2009 Diablo Valley College Kevin Towhy Memorial Collegiate ...

2009 Diablo Valley CollegeKevin Towhy MemorialCollegiate Speech and Debate TournamentDear Forensics Colleagues:On behalf of the Department of Speech at Diablo Valley College, we would like toinvite you to participate in our 2009 tournament. Competition will be held fromOctober 23-25 th on our campus. Diablo Valley College is located in Pleasant Hill,adjacent to Concord and Walnut Creek. It is immediately off Interstate 680. It ismost easily served by the Oakland International Airport, although other Bay Areaairports would work for you.Notable reasons to attend:1) We will use the same schedule as last year. We were able to run an on-time,full service tournament that was reasonable for our students. ParliamentaryDebate will be done over 2 days. This will save you money and time that youwould have spent to be here all three days. On Saturday, the IE swing part onewill conflict with parli, so students will not be able to do both. Sunday, all parlidebaters can still do a complete IE tournament as part 2 of the swing. If you areonly doing IE’s and need to save cash, you could attend one day and not haveany hotel expenses.2) Individual Events will be a 2 day swing. Saturday will be a completetournament and Sunday will be a complete tournament. This means a number ofgood things: more chances for legs, more prelim rounds for IE only studentssince they will get 4 prelims with this format, more trophies and it shouldfacilitate a relaxed schedule for everyone. This also allows students who can onlyattend one day of a tournament to do all their events on that day (instead of justone pattern). It does mean that parli students will not be able to do IE’s onSaturday.3) We will be full-service. Your policy team, parliamentary team, and individualevents team will all be able to compete.4) We will be cheap as possible. This is going to be a no-frills event, so that costscan be kept low. We will have the cafeteria open on Saturday so you and yourstudents can buy food, but we will not be providing any. Sunday, we recommendbringing lunches or having pizza delivered to campus for your teams. Entry feesare being kept as low as possible to cover the cost of decent trophies, thecustodial services and the police services the campus requires. We are not tryingto take money from your program to support ours.We will offer two preliminary rounds in all 11 AFA individual events (both noviceand open when possible) on both Saturday and Sunday (for a total of 4 prelims),two divisions of NPDA Parliamentary Debate, and three divisions of policydebate. We will have six debate prelims and the appropriate number of out-

Exit on Willowpass Road and turn East (right if you have been driving north on I-680 and left if you have been going south). One block down, you will see thehotel on your left. Turn on Diamond Boulevard into the hotel.Parking on CampusPark in Lot 8, near the Performing Arts Center. Permits are for sale at machinesin the lot. You will not need a permit on Saturday or Sunday. Friday, you willneed one.EventsTeam Policy Debate:We will have six preliminary rounds on the 2009-2010 CEDA resolution withappropriate numbers of elimination rounds per division. There will be threedivisions (Novice/Junior/Open). We will follow CEDA rules for eligibility. Ifcollapsing of divisions is warranted, it will be our priority to maintain a purenovice division first. Time limits will be 9-3-6 with 10 minutes of prep. Rounds 1and 2 will be preset, 3 and 4 will be lagged off 1 and 2, and 5 and 6 will bepowered separately. Teams will advance to elimination rounds based on thefollowing criteria: win/loss, total speaker points, adjusted speaker points, doubleadjustedspeaker points, and ranks. Brackets will not be broken. Policy debaterswill not be able to participate in individual events. DVC students may competeand will be eligible for elimination debates and awards. One critic covers twodebate teams. A policy critic cannot judge IE’s or Parli, since they will be runconcurrently. Hybrid teams will be allowed to clear to elimination rounds butthree person teams will not. Maverick debating is not allowed.Policy Schedule:Friday, October 23rd12:00 –2:00 Registration, Cafeteria2:30 Release pairings at Cafeteria3:00 Round 15:00 Round 2Saturday, October 24th8:00 Release pairings at Cafeteria.8:30 – 2:00 Food for sale in cafeteria9:00 Round 311:00 Round 43:00 Round 56:00 Round 610:00 Posting of teams clearing at hotelSunday, October 25th8:00 First elim pairing released at school9:00 First elimination round

Immediately following 1st elim: Policy awards ceremonyOther rounds to follow as appropriateTeam Parliamentary Debate – NPDA:We will offer two divisions (novice/open), following NPDA eligibility rules. Therewill be six preliminary rounds, followed by the appropriate number of eliminationrounds. Teams will use the 7-8-8-8-4-5 format, with 20 minutes of prep andwalking time, beginning at the end of the topic announcement. The first threerounds will be preset and then round 4 will be powered off 1 and 2. Rounds 5and 6 will be straight powered. Teams will advance to elimination rounds basedon the following criteria: win/loss, total speaker points, adjusted speaker points,double-adjusted speaker points, and ranks. Brackets will not be broken. Parlidebaters will not be able to compete in the first day of the IE swing on Saturday.One critic covers two debate teams. All resolutions will be announced to thegroup outside of the cafeteria in the central quad, assuming no rain. If it rains,announcement will be in the cafeteria. You are allowed to consult materials andcoaches during the 20-minute preparation period. Judges are allowed, but notrequired, to disclose their decisions but are limited to no more than 5-minutediscussions with debaters after each round. Hybrid teams will be allowed to clearbut three person teams will not. Maverick debating will not be allowed. A “warmroom” listing of team records will be posted following round 2. DVC students maycompete and will be eligible for elimination debates and awards.Parliamentary ScheduleFriday, October 23 rd12:00 – 1:15 Registration, Cafeteria1:30 Release parli pairings at Cafeteria1:40 Topic One Announcement in central quad2:00 Parli Round 13:00 Topic Two Announcement in central quad3:20 Parli Round 24:30 Topic Three Announcement in central quad4:50 Parli Round 36:00 Topic Four Announcement in central quad6:20 Parli Round 4Saturday, October 24th8:30 – 2:00 Food for sale in cafeteria8:45 Parli pairings released in Cafeteria9:00 Topic Five Announcement in central quad9:20 Parli Round 511:00 Topic Six Announcement in central quad11:20 Parli Round 61:15 Parli Elimination Round #1 Posted

1:20 Topic Elim Round #1 Announced in central quad1:40 Elim #1 Parli3:30 Topic Elim #2 Announced in central quad3:50 Elim #2 Parli5:30 Topic Elim #3 Annoucned in central quad5:50 Elim #37:00 Parli awards ceremony with awards for Swing #1 in cafeteriaAdditional elims as neededIndividual Events:IE’s will be run as a two day swing. On both Saturday and Sunday, there will betwo preliminary rounds followed by the appropriate number of elimination roundsbased on entries. We will offer two divisions (novice/open) in each event, butreserve the right to collapse divisions if necessary. For novice division,contestants must be in their first year of competition in either high school orcollege. Students may be novice for new event areas, even if they are open inothers (example: a student did interp in high school but no limited prep. Theycan go novice in the limited prep, but the must go open in the interp). We willhave all 11 AFA events, and AFA rules will govern each event. Pattern groups willbe as follows:A: Extemp, Prose, Duo, Informative, POI, CAB: Impromptu, Poetry, Persuasive, ADS, DICompetitors may enter up to three events in each pattern, but be warned: thetournament will make NO special accommodations for double or triple enteredstudents who are late to a round. If you miss the judge because you are doubletripled entered you will NOT be able to make it up. Students may compete in twoduos with two different partners. Competitors may not use selections used incompetition prior to September 1, 2009. DVC students may compete and will beallowed to advance to elimination rounds. One critic covers six IE slots per day.An IE judge on Saturday can not cover parli or policy debate, since they will runconcurrently.IE ScheduleSaturday, October 24th – Swing Part 18:30 – 2:00 Food for sale in cafeteria8:45 Pairings released in cafeteria9:00 Extemp Draw9:15 A1 (Extemp, Prose, Duo, Informative, POI, CA)10:30 Extemp Draw10:45 A212:15 B1 (Impromptu, Poetry, Persuasive, ADS, DI)1:30 B23:15 Extemp Draw3:30 Semi-finals all events. Any event going straight to finals will have finals atthis time if possible.

4:45 Extemp Draw for finals if needed5:00 IE Elim #27:00 Awards in cafeteriaSunday, October 24th – Swing Part 27:30 IE Pairings released at cafeteria7:45 Extemp Draw8:00 A1 (Extemp, Prose, Duo, Informative, POI, CA)9:15 Extemp Draw9:30 A211:00 B1 (Impromptu, Poetry, Persuasive, ADS, DI12:30 B22:00 Semi-finals - all events. Any event going straight to finals will have finals atthis time if possible.4:00 Finals6:00 Awards in cafeteriaSweepstakes AwardsSweepstakes trophies will be awarded to (1) the top three debate schools; (2)the top three IE schools; (3) the top three community colleges and (4) to the topthree schools overall. Sweepstakes will include both IE parts of the swing andwill be awarded at the IE awards on Sunday.The following formula will be used for sweepstakes calculation:IE: (top 3 competitors per school per event)1st = 5 pts 2nd = 4 pts 3rd = 3 pts finalist = 2 pts semi’s = 1 ptDebate: (top 3 teams in each division per school)3 points for each prelim win plus 2 points for each team that clears.FeesWe are happy not to have to increase our fees over last year. In fact, we areraising the IE judge coverage ratio so one judge now covers 6 slots, where lastyear it was 5. Each debate team entry is $50.00 and each individual events slotis $10.00. Each uncovered parli debate team will be $80.00 and policy debateteam will be $100.00. Each uncovered IE slot will be $10.00. Each critic willcover two debate teams. Each IE critic will cover six slots per day. Please makechecks out to “Becky Opsata, c/o DVC Forensics.” Fees will be set at noon onWednesday, October 21 st ; schools should expect to pay the set fee amount atregistration regardless of subsequent drops to the setting of fees. The onlineentry system will be turned off at that time.Entry Procedure: Entries will only be accepted on-line at www.debateresults.com.If you need help with system, feel free to contact us. The system will acceptentries and changes until NOON on Wednesday, October 21 st . If you have dropsor adds, you can go to the webpage and make them yourself until that time. If

you have drops after that date, please email them to me atbopsata@dvc.edu. Please note that drops after fees assessment will be charged.The online system will be open for entries in early fall.We look forward to hosting you in October. Please feel free to contact me withquestions!Dr. Becky Opsata(925) 685-1230 x2835 (0) bopsata@dvc.edu