THE WHITMAN CLASSIC 1 AND 2

Invitation 1.2

 

 

Classic 1

The Dean McSloy

Debate Friday Feb. 19, 2010

 

Classic 2

The Bob Withycombe

Debate and IEs, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 20-21, 2010

 

 

We are excited to host the Classic swing for 2010.

 

Last year, we had teams from Rice, Texas Tech, Grinnell, CSU-Long Beach, Vanguard, San Francisco CC, Wyoming, Washburn, as well as many others from the Northwest.

 

Our Swing features:

 

·     No round starts before 9:30am. Hey—it’s Jim Hanson running the tournament! J

·     Earn points to qualify for the NPTE

·     Extemp and Impromptu IE Legs for the NIET

·     Food served throughout both tournaments.

·     Prep rooms for each school

·     New Saturday Schedule Ends at 9:30pm—an hour earlier

·     Mutual Preference or Strikes Judging in Debate (you choose); Strikes in Extemp-Impromptu Judging.

·     We will provide transportation for teams coming into the Walla Walla airport ($50 per squad) or the Pasco airport ($100 per squad).

·     Parliers—drive over Thursday (Classic 1 and 2) or Friday (just Classic 2) and leave on Sunday.

·     Extemp and Impromptu—drive over on Saturday and leave on Sunday—save money.

·     ONLINE Entry System—easy to enter!

 

Sincerely,

 

Jim Hanson

Professor and Director of Forensics

Rhetoric and Film Studies Department

Whitman College

Walla Walla, WA 99362

509-527-5499

BEST WAY TO CONTACT ME: hansonjb@whitman.edu

 

Bob Withycombe

Professor of Rhetoric and Film Studies

Aaron Hardy

Policy Debate Coach

Nick Robinson

Parli Debate and IE Coach

James Durkee

Assistant Policy Coach

 

Entries are due by 5pm, Tuesday, February 16.

 

PREVIOUS CLASSIC RESULTS. 3

LODGING FOR THE CLASSIC—HANDLE BY JAN. 18. 3

WHEN YOU NEED TO BE AT THE TOURNAMENT. 3

MAP-DIRECTIONS TO THE WHITMAN CLASSIC. 3

AIR TRAVEL TO THE WHITMAN CLASSIC. 4

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE GUIDELINES. 4

IMPROMPTU AND EXTEMP GUIDELINES. 6

SWEEPSTAKES AWARDS. 6

SCHEDULE. 6

ENTRY AND FEES. 7

 

We are proud that this Swing recognizes two of Whitman’s great debate coaches.

90-1967             90-1996  

Dean McSloy                           Bob Withycombe

Director 1954-1969                  Director 1980-1993

 

Click here to enter One or Both tournaments www.forensicstournament.net/

(Entry will be possible in January)

 

 

PREVIOUS CLASSIC RESULTS

 

Results and Pictures from Previous Classic Tournaments

 

 

LODGING FOR THE CLASSIC—HANDLE BY JAN. 18.

 

RESERVE EARLY AND DEFINITELY BY JANUARY 18.

ASK FOR Whitman Classic Debate Tournament Rooms.

Prices are for 1 to 4 people.

Most teams will Check in Thursday, Feb. 18 (Classic 1) or Friday, Feb. 19 (Classic 2) and Check-out Sunday Feb. 20 with a few staying until Monday Feb. 21.

 

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WHEN YOU NEED TO BE AT THE TOURNAMENT

 

EVENT

ARRIVE BY

AWARDS FINISHES BY

FINALS FINISHES BY

Parli, Classic 1

The McSloy

Friday 9am

Friday, 7:00pm

Friday, after midnight

Parli, Classic 2

The Withycombe

Saturday 9am

Sunday, 3:30pm

Sunday, 9:15pm

IE, Classic 2

Extemp-Impromptu

Saturday 2:30pm

Sunday, 3:30pm

Sunday, 12:45pm

 

EXTEMP AND IMPROMPTU HAPPEN IN THE SAME PATTERN

Sorry—no other IEs are offered. A student may enter in both Extemp and Impromptu.

 

The Classic 1 McSloy (Parli Only) happens Friday, Feb. 19, 2010.

 

The Classic 2 Withycombe (Parli and Impromptu-Extemp) happens Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 20-21, 2010.

 

MAP-DIRECTIONS TO THE WHITMAN CLASSIC

 

Getting to Whitman

 

Map of Restaurants and Stores in Walla Walla

 

 

AIR TRAVEL TO THE WHITMAN CLASSIC

 

Air Travel

 

Fly to Walla Walla, Washington. The Walla Walla airport is about 10 minutes from Whitman.

WALLA WALLA SHUTTLES: We will provide transportation for your entire squad up to 10 people to and from the Walla Walla airport, your hotel, and the tournament for $50.

 

Fly to Pasco, Washington. The Pasco airport is about 50 minutes from Whitman.

PASCO SHUTTLES: We will provide transportation for your entire squad up to 10 people to and from the Walla Walla airport, your hotel, and the tournament for $100.

NOTE: We will not take you to Pasco flights leaving before 10am. If you wish that, you’ll need to stay in Pasco the night before that (and we’ll drive you to your hotel in Pasco that night).

 

Fly to Portland, Oregon. About 4.5 hours from Whitman. Beautiful drive along the Columbia Gorge. Sorry, No shuttles to/from Portland available.

 

If you do need transportation, just be sure to EMAIL Jim with that request AT LEAST ONE WEEK BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT at hansonjb@whitman.edu

 

We suggest you order your tickets at www.expedia.com or www.travelocity.com

 

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE GUIDELINES

 

1. DIVISIONS, CLASSIC 1, MCSLOY

·        OPEN DIVISION IS THE ONLY DIVISION OFFERED AT THE CLASSIC 1 (McSloy).

 

2. DIVISIONS, CLASSIC 2, WITHYCOMBE

We use NPDA Definitions for the Withycombe.

·        OPEN (Open to anyone)

·        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)

·        NOVICE (no high school experience; in the first two semesters of collegiate debate; has not been in elimination rounds of college debate more than 3 times)

·        Debate divisions may be collapsed if there are less than 8 teams in a division (subject to tournament director discretion); Certificates will be awarded to up to the top three teams in a collapsed division.

 

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. THE TOPICS: This year’s topic areas FOR PRELIMS AND ELIMS AT BOTH THE CLASSIC 1 AND CLASSIC 2, are:

 

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx TOPIC AREAS TO BE ANNOUNCED AT LEAST 3 WEEKS BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT XXXXXXXXX

 

·      PROCESS

·      Topic Ideas will be requested by Jim in late December/early January on Net Benefits.

·      People coming can preference-vote for the topics by emailing Jim.

·      Topic areas will be chosen based on the preferencing with some editing/selection by Jim.

·      Topic areas will be announced at least 3 weeks before the Tournament (late January).

 

4. 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

·        Win-loss record of opposing teams.

At the McSloy Classic 1, we will break up to half the field with teams needing to have a 2-2 or better record—so long as we have sufficient judges and we will not break to more than octas.

At the Withycombe Classic 2, we will break all 3-2 and better teams so long as we have sufficient judges.

We will break brackets in the elimination rounds using the drop down one slot method used by Gary Larson and Rich Edwards.

 

5. PARLI DEBATE SPEAKER RANKINGS: Adjusted speaker points (drop high-lows); Total Speaker points; Z score.

 

6. DEBATE AWARDS: For all elimination participants.

 

7. DEBATE SPEAKER AWARDS: Top half of all debaters in each division.

 

 

IMPROMPTU AND EXTEMP GUIDELINES

 

1. EVENTS

·        Impromptu and Extemp only. Sorry, no other events.

·        Extemp and Impromptu events follow NIET rules.

·        Impromptu will use a quotation, a word, and a question.

·        Extemp will have 3 questions on political and social issues during the past month.

 

2. DIVISIONS OF EXTEMP AND IMPROMPTU

·        OPEN DIVISION (Open to anyone)

·        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.)

·        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. EXTEMP AND IMPROMPTU ARE IN THE SAME PATTERN

PAYES, YOU CAN ENTER BOTH EXTEMP AND IMPROMPTU (Double enter).

 

4. EXTEMP-IMPROMPTU BREAKS AND FINALS RANKINGS:

·        Breaking to finals and finals results will be based on, in order, the following: Total rankings; Total rating; Total ranking and rating minus the worst ranking and rating; Judge preference.

·        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. EXTEMP-IMPROMPTU AWARDS:

·        1st, 2nd, 3rd, Finalists.

·        If impromptu or extemp is collapsed, we will provide equivalent awards for the junior division competitors (and we will try to have a separate junior finals round as well).

 

 


SWEEPSTAKES AWARDS

 

SWEEPSTAKES FOR THE CLASSIC 1 MCSLOY TOURNAMENT:

Top Three Parliamentary using the Northwest Sweepstakes System.

 

SWEEPSTAKES FOR THE CLASSIC 2 WITHYCOMBE TOURNAMENT:

Top Three Parliamentary; Top Three Speaking Events; Top Three Overall using the Northwest Sweepstakes System.

 

Info, The NW Sweepstakes System

 

SCHEDULE

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 (THE DEAN MCSLOY)

  9:00 - 11:00 B-fast (Pastries, Fruits, Juice, Coffee)

  9:00am -   9:15am         Registration—OLIN SECOND FLOOR LOUNGE

  9:30am - 11:00am         Parli Rd 1

11:15am - 12:45pm         Parli Rd 2

12:45pm -   1:15pm         Sandwich and Deli Salad Lunch

  1:15pm -   2:45pm         Parli Rd 3

  3:15pm -   4:45pm         Parli Rd 4

  5:15pm -   6:45pm         Elim 1 (all judges required to judge)

  6:45pm -   7:15pm         Pizza Dinner and Awards

Judges leaving? Tell Jim ASAP.

After Elim 1, Judges are committed 1 round past school’s last elim debate.

  7:15pm -   8:45pm         Elim 2

  9:15pm - 10:45pm         Elim 3

11:00pm – finish asap     Elim 4

 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 (THE BOB WITHYCOMBE FIRST DAY)

  9:00 - 11:00 B-fast (Pastries, Fruits, Juice, Coffee)

  9:00am -   9:15am         Registration—OLIN FIRST FLOOR LOUNGE

  9:30am - 11:00am         Parli Rd 1

11:15am - 12:45pm         Parli Rd 2

12:45pm -   1:15pm         Soup and Sandwich Lunch

  1:15pm -   2:45pm         Parli Rd 3

  2:45pm -   4:15pm         IE Rd 1

  4:15pm -   5:45pm         Parli Rd 4

  5:45pm -   6:15pm         Mexican Taco Bar Dinner

  6:15pm -   7:45pm         IE Rd 2

  7:45pm -   9:15pm         Parli Rd 5

                    9:15pm        Desserts

                  10:15pm        Elim participants and Judges posted online at approximately 10:15pm.

 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 (THE BOB WITHYCOMBE SECOND DAY)

  9:00 - 11:00 B-fast (Pastries, Fruits, Juice, Coffee)

  9:30am - 11:00am         Parli Elim 1—all judges obligated

11:15am – 12:45pm        IE Finals

12:45pm -   1:15pm         Fried Chicken and Veggie Side Dishes Lunch

  1:15pm –   2:45pm        Parli Elim 2—all judges obligated

Judges leaving? Tell Jim ASAP.

After Elim 2, Judges are committed 1 round past school’s last elim debate.

  3:00pm -   3:30pm         Awards

  3:30pm -   5:00pm         Parli Elim 3

  5:15pm -   5:45pm         Pizza for those still participating

  5:45pm -   7:15pm         Parli Elim 4

  7:45pm -   9:15pm         Parli Elim 5

 

Map of Restaurants and Stores in Walla Walla

 

 

ENTRY AND FEES

 

Entries are due by 5pm, Tuesday, February 16.

 

Click here to enter One or Both tournaments www.forensicstournament.net/

(Entry will be possible in January)

 

Entries

CLASSIC 1 (DEAN MCSLOY)

OPEN DIVISION OF PARLI DEBATE ONLY

 

CLASSIC 2 (BOB WITHYCOMBE)

Open, Junior, and Novice Division of Parliamentary Debate

Open and Junior Division of Extemp and Impromptu

       Students may double-enter in Extemp and Impromptu.

 

Fees:

 

Classic 1 (The Dean McSloy)

School Fee: $30

Each student food fee is $9 (Fri. breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Food for coaches and judges is provide free

Each Debate Team is $60

Each “Classic 1” Debate Team needing a judge is $100—PLEASE DON’T HIRE JUDGES! You may not hire judges for more than 4 uncovered teams.

 

Classic 2 (The Bob Withycombe)

School Fee: $30

Each student food fee is $18 (Sat breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert; Sun breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Food for coaches and judges is provided free

Each Debate Team is $60

Each IE Debater Slot is $10

Each “Classic 2” Debate Team needing a judge is $125—PLEASE DON’T HIRE JUDGES! You may not hire judges for more than 4 uncovered teams.

Each Extemp or Impromptu Slot needing a judge is $10—PLEASE DON’T HIRE JUDGES! You may not hire judges for more than 10 uncovered IE slots.

 

Write checks to Whitman College

 

Judging Commitment

 

Each parliamentary judge covers 1 or 2 teams. If covering 1 team, that judge’s obligation is 4 rounds plus elims (but we will pay that judge $20 for the extra required prelim round).

 

Each IE judge covers 5 Extemp or Impromptu slots.

 

Note: Except for one judge maximum in debate and one judge maximum in individual events, your judges must be able to judge Open division if they are covering Open division competitors.

 

Note: Judges may judge Open division of events only if they have 2 or more years of interscholastic coaching or competing experience in debate for judging debate; 2 years in speaking for judging impromptu and extemp. Exceptions to this policy will only be made if we do not have enough senior division judges.

 

Entries are due by 5pm, Tuesday, February 16.

 

Click here to enter One or Both tournaments www.forensicstournament.net/

(Entry will be possible in January)