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Tacoma Community
College Debate Tournament, aka the Bob Gilmore Memorial |
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THE TACOMA COMMUNITY
COLLEGE PARLI TOURNAMENT- The Bob Gilmore Memorial Friday, December 4, 2015: 2 Educational Practice
Rounds Saturday, December 5, 2015: 4 Round Tournament Held at Tacoma Community
College Version
1.1 October
16, 2015 Tony
Penders and I are excited to be offering the Tacoma Community College
tournament, a low cost opportunity for an early December tournament. We will be offering excellent facilities,
in a relatively familiar location, with centrally located announcements
location as well as tab room, and easily accessible debate rooms and prep
rooms. WHEN YOU NEED TO BE AT THE TCC GILMORE DEBATE DIVISIONS, SPEAKING-PREP TIMES, MUTUALITY PREFS The tournament features: ·
Training session Friday 3pm to 8pm
with two rounds emphasizing learning--with critique and commentary for those
wishing to improve their skills or who are less experienced. Given the severity of traffic both north
and south bound on I-5, the first round will begin at 3:00—so arrive at
2:30/2:45pm before traffic gets really bad. We will have a dinner break and
finish at 8pm, after traffic has thinned out. All of these Friday rounds will
occur in Building 12. (The campus’
buildings are all numbered) ·
Four rounds of NPTE-NPDA
parliamentary debate plus elimination rounds on Saturday. ·
Morning coffee, doughnuts,
bagels and the usual suspects will be provided Saturday morning. Lunch in the form of varying forms of pizza
will be provided on Saturday. TCC is
also less than 200 yards from Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Taco Time, some
excellent Thai, some less predictable Vietnamese, an Ivar’s Drive Thru,
Subway and Fred Meyer. ·
Tacoma Community College
has been remarkably supportive of the development of a new program, as well
as hosting a tournament. TCC is a
smoke-free campus, I am required to report. So, in addition to all the other
mischief you are not permitted to perform, you can’t smoke. Please be respectful of the school’s
willingness to host this and other events in the future. ·
Relaxed atmosphere and
interaction among coaches and debaters. ·
NPTE-NPDA Parli: Current Event
Topics, Mutuality Judge Assignment that emphasizes inclusion of judges while
providing equity and some preference in judging placement, Warm room, Prep
rooms, and 2 minute prep time/cross-examination before speeches during the
rounds. Please join us for a great debate
tournament finishing up the fall season. Sincerely, Tony Penders, apenders@tacomacc.edu Tournament Host and Director of Forensics, Jim Hanson hansonjb@gmail.com Tournament Tab Management, Debate Coach, Bellevue
College; also, Executive Director, Climb the Mountain Speech and Debate
Foundation, President, West Coast Publishing, and Professor of Rhetoric on
sabbatical from Whitman College.
We have arranged a special rate with the La Quinta in
Tacoma. If you are familiar with the
La Quinta mentioned in the U.P.S. invite, this is the same hotel, as the two
campuses are within two miles. Price for a room with two beds: $76.50 per night. Do not call the central La Quinta reservation line;
call the front desk, at 253-383-0146 and be prepared to hit 6 if you get the
recording- this will route you to the front desk. Make sure you mention the TCC debate tournament to get
this rate. This rate will expire on November 13th. https://www.google.com/maps/place/La+Quinta+Inn+%26+Suites+Tacoma+Seattle,+1425+E+27th+St,+Tacoma,+WA+98421/@47.2401071,-122.4118616,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x54905587516e125d:0x8607278b3b9d16c5 Most NPTE-NPDA teams staying at the hotel will want to
check in Friday, Dec. 4 and check out Sunday, Dec. 6.
There will be plenty of parking—Parking Lot A
is recommended--and
building 12 is a short walk from the lot. FRIDAY: For the Friday Debate training session, you
should be at
Building 12 by 2:45. SATURDAY: Arrive by 8:30am, Saturday,
December 5, Prelim Rounds;
Fly to Sea-Tac Airport.
The airport is about 30 minutes from Tacoma Community College. We suggest you order your tickets at www.expedia.com
or www.travelocity.com Sorry, the tournament is unable to provide
ground transportation but there are rail, bus, taxi, and rental car options.
The
administration at this school has been incredibly supportive of a new program
in general, and this event in particular; please show them the respect they
deserve. I do believe that this school
and its faculty and staff are willing to help us considerably if we are
simply respectful. Participants--students, judges, observers, and coaches--are
expected as a condition of participating at our tournament to adhere to
expectations for professional behavior and caring treatment of others
befitting a college event. Participants are expected to assure a comfortable
atmosphere for everyone. Participants shall refrain from illegal drugs and
alcohol consumption including being affected by such vices throughout the
tournament weekend at the tournament and being responsible and safe at
hotels. If schools have more restrictive policies, of course, schools should
follow those policies. We want and expect a professional tournament, safe and
responsible, and one we can be proud to show to administrators. Every
Director/Head Coach at every school participating is expected to have their participants
read and agree to the following expectations: For
Judges & Coaches: nw-parli-ie-warmup-judge-coach-expectations.pptx For
Students & Observers: nw-parli-ie-warmup-student-observer-expectations.pptx Comments-edits-suggestions
for these PowerPoints? Please email Jim at hansonjb@gmail.com We want to make these as helpful and
inclusive as possible.
NPTE-NPDA
PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE 1. DIVISIONS:
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NOVICE (first year of
debating; advanced to elims 3 or less times) ·
JUNIOR (no more than 4 semesters
of college debate; has not been in elimination rounds of college junior or
open division debate more than 3 times) ·
SENIOR (open to
anyone) ·
Unusual situation,
contact Tony Penders at apendersatacomacc.edu 2. TIME LIMITS:
Topic
Centrally Announced 20
minutes Prep 7
min. PMC 2
min. prep/cx 8
min. LOC 2
min. prep/cx 8
min. MG 1
min. prep/cx 8
min. MO 4
min. LOR 1
min. prep/cx 5
min. PMR POIs
still occur as is normal in parliamentary debates. Prep-CX does not replace
it. CX
works as is normal with the speaker who just spoke taking questions.
“Tag-team” CX is fine too but the person speaking next should not be expected
to participate. 3. 5 ROUNDS PLUS APPROPRIATE ELIMS 4. MUTUALITY PREFERENCING: Teams will preference judges 1, 2, 3 etc. with 10
to 15% strikes. Judges will be placed into rounds based primarily on
mutuality with a small lean toward preferencing. Teams with 3 losses will not
receive a judge in the 61st -85th percentile unless it
is absolutely necessary. In tests done with NPTE preferencing and at the
Northwest Warmup, this approach to judge placement maintained good
preferencing, extremely high mutuality (meaning teams got judges they rated
nearly equally), and was significantly more inclusive in use of judging
obligations.
1. PREPARATION BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT:
The tournament will choose resolutions based on important, widely publicized
events from the months of October/November 2015, political news events, domestic
and international news and
events.
The resolutions and
topic areas will not be announced beforehand. 2. RESOLUTIONS
Teams will debate resolutions that the tournament will announce online at The TCC Gilmore Warm Room Page
and in a central location 20 minutes before rounds begin.
PARLI DEBATE BREAKS:
The break to elimination rounds will be
based on, in order, the following: Win-loss record; Adjusted speaker points
(drop high-lows); Total Speaker points; and Win-loss record of opposing
teams. We will advance to semi-finals (finals if
there are less than 8 teams in a division). We will break brackets in the elimination
rounds using the drop down one slot method used by Gary Larson and Rich
Edwards. PARLI DEBATE SPEAKER RANKINGS:
Adjusted speaker points (drop high-lows); Total Speaker points;
Double-adjusted speaker points (drop two highs; two lows); Z score. DEBATE AWARDS:
All elimination participants. DEBATE SPEAKER AWARDS:
Top half in each division.
Take I-5 to the 16. Take the 19th
Street exit.
After exiting on 19th, take a
left and go to Lot A. Then walk to Building 12.
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 4, EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE ROUNDS
2:30PM - 2:55pm Registration, Building 12
3:00pm – 5:00pm Practice Parli Rd 1 with comments and
redos
5:00pm - 6:00pm Break, Eat dinner at local eateries
6:00pm – 8:00pm Practice Parli Rd 2 with comments and
redos SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 5, FIVE ROUND FULL TOURNAMENT
9:30am Park
in Lot A
9:45am - 10:00am Registration
(if not registered on Friday) Continental Breakfast. For
the environment’s sake, we ask that you bring your own water bottle for
refills. 10:15am –
11:45am NPDA-NPTE Parli Rd
1 11:45am
– 12:15pm Lunch provided by
the tournament (pizza) 12:15pm -
1:45pm NPDA-NPTE Parli
Rd 2
2:00pm - 3:30pm NPDA-NPTE Parli Rd 3
3:45pm - 5:15pm NPDA-NPTE Parli Rd 4
5:15pm - 6:00pm Teams get dinner at local
restaurants
6:00pm - 7:30pm NPDA-NPTE Parli Semi-Finals
7:45pm - 8:00pm Awards
8:00pm - 9:30pm NPDA-NPTE Parli Finals
Enter your teams and judges at http://www.forensicstournament.net/RobertSGilmore/15/register/ (registration not being taken yet) Entry Deadline is 5pm, Tuesday, Dec. 1 FEES School Fee: $30 NPTE-NPDA Each NPTE-NPDA Debate Team is $50 (includes Sat mini-breakfast, pizza lunch) Each NPTE-NPDA debate judge covers 2 teams. Each uncovered NPTE-NPDA team is $100. NOTE You may not hire for more than 4 uncovered NPTE-NPDA teams. Only 1 of your judges may be “JV/Novice” only judges. In NPTE-NPDA debate, JV/Novice judges are those with 2 or less years of coaching and/or debating. If you have more than 4 judges and more than 8 teams, those additional judges MUST be able to judge your own teams (otherwise, we have trouble placing those judges). Write checks to Tacoma Community College. DO
YOU HAVE A JUDGE WE CAN HIRE? Please e-mail Jim at hansonjb@gmail.com
Got a judge willing to judge rounds? We pay
$17 for each round plus free food that is offered by the tournament. |
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