Pioneer Invitation Rules of Competition
Pattern A Events Standard NIET rules with the following
exceptions
Extemp- 6-minute speech with l additional minute for a
single pertinent question from the judge.
Pattern B Events Standard NIET rules with the following
exceptions
Sept. 2009
Dr. Steven B. Hunt
Dear Forensics Colleagues:
The Lewis & Clark College Pioneers Oregon Beta of PKD cordially invite you and your squad to participate in The Pioneer Invitational(Steve Hunt Classic) Friday October 9-Sunday October 11, 2009. We will be an officially sanctioned NPDA tournament and the First Northwest Designated Tournament for 2009-10.
Our tournament will offer 6 preliminary rounds of parliamentary debate in 3 divisions, worlds BP debate in 1 division, and 12 individual events following modified AFA NIET rules. We hope for some beautiful Indian summer weather but you should be prepared for possible liquid sunshine, as October is when the Northwest rains really start falling. We look forward to welcoming you and your competitors on campus. We hope to combine the competitiveness, graciousness, and efficiency of the Pioneer tradition. We will have a combined tab room. We will have L&C forensics alumni, local high school directors of forensics, and law student guest judges to try to provide a partial respite for our “professional” judges. We will try to provide you with healthy snacks and suitable awards.
If you have any questions and/or if we can provide you with any necessary additional information, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We would really like to have you and your students as our guests.
PLEASE SERIOUSLY CONSIDER COMING TO BEAUTIFUL PORTLAND AND TO LEWIS & CLARK AND BRING YOUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST WITH YOU!!!
PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THE RULES FOR ALL EVENTS.
We are a Bon Apetit school for food.
We are utilizing three hotels as designated facilities for our tournament.
Entries are due to Steve Hunt by Tuesday Oct. 6th l0:00 AM through web registration at forensicstournament.net.
Sincerely,
Steve Hunt, Bjorn Stillion Southard, and the Pioneers
Office 503-768-7617 Secretary 503-768-7616 FAX 503-768-7620
Steve Hunt Home 503-641-6383 Email: hunt@lclark.edu
Bjorn Stillion Southard Office 503-768-7666 Email bjorn@lclark.edu
There will be 3 divisions of parliamentary debate, novice, junior, and senior. We will use NPDA division standards. Time limits will be 7-8-8-8-4-5.
Novice- little or no experience(no high school debate) lst year of college experience
Must go on to jr after breaking to elims 3 times.
Junior –lst or 2nd year college experience not more than 3 breaks to elimination rounds in junior division
Open/Senior-all the rest
WE WILL NOT Post results between rounds.
We will break brackets. Breaks on W-L, then total speaker points dropping high and low. Total speaker points, then quality of opposition.
1. U.S. health care reform (unless major reform has just passed)
2. M.E. peace
3. Afghanistan policies
4. Gay/Queer rights issues
5. U.S. consumer product safety
6. U.S. budget issues
7. US Native American issues
We will have appropriate elimination rounds trying to ensure all teams with a 4-2 or better record breaking even if this means holding partial elimination rounds.
We will not have judge preference but we will allow strikes (probably l0 per team which is an additional reason to enter early)
World (BP) Division
We will follow standard worlds rules with the usual time allocations. 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
We will utilize the Trapp system of 2 judges per rd with 5 minutes to discuss a decision followed by independent ballots.
Elimination rds determined by entries.
Nota bene: We reserve the right to limit late school entries and number of teams per school due to space limitations as necessary.***** (this applies to debate not to IE’s)
Divisions
Novice- is for beginners. Novice speakers should be in their first year of competition in public speaking or interpretation. They should not have won 3 or more awards in college in public speaking or interpretation.
Junior- is for students with high school or collegiate experience. Junior speakers should not have won more than 8 speaking or interpretation awards in college competition. Probably should go on to senior after winning 3 or more junior awards in a category separating interp events from speaking events.
Open/Senior-for all other students. Speakers with more than 8 awards in collegiate speaking (ADS, extemp, impromptu, persuasion, informative, or communcation analysis) must enter open in speaking events. Interpreters with more than 8 awards in college in interpretation (duo, drama, prose, poetry, POI) must enter open division in interpretation events.
Students are required to have manuscripts in all prepared events and may be required to show these to tournament administration.
Pattern A: Extemp (N, J, S), Persuasion (N, J. S) Drama (N, S), POI S, ADS S, Poetry S
Pattern B: Impromptu (N, J. S) Informative (N, J. S) CA (S) Duo (,S), Prose (N, J, S), Forensics Criticism (Sr)
NOTA
BENE: novices may enter only l event per pattern. Juniors may enter up to 2 events per pattern.
Seniors may enter 5 events no more than 3 in one pattern.
*****Students
are categorized by the lowest division in which they enter in a pattern.
PLEASE
be careful on this as it causes us more headaches and changes than any rule.
Students are responsible for signing in/informing judges of conflicts and getting back and forth to conflicts!!
We will hold NO FINALS in events with fewer than 10 entries.
Duo- STUDENTS MAY BE ENTERED IN ONLY ONE DUO
***FORENSICS CRITICISM- Analyze and evaluate a problem/s with a current forensics event (debate or individual event) and advocate for a solution/s. You may use a manuscript or notes 8-l0 minutes. NOT AN NIET EVENT.
Extemp Prep will be in The Trailroom or other designated area. Reminder all resources for extemp must be in hard copy or saved computer files. Internet browsing is not allowed during extemp prep.
School fee $40
(waived for schools more than 500 miles from L&C)
Debate $50 per team
IE fee $6 per slot (each entry of a person in an event)
Debate judges $180 per team not covered
IE judge $l2 per slot uncovered
***** A judge covers l-2 debate teams and l-6 IE slots per pattern. Please bring competent constructive judge/critics. We would rather have your good people than judging fees.
NWFA fee- $4.50 per student for schools from the NWFA.
Parking- please park in Griswald Stadium (near the football field), Student Union lot, The South Lot (behind Albany) or other empty lots. This is L&C Fall break so parking should be reasonable.
Debate lst l5 pts 2nd l2 pts 3rd 9 pts Qtrs 7 pts Octas 6 pts. Doubles 5 pts.
IE lst l0 pts 2nd 8 pts 3rd 6 pts Finalist 4 pt
Entries are due Tues Oct 6th at l0:00 AM d to Steve Hunt hunt@lclark.edu FAX 503-768-7620
REMEMBER WEBSITE REGISTRATION FORENSICSTOURNAMENT.NET
Office phone 503-768-7617 We will use website entries.
We reserve the right to limit late schools and to limit debate teams per school as space limits us.
The Pioneer Invitational endorses general principles: AFA Ethics Code, The Statement of Ethics Aspirations for the Northwest Forensics Conference, general NPDA regulations
All decisions about rules interpretation or modification will be in the hands of the tournament director Dr. Steven B. Hunt.
I. Quality Inn 11460 SW Pacific Hwy 503-245-6421
Exit 294 off I-5 5 miles from L&C
$71 + 10% tax per room 2 queen beds up to 4 people per room
Suzette Chavez
(Free high speed Internet, free continental breakfast, free local calls, and free bus parking, next to several restaurants) Register by Sept. 30th
II. Crowne Plaza 14811 Kruse Oaks Blvd l-800-2CROWNE 503-624-8400
Sallon Doyle
I 5 exit 292 going South or exit 292B coming North. Call S 503-624-9083 if having difficulties in registration L&C forensic rates
$77 + 13% tax per room for up to 4 in a room
(sauna, swimming pool, right next to several restaurants) Register by Sept 29th at latest Sept. 25th for guaranteed occupancy
III. Hilton Garden Inn next to Crowne Plaza Beverly Meehan 503-746-0040
$69 + l3% tax
Sept 28th latest possible registration
Our rates are for available rooms only REGISTER EARLY TO ASSURE SPACE.
Tentative Schedule L&C Pioneer Invitational
Fri Oct 9h-Sun Oct 11th, 2009
Thursday Oct 8th
Confirmation of entries and entry revisions Crowne Plaza Approximately
9:00-l0:30 PM in lobby
Friday Oct 9th
8:30-9:00 A.M. Late registration Extemp Posting Stamm Student Union
9:00-10:l5 Rd I Pattern A Extemp, Persuasion, DI, POI, ADS Poetry
10:l5-11: 30 Rd I Pattern B Impromptu, Informative, Ca, Duo, Prose, Forensics Criticism
11:30-l2:00 Lunch Extemp Prep Templeton Student Union
12:00-l:l5 PM Rd II Pattern A
l:l5-3:00 Rd I Debate NPDA & Worlds
3:00-4:30 Rd II Debate
4:30-5:45 Rd II Pattern B
5:45-7:30 Rd III Debate
Saturday Oct 10th
8:00-8:30 Extemp Posting Refreshments Stamm Student Union
8:30-9:l5 Rd III Pattern A
9:15-11:15 Rd IV Debate
11:l5-l2:00 Lunch
l2:00-1:15 Rd III Pattern B
1:15-2:45 Rd V Debate
2:45-3:l5 Extemp finals prep
3:15-5:15 Finals all IE’s IE’s may be flighted into two sets if necessary Semifinals
5:15-6:45 Rd VI Debate
7:00-8:00 IE Awards Preliminary Debate announcements breaks and speaker awards
Sunday Oct 11th
8:00-8:30 Refreshments, finish debate announcements, and announce debate eliminations
8:30-10:30 Debate Elim I NPDA and Worlds
10:30-l2:30 0r ASAP Debate Elim II
12:30-l:00 Lunch for remaining competitors and judges
1:00-2:30 or ASAP Debate Elim III
2:30-4:00 or ASAP Debate Elim IV
4:00-5:30 or ASAP Debate Elim V