Fees

$120 per team

$150 fee for teams which drop out after 03/16 (teams which drop out after 03/16 still have to pay the entry fee and the judge fee)

Please make checks payable to "Lynbrook Speech and Debate Boosters".

Judging

A qualified judge must be provided for each entry. A qualified judge is a Head Coach, an assistant parliamentary debate coach, or any adult high school graduate with former debate experience approved by the tournament director.

The fee for not providing a judge is $160

Judges must submit their judging philosophies by 03/31. The fee for not submitting a philosophy by the deadline is $30.

Deadlines

03/03/2010, 8PM, Pacific Time – teams that apply before this deadline will, on average, be given priority over teams which apply after 03/03.

03/16/2010, 8PM, Pacific Time – final deadline to enter or drop teams. Teams that apply earlier in the 03/04-03/16 time period will, on average, be given priority over teams that apply later in that time period.

Qualification

A team that earns 17 points in POI Rankings ( http://www.pointofinformation.org/results/poi-rankings-2009-2010/ ) is fully qualified to the Cup.

Any team that is listed in POI Rankings but does not have 17 points can apply for an at large bid to the Cup. Because we expect less than 16 teams to qualify through the points system, there will be several slots open for teams selected on an individual basis.

Teams are invited to indicate that they are interested in serving as an alternate. One team will be selected to serve as an alternate in case a qualified team drops out after the entry deadline. Alternate teams will have their fees and judging requirement waived. Alternate teams which get in by 03/31 but do not attend will be charged a $150 drop fee.

The current POI Rankings include points from all eligible tournaments except the state qualifiers. Please email us results packets from your respective qualifiers so that we can update the rankings.

Note: While we will release preliminary lists of qualified teams, no team is 100% guaranteed to attend until we release the final field report shortly after the 03/16 deadline.

Schedule

- rounds will be pushed up if possible

- we ask non-advancing debaters to stay for finals to participate in the floor vote

Saturday, April 3

9-9:30 Registration

9:30-11:00 Round 1

11:00-12:30 Round 2

12:30-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:30 Round 3

2:30-4:00 Round 4

4:00-5:30 Round 5

5:30-6:00 Dinner

6:00-7:00 Semifinals

7:00-8:00 Finals

8:00 – 8:30 Awards

Assistance

We will try to help attending school if there are any financial or logistical difficulties. In particular, we will provide free housing to out-of-area teams on a first come first serve basis.

Rules

CHSSA rules (http://www.pointofinformation.org/resources/chssa-parli-rules/) will be used as a guideline with the following exceptions:

- Points of Information are allowed in all speeches at all time. There is no protected time.

- Points of Order are allowed in rebuttals. Points of Order can be made if the opposing side brings up a new argument in the rebuttal with the exceptions of examples illustrating previous arguments and PMR responses to new arguments made in the MOC. Points of Order are not included in speech times.

- During preparation time, debaters are not allowed to consult with anyone except their respective partners. They are, however, allowed to access any printed material that was prepared before the start of preparation time, as long as this material is not used in round. Laptops are allowed; connecting to the Internet is not.

- Judges are encouraged, but not required, to disclose and explain their decisions after the round, as long as this does not jeopardize the time efficiency of the tournament.

- A 0-10 speaker point scale will be used. A speaker point score in a regular 0-30 scale is converted into this by subtracting 20. Judges are asked to average at around 6 and reserve scores of 8 or higher for debaters who, given their performance in the particular round, deserve to clear to elimination rounds on the Cup.

Tabbing

Each round will be adjudicated by two judges.

Priorities for clearing:

1) Ballot count

2) Judge Variance

3) Speakers points dropping highest, lowest, second lowest

4) Total speaker points

5) POI points

Round 1 will be power-protected based on POI points.

Rounds 2-5 will be powermatched.

Semifinals will be power-protected