Santa Clara University

500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053

On-campus parking is $8 on Friday before 8pm. Parking is free on campus on Saturday and Sunday.

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DEADLINES & FEES

Registration closes at 11:59 PM on Friday, March 15.

Deadline to drop is 11:59 PM, Tuesday, March 26.

Drops after this deadline cannot be refunded, and are additionally responsible for paying the late drop fee incurred by the team, $15.

Entries unpaid by Tuesday, March 19 will be dropped.

ENTRY FEES:  

SPEECH:  $25 per partner per entry
DEBATE:  $50 per PF/Parli partner, $80 per LD entry.

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REGISTRATION

If you are logged in to the team website, you can click here to register for SCU.

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ENTRY LIMITS

You may enter up to two speech events, AND a maximum of one debate. Entry in both speech and debate is possible, but at your own risk, as you may forfeit if one of the events is running behind.

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NOVICE DIVISION ELIGIBILITY

To qualify for novice division, a competitor must be in his/her first year of competition, OR (for debate only) is in their second year of any kind of debate competition and has never advanced to an elimination round.

BOTH partners must meet the qualifications in order to enter as a novice team (i.e. a Novice division competitor competing with a Open division partner must be entered in Open division)

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SPECIAL RULES / TOPICS:

LD — Use CHSSA rules. Topic is the NSDA Mar/Apr topic.

Public Forum — use CHSSA rules (Aff always speaks first, sides assigned for prelims, coin flip in elims if round is not side-locked)
Debate topic will be EITHER the NSDA March OR April topic. During registration, students will choose which topic they wish to debate for the duration of the tournament. Under no circumstances may you may enter in both topics.

Parli — Computers are allowed during preparation time, but are forbidden during speaking time.

A new topic will be selected each round; each flight will have separate topics.

Speech — use CHSSA rules, except that OA and OO are combined into “Persuasive”, and Extemp is combined IX/NX.

In all events, brackets will be broken to avoid entries meeting their own team in elims.

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GENERAL RULES

All standard local tournament rules apply.

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JUDGE REQUIREMENTS

Anyone over the age of 18 is eligible to come as a judge.

JUDGING ASSIGNMENTS:

— Debate —

— Speech —

FRI

Nov 16

4:00 PM        Arrive at SCU

5:00         Varsity Debate 1        

7:00         Varsity Debate 2        

9:00        Go home

Extemp draws are always 30 minutes
before the listed round time.

SAT

Nov 17

7:00 AM        Arrive at SCU

8:00        Varsity Debate 3        

11:30         Varsity Debate 4        

1:00 PM        Lunch break — all debate check in

3:00         Varsity Debate 5        

6:30         Varsity Debate 6        

8:30         ALL Double-octafinal (varsity only)

10:30        Go home

9:00 AM        Arrive at SCU

10:00         Speech Round 1        

12:00 PM        Lunch break — All speech check in

1:30         Speech Round 2

5:00         Speech Round 3

6:30        Go home

10:00 §        Breaks Posted on Tabroom

SUN

Nov 18

9:00 AM        Debate elims arrive at SCU

10:00         ALL Octafinals

2:00         ALL Quarterfinals

5:00         ALL Semifinals

7:00         ALL Finals

7:30 AM        Speech elims arrive at SCU

8:30        ALL Speech - Semifinals *

12:00        ALL Speech - Finals *

1:00 PM        Lunch break — All speech check in

4:00        Awards

Notes

* Varsity debates will break to doubles, novice to octas (number of entries permitting).

§ Breaks are notoriously late. Ideally they’ll be posted by 10:00, but more likely around 10:30 or 11:00

* Most speech events will have final rounds at 8:30 AM. Semifinals will only be held in events with 35+ entries in that division.

Event(s)

Name

Partner

Script Title

Status / Need to Turn In

DIN

Udhav Sharma

Yearbook

DROPPED

DIO

Nihar Duvvuri

<< UNSPECIFIED >>

EC Form

DIO

Maanav Kyabarsi

"Living in Color"

OK

DIO

Shamika Gavaskar

"Nice Boy"

OK

DUN

Arushi Munjal

Megh Basu

"Birthday Candles"

Megh — $165

EXN

Yash Jain

DROPPED

HIO

Nihar Duvvuri

"Bad Detective"

OK

IMN

Vedant Madabushi

OK

LD N

Stuti Shah

OK

LD N

Sahithi Adiraju

OK

OIN

Sana Indap

"The Beauty of Being a Misfit"

EC form

OIN

Rachel Wing

"What I Learned as a Prisoner in North Korea"

OK

OIN

Anusha Srinivas

"How Do You Define Yourself?"

OK

OIN

Sania Kharshingkar

"Do Schools Kill Creativity?"

OK

OIO

Audrey Xiao

"Embrace your inner girl"

OK

OIO

Ishita Gupta

<< UNSPECIFIED >>

$40

OIO

Krish Kothari

<< UNSPECIFIED >>

OK

OIO

Yukati Gupta

<< UNSPECIFIED >>

$5

PARN

Advait Marathe

Rishi Chillara

Advait: $50

Rishi: Need to register on website, EC form, $50

Together: $150 hired judge fee

PFN Apr

Yash Jain

Ishan Jain

Yash — $50

Ishan — $5

PFN Apr

Meera Vasishta

Shivani Ravikumar

Meera — EC form

Shivani — EC form

PFN Mar

Arielle Dong

Isabella He

OK

PFN Mar

Ishan Rao

Nakul Malhotra

Ishan — $5

PFO Mar

Darren Tang

Raj Saravanan

Raj -- $105

PFO Mar

Anika Wadhera

Anika Kumar

DROPPED | Space Open

PFO Mar

Shivani Dharanipragada

Riya Patel

DROPPED | Space Open

All students must check-in with their designated group leader at before their event’s designated lunch and dinner times (see tournament schedule).

Debate 1

Debate 2

Speech A

Speech B1

Speech B2