California Cup 2011
UPDATE: California Cup will be held at the Santa Clara University campus. As a result, the schedule has been slightly altered.
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the second annual California Cup will take place April 9-10.
The Cup will bring together sixteen elite teams from throughout the region, providing them with top-notch competition and judging. The tournament will include 7 preliminary rounds, each adjudicated by two experienced critics, and will break the top four teams. The final round will be decided by four critics and a floor vote serving as a tiebreaker.
Cup awards will be given to the top four teams, the top three speakers, and, to recognize the effort judges put into their decisions, a trophy will be presented to the most preferred critic.
Ryan Lawrence
Lynbrook Head Coach
Executive Tournament Director
Artem Raskin
POI Administrator
Associate Tournament Director
Judging philosophy instructions
Invitation on ForensicsTournament.net
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you’re welcome
in the at large application it says ti give total speaker points dropping high/low. im rather new at this, what does that mean?
Most invites drop the highest and lowest speaker points in figuring out the total (to correct for judge variation). If you don’t have that, just submit whatever speaks info you have.
Thank you!
Bentley BJ and Claremont DA both received at-large bids.
Hooray Logan and Amaraj
Ahhh darn, CalCup conflicts with UCLA’s open house/bruin day weekend …
Sorry to be dense, but do we need to send in an application for the Windsor team of Fauss & Jeffrey or just send a check or do we need to register online? Thx!
You need to fill out this form: http://www.pointofinformation.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/California-Cup-application.htm and email it to mail@pointofinformation.org
The $95 entry fee should be sent to 1280 Johnson Ave, San Jose CA, 95129 attn: Lynbrook Speech and Debate along with the $110 judge fee (unless you intend to provide a judge)
Approximately when will we find out if we qualify for CalCup?
over the next 5 days
MVLA SS, Simi Valley CD, Valencia SG have been accepted to the California Cup
Leland, Windsor, Granite Bay, and Mira Loma will be applying from what I know
Thanks for the reminder…Windsor app has just been sent.
Windsor FJ accepted their bid to the California Cup
Independent NJ received an at-large bid
Mira Loma MM accepted their bid
Granite Bay NW and Independent AJ accepted their bids to California Cup
just to double check, this at Lynbrook HS?
Yes, it is at Lynbrook.
Leland KW accepted their bid
Claremont MW received an at-large
hey when do we find out who else is going?
pretty sure it’ll be Carlsbad and Cleveland
Some updates:
The last two teams are Cleveland RL (Revello/Lee) and Carlsbad/LCC GK (Gardner/Karson).
Dougherty Valley TZ will be first alternate.
The judges will be:
Artem Raskin
Marissa Cleveland
BOD 2
Jon Thorpe
Bryan St. Amant
Justin Lin
Erica Furer
Caitlin Emmons
Rebecca Itow
David Chamberlain
Iain Lampert
Charlie Tierney
Joe Evans
Sean Mumper
+ 4 more hires
And there will most likely be a change of venue to SCU. I will send out an email blast when it’s confirmed.
No Ben, Shiran, or Natasha?!
Mr. Lindsey didn’t let James Logan attend because sending only one team to a tournament is bad for school spirit.
Why no Lynbrook at Cal Cup?
Johnson dropped and will be replaced by Kumar
Revello/Lee dropped and will be replaced by Tu/Zhu
And the judging pool is
Thomas Belesin (Sun only)
Stephan Brooks
Marisa Cleveland
Caitlin Emmons
Joe Evans
Erica Furer (Sat only)
Randy Hammond
Julie Herman
Rebecca Itow
Iain Lampert
Justin Lin
Nick Matthews
Sarah McGuinn
Sean Mumper
Artem Raskin
Charlie Tierney
Jon Thorpe
Bryan St. Amant
Hired judge #11
Claremont judge #2
Valencia SG team notified me today that they need to drop.
Want to give your next-in-line alternate team enough notice to (hopefully) have time to make arrangements so they can go to the tournament!
HOWEVER, I can’t send email to you directly from my school email account because we’re closed for Spring Break April 11th.
I recall my application needed to come directly from my school email … hope that’s not the policy for dropping.
Advice?
I check my home email often, in case that helps. Have some other details to take care of (drop fee, etc.) and if we can’t do that through home email, I’ll get that taken care for you as soon as school is back in session.
Thanks for your help!
Clarification to that message I just posted. Just realized I didn’t identify myself in that message … I’m coach of the Valencia SG team.
(In case you wondered.)
The combined entry fee, judge fee, and drop fee comes out to $280, you can mail the check to Lynbrook HS, attn: Ryan Lawrence.
You don’t need the official school email to drop.
There should be seeding from the very beginning.
Final seeding, with SCU2 and squals points added, has been released – http://www.pointofinformation.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/List-of-teams.htm
Note that Valencia has been replaced by Leland NW.
Seeding will be used to determine pods. You’ll debate everyone in your pod, so once you know the pod, seeding doesn’t really matter.