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THE NORTHWEST PARLI WARMUP September 22 and 23, 2012 (Saturday
and Sunday) Hosted by Bellevue College V1.8 |
Denise
and I are excited to be offering the Northwest Parli Warmup, the year-starting tournament at Bellevue College
this fall, 2012.
LODGING FOR THE NORTHWEST PARLI WARMUP
WHEN YOU NEED TO BE AT THE NORTHWEST PARLI WARMUP
AIR TRAVEL TO THE NORTHWEST PARLI WARMUP
DIVISIONS, SPEAKING-PREP TIMES, MPJ-STRIKES
IMPROMPTU, EXTEMP, AND PLATFORM SPEAKING GUIDELINES
The tournament features:
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Six rounds of
parliamentary debate plus elimination rounds.
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Platform –NEW!--,
Impromptu and Extemp 2 quick rounds plus finals–NO FEES
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Breakfast, Snacks and
great hospitality.
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Relaxed atmosphere and
fun getting to know new coaches and debaters.
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Topic areas, Warm
room, Prep rooms, and 1 minute prep time/cross-examination before speeches
during the rounds.
Please
join us for a great debate tournament this fall.
Sincerely,
Denise
Vaughan dvaughan@bellevuecollege.edu
Tournament
Host and Director
Jim Hanson hansonjb@whitman.edu
Tournament
Tab Management
LODGING
FOR THE NORTHWEST PARLI WARMUP
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The Marriott Courtyard Bellevue
Downtown
$99. Two queens, up to 4
People. Cost per night; tax additional.
Reserve by
Sept. 1.
Call 1-800-716-5874 or use the link
below to make your
reservations. Ask for the NW Parli Warmup Block.
Address 11010 NE 8th Street, Downtown Bellevue near the
I-405/NE 8th
St Interchange; about 10 minutes from Bellevue College.
NOT
SE 8th Street.
Make
Reservations: Marriott Courtyard Bellevue Downtown
Most
teams will want to check in Friday, Sept. 21 and check out Sunday, Sept. 23.
WHEN
YOU NEED TO BE AT THE NORTHWEST PARLI WARMUP
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Arrive
9am, Saturday, September 22; 6 Prelim Rounds; finish by 9:30pm.
Arrive
9am; Elims on Sunday, September 23; Finals finish by
8:00pm, Sunday with the first elim expected to be octafinals.
IEs
happen on Sunday; see the schedule below.
AIR
TRAVEL TO THE NORTHWEST PARLI WARMUP
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Fly to
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.
DIVISIONS,
SPEAKING-PREP TIMES, MPJ-STRIKES
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PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE
1. DIVISIONS:
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NOVICE-ROOKIE (no high school or
college debate tournament experience)
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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)
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SENIOR (open to
anyone)
2. TIME LIMITS:
Topic
Centrally Announced
20
minutes Prep
7
min. PMC
1
min. prep/cx
8
min. LOC
1
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.
3. 6 ROUNDS PLUS APPROPRIATE ELIMS
4. MPJ/STRIKES: Teams may choose to use MPJ (1, 2, 3, and one
strike) or a small number of strikes with the remaining judges as 2’s or no
strikes and all judges as 2’s.
TOPIC
AREAS
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1.
TOPIC AREAS: The Topic Areas will be announced about a
month before the tournament occurs. They’ll be solicited on net benefits and
via email. Jim will edit the list and then participants may vote. The vote will
decide the topic areas with minimal editing by Jim mainly to avoid repetitive
topics or to tweak the wordings of a topic area.
FOR FALL 2012
____ The US congress should implement the
Dream Act, the Democrat’s “Conceptual Proposal for Immigration Reform,” and/or the 6th step of Gingrich’s proposal
for legal status for currently
undocumented people in the United States. (note—‘citizenship’ replaced by
‘legal status’ in this topic area; see the 6th step in Gingrich’s 10
steps to legal status)
____ The USFG should extend and/or expand
the Violence Against Women Act.
____ The United States federal government
should substantially increase protections against cyberterrorism
and/or cyberwarfare in the United States.
2. RESOLUTIONS
Teams will debate resolutions that the tournament will announce online at The
NPW Warm Room Page and in a central location 20 minutes before rounds
begin. The resolutions will be based on the topic areas.
ELIMINATION
ROUNDS AND AWARDS
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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 up to half the field so long
as we have sufficient judges to do so but we’ll break to doubles only if there
are 36 or more teams.
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.
IMPROMPTU,
EXTEMP, AND PLATFORM SPEAKING GUIDELINES
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Please–Consider
entering a student in IEs.
No Fee for the first four students from each school.
1. EVENTS
· Platform,
Impromptu
and Extemp only. Sorry, no
other events.
· Students
may enter only one event.
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Impromptu will use a quotation, a word,
and a question. Normal NIET rules, 7 minutes total speaking/preparation time.
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Extemp
will have 3 questions on political and social issues during the past month. 7
minutes speaking time.
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Platform is for Persuasive,
Informative, and After Dinner Speeches; PowerPoints
permitted; prepared ahead however manuscript is not required. 10 minutes
speaking time.
NIET rules EXCEPT that PRELIM
EXTEMP topics are announced 2 to 3 days before the tournament starts (to save
time during the tournament).
Students may use the internet for their research except for Finals.
2. DIVISIONS OF
PLATFORM, EXTEMP AND IMPROMPTU
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OPEN DIVISION (Open to anyone)
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JUNIOR DIVISION (You have not advanced
to elims 6 or more times in junior/senior division
college or hs toc division/nfl
nationals tournaments and you have not competed 12 or more times in
junior/senior division college or hs toc division/nfl nationals tournaments in Impromptu or Extemp or Platform.)
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Platform/Extemp/Impromptu
divisions may be collapsed if there are less than 12 competitors in a division
(subject to tournament director discretion); Awards and if appropriate, a
separate finals round, will be provided for competitors in a collapsed
division.
3. PLATFORM, EXTEMP, AND IMPROMPTU ARE IN THE SAME
PATTERN
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You can enter ONLY ONE event; you
choose impromptu or extemp or platform.
4.
PLATFORM-EXTEMP-IMPROMPTU BREAKS AND FINALS RANKINGS:
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Breaking to finals will be based on prelim
results. Final results will be based on the finals ballots. Sorting will be
done based on this order: Total rankings; Total rating; Total ranking and
rating minus the worst ranking and rating; Judge preference.
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We will break to finals the number of legs
in that event except that if there is a tie, we’ll break tied competitors
unless that would create an elimination round with more than 6 competitors.
5.
PLATFROM-EXTEMP-IMPROMPTU AWARDS:
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1st, 2nd, 3rd, Finalists.
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If Platform, Impromptu or Extemp is collapsed, we will provide equivalent awards for
the junior division competitors.
SCHEDULE
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
9:00 Park
in the Parking Lot behind Building R.
GO TO THE L BUILDING.
Registration,
see Denise Saturday morning at the Continental Breakfast.
For
the environment’s sake, we ask that you bring your own water bottle for
refills.
9:30am – 11:00am
11:30am
– 1:00pm Parli Rd 2
1:00pm –
1:30pm Lunch provided by the
tournament
1:30pm - 3:00pm Parli Rd 3
3:30pm - 5:00pm Parli Rd 4
5:00pm -
5:30pm Pizza snack provided
by the tournament
5:30pm - 7:00pm Parli Rd 5
7:30pm - 9:00pm Parli Rd 6
10:00pm Elim participants and Judges posted online.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
9:00 Continental
Breakfast provided by the tournament
9:30am - 11:15am Elim 1 (all judges required to judge
as posted night before)
11:15am – 12:45pm IE 1 and 2
Noon
– 1:00pm Lunch provided by the
tournament
1:00pm - 2:45pm Elim 2 (all
judges required to judge)
Judges leaving? Tell Jim ASAP. After Elim 2, Judges are committed 1 round past school’s last elim debate.
1:45pm - 3:15pm IE Finals (students in Elim 2 will do their ie’s in the
second half of the round)
3:15pm -
3:30pm Debate Awards
3:30pm -
5:15pm Elim 3
5:15pm – 5:30pm IE and Elim 3
Awards
5:30pm - 7:15pm Elim 4
ENTRY
AND FEES
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Enter
your teams and judges at http://www.forensicstournament.net/nw-parli-warmup/12
Entry
Deadline is 5pm, Tuesday, Sept. 18
FEES
School Fee: $30
Each Debate Team is $75 (includes
Sat breakfast, lunch, dinner; Sun breakfast, lunch)
Each uncovered team is $150.
IE Slots beyond 4: $10 each (first
four are free).
Each IE judge covers 4 slots.
Judges covering the first 4 slots
receive $25 (judge prelims and finals as noted on Sunday on the schedule).
Each uncovered IE slot is $10
beyond 4 (first four slots are free).
Write checks to Bellevue College.
DEBATE JUDGING
1 team requires 4 round plus elims judge.
2 teams requires 6 round plus elims judge.
3 teams requires 10 rounds plus elims judges.
4 teams requires 12 rounds plus elims judges.
etc.
YOU MAY NOT HIRE JUDGING FOR MORE THAN 2
UNCOVERED TEAMS.
EACH UNCOVERED TEAM COSTS $150.
JUNIOR ONLY JUDGES?
2 Max Junior Only Judges. You may only count
2 Junior Only Judges as covering your commitment. Sorry; at the 2009
tournament, we were short on open judges.
Junior Judges are those with less than 2
years of experience coaching or debating.
DO YOU HAVE A JUDGE WE CAN HIRE? Please
e-mail Jim at hansonjb@whitman.edu We will pay $160 for judging Saturday all day and Sunday
until 4:15pm and provide free food!
Got a
judge willing to judge extra rounds? We pay $20 for each extra round.