Sandra Day O’Connor

Twelfth Annual Forensics Tournament

Tournament Directors: Alex Birnel, Nick Schaedel, Gyles Sonier, & Kirk Cox

Tournament Sponsor: Regina Canales & Dariela Rodriguez

12221 Leslie Road * Helotes, TX 78023 * 210-397-4800

We cordially invite you to Sandra Day O’Connor’s Twelfth Annual Forensics Tournament in San Antonio on September 25th. We are very excited to welcome you to our beautiful campus. We are offering one prelim round for all individual events and three rounds of debate. Please wait in the Ag Multipurpose Building until the tournament begins.

Events
Section A: NX, FX, DX

Section B: DI, PR, OO

Section C: Student Congress

Section D: DA, DUO, HI, PO

Section E: PFD, LD

A Novice is defined as a student in their first year of competition.

Students in Section A can only enter ONE extemp division and can only cross-enter in Sections B and D . Students can enter two events in Section D. Students entered in Section C can only cross-enter once in Section A. Students entered in Section E cannot cross-enter.

Humorous Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, Original Oratory, Duo Interpretation, Duet Acting, Poetry, Prose, Novice Emtemporaneous Speaking, Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking, Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking, Student Congress, Public Forum, and Lincoln Douglas Debate.

Sweepstakes trophies will be awarded to the top three schools, speaker awards will be given in debate, and trophies will be given for quarters and beyond in debate. We will not break brackets in debate.

Please note:
Public Forum topic will be the September NFL resolution.

Lincoln Douglas topic will be the Sept/Oct NFL resolution.

*******Debaters are reminded to report to rooms as soon as postings

occur. If your students are not in their rooms by the time that is

posted on the pairings - they will receive an automatic loss. Coaches

and judges will be reminded of this as well. We will not have our

tournament run late because kids are are being prepped by coaches

or asst. coaches. Thank you for understanding this issue.**********

Email me with PO candidates for Prelims and Semis. Congress will have adult PO's and Scorers in Finals.

The chamber can then order the docket as it sees fit.

***Congress will be using legislation...

Prelims: 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 21, 28

Semis (if needed): 2, 8, 9, 10, 15, 22, 23, 25, 26, 30

Finals: 1, 3, 4, 13, 19, 20, 24, 27, 29

Available on the TFA website at: www.txfa.org/congress.asp***

Entry Guidelines

All Texas Forensics Association rules will be followed. This is a TFA State qualifying tournament for member schools. Please enter early; we will accept entries until we reach capacity. You may enter up to eight LD debaters and eight PF teams in each division. All others will be wait-listed, and we'll notify you if they are eligible for entry. We will try our best to allow as many debaters as possible into the tournament.

Conflict Pattern

Section A	(Extemp): DX FX NX	Students may enter 1 division
Section B	Dramatic Prose Oratory	Students may enter 2 events.
Section C	Congress	Students may enter one event.
Section D	DUO DA HI PO	Students may enter two events.
Section E	LD PFD	Students may enter one event.

Cross-entered contestants are responsible for making it in time to the events. If they are not on time, we WILL NOT delay rounds for cross-entered contestants.

Deadlines
All preliminary entries are due by 4pm on Friday, September 17th. All drops made after this time will result in loss of entry fee. Final entries need to be in by Monday, September 20 at 11:59PM. Drops after 4pm on Wednesday, September 22, 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 $10 fee.

Fees

Individual Events	$10.00
Congressional Debate	$15.00
Duet Acting/Duo	$15.00
Lincoln Douglas & Public Forum Debate	$25.00

Schools must provide a check or purchase order at registration for the entire amount owed in order to participate.

Judges
All school judges are on standby for every round. Please report to library fifteen minutes before round begins.

We are trying to panel all Semi-final rounds. So please be especially attentive during those times. We might really need your help midday on Saturday to make this happen.

Judging fees will be assessed on Friday, September 10th. Schools missing judges will be charged a $75.00 fee for each missing debate judge. Missing IE judges will be $50.00. This money will go to hiring judges. If you have more than two debate entries, you must provide at least one debate judge. You may not "buy out" of all your judging obligations. Any judge provided by a school who does not show up for a ballot risks disqualifying their team and/or being charged the uncovered ballot fee. All coaches are on standby for each round.

Minimum requirements:

1. Four (4) PF teams/LD Debaters, or portion thereof = 1 judge

2. Seven (7) Individual Events, SC & DA, or any portion thereof = 1 judge

Lodging Information

Drury Inn and Suites
15806 IH-10 West - San Antonio, TX, 78249 - P: 210-696-0800 F: 1-877-450-3516

Four Points by Sheraton
6809 North Loop 1604 West San Antonio, Texas 78249 Phone (210) 690-0300

Staybridge Suites
6919 NORTH LOOP 1604 WEST SAN ANTONIO TX US 78023