FGCCFL Tournament Invitation

Berkeley Preparatory School

September 20, 2008

7:30- 5:00pm

 

Mike Speer, 4811 Kelly Road, Tampa, 813-885-1673, fax 813-884-4553, cell 813-777-4298

 

Events: All Events. No double entries. Congress entries are unlimited through the Niceville tournament in October.

 

Cost: $8.00 per student

 

Food: Closed campus (FGCCFL rule). Purchase lunch tickets during registration for $5.00. Please remember to order lunches for all competitors, judges, and coaches. We will be selling students a “box” lunches. Berkeley will provide lunch for the coaches and judges free of charge. Please email Mike Speer (speermik@berkeleyprep.org) with the number of student lunches (indicate the number of students who would prefer a vegetarian meal) and the number of adults. We will provide something more “adult” for adults. We need this information by Wednesday, September 17.  

 

Judging requirements: One (1) judge for every four IE entries. One (1) judge for every four Congress entries. One (1) judge for every two LD entries. One (1) judge for every two PFD team entries. One (1) judge for each TD team entry. COACHES: Do not count yourself in your judge quota as we must be able to use you where needed!

 

Registration for the tournament:

 

Until further notice, all registration should be emailed to Bill Gibron at bgibron@verizon.net no later than 9 PM on the Tuesday prior to the tournament. Please be sure to copy your registration to Donna Kroegel at Donna.Kroegel@sdhc.k12.fl.us and Terri St John at tessspeak@aol.com  The tournament is Saturday, September 20 and the registration deadline is Tuesday, September 16 at 9 PM.

Please be certain you send all required information including student names in correct events, and judge names in pools of IE, Congress, LD, PFD, or TD. Your number of judges in each pool must match the student entries.

 

Please note: “The Executive Committee may levy additional tournament fees of $25.00 for late registration, a dropped entry not declared before the start of the first round, or a failure of a judge to report for a scheduled round.”

 

Tournament Day Registration:  7:30 – 8:00 in Berkeley’s Jean Ann Cone Library classroom. Only the team coach or designee should process through the registration line.  Students should report to Gills Hall.  Judges should report to the Jean Ann Cone Library.

 

NOVICE POLICY DEBATE RULES:

 

The purpose of novice policy debate is to build interest and enthusiasm for policy debate by giving beginners a place to hone their skills against opponents with similar experience.

 

Novice policy debaters are students in their first year of high school speech competition. Both members of the team MUST be in their first year of high school competition. Middle school students may take part in CFL tournaments, but Grand Finals is for students in grades 9 through 12.

 

The FGCCFL Sunshine District Novice Policy Debaters will use the NFL High School Policy debate resolution for the tournament season.

 

Novice policy debaters may ONLY use evidence from the “Georgia Novice Evidence Packet.” The evidence can be downloaded from:

http://daily.media.gaforensics.com/0809gfca_novice_ev/NoviceEv.zip

 

At this tournament, no additional evidence is permitted in novice policy debate. This is the first tournament EVER for these debaters and we would like the playing field as level as possible.

 

The time limits for the novice division are: eight-minute constructives, five-minute rebuttals and three-minute cross-examination time. Each team has five minutes of preparation time.

 

CONGRESS RULES:

 

Every school entering Student Congress must supply one (1) piece of Legislation per every two (2) participants in Student Congress up to a maximum of three (3) pieces total.

 

Legislation should be written in NCFL format and should include the author’s name and school. Students should bring 26 copies of legislation to the tournament. One copy should be turned in at registration. Copies will NOT be made at the tournament site.

 

DIRECTIONS:

 

From I-75, take exit #261 onto I-4 West toward Tampa (app 9 miles).

Take I-275 North exit toward I-75 N/Ocala (app 2.3 miles)

Take exit # 47B/US-92 West onto Hillsborough Avenue (app 7 miles)

Turn Left onto Kelly Road (app .5 miles) The school will be on the left.

Turn onto the Berkeley campus and park in the two parking lots at the front of the school. There is parking for buses and vans in the back of the school.