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13th Annual Saints High School Invitational
February 14, 2015
Mt. Hood Community College
26000 SE Stark St. Gresham, OR 97030
On behalf of Mt. Hood Community College Forensics Team, I would like to
invite you to the 13th annual Mt. Hood Community College Saints Invitational. We
are offering a full-service tournament including individual events, Student
Congress, and LD-V, Policy (CX), Parliamentary, and Public Forum debate.
We are excited to see a high level of competition right before your district
qualifying tournaments.
o Please plan to be checked in by 7:30am (not the typical 8:00am)
o CX, PF, and LD will use current topics provided by the National Speech and
Debate Association. Parli will have a choice of three topics concerning
domestic and foreign affairs from the past two months.
o For complete descriptions of each event and rules, please refer to the OSAA
speech and debate handbook.
Our tournament will feature the presentation of the Michael Ramon Padilla
Top Speaker Award. The recipient of this award will be the student who has
earned the most sweepstakes points for his or her team. This award is named
after Michael Ramon Padilla who was a colleague of mine from Clark College and
Portland State University. Ramon was an exceptional speaker known for his
leadership and was one who demonstrated impressive sportsmanship.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at
(503) 491-7634
[email protected]
We look forward to welcoming you to our campus for a great day of great
competition!
Sincerely,
Shannon Valdivia
Director of Forensics
Micah Moore
Assistant Coach
13th Annual Saints High School Invitational
February 14, 2015
Mt. Hood Community College
26000 SE Stark St. Gresham, OR 97030
Registration/Tournament Information:
• You can register your team on www.ForensicsTournament.net
• Your Tournament Entry needs to be completed by
Tuesday February 10th. (Judges and Students)
All fees (including judging penalties) will be assets at this time.
• We will cut off registration at 40 schools
Enter early to assure your place at the tournament.
• Tab: Coaches and Judges should check that morning at the
College Boardroom located upstairs near the library.
• Judges lounge will be in Conference Room.
• Students area will be in the Vista Dining Hall
• Food services will are not available on site.
But plenty of eating options are within walking distance.
Judging:
We wish to keep forensics affordable. We also wish to run an efficient
tournament that doesn’t overwork the judging pool that is available. None of
these goals are possible without each school covering its judging requirement.
Judging requirements:
o Every school must bring at least 1 experienced full time judge/coach.
o Each school entering a CX team must provide at least 1 CX judge.
o Each judge covers 2 debate teams (or 4 LD entries) and 6 Individual Event
entries.
o PS anyone who can judge debate can judge CX. Requests to not judge CX
will be considered. But not considered heavily.
o If your judge can not attend all day, make sure to note it in registration.
Only judges who are available all day will count at a “full judge”.
o An uncovered IE entry will be charged $10.00 and an uncovered Debate $25
13th Annual Saints High School Invitational
February 14, 2015
Mt. Hood Community College
26000 SE Stark St. Gresham, OR 97030
Events:
Events will be run in accordance with OSAA and its rules toward proven
excellence. At this point we intend to offer both Open and Novice division in
debate ONLY.
We will keep you informed if we need to collapse novice division in order to
maintain proven excellence.
Event Patterns:
Pattern A: HI, DI, DUO, EXP, OO, RAD ADS, PRO, POE, IMP, EXT
Pattern B: LDV, PFD, PARLI D, CX, and Libiell
Congress runs on its own schedule.
Multiple Entries and Conflicts:
The Ramon Padilla award is awesome. But time management is a part of the test.
So enter at your own risk.
o Students may enter a maximum of 3 events.
o Students may only enter in 1 kind of debate.
o Students entered in Congress may not enter any other event.
Students Entering Multiple Events:
o Please explain to your students how to successfully and respectfully
compete with multiple entries. This includes having someone check into
rounds for them if they are double entered and politely requesting to go
first in IE’s excluding Extemp.
o Although ballots will be marked with double-entries, it is up to the student
to attend their rounds in a timely manner.
o We will not re-run rounds for students who fail to make it to rounds on
time.
o Extempers can not speak out of order and extra prep time will not be given.
13th Annual Saints High School Invitational
February 14, 2015
Mt. Hood Community College
26000 SE Stark St. Gresham, OR 97030
Event Patterns:
Pattern A: HI, DI, DUO, EXP, OO, RAD ADS, PRO, POE, IMP, EXT
Pattern B: LDV, PFD, PARLI D, CX, and Libiell
Congress runs on its own schedule.
Extemp Prep in room
The Day Starts at 7:00am
7:00am to 7:30am: Registration and Check-in in the MHCC Board Room
7:40am to 8:ooam: Opening announcements for coaches & students in Vista DH
Judges Training in the MHCC Conference Room
8:00am to 9:30:
RD 1 Pattern A (Extemp Prep Starts at 8:00am)
9:30am to 11:15am:
RD 1 Pattern B
11:15am to 12:45pm:
RD 2 Pattern A (Extemp Prep Starts at 11:15am)
12:45pm to 2:30pm:
RD 2 Pattern B
2:30pm to 4:00pm:
RD 3 Pattern A (Extemp Prep Starts at 2:30pm)
4:00pm to 5:45pm:
RD 3 Pattern B
5:45pm to 8:30pm:
Pattern A and B Finals
Awards ASAP:
As soon as everything is clean.
As always the schedule is subject to change. Check postings often!!!