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Come to the Annual Lynbrook Novite!

The Annual End-of the-Year Novite will happen on Sunday, May 17 at Monta Vista High School. This year’s tournament will expand to allow middle school entries and entries outside of CFL.

Registration deadline
Friday, May 8

Cost
Policy, Parli, Public Forum, Duo: $25.00 per entry
All other IE and LD, and Student Congress: $20.00 per entry
School Fees (All schools must pay this fee)
01-10 entries: $20.00
11-20 entries: $40.00
21 + entries: $50.00
Missed Ballot Fine: $50.00
Uncovered Judge Fees (please do not leave uncovered more than 10 IE/6 debate)
Individual Events: $20.00 per uncovered entry
Debate Events: $20.00 per uncovered entry
Late adds after the no penalty deadline (May 12, 5:00 PM) will be $20.00 per entry. Late drops after the no penalty deadline will not allow you to recover your fees.
Checks payable to: Lynbrook Speech and Debate Boosters

Events:
All CHSSA debate (parli, LD, CX, PoFo, congress) and speech events. This years, the tournament is adding Spontaneous Argument (a.k.a. SPAR), a new speech event commonly described as parli-lite. Stanford Invitational Rules will be used for SPAR. If there are not enough entries, the tournament will collapse the extemps and the original events.

Schedule
Sunday, May 17, 2009
07:00am Registration
07:30am Judge instruct
08:00am  Debate Rd. 1
10:00am Speech Rd. 1
11:30pm  Debate Rd. 2
1:30pm  Speech Rd. 2
3:00pm  Speech Rd. 3
3:30pm  Debate Rd. 3
6:00pm  Awards
schedule may change – we will try to push rounds earlier, and we will try to add another round
A final round will be help for speech events if entry allows.

Eligibility
This is a novice-only tournament. Novice is defined as first-year competitor. Speech novices that ever broke at a tournament might not be accepted. If they broke at a tournament where almost everyone broke, please contact the Tournament Director. Debate novices that attended over 3 tournaments also might not be accepted. The eligibility of these speakers and debaters will be decided on a case-by-case basis, so contact the Tournament Director if you want to enter them. Debaters who have attended more than one tournament will be paired against each other rather than against the less experienced debaters.

Debate rules
CHSSA rules will be followed with the following exceptions:
-LD Preparation time will be 4 minutes.
-There will not be a designated Prep Room for Parliamentary Debate.

Resolutions
LD: Jan/Feb 2009 Resolved: The United States ought to submit to the jurisdiction of an international court designed to prosecute crimes against humanity.
Public Forum: March 2009 Resolved: That, on balance, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has improved academic achievement in the United States.
Policy: 2008-2009 Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States.
Novice policy areas:
RPS
solar energy
wind energy
nuclear power
ethanol

Judging
Please bring 1 judge for every four (4) Individual Events entries and 1 judge for every two (2) debate entries. Judging commitment will be for the duration of the tournament. If they cannot stay for the entire time, you will need to indicate on the entry forms which judges will cover which fraction of the commitment.
We will not push ballots! All judges are expected to pick up ballots for the rounds they are assigned.
Note regarding varsity student judges: All coaches should inform their varsity students that this tournament seeks to promote an open and encouraging environment for relatively new students who are still learning the tricks of the trade, so to speak. Therefore, the tournament will expect all varsity students to conduct themselves in a mature and dignified manner at our tournament. Behaviors such as off-colored comments about a student’s performance, overt or subtle sexual innuendos, profanities uttered in the confines of a competition round, etc. are all examples of inappropriate behaviors we will not tolerate. The tournament also expects student judges to give constructive feedback after the debate and written on the ballots.
Please attempt to cover your entries completely.  Maximum 10 IE/6 debate uncovered.

Awards
Awards will be given to all undefeated debaters and all speech finalists. If there are no speech finals, prelims will be used to rank speakers and the top 6-8 will get awards.

Double entry

Speech/Speech and Speech/Debate double entering is allowed. Triple entering is not allowed. Congress debaters cannot double enter. Double entering in two extemps is not allowed. SPAR is a speech event.

Contact
Tournament Director: Hoon Ko (email: hoon DOT ko AT gmail DOT com)
Tournament email: lynbrook DOT tourn AT gmail DOT com
Also, POI staff will be helping to run the tourney, so feel free to contact us with questions at mail DOT pointofinformation DOT com or by posting in the thread.

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