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Intercollegiate policy debate programs are invited to enter two teams in the 2007 Franklin R. Shirley Classic, November 10-12, 2007, hosted by Wake Forest University. Schools may enter more than two teams subject to the conditions listed below. There is a bunch of new and nifty stuff, including a pre-tournament conference and a celebration in honor of Allan Louden. Read on. ENTRIES: Entries of two teams per school will be accepted until midnight October 16 on a first come, first served basis until we have reached our 150 team limit (this limit is necessary due to classroom and other facility limitations). Schools may apply for more teams by adding them to the waitlist subject to the following: As space permits, we will take additional teams, up to a total of four teams per school, as long as ALL THREE OR FOUR teams have cleared to elims in TWO varsity tournaments this fall. If both debaters on the team EITHER cleared twice this fall OR qualified for NDT in the past OR reached elimination rounds at CEDA Nationals in the past, the team is considered to have met the "cleared twice" requirement. No fourth team from a school will be accepted until all eligible third teams from other schools have been accepted. Waivers of the entry rules may be granted at the discretion of the WFU coaching staff. JUDGING (note, there are some new wrinkles here): Each school must provide 4 rounds of prelim judging for each of their first two teams and 5 rounds of judging for each additional team. If you are hiring judging from outside of your school’s staff/alumni, and the tournament cannot place your judges into the required number of rounds, the tournament reserves the right to: 1) adjust the judging obligations of your judges (adding rounds of commitment to those of your judges who are easier to place), and/or 2) charge your school $30.00 per round of unmet obligation. As a norm, all coaches are expected to make themselves available for at least some judging. Prelim rounds must be decided within two hours and forty-five minutes of the posted start time of the debate. The tab room will flip a coin to determine the winner when the judge cannot decide in time. Judges must vote for one and only one team in each debate and must assign speaker points and ranks. SPEAKER POINTS: A 50 point scale will be used. Descriptions of the scale’s “meaning” will be provided (and contested, no doubt) CASELIST and SCOUTING Participating teams and schools are expected to contribute to http://opencaselist.wikispaces.com/ and should provide their most recent affirmative and negative information by the Tuesday before the tournament at latest. Teams and schools should cooperate with Wake Forest students and staff assigned to gather the material. All debates are open to the public and observers are free to use audio or video recording of the debates for their own personal use and for inclusion in tournament caselist and scouting media. TABULATION and PAIRING STUFF We will use an ordinal MPJ system run on STA. Rounds one and two preset. All other prelims power paired hi-low within brackets. Round 6 paired off results of 1-4. No other powered rounds are lag paired. Top 32 teams clear on basis of adjusted points, opp wins, total points, twice adjusted points, ranks, random number. Brackets broken in elims. Side equalization procedure used for elims. FEES: Tournament fees are $60.00 per person (debaters, coaches, judges, scouts). TOURNAMENT HOTEL: The Sundance, 3050 University Parkway, Winston-Salem, NC 27105 (336-723-2911) Flat rate: 79.99 per room per night plus taxes and fees Includes wireless internet (they have increased their capacity), parking, and continental breakfast daily. All elims will be held here. Deadline: rates available until 10-16-2007. Special needs or problems re hotel? Sales contact there is Sheila Small, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RENTAL VANS For vans of all sizes, ask for the Wake Forest Debate rate at Triangle, http://www.trianglerentacar.com/ HOSPITALITY Krispy Kreme, coffee, juice, bagels in the mornings. Water, sodas, aspirin, snacks throughout. Lunch on Sunday. Banquet Sunday night. Special party to honor Allan Louden (see below) plus the usual Survivors Party™ on Monday night after the start of the final round. SPECIAL RECEPTION HONORING ALLAN LOUDEN Allan Louden deserves a good party and he’ll get one. He came to Wake in the fall of 1977. He was Director of Debate until July of 2007. All coaches are invited to a party in Allan’s honor from 7 to 9 pm on Friday, November 9. No pairings will be released until 9 pm. PRE-TOURNAMENT (UN)CONFERENCE Join us for the pre-tournament “(Un)conference” with sessions Friday from 10 until noon, and 1 pm to 3 pm. Both debaters and coaches are welcome to participate at no charge. A public debate will be held at 4 pm (subject to schedule/travel glitches, Glenn Greenwald will debate Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on the subject of civil liberties and the “war on terrorism”). The conference will have a wiki where participants can brainstorm ideas for break out “panels” and create supply and demand for talks and small group sessions. Some ideas for sessions: 2008-9 topic proposals, tournament management and hosting best practices, how to save money on travel, innovative use of web and internet technology, how to publicize debate, how grow your budget, open source evidence and briefs, what works (and doesn’t) in outreach efforts to middle and high schools, how to grow and groom your alumni base, building bridges to local and national politics. Ultimately, the sessions will be shaped by the participants. The (un)conference is motivated by the belief that debaters and coaches get too little time to step back and share ideas, questions, and concerns with one another. SCHEDULE: Friday, November 9 Pre-tournament conference morning and afternoon sessions Public Debate, 4 pm Registration 6-9 pm Party honoring Allan Louden, 7-9 pm Pairings, rounds 1 and 2, 9 pm Saturday, November 10, 2007 Four debates, rounds begin at 8 am Rounds 1 and 2 are pre-set. Rounds 3 and 4 are individually paired, high-low. Sunday Four debates, rounds begin at 8 am Rounds 5 and 6 are lag paired high-low. Rounds 7 and 8 are individually paired, high-low. Banquet, 8:30 pm Monday Elims (side equalized, brackets broken) begin with double octas at 8 am LOOK FOR MORE DETAILS coming soon at http://groups.wfu.edu/debate/ -- Ross K. Smith Director of Debate Wake Forest University 336-251-2076 (c) 336-758-5268 (o) http://groups.wfu.edu/debate/ http://www.DebateScoop.org _______________________________________________ CEDA-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.ndtceda.com/mailman/listinfo/ceda-l
