Tournament #2:  Northwest IN - NFL Debate

Events:
Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, and Public Forum Debate

Doubling:
Public Forum or Policy debaters may double in Lincoln-Douglas.  However, pragmatically speaking, this would be difficult for the student.  Please recall that a student who double enters at this tournament is ineligible for speech entry.  Also, be careful when putting students in Policy or Public Forum teams if you plan to enter them in Duo at the NFL Speech Tournament.

Fees:
Team Fee        =          $25

 

Policy and Public Forum Debate

1^st Team         =          $30
2^nd Team        =          $25
3^rd Team         =          $15
4^th Team         =          Free

 

Lincoln-Douglas
1^st Entry          =          $20

2^nd Entry         =          $15

3^rd Entry          =          $10
4^th Entry          =          Free

 

Drop Fees
Entry               =          $25 after January 20th

Entry               =          $50 on January 26th
Judge              =          $50 per day

Please make all checks payable to Northwest Indiana NFL.  Entry fees may be sent with your green preliminary registration form or may be delivered at final registration.  All fees must be paid for the team to compete – including fees for dropped entries and fees from the national office.

 

Entry Limits:
Entry limits are based on chapter size and include entries for both the debate and speech tournaments.  A school’s total entries can be found at www.nflonline.org by going into "Membership Reports."  Click into the district report on the far right.  Enter our district site by looking for "Northwest Indiana" or by typing in district #31.  Each chapter is listed with several categories of information that includes your chapters entries for the District Speech and Debate tournaments as well as District Congress.  Each school is limited to four entries per event if their chapter size allows it.

 

For the good of the district, every school should attempt to utilize all of its entries between the district debate and speech tournaments.   

 

Utilization of all entries between the speech and debate tournaments without drops will result in the school not being required to pay the team fee for the District Speech Tournament.  

(Drops may be covered with a legal substitution.)  

All students entered must be an NFL member on record seven days prior to the District Debate Tournament.   

If you know of any schools that have debaters and are not NFL members, let’s encourage them to register now as chapters.
 

 

Judges:

* Register your judges on-line.  Head coaches are qualified to judge all three events.  Make sure your additional judges are as flexible as possible.

* Quotas

Policy Judge Ratio - 1 judge for each team
LD Judge Ratio - 1 or 2 entries = 1 judge / 3 or 4 entries = 2 judges
PFD Judge Ratio - 1 or 2 entries = 1 judge / 3 or 4 entries = 2 judges

* If there is no possible way to cover your entry with judges, PLEASE CALL ME. 

* If you have contacts with neutral judges,  PLEASE REGISTER THEM WITH YOUR TEAM LIST AND WRITE A COMMENT NOTIFYING ME OF THEIR NATURE AS A NEUTRAL JUDGE.  IF YOU FILL YOUR QUOTA AND SUPPLY ADDITIONAL NEUTRAL JUDGES, THE DISTRICT WILL LIKELY PROVIDE PAY DIRECTLY TO THESE JUDGES.

* Neutral Judge Definition - The judge has no affiliation with any Northwest Indiana teams and has not judged for you previously and did not travel with you and will not be staying with you.  (If there is any affiliation with NE teams, please notify me in advance).  Please do not register any neutral judges that you do not think are qualified to judge your students because it is likely they will.

 

* Also, please be aware that the committee will likely elect to reduce/refund entry fees for supplying neutral judges to the district beyond your regular judge quota.

National Qualification:
To advance two in an event, the following is needed:
                  12 LD speakers
                  10 Policy teams
                  10 Public Forum teams

Entry Deadline:

Please enter your team on the deadline prior to January 20th, 2012. Remember, students must be registered with NFL seven days prior to the tournament, and you must enter their names as they appear on your NFL record. 

Final Registration: 
 

Penn High School from 3:30-4:00 p.m.

(Eastern Time) on January 27th.

 

Round 1 will begin as close to 4:30 p.m.

as possible (Eastern Time).

Food:
I will provide you with information nearer that time as I receive word from Penn.

Forms to be in my file by the end of final registration.

1.      The Official NFL "Green" Form with signatures.  It does not need to be on green paper.

2.      The Doubling Form with signatures from student, parent, coach, and principal.

         a.      Only a student in LD and a team debate event or a student who participated in NFL
                  Congress will need to fill out a form at this time.

         b.      Please recall that Congress does not count in a student’s double list – only speech and
                  debate events. 

3.      The appropriate fees for the debate tournament.

         a.      Entry fees – See the table at the top.

         b.      Drop fees
         c.      Note – Drop fees may be appealed to the council.  The council suggests making students                               responsible for drop fees.

 

Finally, please make sure all judges know that this is a two day tournament and that they are expected to be present for the entire tournament (unless you have made certain to have two judges - one for each day to count as one slot).

 

ALSO

• Don't forget to return the travelling trophies if your team earned one last year.