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Parkway West Fall Classic

October 20th & 21st, 2017

Dear Coaches and Squad,

The Parkway West Chapter of the National Speech & Debate Association is pleased to invite your team to the Parkway West Fall Classic! Parkway West High School will host a full tournament offering an array of NSDA and MSHSAA events and debates for both varsity and novice competitors. We hope to start your season with events to appeal to your newest members as well as seasoned veterans. We will offer Novice & Varsity divisions of all three forms of debate as well as a balance of Public Speaking and Interpretation Events with an array of novice options. Please see the General Rules sections for specifications on the difference in division as well as specifications on electronic usage during rounds.

Also, please note the judging obligations for each school. Please fill out our ONLINE JUDGING FORM for ANY of your school judges, including student judges. Of course, if varsity members do not advance they are also welcome to visit the judging table to receive an assignment. Please remember that students must be in their second year of competition with at least 150 NSDA points to judge.

More information will be coming soon about our team philanthropy. Please check back for details.

Please register through Speechwire by Wednesday, October 11th at 4pm. No additional entries will be accepted after this time. Adjustments can be made to existing entries after this date only if room allows. Drops can be made without penalty by Wednesday, October 18th at 4pm.

We hope to see you in October!

Your hosts,

Cara Borgsmiller Megan Hornsby Rebecca Craig

Forensics & Debate Director Assistant Coach Assistant Coach

314.415.7571

cborgsmiller@

cara.borgsmiller@

Nick Bateman, Cheryl Ma, Ryan O’Connor, Gokul Venkatachalam

Parkway West NSDA Elected Executive Board Members

Parkway West Fall Classic Entry Worksheet

Entries must be submitted via Speechwire. Feel free to use this sheet for your own planning purposes.

You may enter up to FOUR in each event. Call or e-mail if you want more, we can try to accommodate. However, we may have to enforce entry caps.

Domestic Extemp __________

Foreign Extemp __________

Novice Extemp __________

Original Oratory __________

Novice Oratory __________

Radio Speaking __________

Novice Radio __________

Humorous Interp __________

Dramatic Interp __________

Varsity Duo Interp __________

Novice Duo Interp __________

Novice Interp (HI/DI) __________

Varsity POI __________

Novice Prose/Poetry __________

Varsity Informative Speaking __________

Novice Informative Speaking __________

Open Congress __________

Varsity Public Forum __________

Novice Public Forum __________

Varsity Lincoln-Douglas __________

Novice Lincoln-Douglas __________ We reserve the right to collapse any Novice Divisions and

Varsity Policy __________ HI & DI and FX & DX if numbers warrant it.

Novice Policy __________ We may remove Open Informative if numbers warrant it.

TOTAL NUMBER Single Competitor ENTRIES _________ X $7.00 PER ENTRY = $ ______________

TOTAL NUMBER Team Competitor ENTRIES _________ X $10.00 PER ENTRY = $ ______________

(Duo, Policy, Public Forum)

TOTAL = $ _______________

SEND ENTRIES TO: CARA BORGSMILLER

PARKWAY WEST HIGH SCHOOL

14653 CLAYTON ROAD

BALLWIN, MO 63011 FAX: (314) 415-7534

(314) 415-7571 E-MAIL: cborgsmiller@

ENTRY DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11th at 4pm.

You may make changes without penalty before Wednesday, October 18thby 4pm.

GENERAL RULES:

1. A student may enter up to two events OR student congress.

2. Debaters may not enter more than one debate event:  Policy, L-D, Public Forum.

3. Extempers may not enter in more than one division: Foreign or Domestic

4. Novices are ONLY those competing for the first time who have not earned NSDA membership. Varsity members are those who have competed before and earned at least 25 NSDA points (or the equivalent). A student CAN be entered in BOTH Varsity and Novice divisions so long as they meet the above requirements.

5. In Extemp, speaking order will take precedence for those double-entered.

6. Any student more than ten minutes late to a round will forfeit participation in that round (provided the delay is not the fault of the tournament). DOUBLE ENTERED STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO COMPLETE BOTH PERFORMANCES IN THE TIME ALLOTTED FOR EACH ROUND. Double entered students are expected to inform their judges that they may be late prior to the start of the round.

7. Non-internet connected computers, electronic storage, and retrieval devices, tablets etc. without sound or video capabilities shall be allowed in Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, Extemporaneous Speaking, Prose/Poetry Reading, and Radio Speaking. See the attached electronic use rules for more details.

8. Except for a change necessitated by a double entry, contestants are expected to speak in the order assigned.

9. No additional entries will be accepted after Wednesday, October 11th at 4:00pm unless room becomes available. Drops will be accepted without penalty until 4:00 pm on Thursday, October 19th. Drops made after that time will forfeit the entry fee. Cancellations at registration will result in a 5 point deduction in sweeps per drop.

10. Smoking is not allowed anywhere on our campus by students or adults.

11. ALL SCHOOLS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE A SUPERVISING ADULT PER MSHSAA REQUIREMENTS PRESENT THROUGHOUT THE TOURNAMENT as well as the number of judges required by the entry.

**Competitors: Most of your judges will be members of the Parkway West School and community. Many will be judging for the first time. We advise you to keep this in mind and adjust your performances accordingly. 

This is especially true for policy debaters.

DEBATE RULES:

Policy Debate—(8-3-5 time limits):  Two-person teams will debate the NSDA/MSHSAA topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its funding and/or regulation of elementary and/or secondary education in the United States. NSDA rules will be followed. Five minutes of preparation time will be allowed per team.  The top eight teams will advance to quarterfinals if the numbers allow.  No mavericks. See laptop rules for computer use. Novices cannot use Counter Plans or Kritiks. They must use a case from the following novice case areas: Increase funding for 1. Native American education, 2. School choice vouchers, 3. STEM programs, Regulation: 1. Ban zero tolerance discipline policies, 2. Funding equalization for low-income schools.

Lincoln-Douglas Debate—(6-3-7-3-4-6-3 time limits): Individuals will debate the September/October NSDA/MSHSAA topic: Resolved: In the United States, national service ought to be compulsory. NSDA rules will be followed. Four minutes of preparation time will be allowed per speaker.  The top eight debaters will advance to quarterfinals. Per MSHSAA rules, we will NOT be using the Novice LD topic. All students should prepare the varsity topic.

Public Forum –(4-3-4-3-2-3-2 time limits) Two-person teams will debate the September/October NSDA/MSHSAA topic: Resolved: Deployment of anti-missile systems is in South Korea’s best interest. The NSDA rules will be followed.  Two minutes of preparation time will be allowed per team. Teams will flip each round unless they have met before – sides will be set (they still flip for speaker position).  The winner of the coin toss can choose either side (pro or con) OR the speaker position (first or last).  The coin toss loser has the other choice.  Each side is allowed two minutes of preparation during the round.  The top eight teams will advance to quarterfinals.

Debate Tie-breakers for ALL Debates:

a. Win/Loss record

b. Head to head     

c. Record of opponent lost to

d. Total opposition record

e. Oppositions’ opposition record

f. Total speaker points if needed

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS DESCRIPTIONS AND RULES:

Original Oratory—An original persuasive speech is written by the contestant, containing no more than 150 words of

quoted material. Memorized delivery is required in the varsity division. Novices may use scripts but are encouraged not to. NSDA rules will be used. Time limit—10 minutes maximum, no minimum.

Informative Speaking— An original informative speech is written by the contestant and must be memorized. Students

present information which the audience may or may not possess and which the student believes important for the audience – the goal is to education, not to advocate. NSDA rules will be used. Time limit—10 minutes maximum, no minimum.

Radio Speaking—Students prepare and present a five minute script which contains news, weather, sports and a

commercial. The commercial may or may not be original. News must be no more than 24 hours old as of the start

of the tournament. Students may read their script from a computer or tablet. Students will sit facing away from the

judge while presenting. Aside from the use of a commercial, MSHSAA rules will be used. Time limit – 5 minutes

Extemporaneous Speaking—Contestants draw a topic on current events or issues and are given thirty minutes to

prepare a speech. Contestants are allowed the use of one note card during delivery but risk the reduction of points for doing so. NSDA rules will be used. Speech time limit—7 minutes maximum, no minimum.

Dramatic and Humorous Interpretation—Memorized selections from published material of literary merit are presented.

There is no dialogue requirement. Movement below the waist should be limited. Selections are to be properly introduced. NSDA rules will be used. Time limit—10 minutes maximum, no minimum.

Duo Interpretation—A memorized selection of any published source of literary merit is performed by two students.

Performers may stand in any arrangement suitable. Offstage focus should be used. NSDA rules will be used. Time limit—10 minutes maximum, no minimum.

Prose/Poetry Reading—Selections taken from a published source of literary merit are read from script or a tablet/e-

reader. Prose selections may contain no more than 50% dialogue, and are to be properly introduced. Poetry can be a singular poem or come from multiple sources connected either by author or theme. It must be written in verse and is to be properly introduced. Competitors will choose ONLY ONE to perform but will compete in sections of students doing both. MSHSAA rules will be used. Time limit—8 minutes maximum, no minimum.

Program of Oral Interpretation (POI) – Students create a theme or argument through the use of narrative, story,

language, and/or characterization - they draw on selections from at least two of the following: prose, poetry, and/or drama. A manuscript must be use and the pieces must be properly introduced. NSDA rules will be used. Time limit – 10 minutes

Advancing—The top 12-14 speakers with the lowest total scores will advance to Semi-Finals.

To advance to Semifinals, ties will be broken with:

1. Total preliminary reciprocals

2. Total speaker ratings.

The top three competitors in each semi-finals room with the lowest total score will advance to the Final Round.

To advance to finals and to determine final rankings, ties will be broken by:

1. judges’ preference,

2. reciprocals from the round,

3. total speaker ranking from the round

If numbers warrant it, there will be two or three preliminary rounds advancing straight to finals.

Congress—We will be running an NSDA style Congressional Debate. There will be three preliminary sessions in which judges will rank their top 8 competitors after scoring the complete session. There will be one super session with 12 – 15 students. Depending on the number of entries we will advance between the top 2 – 5 students in each chamber if they receive the lowest cumulative rank across the three sessions.

To advance to supersession, ties will be broken by:

1. total preliminary reciprocals

2. total preliminary speech scores

Super session will have a panel of judges scoring each speech and then ranking their top 8 competitors. Students with the lowest ranking will be awarded.

To determine final rankings, ties will be broken by:

1. Judges’ preference

2. Final round reciprocals

3. Speech score totals in finals

4. Speech score totals from preliminary rounds

If you wish to send original legislation, please send no more than two by Friday, October 6th. To fill the rest of the docket, we will be using selected legislation from the Greater St. Louis Speech League Docket. We will send out legislation on Monday, October, 9th. Chambers will default to AUTHORSHIP speeches but will allow SPONSORSHIP speeches if there is not authoring school in the room.

JUDGES:

Each participating school must provide one qualified adult judge to be available during all rounds. IN ADDITION, schools bringing more than 12 total EVENT entries and/or 8 total DEBATE entries must provide an additional adult judge. You must also supply an additional judge for novice rounds if your novice entries exceed 8 total. See the entry form for details. Failure to comply will result in a reduction of your entry to meet your standard. This holds true for all preliminary rounds.

AWARDS & SWEEPSTAKES RULES:

Trophies will be awarded to the TOP SIX competitors in each event as well as quarterfinalists, semi-finalists, finalists in debate. In terms of team awards, we will recognize the top 5 team with the top THREE receiving trophies. Each school’s BEST TWO ENTRIES in each event/division will be tabulated for sweepstakes awards.

Points in Events & Debate will be awarded to the top two entries from each school as follows:

Any Entry……………………………………… one point

Event Semi-Finals…………………………… five points

Event Finals/Supersession…………………. ten points

Event Third Place………………………......... five points

Event Second Place………………………….. ten points

Event First Place……………………………… fifteen points

Debate Win …………………………………… five points

Quarterfinals …………………………………. ten points

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

Friday, October 20th, 2017

Registration……………………………………………..2:45 – 3:15

Extemp Draw……………………………………………………3:30

Events/Congress Session I……..……………………………3:45

Extemp Draw……………………………………………………5:00

Events/Congress Session II….………………………………5:15

Debate Round I……………………..…………………………..6:45

Debate Round II…………………….…………………………..8:15

Saturday, October 21st, 2017

Extemp Draw…………………………………………………..7:30

Event Semi-Finals/Congress Session III………………….8:00

Debate Round III………………………………………………9:15

Debate Round IV…………………………………………….10:45

Extemp Draw……………………………………………...….12:30

Event Finals/Supersession…………………….………...….1:00

Debate Quarterfinals………………….………………………2:15

AWARDS ………….……………..….…….5:00

Debate Semi-Finals ………………………..…..……………...5:45

Debate Finals ……………...………………....………………..7:00

MSHSAA has approved the use laptop computers in Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas, Public Forum, Extemporaneous Speaking, Radio Speaking, & Prose Reading.

1. Contestants are not to unplug any device or equipment already in use in the contest rooms. Contestants found tampering with any Parkway equipment and/or property will be disqualified from the tournament.

2. Parkway High Schools are not, and the tournament hosts are not personally responsible for any lost, stolen or damaged contestant computers or computer equipment.

3. The following are revised from the NFL Manual and MSHSAA: The use of laptop computers by competitors in rounds is permissible for flowing, evidence retrieval, or speech reading so long as wire or wireless connections, sound or video capabilities are disabled and remain disabled while the round is in progress.

A. Computers equipped with removable wireless cards must have the cards removed before the beginning of any round of competition. It is the responsibility of the contestant to disengage equipment.

B. Computers with built-in wireless capability may be used only if the wireless capability is disabled. It is the responsibility of the contestant to disable the equipment.

C. Wired connections (Ethernet or phone) during rounds of competition are not permitted.

D. Computers or other electronic devices may not be used to receive information from any sources (coaches or assistants included) inside or outside the room in which the competition occurs. Internet access, use of e-mail, instant messaging, or other means of receiving information from sources inside or outside the competition room are prohibited. (This does not prohibit non-electronic communication between debate partners during prep time.)

E. No video or sound should be seen or heard during the round or during the presentation of a speech.

F. Penalties: Teams found to have violated provisions A – C above shall forfeit the round of competition and/or receive speaker ranks of 3-4. Teams found to have violated provision D above shall be disqualified from the tournament. Speakers in violation of E shall forfeit the round of competition. In all cases, the tournament director shall be empowered with the final decision concerning disqualification.

G. Availability of Evidence: Contestants electing to use computers shall have the responsibility to promptly provide a copy of any evidence read in a speech for inspection by the judge or opponent. Printers may be used. Evidence may be printed in the round or produced electronically, but must be provided in a format readable by the opposing team and the judge.

H. Contestants electing to use computers are responsible for providing their own computers, batteries, extension cords and all other necessary accessories.

I. Tournament hosts shall not be responsible for providing computers, printers, software, paper or extension cords for contestants.

J. Because public speaking decorum remains an important element of debate, debaters are expected to stand at the front of the room facing the judge while speaking.

K. Contestants choosing to use laptop computers accept the risk of equipment failure. No special consideration or accommodations, including no additional prep time or speech time, will be given by judges, contest directors or tournament hosts should equipment failure occur.

L. By choosing to use laptops computers in the round, debaters are consenting to give tournament officials the right to search their files. Debaters who do not wish to consent should not use computers in the round.

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JUDGING REQUIREMENTS

In the space provided, indicate how many judges you will supply.

Events Judges ________

For every 12 entries in EVENTS, each school must supply ONE qualified, adult judge.

Debate Judges ________

For every 8 entries in DEBATE, each school must supply ONE qualified, adult judge.

Novice Entries __________

For every 8 entries in NOVICE DEBATE and EVENTS, each school must supply ONE qualified student and/or adult judge.

*Students must have one year of competition and at least 150 NSDA points in order to judge.

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