WHITMAN 35^th Annual High School Speech Tournament

Invitation 2007, 1.0D

Intro Letter	Lodging	Air Travel	Entries-Fees	Judging	Student Info & Certification
Driving to Whitman	Schedule	Policy-LD-PForum Info	IE-Parli-St. Cong. Info	Sweeps Info and Results	Judge Info & Certification

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2007 LD Judge Philosophies

2007 Policy Judge Philosophies

2008 tournament dates: Oct 30-Nov 1, 2008

2009 tournament dates: Nov 5-7, 2009

---------------BELOW IS THE 2007 INVITATION INTRODUCTION LETTER

Dear Coach,

We invite you to the 35^th Annual High School Speech Tournament at Whitman College, nestled in the Walla Walla valley and buttressed by the Blue Mountains. The tournament will begin Thursday early evening November 1^st, for LD and Policy Debate. On Friday morning, November 2^nd, IE’s, Parli one-person debate, and Student Congress start up; and all events finish Saturday the 3^rd. The tournament features outstanding competition. Last year, 56 schools from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and Hawaii attended the tournament. We are excited to host you at this year’s tournament!

FEATURES

· LONG ROUND SCHEDULE making the tournament on-time and more relaxed.

· TOURNAMENT GUIDES. Tournament guides in key buildings along with maps and signs should make finding your rooms easy.

· ENTRY LIMITS. We restrict entries to avoid overcrowding at our school and at local hotels.
--MAX. 10 Policy Debate teams and/or LD Debaters (e.g. 10 LDers; or 7 Policy debate teams and 3 LDers; or 10 Policy debate teams).
--MAX. 6 Public Forum Debate Teams.
--MAX. 30 IE Slots including Parli and Student Congress entries.

· JUDGING QUALITY. We have a training page specifically for new judges. We have judging philosophies for debate.

· Preference Sheets for Champ LD and Policy TOC QUALIFYING debate plus judge philosophies ensuring you the best judging experience possible.

· Lois Gorne of Federal Way and Sarah Sherry of Puyallup and Roberta Rice of Central Valley will serve in the tab rooms along with our folks.

· NEW THIS YEAR: Public Forum in 2 divisions

· NEW THIS YEAR: Student Congress will follow NFL based Rules and schools will be submitting the resolutions.

· Educational Lectures by champion competitors on Policy Debate, LD Debate, Interp, and Speaking Events.

· Food service during our tournament. We will keep you fed.

· NOTE: MAKE SURE ALL OF YOUR STUDENTS AND JUDGES GET CERTIFIED.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

You register at forensictournament.net

Sign up for the system

Then follow the links and explanations of how to register

You can go back in again and make adds and drops

If you have any problems with the site, just email Jim Hanson at hansonjb@whitman.edu

NOTE: WIAA rules require that the director of the school’s team or a certified instructor from your school district supervise all competitors. Questions? Contact the WIAA at 425-687-8585. SORRY—STUDENTS WITHOUT SCHOOL OR DISTRICT SUPPORT FOR ENTRY ARE NOT PERMITTED.

Coming from outside WA-OR-ID-CA-UT? Contact Jim at hansonjb@whitman.edu BY OCTOBER 1 to allow time to get state approval for your participation.

We have a beautiful, small college campus. Our tournament is fun and features educational seminars.

We have worked hard to craft our tournament to achieve the goals you have expressed in feedback. We hope you will join us.

Jim Hanson, Director of Forensics and Professor, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362

hansonjb@whitman.edu

Bob Withycombe Professor of Rhetoric Dept. of Rhetoric

Aaron Hardy Assistant Director of Policy Debate

Ross Richendrfer Policy Debate Assistant Coach

Rob Olsen Assistant Director of Parliamentary Debate and Individual Events

Whitman National Debate Institute Info, Click Here