DEBATE TABROOM (Parli and LD)

 

TAB: BOB AND BETH (pre-tournament) and BOB AND JUSTIN (during tournament)

 

PLEASE PLAN YOUR SCHEDULE—TIMING IS CAREFULLY SET TO MATCH INCOMING ENTRIES AND FOR PRINT OUTS YOU DO FOR OTHER GROUPS WORKING ON THE TOURNAMENT

·      TUESDAY WORK FROM 6PM TO 11PM—Lists of Judges and Teams due by 11pm

·      WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY minor fixes, enter judge preferences; PRINT FINAL LIST OF TEAMS AND JUDGES BY 7:30PM ON THURSDAY NIGHT.
DO A Test Run of Round 1 due by 9pm.

·      FRIDAY, BEGIN TOURNAMENT WORK BY 2PM—Round 1 Pairings needed at the ballot table by 4:30pm

 

BEFORE YOU START

BE SURE YOU HAVE THE SUPPLY BOX FROM THE TOURNAMENT ASSISTANT

Print the Tournament Invitation

If you are missing any of these items, please see me, the tournament director.

 

Reminder: DOUBLE CHECK AT EVERY STEP!

 

SETUP THE TAB PROGRAM

TOURNAMENT NAME

Whitman College Speech Tournament

 

REGIONAL CONSTRAINTS

Here are the regions:

·      Northwest Teams

·      Teams Outside the Northwest

TEAMS FROM OUTSIDE THE NORTHWEST SHOULD HIT NORTHWEST TEAMS.

 

POWERMATCHING

NOTE—ALWAYS PAIR SENIOR ROUNDS FIRST TO MAXIMIZE THEIR JUDGE PREFERENCES.

Rd 1 Geographical Pairing

Rd 2 High-Low

Rd 3, High-High

Rd 4, High-Low

Rd 5, High-Low

Rd 6, High-Low (pull teams with weaker opposition records up; off rounds 1-5)

 

RANKING TEAMS/ADVANCING TEAMS TO ELIMS

1. W Win-Loss Record

2. H Drop High-Low Speaker Points

3. P Total Speaker Points

4. O Opposition Wins

5. X Random

TALK WITH JIM ABOUT HOW MANY TEAMS ADVANCE INTO ELIMS

 

RANKING SPEAKERS/SPEAKER AWARDS

1. H Drop High-Low Speaker Points

2. P Total Speaker Points

3. D Double drop Speaker Points

4. ? Z score

5. X Random

 

JUDGES

REMEMBER THAT ONLY CERTAIN JUDGES MAY JUDGE SENIOR DIVISION

REMEMBER

Please speak with me about assigning certain judges to certain divisions in both LD and policy.

 

TUESDAY, BEGIN AT 6PM—SORRY, YOU CANNOT START BEFORE 6PM DUE TO THE ENTRY DEADLINE

1.    IMPORT THE DEBATE TEAM AND JUDGE ENTRIES FROM THE ONLINE SYSTEM OR INPUT INTO YOUR TAB PROGRAM FROM THE LIST JIM GIVES YOU

NOTICE: FOR TEAM ABBREVIATIONS:

·      DO NOT USE SCHOOL NUMBER—USE SCHOOL NAMES ONLY—eg WWU

·      Try to use as long of abbreviated debater names as you possibly can. EG WWU ShTo is better than ST

·      DOUBLECHECK IT! MAKE SURE NO team from the same school has the same abbreviated name—if two teams’ abbreviations are close to each other—try to fix that.

2.    BY 11PM--Print out a "List of Debate Teams sorted by school" and “List of Judges sorted by school” for all divisions BY 11PM! Tell Jim when you have done this. He will get the electronic files from this (Note—you have to print the lists in order for Jim to get them)

3.    BY 11PM--JIM ALSO NEEDS TO GET THE NUMBER OF TEAMS IN EACH DIVISION (This is so he can setup the room lists that he will give you the next day)

4.    AFTER THE TEAMS/JUDGES ARE ENTERED AND PRINTED AND GIVEN TO JIM, YOU CAN THEN BEGIN ENTERING ROOMS

GET A “LIST OF AVAILABLE ROOMS” FROM JIM

 

REMEMBER—put LD rounds into SET ROOMS IN OLIN—DO NOT NOT NOT USE IE ROOMS FOR LD!

 

NOTICE: DO NOT USE OLIN 130, 155, 157, 161 even if it is listed as available on the rooms sheet!!!!!

 

CHECK TO MAKE SURE THE BUILDING NAMES YOU USE ARE THE SAME AS THE ONES ON THE MAP

 

THURSDAY, BY 7PM

1.    MAKE CORRECTIONS FOR ADDS AND DROPS.

2.    BY 6PM, DOUBLECHECK IT! PRINT OUT YOUR JUDGE LIST AND
POLICY AND LD: COMPARE THE POLICY AND LD LIST—Stop Duplicates!
IE AND PARLI: COMPARE THE PARLI AND IE LIST—Stop Duplicates!

3.    BY 7PM, Give the printed and updated “List of Debate Teams sorted by Division” and “List of Debate Judges sorted by School” to Jim BY 7PM.

4.    INCORPORATE THE ROOM LIST THAT JIM GIVES YOU (YOU’LL GET IT BY ABOUT 4 OR 5PM)—NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
CHECK TO MAKE SURE THE BUILDING NAMES YOU USE ARE THE SAME AS THE ONES ON THE MAP

--SENIOR PARLI IS IN OLIN ROOMS ONLY!

--JUNIOR AND NOVICE PARLI IS IN SCIENCE, REMAINING ROOMS IN OLIN

 

FRIDAY BEGIN BY 1PM

1.    MOVE TO OLIN 155, TAB ROOM FOR THE TOURNAMENT

2.    BY 3PM, PAIR AND PRINT ROUND 1 OF LD DEBATE—DO NOT WAIT FOR LAST MINUTE DROPS. ALSO, BE SURE TO CHECK THE PAIRINGS FOR:

--NON-NW TEAMS ARE HITTING NW TEAMS

--TEAMS ARE GETTING JUDGES THEY PREFERENCE—ALWAYS PAIR SENIOR DIVISION FIRST!!!!

--DOUBLECHECK TO MAKE SURE THE LD ROUNDS ARE NOT USING ANY IE ROOMS!!!

3.    BY 3 p.m. send ballots and 4 sets of Postings for Round 1 to JIM/the ballot distributors. NOTICE ONLY JIM POSTS ITEMS unless it is posting time and Jim is not there.

4.    AT 5:00PM, AFTER CONFIRMING WITH JIM, ANNOUNCE THE TOPIC IN OLIN 157 AND OLIN 130.

5.    Thereafter, 30 MINUTES BEFORE each round, send THE BALLOTS AND 4 SETS OF POSTINGS to the ballot distributors for that round.

6.    Make corrections for adds and drops when they come in—NOTICE DROP A TEAM ONLY IF THEY FORFEIT TWICE OR JIM CONFIRMS THAT THEY ARE OUT!!!!

 

WHEN BALLOTS AND POSTINGS SHOULD GO OUT

At least 30 minutes before the rounds begin.

REMEMBER THAT THERE IS EITHER AN LD OR A PARLI ROUND, EACH AND EVERY ROUND DURING THE TOURNAMENT.

ALWAYS give these postings and ballots to Jim or the tournament assistant to distribute. DO NOT POST YOURSELF. DO NOT PUT BALLOTS OUT YOURSELF.

 

SATURDAY: SETTING UP FOR ELIM ROUNDS

1. PRINT AND DOUBLECHECK THE CUMS!!!

Look for any team given a forfeit, bye, zero points, and make sure that those are adjusted per any instructions Jim gave during the tournament. IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR JIM TO DOUBLECHECK THIS. In general, you should ASSUME THAT TEAMS SHOULD NOT RECEIVE A FORFEIT OR ZERO POINTS and that you have to doublecheck those for proof that they should get a forfeit/zero points.

DOUBLECHECK YOUR JUDGES AND ROOMS TO AVOID DUPLICATES. HS Tournament 2004—problems cropped up where 10 rooms got double-used and 10 judges got double-used. Avoid that!!!

2. GIVE JIM YOUR LIST OF JUDGES SO THEY CAN BE CLARIFIED FOR WHERE TO USE THEM.

3. Elim rounds should place teams

OCTAS 1 vs 16; 2 vs 15; etc.

QUARTERS 1 vs 8; 2 vs 7; etc.

SEMIS 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3.

4. HOWEVER, WE DO BREAK BRACKETS. Do this very carefully AND DOUBLECHECK!!!

If 1 and 8 are from the same school, then 1 hits 7 and 2 hits 8 instead. If 1 has also hit 7, then, it becomes 1 hits 6; 3 hits 8; 2 hits 7.

5. ROOMS SETUP FOR ELIMS

ALL ELIMS OCCUR IN THE OLIN BUILDING.

 

SATURDAY EVENING

 

BY 8PM, Print out the LD prelim and elim results

 

BY 9:45PM

1.    HIGH PRIORITY—GET THE LIST OF PARLI TEAMS ADVANCING TO ELIMS.

2.    Print the Parli prelim sheets—GET TO PHOTOCOPIERS/PRINT ENOUGH FOR EACH SCHOOL

3.    Print out the ranking of speakers 1st through last sheets—GET TO PHOTOCOPIERS/PRINT ENOUGH FOR EACH SCHOOL

 

SUNDAY MORNING

 

        SUNDAY BY 9:30AM, PRINT AND GIVE TO JIM, THE FIRST ELIM PAIRINGS AND BALLOTS

 

SUNDAY BY 11:30AM AT THE LATEST, GET READY TO ANNOUNCE AND GO TO THE AWARDS ASSEMBLY

1.    Be ready to announce the top speakers in each division of debate per the instructions in the Invitation. (top 5 in all divisions).
 Be ready to announce the elim losers in each event who will receive an award (octafinalists and quarterfinalists)

2.    THE PERSON ANNOUNCING MUST BE APPROVED BY JIM.

NOTE: DEBATE AWARDS STARTS AT 11:30AM.

 

SUNDAY 11:30AM, ANNOUNCE AWARDS DURING THE ASSEMBLY

The procedure for announcing is as follows:

·      Tell all elim participants in the division (e.g., Jr. PARLI) to come to the front on the aisles

·      Wait a moment for the competitors to come to the front sides

·      State, "Receiving octafinalist awards are the following teams: Boise Johnson and Stone; pause; Ferris Gold and Bevel; pause; etc."
PLEASE DO NOT ANNOUNCE THE DECISIONS AND WHO HIT WHO—Avoiding that speeds up the awards assembly.

·      After the awards are given, go on to the next group

Do not announce the quarter-finals rounds and judges in the awards assembly

·      Pairings and Ballots should be available outside in Olin foyer

 

AFTER THE LAST DEBATE IS OVER

We move back to Hunter including all supplies etc.

MAKE SURE THAT JIM HAS THE FOLLOWING FROM YOU:

 

______ Disks/Files on the server with all the tournament results

 

______ 5 copies of the Preliminary Round Results including:

1.    The cum sheets for all divisions of debate

2.    All speakers in the order of their ranking for all divisions

3.    All teams in order of place they finished with records/points

 

______ Complete Elimination Round Brackets with the following:

1.    who hit who

2.    on what side

3.    with which judges

4.    with which way each judge voted and who won