Tom C. Clark High School

Presents

 

The Cat In The Hat Invitational

 

Friday, February 3 – Saturday, February 4, 2012

 

Tournament Director: Lauren Velez

Tournament Sponsor: Cassandra Zuniga

5150 De Zavala Rd    San Antonio, Texas 78249

Email: cassandra.zuniga@nisd.net

210.397.5190 ext.3247 or 210.273.0511 

 

The Clark Forensics League would like to invite you to attend the

The Cat in the Hat Invitational on Friday, February 3 - Saturday, February 4, 2012.

We welcome everyone!  We will be offering a one day tournament schedule in two days: one preliminary round for all individual events and three preliminary rounds for debate events. 

 

Dedication goes both ways. Cassandra “CJ” Hicks, a former Clark extemporaneous speaker and congressional debater, dedicated her heart and soul to Clark Forensics.  We will dedicate this tournament to her. CJ suddenly passed away on December 26, 2006. She was a strong competitor and great friend to all that knew her. The Clark forensics team will present an award to the best overall competitor at the end of the awards ceremony in her memory. We feel that rewarding those who excel at the tournament will be the best way to honor CJ.

 

In support of early literacy, the Clark Forensics League would like your support in our book drive.  One of the most important things that you can do is to read to your child every day; it's the most effective strategy for developing critical early reading skills in children and promoting school readiness.  If your team would like to participate, please bring new or gently used books to registration.  The team that donates the most books will decide which local organization / facility the books will be donated to.  

 

We will offer the following events:

DX, FX, OO, DI, HI, DA, DUO, PR, PO, SC, PF, Novice LD and LD. 

Students may enter multiple individual events at their own risk, but only enter one division of extemporaneous speaking.  If you are entered in the debate events, you may only cross-enter in DX, FX, or OO. Cross-entered contestants are responsible for making it on time to all events.  No round will be delayed due to cross-entries.  ALL Cross-Entered students MUST sign in with the judge prior to competing.  If the contestant fails to notify the judge that they are cross-entered, the contestant risks "no-showing" the round and penalty fees will be assessed.  Judges will be asked to stay 15 minutes to confirm no-shows.  Once the judge leaves the room, the round will be considered complete and the judge will not be asked to go back to judge a late contestant.  Please inform your cross-entered students on this matter.

We will not break brackets in debate.

Lincoln Douglas topic will be the January/February NFL resolution. 

The Public Forum topic will be the February NFL resolution. 

Congress will be using legislation:

PRELIMS: 16-30

FINALS: 1-15

Legislation is available on the TFA website at: http://www.txfa.org/congress.asp

Students can run for Presiding Officer in prelims but not in finals.

 

 All Texas Forensics Association rules will be followed.  This is a TFA State qualifying tournament for member schools.  If you need a copy of TFA contest rules, please access their website at www.txfa.org. Please enter early; we will accept entries until we reach capacity.  If room limits are reached before the registration deadline, we will close registration to those events.  All others will be wait-listed, and we will notify you if they are eligible for entry. 

 

You must enter online at: www.joyoftournaments.com/tx/clark

 

All entries are due by 4pm on Tuesday, January 31. All drops made after this time will result in loss of entry fee. Drops after 4pm on Thursday, February 3, will result in a fee double the entry fee. Drops on the day of the tournament will result in triple the entry fee. No-shows to rounds will also be assessed an additional $20 penalty fee and the student competitor will be withdrawn from the event postings.

 

1.    If you are traveling to Clark on a school bus or on a charter bus, please do not use our bus loop.  Instruct your driver to use the Student Parking Lot entrance (by the railroad track) in order to ease the flow of traffic for our Clark students and parents.  

2.    Clark Forensics League Students will be on site to direct coaches, students, and judges. 

3.    Coaches please direct your students to go the cafeteria (Building C) and wait there until postings are up. 

4.    Registration will be located in the Library.  Teams may drop off extemp tubs at registration or Saturday morning in the library (Building A).

5.    Tab will be located in room C207 (Building C).

6.    A coach or an approved adult sponsor must accompany contestants.  We need to be able to locate you if an issue may arise.

7.    Hospitality and the Cafeteria are located in Building C.  Tables will be set up in the cafeteria for each school.  Please advise your students of this before arriving at Clark.  Students should remain in this area when not competing.

8.    Extemp draw will be located in the Library (Building A).  You may drop off your tubs Friday night. 

9.    Concessions will be available for the students. 

10.  There are many restaurants within walking distance of the school.

11.  All food and drink should be kept in the cafeteria area.    

12.  Students may not enter a contest room unless a judge is present. Failure to comply with this rule will result in disqualification.

13.  No stereos with external speakers will be allowed at any time in the student area.  No guitars or any other musical instrument is to be played in the student area.  Headphones are acceptable.

14.  A Northside police officer and a Tom C. Clark Administrator will be on campus throughout the duration of the tournament. 

15.  The use of tobacco (in any form), drugs, or alcohol is prohibited on all Northside ISD property and ANYONE caught using these substances will be turned over the Northside ISD police. 

16.  Any defacing or damaging school property will result in instant disqualification of that student and team.  The incident will be reported to the authorities and students will be subject to arrest. 

17.  Coaches please confirm all of your students are off of the Tom C. Clark campus before you depart the tournament site.