AS OF 10 AM THURSDAY, THIS SITE WILL BE CLOSED TO CHANGES; ANY FURTHER DROPS OR ADDS NEED TO BE MADE BY CONTACTING ME DIRECTLY.

THIS IS THE RESCHEDULED TROJAN CLASSIC TOURNAMENT!

 

 When:  January 22& 23, 2010
 What:  ***For Oklahoma  schools, we have a Qualifying division in 6A
              *** For all  schools, we will have a full offering of ALL events in Championship division, PLUS Student Congress (both days), Public Forum Debate (as a full debate event with prelims on Friday and elims on Saturday) and Duo Interp. 

Sorry, we will not have a Novice Division this time around      

       Why:  Variety & Quality: We have been named a Qualifier Tournament for the NIETOC (National Individual Events Tournament of Champions) and hope that will bring additional schools to our contest. In the past few years we have had a tremendous mix of schools for this event, including Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Nebraska, and New York. Having your  school here will make the tournament even better!

           Awards: Ours are a cut above the norm…very student-friendly, and we give lots of them!

           Date: A great way to start the new semester off right!

 Deadlines:  I know that Monday, January 18 is a school holiday for most of you; no problem, you can still enter on Tuesday, January 19.

 After 4 PM on Tuesday (Jan 19), you are  responsible for the entry fees for all of your school’s entry. Drop fees of $5 per entry are added for all drops (and adds) after 4 PM on Tuesday (Jan 19). You can still make changes on the website until 10 AM on Thursday, Jan 21, but you will  be charged the $5 per entry penalty for changes in addition to the entry fee. After 10 AM on Thursday, the website will be closed  and you will need to make all changes directly with me, and the appropriate fees will be charged.

 Entries:  No limit on the number a school can enter in an event, but if we “fill up” then we're full.

Cross-entering: The “Patterns” of events listed (which events conflict in time with others) are completely arbitrary at this point and may change during the tournament week as we adjust to use our rooms and judges more efficiently; there is really no problem with students entering events which conflict by time (except for debate & extemp as noted above); we simply adjust speaker positions to allow them to speak in both rounds.

 Judging: 1 per 2 CX teams, 1 per 4 LDers, 1 per 4 Public Forum teams; 1 per 12 IE entries.  Experienced students (3rd or 4th year and over 150 NFL points) may judge in the novice events, but of course cannot be a judge on days/times in which they are competing. In keeping with the desire to make Public Forum a debate event for the community, we will only use adult judges in both divisions of Public Forum. Please note those “novice only” judges on the judges  page.

 

Fees:   

CX :	$10 (per team)
Public Forum	$ 8 (per team)
Duets, Duo:	$ 6  (per team)
LD, Congress:	$ 5
All other IEs:	$ 3
Missing judges	$25 (per day)
Missed ballots (assigned but  not picked up)	$10

 Schedule: The “final” schedule for Saturday will be set by Wednesday evening, January 20 so I can balance entries and room use. Debate rounds start on Friday at 3 PM. IE rounds start Saturday morning at 8 AM; debate elimination rounds will begin by 11 AM Saturday. IF size of Champ events and our local judge pool allows it, we will continue the "2 prelim rounds with 2 judges per round, then Finals" format that w have used at the Trojan Classic for the past 9 years. If they do not we will use the standard Oklahoma prelims-finals format.

We have started the Awards Assembly within 15 minutes of the schedule for the past 6 years.

 Food:  We pride ourselves on having the best snack bar around for the contestants, and your coaches and judges will be well fed at our first-rate Coaches & Judges Lounge. Both of those facilities are located in the Cafeteria building, which is centrally located to all the competition buildings, and both will operate during the entire run of the tournament.

Entries, drops, adds, etc. must  be made through this Joy of Tournaments web site (it’s easy…really…..) until Thursday Jan 21 at 9 AM. If you're having problems, call me on Monday and I'll walk you through setting up your account.

After  9 AM on Thursday, you need to talk to me directly or one of the student tournament officials (Nishant Patel or Mark Rogers) for any changes in your entry. If you need to talk to me, my office phone is 918-299-4415 Ext 2372; my home phone is 918-743-7472; my cell phone (only turned on when I’m not at either land line) is 918-346-3559. My school FAX is 918-298-6608; I can also receive a FAX at home at the same home number. My e-mails aregchartney@cox.net  (home) and gregg.hartney@jenksps.org  (school). (Whew….that should  be enough ways to reach me……..)

 

We hope to see you in January!

 

Mr. Gregg Hartney                                                       Director of Forensics

Ms. Joan Wright                                                          Assistant Coach

Nishant Patel                                                              NFL President