TOURNAMENT DOSSIER — ASU 2020 (Jan 3–7)

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TOURNAMENT LOCATIONS

Tournament:

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ 85281

Hotel:

AC Hotel Phoenix Tempe/Downtown

100 E Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281

(The hotel is about 1 mile from the ASU campus)

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TOC BIDS

LD — UKTOC bids to varsity finalists.

Public Forum — UKTOC Gold bid at the Octofinal round; UKTOC Silver bid at Double-octos.

Speech — NIETOC/UKTOC bid for DI, HI, Duo, and OO. UKTOC bids also for PRO, POE, POI, EX. Earning bids generally requires making it to the semifinal round, though this varies based on number of competitors.

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CHAPERONES

Speech Brandon Stewart 510-648-7798

Debate Alex Sherer 305-608-3483

Parent Kavitha Naidu 408-406-7274

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DEADLINES & FEES

Registration closed at 11:59 PM on Tuesday, Oct 29.

Deadline to drop is 11:59 PM, Friday, Nov 22.
Drops after this deadline will not be refunded, and may be additionally responsible for their share of the hotel cost.

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ENTRY LIMITS

You may enter up to SIX events, but no more than three per pattern. Speech and debate events share patterns. You will need to contact me if you wish to register in more than three events/debates.

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.

Pattern A – EX, OO, IMP, DUO, POI | WORLDS

Pattern B – INF, DI, HI, POE, PRO | PF, LD

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GENERAL RULES

All standard local tournament rules apply.

This is an away tournament, so away tournament rules apply as well.

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TOURNAMENT HELP DESK

hdshcforensics@gmail.com 480-338-5624

ON-CAMPUS WI-FI:

Use the “asu guest” net work, then open a browser. At the bottom of the page is a link to sign in as a guest. This just requires an email address.

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JUDGE REQUIREMENTS

We are in need of parents to come as judges & chaperones. The actual number will be based on how many students sign up, but will likely be at least three. If you know someone who can do this, please email me.

Eligibility: Judges must have both of the following

Graduated high school
1+ year of competitive or judging experience
[LD jugdes must have judges at least 10 tournaments prior to ASU.]

For additional judging instructions, see the last page.

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SPECIAL EVENT RULES

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POETRY

Similar to POI, but using only Poetry selections. Students may splice two or more poems by performing them in alternating order. They may NOT blend different poems from different authors and perform them as ONE poem.

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PROSE

Similar to POI, but using only Prose selections. Selections used in this event shall be cuttings from published printed novels, short stories, essays (excluding plays or poetry).

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TOPICS FOR EX, IMP, & DEBATE

EXT: Topics are based on foreign and domestic affairs for three months prior to the tournament (i.e. since October)

IMP: All topics are quotations

PF/LD: January topic.
Pilot rules are NOT in effect.

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IMPROMPTU

ASU uses the NSDA rules, which lets you divide your seven (7) minutes however you wish into preparation delivery of your speech (rather than CHSSA’s strict 2-min prep / 5-min delivery split)

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WORLD SCHOOLS DEBATE

World Schools Debate is a three-on-three format. While a given team may consist of five members, only three students from a team participate in a given debate.

Teams will be assigned one of two sides in each round: either the government team proposing the motion or the opposition team advocating the rejection of the motion. Debaters present their position on a topic, refute their opponents, and respond to questions throughout the course of the debate (during other speeches!).

Resolutions come in two types: prepared motions and impromptu motions. There will be two impromptu topic rounds: Round 1 and Round 4.

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TOURNAMENT MAP

↑ Our hotel (~1 mi.)

ASU also has a mobile app: If you have a smartphone, you can the ASU app to get GPS walking directions straight to your building. Available for iOS and Android.

Tournament HQ/Judges Student Lounge / Help Desk	SS 105 LSA 191 (for immediate assistance, Email hdshcforensics@gmail.com or Call 480-338-5624)
Postings	LSA 191 (outside), ASU.tabroom.com [can be texted to all active Tabroom accounts]
Extemp Prep	LSE 104
Speech A Rounds	[West campus] Durham Language and Literature (LL), Cowden Family Resources (COWDN), College of Design North/South (CDN/CDS), West Hall (WHALL), Stauffer Hall (STAUFF), Farmer Education (ED), Payne Hall (EDB), Discovery (DISC)
Speech B Rounds	[North campus] Wexler Hall (WXLR), Physical Sciences Wings F and H (PSF/PSH), Engineering Complex G-Wing (ECG), Life Sciences A and E Wings (LSA LSE), Social Sciences Building (SS), Wrigley Hall (WGHL), Discovery (DISC)
PF Rounds	[Southwest campus] Business Administration (BA), Business Administration Complex (BAC), Farmer Education (ED), Payne Hall (EDB)
Elim Rounds (All)	Farmer Education (ED) and Durham Language and Lit (LL)

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TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

This schedule is similar to last year except that debate has been restructured to align with speech patterns.

All students will be excused from Monday classes by the coach.

— Debate —

Pattern A – Worlds

Pattern B – PF, LD

— Speech —

Pattern A – EX†, OO, IMP, DUO, POI

Pattern B – INF, DI, HI, POE, PRO

THU

Jan 9

* Flight to PHX (See travel info section)

FRI

Jan 10

7:00 AM Leave Hotel

8:00 PF / LD Round 1

10:00 PF / LD Round 2

12:00 PM Worlds Round 1

2:00 PF / LD Round 3

4:00 PF / LD Round 4

6:00 Worlds Round 2

8:00 Worlds Round 3

†Extemp draw is 30 mins before pattern A

8:30 AM Judge Training (optional)

9:00 B Leave Hotel

10:00 B Round 1

11:00 A Leave Hotel

12:30 PM A Round 1

2:15 B Round 2

4:00 B Round 3

6:15 A Round 2

8:15 A Round 3

SAT

Jan 11

7:00 AM Leave Hotel

8:00 PF / LD Round 5

10:00 Worlds Round 4

12:00 PM PF / LD Round 6

2:00 Worlds Round 5

4:00 Elim 1 *

6:00 Worlds Round 6

7:00 AM B Leave Hotel

8:00 B Round 4

9:30 A Leave Hotel

10:30 A Round 4

12:15 PM B Quarterfinals *

2:30 A Quarterfinals *

4:15 B Semifinals

6:30 A Semifinals

SUN

Jan 6

7:00 AM ALL ELIMS Leave Hotel

8:00 Double-octas

11:15 Octas

2:00 PM Quarters

4:00 Semifinals

5:30 Finals

7:00 AM ALL FINALISTS Leave Hotel

8:00 DUO/POE Finals

9:30 POI/INF Finals

11:00 EX/HI Finals

2:00 PM OO/PRO Finals

3:30 IMP/DI Finals

6:00 Awards (in Murdock 201)

* Some flights back to SFO (See travel info section)

MON

Jan 12

* Main flight back to SFO (See travel info section)

Notes

* All 4-2s or better will clear to Elim 1, with a max of 64 teams. Sunday elim rounds schedule will accelerate whenever possible.

DEBATE ELIM SCHEDULE WILL ACCELERATE WHENEVER POSSIBLE

* Quarterfinals will only be held in events with 55+ entries (DI, EX, IMP, INF, OO)

Events with 27–54 entries (DUO, HI, POI) skip to semis

Events with < 27 entries (POE, PRO) will only have finals.

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TRAVEL INFO

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DEPARTURE

Departures
Date	Thursday					Thursday –> Friday
Time	06:00 –> 13:00	17:15 –> 20:20		19:01 –> 22:03	19:27 –> 22:14	21:35 –> 00:48
Airport Depart	San Jose [SJC]	Oakland [OAK] **		San Francisco [SFO]	San Jose [SJC]	Miami [MIA]
Airline	Frontier	JetSuiteX (JSX)	Jet Blue	United	American	American
Flight #		XE 426	5304	UA 2405	AA 536	AA 457
Conf #		1W9I86 / FH1296	IXTJBY	PMP2L8	BHPCOF / [??]	CWCNMT
Travelers	Raj Saravanan	Kavitha Naidu	Brandon Stewart	Dylan Zhang	Serena Mao	Alex Sherer
		Swetha Naidu	Advika Bhike	Rithvik Koppurapu	Sabrina Cai
		Ayush Agarwal	Tannvi Banerjee		Yash Dalmia
		Arushi Munjal	Tanusree Banerjee		Tushar Dalmia
		Krish Kothari			Darren Tang
		Tavish Mohanti
		Nihar Duvvuri
		Megh Basu *

* Megh’s ticket is separate from the rest of her group.

** Jet Blue and JetSuiteX do not operate out of the main terminal in Oakland.
The address for their departure/arrival is Signature Flight Support:

9351 Earhart Road, Oakland, CA 94621

PACKING TIPS:

Liquids, gels (inc toothpaste), creams/lotions, and aerosols (hairspray) are limited to 3.4 oz (100 ml). The total sum of them must fit in a quart-size bag. Pack this near the top of your suitcase in case TSA has a problem.
Bring comfortable walking shoes! The campus is about a mile away from the hotel, so if you’d rather not walk a mile in your dress shoes then bring a second pair of shoes.
Bring ~$60 for meals (or more if you tend to get really hungry).
SPEECH — Bring ALL scripts - preferably a printed copy, but digital is ok. You will want this to review your piece, and it will be necessary if you get challenged (unlikely, but possible).

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RETURN

Returns
Date	Sunday				Monday
Time	00:20 –> 06:24	21:20 –> 22:18	19:32 –> 20:39	21:41 –> 22:44	06:45 –> 07:50	12:30 –> 15:56
Airport Return	Miami	San Jose [SJC]	San Francisco [SFO]	Oakland [OAK] **	Oakland [OAK] **	San Jose [SJC]
Airline	American	American	United	Jet Blue	JetSuiteX (JSX)	Frontier
Flight #	2054	AA 2108	UA 2129	5304	XE 427
Conf #	CWCNMT	BHPCOF	PMP2L8	EVYPVA	1W9I86 / FH1296
Travelers	Alex Sherer	Serena Mao	Dylan Zhang	Brandon Stewart	Kavitha Naidu	Raj Saravanan
		Sabrina Cai	Rithvik Koppurapu	Advika Bhike	Swetha Naidu
		Yash Dalmia		Tannvi Banerjee	Ayush Agarwal
		Tushar Dalmia		Tanusree Banerjee	Arushi Munjal
		Darren Tang			Krish Kothari
					Tavish Mohanti
					Nihar Duvvuri
					Megh Basu *

** Jet Blue and JetSuiteX do not operate out of the main terminal in Oakland.
The address for their departure/arrival is Signature Flight Support:

9351 Earhart Road, Oakland, CA 94621

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HOTEL ROOM ASSIGNMENTS

Boys 1	516	Boys 2	518	Boys 3	513	Chaperones 1	501
Yash Dalmia		Dylan Zhang		Krish Kothari		Brandon Stewart
Tushar Dalmia		Rithvik Koppurapu		Tavish Mohanti
Ayush Agarwal		Raj Saravanan		Nihar Duvvuri
		Darren Tang
Girls 1	534	Girls 2	538	Chaperones 2	505	Chaperones 3	509
Serena Mao		Arushi Munjal		Alex Sherer		Kavitha Naidu
Sabrina Cai		Megh Basu
Tannvi Banerjee		Swetha Naidu
Tanusree Banerjee		Advika Bhike

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CHAPERONES & JUDGES

All chaperones will be required to judge at the tournament.

All ballots will be submitted online, so all judges will need an account at Tabroom.com. If you have not created a Tabroom account yourself, I have done so using the email address shown in the table below, with the default password “msjspeech”.

Chaperone/Judge	Phone	Email / Tabroom.com Account	Judging Assignments
Brandon Stewart	510-648-7798	bstewart@lwgraphix.com	PF — All days
Alex Sherer	305-608-3483	alexthesherer@gmail.com	PF — Fri/Sat
Kavitha Naidu	408-406-7274	kavithanaidu@yahoo.com	Speech — All days

You will need to bring an electronic device with you to submit the ballot. A phone or tablet is sufficient for this purpose, but I find a laptop much more comfortable to use to type out feedback. I’ve prepared a set of guides to walk you through how this process works; if you are not comfortable with the e-ballot system, I suggest reading the one for your event prior to the tournament. I’ll be happy to answer any questions you have.

You should always take notes during each student’s speech so you can provide them with helpful feedback. You can do this on paper, but you will need to transfer it to your online ballot after the round. Don’t worry though, you’ll be able to update them until the tournament is over. Please submit the ballot as soon as you’ve made your decision, then come back to edit your comments.

SPEECH JUDGES — During the round, timing will be required. If you use your phone to do this, please make sure it is in stopwatch mode, otherwise you will not know if students exceed the grace period for the event. I prefer instead to use the timers on the ballot, since they will roll over past the set time, but be warned that they will reset if you refresh the page or hit the back button while its counting down.

If you have any questions about the rules for your specific event, please ask me or the judges’ room staff to clarify for you.

HELPFUL DOCUMENTS:

Guide to E-ballots:

Speech Edition | Debate Edition

General Speech Judging Instructions

Basic overview of tournament logistics, as well as the basic principles of each event.

Important notes about speech events:

POI (Programmed Oral Interp) is the new name for Thematic Interp
Informative is the same as Expository
Prose and Poetry are NOT the same as OPP. They are essentially a single- genre POI, and should therefore be judged similar to POI (TI).

Breakfast and lunch for judges will be provided by ASU, free of charge. Simply stop by the judges’ room and pick something up. [[NOTE — Not sure if this will be true this year: last year they provided only snacks, while in years past full meals were provided.]]