WHITMAN 36th Annual High School Speech Tournament

Invitation 2008, 1.0

 

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

 

 

JUDGING

 

EACH SCHOOL IS REQUIRED TO SUPPLY OR PAY FOR ENOUGH JUDGES TO COVER THEIR ENTRY.

 

HOW DO I FIGURE MY JUDGING FEES

Debate Judging Fees:

Each Debate judge you bring covers 2 Policy Teams OR 1 Policy Team and 2 LD debaters OR 4 LD debaters OR 2 Public Forum Teams.

So, let’s say you have 3 policy teams and 5 LD debaters and you bring 2 judges such as yourself and an assistant coach to judge debate.

Your 2 judges cover 2 policy teams and 4 LD debaters. That means, you have 1 Policy team not covered ($100 fee) and 1 LD debater not covered ($50 fee).

So, in this situation, your Debate judging fees are $150.

IE Judging Fees:

Each IE Judge you bring covers 6 individual event, student congress, or parliamentary entries.

So, let’s say you have a student in Extemp and Student Congress; another student in Dramatic Interp; and another student in Impromptu, Dramatic Interp, and Expos and a student in Parliamentary Debate.

You have a total of 7 IE Entries and you bring one judge such as yourself to judge Individual Events.

One judge covers 6 IE Entries. So, you have one IE Slot not covered ($10 fee).

So, in this situation, your IE judging fees are $10.

 

EACH JUDGE MUST JUDGE ALL ROUNDS for the events they signup for until awards on Saturday UNLESS YOU PAY FOR ROUNDS OFF.

 

JUDGING CERTIFICATION

At our tournament, we take judging seriously. Students and coaches have worked hard to prepare the best speeches and arguments and we want judges to provide the best feedback possible. To that end, we have established a judge certification process. Here is how it works:

 

FOR ALL JUDGES: Click here to go to Judge Certification

 

JUDGES MUST PICKUP BALLOTS AND BE ON-TIME

 

JUDGE PREFERENCING IN CHAMP POLICY AND LD

Each Champ division Policy debate team and LD debater will be able to Preference Judges on the Champ Judge Certified List. A Judge Preference Sheet will be sent to coaches by Wednesday morning the week of the tournament; it needs to be returned by Wednesday night to ensure it will take effect in round 1. If, for some reason, you receive a judge that you struck, immediately report it to the ballot table and we will get it corrected.

 

ADDITIONAL JUDGING INFORMATION