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Dear Colleagues,?We are excited to invite you and your students to attend the Sunshine Showdown Invitational, to be held in Orlando, October 5, 2019. This year’s tournament will be hosted by the University of Central Florida at our new downtown campus. This invitation contains all the information you will need to register, including hotel info. Important Features:Tab: Patrick Waldinger will be running tab. Seth Fendley will act as Tournament Director. ADA: The Novice Division will use the ADA evidence set. Format: There will be one division which will exclusively use the ADA Novice Packet. There will be four prelim rounds with first and second place determined based on win record and ties broken based on speaker points. ?Seth FendleyJeff Butler Director of DebateUniversity of Central Floridaseth.fendley@ucf.eduHotel InformationThe tournament hotel is the Marriott Orlando Downtown, 400 West Livingston Street, Orlando, FL 32801 (407) 868-8686. Website . The Marriott is next door to campus, and you will be able to walk to rounds if you stay the night before. There is no room block due to the size of the tournament, but I have been informed that asking for the government rate is traditionally better than the room block rates they give us anyway.Tournament Location & ParkingWe are doing our best to keep the tournament contained to either the Union West or Communication and Media Buildings. We will post an update on which building we will be based out of once rooms have been finalized. The address for the downtown campus is 500 West Livingston St. Orlando, FL 32801.ParkingIf you spend the night before the tournament at the Marriott, you should be able to stay parked there for free. If you are not staying the night before there is street parking on Livingston available for a fee. There is also a city parking lot attached to the Marriott parking lot that will have a weekend rate available.Tournament EntryOnline registration is available at . Please enter your teams by 5pm Monday, September 30th (so our preset committee can do its work) and specify your judging by 5pm Tuesday, October 1st. Please contact if you are not going to be able to meet your judging requirements.FeesThe fee for the tournament is $10 per person for all competitors, as well as all judges and scouts for teams paying with cash or check. Make checks payable to “UCF.” Any drops after the 9/30 deadline will incur the regular registration fee. Tournament Check-in will take place online via Tabroom. Entries can be paid at the tournament in person either prior to round one start or during the lunch break.If you need an invoice prior to the tournament or a W-9, please e-mail Seth Fendley at seth.fendley@ucf.edu with relevant details.JUDGING REQUIREMENTSWe expect each school to cover their own judging obligations. This tournament has a unique focus on novice education. As such, we expect most judges to be used for their full commitment. Due to the small size of the field we will more than likely forgo judge preferencing. It is important that judges approach this tournament from an educational perspective and not so much from a win/loss perspective. This means judging biases should be left at the door and feedback should be focused on how to make students better debaters.One judge covers two teams for all four rounds. As such if you have four teams you would need two judges, six teams three judges, etc. Judges will have 2 hours from the start of every prelim round to turn in a decision. Since this is a one day tournament it is important that we work to keep rounds on schedule.All judges are in the same pool. We will assign judges from schools without JV or Novice teams to judge debates in those divisions to fill a judging commitment.We expect all judges at the tournament to make a decision at the end of the round signifying that one team has won and the other team has lost the debate, and to fill in appropriate speaker points. Ballots attempting to award a double win or loss will be adjusted to this procedure by use of a coin toss.TOURNAMENT ADMINISTRATION DETAILSEligibilityWe will debate the official CEDA resolution. The tournament is focused on serving students who it is the first year in college policy debate and/or are novice eligible based on CEDA/ADA guidelines. Hybrid may be allowed at the discretion of the tournament director. If you wish to enter a hybrid team into the tournament, please contact seth.fendley@ucf.eduMaverick teams cannot register; debaters may debate maverick due to illness or other partner issues, but all maverick debates will be ‘for educational purposes only’ following ADA guidance. Speaker PointsWe will use speaker points on a 0-30 scale in tenths but will not use ranks. The first two prelim debates will be preset as A v. B and AA/BB. Rounds 3 & 4 will be power matched if possible though most likely the entire tournament will be pre-paired in advance due to judge and side constraints.Tournament governing issues: Any matter that arises in the course of tournament administration will be handled at the discretion of the Tournament Administrator. The Administrator will make decisions that conform to UCF’s policies and procedures. This includes UCF’s relevant policies on harassment and discrimination. The Administrator will also use the CTD document as a guide where applicable. Tentative ScheduleSaturday, October 5th ?8:30am ????????????? Breakfast & Pairings Released for Rounds 1 and 29:00am ????????????? Round 1 11:00am???????????? Round 2 ?1:00pm???????????? Lunch?2:15pm ????????????? Round 3 ?4:15pm ????????????? Round 4 ?Awards: 6:30PM ................
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