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WHITMAN 36th Annual
High School Speech Tournament Invitation 2008, 1.0 |
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IE-PARLI-STUDENT CONGRESS INFORMATION |
INDIVIDUAL
EVENTS INFORMATION
Events and Divisions
1. EVENTS
WE OFFER
PATTERN A: Editorial
Commentary, Impromptu, Dramatic Interpretation, Oratory, Dual Interpretation, Humorous
Interpretation, Extemp. Parliamentary Debate
also occurs during this pattern.
You CANNOT
do both Parliamentary Debate and Extemp.
Extempers can do at maximum 1
additional IE event (total—Pattern A or B)
Parli debaters can do at maximum
1 additional IE event (total—Pattern A or B)
Dual Interp competitors—only one of the two partners can do Extemp or Parli.
PATTERN B: Expository
and Interpretive
Policy debaters
may not enter any Pattern B events as they conflict.
Student
Congress Participants cannot do Expos, Interp
Reading, nor Public Forum Debate. as
they conflict.
Notice—Time Limits have changed for DI, Oratory,
HI, and Dual to 10 minutes.
2. ALL EVENTS
HAVE SR. AND JR. DIVISION
· Senior: Open to any
student who wishes the best competition or who cannot enter junior division.
· Junior: Any student
who has not competed in individual events at 10 or more tournaments.
· ANY STUDENT
MAY ENTER UP TO 3 INDIVIDUAL EVENTS INCLUDING STUDENT CONGRESS AND PARLI except
1) students CANNOT do both Extemp and Parliamentary
Debate; 2) students doing Parli or Extemp can only enter a total of two events; 3) only one of
the two students doing a dual interp can do Extemp or Parli. Besides that,
our individual events rounds are long enough to allow triple entering (they are
1 hour and 40 minutes long).
· You CANNOT
do Student Congress with expos nor can you do student congress with
Interpretive Reading.
· Students
may do two but not three Dual Interpretations as long as it is with different
partners. THREE PERSON DUAL TEAMS ARE NOT PERMITTED.
· Students
remain responsible for arriving at their rounds on time, and judges
may give "no shows" to students who do not show 15 minutes before the
time the ballot is required to be in.
Note: Students may not use the
same material in different events. Students may not use manuscript or
interpretation cutting material they used in previous years.
Whitman
Overtime Rules:
In all
Individual Events except Editorial Commentary, students who go 60 seconds over
are stopped by the judge.
Students in
Editorial Commentary who go 30 seconds over are stopped by the judge.
If the judge can show on a timer or stopwatch that
the student went overtime, he or she may and should rank the student one
position lower.
Individual
Events Pattern A
EXTEMP*
In the Extemp Prep Room, each contestant will be given question three current news topics, posted in speaker order at timed intervals.
The student selects one of the three topics and may prepare for 30 minutes with the use of notes, books, magazines, newspapers, and periodicals.
Students may, if they choose, use one 4 x 6 note card for preparation and speaking.
Students must state the topic in the introduction.
Students must prepare the speech without assistance from others.
TIME LIMIT: 7 MINUTES WITH 30 MINUTES PREPARATION. Students are given time signals in Extemp.
Topics will be generated based on CNN.com and Google News.
* Note: You CANNOT do both Parliamentary debate and Extemp.
* Note: You can do only one additional individual event besides Extemp.
EXTEMP PREP is in Cordiner Basement West.
IMPROMPTU
The speaker will be given a choice of three topics in each round and will pick one on which to speak.
The topics will include a single word, a quotation, and a question designed to elicit the student's viewpoint.
Students must state the topic as part of the introduction.
Students may use a small 4 x 6 note card for preparation and speaking.
TIME LIMIT: speakers will have 6 MINUTES to read the topics, think about them, and speak. The speaker may divide the time at his or her discretion. Speakers are given time signals in Impromptu.
EDITORIAL
COMMENTARY
A scripted
speech that offers an analysis of and commentary on a contemporary news
event.
Speakers
will read the manuscript from a seated position.
TIME LIMIT:
between
NOTE: THIS
IS NOT RADIO COMMENTARY. You do look at
your judge during your speech.
ORATORY
The speaker
shall deliver from memory a persuasive speech, the purpose of which is to convince,
stimulate, or move the audience to change their beliefs or actions.
The speech
must not contain more than 150 words of quoted and/or paraphrased
material.
Manuscripts
need not be turned in at registration, but students must have typed copies to
give to any judge who requests it.
NEW TIME LIMIT: 10 MINUTES. No time signals will be given.
DRAMATIC
INTERPRETATION
The speaker
shall interpret one or more selections, serious in nature, from one or more
authors of prose, poetry, drama (play), radio, television, or recording and may
be a monologue.
Presentation
must be memorized.
Students
may not use props, makeup, or costumes.
Physical
movement to suggest characterization is permitted including full body
movement.
The title
and author must be identified during the presentation.
NEW TIME LIMIT: 10 MINUTES. No time signals will be given.
HUMOROUS
INTERPRETATION
The rules are the same as those for Dramatic Interpretation except that the material should be humorous.
DUAL
INTERPRETATION
A program
of one or more selections of published prose, poetry, or drama presented by two
students.
The
title(s) and author(s) must be identified.
The
presentation must be from memory; scripts will be penalized.
Props,
makeup and costumes are not permitted.
Physical
movement to suggest characterization is permitted including full body
movement.
The
contestants will not look at each other but rather ahead, except they may look
at each other during the introduction.
The
contestants will not touch each other.
NEW TIME LIMIT: 8 MINUTES. No time signals will be given.
* Note: Only one person of a dual interp
team can do extemp or parliamentary debate.
Individual
Events Pattern B
EXPOSITORY
The student shall deliver a speech, the purpose of which is to describe, clarify, explain and/or define an idea, concept or process.
Audio or visual aids may be used, but are optional. The tournament will not provide special facilities or aids for the students.
Notes are permitted but students should not be dependent on them.
TIME LIMIT: 8 MINUTES. No time signals will be given.
* Note: You CANNOT do Student Congress if you do Expos.
* Note: You CANNOT do Policy Debate if you do Expos.
INTERPRETIVE
The contestant shall interpret two or more selections from two or more authors.
The collection must include at least one selection of prose, and one of poetry.
No dramas (plays) are allowed.
The interpretation should be read from a manuscript and not memorized.
Students may not use props, makeup, or costumes.
Expressions, gestures, body positions and upper body movement are allowed as a means of characterization.
Full body movement is permitted.
The title and author for each piece must be identified during the presentation.
A theme must be established and the pieces should be balanced time-wise.
TIME LIMIT: 8 MINUTES. No time signals will be given.
* Note: You CANNOT do Student Congress if you do Interpretive
* Note: You CANNOT do Policy Debate if you do Interpretive
ADVANCING
TO ELIMS: We will break the top 7 competitors in each event division
except in Extemp where we will break only the top 6
(due to time constraints).
Breaking to
finals will be based on a hierarchy set at the beginning of the tournament but
is dependent on the actual software we use. Our plan is to use the following
hierarchy: Total rankings; Total rating; Total ranking minus the worst ranking;
Total rating minus the worst rating; Judge preference (finals only); Most 1
rankings; and Cumulative ranking and then cumulative rating (finals only).
Events with 12 or fewer participants may not break to finals.
The above
is subject to the computer program’s ability to do these calculations.
I.E.
AWARDS: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and
finalists awards.
PARLIAMENTARY
ONE-ON-ONE DEBATE INFORMATION
1.
PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS:
· Championship: Open to
anyone who wishes good competition or who cannot enter junior division.
· Junior: Open to
any competitor who has not competed in debate, extemp,
or impromptu at 10 or more tournaments.
· “Two
person” Parli teams are not permitted.
· NOTE: YOU
CANNOT DO EXTEMP AND PARLI DEBATE.
· NOTE: YOU CAN
DO ONLY 1 ADDITIONAL INDIVIDUAL EVENT IN ADDITION TO PARLI DEBATE.
2. TIME
LIMITS:
Gov Constructive: 3 min
Opp
Constructive: 4 min.
Gov Second Constructive 4 min.
Opp Second
Constructive 4 min. immediately followed by the Opp
Rebuttal 2 min
Gov Rebuttal 3 min.
The first
four speeches are constructives; the last two are
rebuttals where voting issues are discussed.
Questions may be asked during the first four speeches—except in the
first and last 30 seconds of the speeches.
Light heckling is permitted.
NOTE: THERE IS NO PREP TIME BEFORE OR DURING THE ROUNDS—YOU PREPARE
BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT.
3. You MAY
have an outlined case/arguments on your flowsheet or
laptop flow. You may refer to sources as you would in an extemporaneous speech
during your speeches. YOU MAY NOT
directly quote (word for word) articles and YOU MAY NOT read a word for word
written out speech.
NOTICE: You must
be willing to show your laptop and/or flowsheet to
the judge at any time during the debate so he/she can view what you are looking
at. AGAIN—YOU MAY NOT HAVE A FULLY WRITTEN OUT SPEECH OR PORTION OF A SPEECH.
This is an extemporaneous event (notes from a flowsheet
are fine, written out speeches are not permitted.).
4. TOPICS.
NOTE: YOU
PREPARE BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT!!! There is NO prep time before or during our parli rounds.
THESE ARE THE
2007 TOURNAMENT TOPICS—2008 TOPICS ANNOUNCED IN LATE SEPTEMBER.
Round 1
topic:
The United
States Supreme Court should rule that the top two vote getters system is
constitutional.
See Washington State Grange &
Round 2
topic:
Rudy Guiliani is the Republican candidate most likely to win the
general election in 2008.
Round 3
topic:
The
Quarterfinals
topic
The
Semifinals
topic
George Bush
will be recognized by historians as one of the worst Presidents in the history
of the
Finals
topic
The
5. ONLY ONE
PERSON PARLI TEAMS PERMITTED.
6. NOTE:
Students CANNOT do both parliamentary debate and extemp.
NOTE: Students in Parli Debate can do at maximum 1 additional Pattern A individual event.
7. We
reserve the right to limit entries in parliamentary debate if we lack space.
ADVANCING
TO ELIMS:
IN PARLI:
We will break up to 8 debaters who have at least a 2-1 record (no 1-2’s will
advance and no more than 8 debaters will advance).
The break
to elimination rounds will be based on the following hierarchy: Win-loss
record; Adjusted speaker points; Total Speaker points; and Win-loss record of
opposing teams.
DEBATER/TEAM
AWARDS: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Quarterfinalists, Octafinalists
(no octa-finalists in parli
debate).
There are
no speaker awards in Parliamentary Debate.
(Above
subject to the computer program’s ability to do the above calculations).
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STUDENT CONGRESS INFORMATION |
Students
will deliberate the merits of bills submitted by October 15 using Robert’s Rules of Order with 3 minute maximum speeches followed by one minute mandatory questioning. There will be three sessions of student
congress, each lasting one hour. Two Scorers and a
Parliamentarian will evaluate each session. The Scorers will rotate but the Parliamentarian will remain
the same.
In general, we follow NFL rules for Student
Congress. Students may not access the internet nor play games during the
sessions. Students may use computers BUT must show the screen to the Speaker,
Judge, or Parliamentarian immediately at any time requested. Students found to
be accessing the internet shall be disqualified. Students found to be playing
computer games shall have their computer taken from them for the duration of
the remainder of the session(s).
Note: Policy and Public Forum
Debaters cannot do Student Congress (they happen at the same time).
Note: You cannot do Expos or Interp Reading if you do Student Congress (they happen at
the same time).
Divisions
There is a
junior and senior division of student congress.
· Junior
division is open to any student who has participated in extemp,
impromptu or debate event 10 or less times; students who have participated in
10 or more speaking events must participate in senior division if they have
done student congress two or more times (if they haven’t, they must remain in
junior division).
· Senior is
for any student who has participated in student congress at least twice.
Schools
should email bills to Jim Hanson at hansonjb@whitman.edu BY
OCTOBER 15, 2007.
2007 Whitman Student Congress Bills
Student
Congress Awards
STUDENT
CONGRESS AWARDS: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th,
5th
These
awards will be based on rankings and ratings from the three rounds of Student
Congress. THERE IS NO FINAL ROUND OF STUDENT CONGRESS.