy of Tournaments Registration
website. On the NFL website, go to
District Information and then the District Resources heading. From there, you will see all relevant
forms. THESE DOCUMENTS NEED TO BE MAILED TO
ME: 1. REGISTRATION
FORM – SEPARTE FORMS FOR STUCO AND SPEECH/DEBATE -COMPLETED, SIGNED BY YOU,
SIGNED BY ALL STUDENTS, SIGNED BY THE PRINCIPAL AND INCLUDE APPROPRIATE SOURCE
CITATIONS. PLEASE – be sure to write in the students’ names exactly as they
are registered on the NFL website – this helps National Office to properly
match the students and to get the points logged more quickly. 2. SINGLE
ENTRY LETTERS OF INTENT FOR ANY STUDENTS WISHING TO ENTER TWO EVENTS. FORM NEEDS TO BE SIGNED BY YOU, SIGNED BY
STUDENT, SIGNED BY PRINCIPAL AND SIGNED BY PARENT. All manners of double entries are allowed except of course for Stuco
as there is no possibility of leaving the chambers for other events. NO STUDENT
MAY COMPETE IN 2 CATEGORIES IF THIS SHEET IS NOT COMPLETED. 3. COPY
OF YOUR ORIGINAL ORATORY MANUSCRIPTS.
You must “identify quoted material, state the number of quoted words,
include a work cited page in APA or MLA format, and both the orator and the
coach must attest by signature that the oration is the original work of the
contestant.” (District Tournament Operations Manual pg. D-40) No registration will be considered complete without ALL FORMS properly
filled in. DAY OF TOURNAMENT AND DROP NOTIFICATION Drops may be entered on Joy of Tournaments Registration website
until 5pm Friday, February 26 without penalty.
Drops AFTER this time should still be called in 319-6131 or emailed to
deveau@megalink.net , but will be assessed $ 10 late fee PER ENTRY. Please arrive at Edward Little between 8:00 and 8:30am. Round I in the Debate events will begin
promptly at 9:00 with Speech and Stuco anticipated to start at 9:30am. Registration Fees are $ 7.00 per entry, $ 14 for each team (Duo
and Public Forum). PLEASE remember to
bring all Interp sources with you to the tournament. Lunch: Food will be available for all judges and coaches for breakfast,
lunch and dinner (if necessary). Concessions
for breakfast, lunch and dinner (if necessary) will be available for the
students to purchase. Awards: NFL supplies plaques to the qualifiers in each event. Awards will be presented at the end of the
tourney. Directions: Mapquest School Address is: I hope that this covers everything! If you have any questions at all, please
e-mail me or call me as soon as possible.
I look forward to seeing you all at Edward Little on February 27! I also strongly recommend that you download the District
Tournament Operations Manual and read up – there are changes every year! Best Regards, Kris Deveau – Chairperson (Edward Little), Dan Haskell (Cheverus),
Aurelie Bush ( SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING THIS TOURNAMENT AND RESERVE ENTRIES: It is critically important to enter as many people as possible to
allow 2 students to qualify, to improve our standing and hopefully get
ourselves to Green status next year.
PLEASE ask ALL of your NFL member students to attend the NFL qualifying
tournament as a ‘filler’ in another category if not competing in their primary
events. For example, novice debaters can
enter STUCO or Extemp. This not only
helps other Thanks everyone- NFL District Committee FORMS
FROM NFL WEBSITE: District Tourney Registration Congress Registration Single Entry Letter of Intent NFL Chapter List CHECKLIST - Did
you Remember: 1)
District Registration Form A)
Signed by You B)
Signed by all of your competing students C)
Signed
by your Principal D)
Names of cuttings and sources 2)
Congress Registration Form (If applicable) A)
Signed by You B)
Signed by all of your competing Students C)
Signed
by your Principal 3)
Single Entry Letter of Intent Form (For
ALL double entered students) A)
Signed by You B)
Signed by all of your competing Students C) Signed by your Principal D)
Signed
by the Parent of each student 5)
Original
Oratory Manuscript A) Signed by You B) Signed by Orator C) # quotes and identified D) Work cited page 6)
Speech events - Bring your original
cutting and sources in case of a challenge 7)
Please be sure to list additional students
as Reserve Entries! It is always
a good thing to have a buffer!!! No registration will be considered complete unless all of the
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