DEBATE TABROOM (Policy, LD, Parli)

 

LD TAB: AARON

POLICY TAB: BOB with assistant during the tournament

PARLI TAB: ROSS

PUBLIC FORUM TAB: ROSS

 

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

·       MONDAY WORK FROM 7PM TO WHEN FINISHED

·       TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY—WORK AS NEEDED RESPONDING TO JIM’S EMAILS WITH ADDS, CHANGES, DROPS, AND PREFERENCING

·       THURSDAY, BEGIN TOURNAMENT WORK BY 2:30PM—Round 1 Pairings needed at the ballot table by 4:15pm

 

Click these links to go to information for that time.

 

START MONDAY, 7:30PM.. 1

WEDNESDAY BEGIN BY 5PM.. 4

THURSDAY BEGIN BY 3:30PM.. 5

FRIDAY MORNING.. 6

FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY: SETTING UP FOR ELIM ROUNDS. 6

SATURDAY. 8

AFTER THE LAST DEBATE IS OVER. 9

 

 

START MONDAY, 7:30PM

 

BEFORE YOU START

BE SURE YOU HAVE THE SUPPLY BOX FROM THE TOURNAMENT ASSISTANT

Print the Tournament Schedule

Print the Tournament Debate Rules/Information

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

 

Reminder: DOUBLE CHECK AT EVERY STEP!

 

JIM, WILL DO THIS FOR YOU: SETUP THE TAB PROGRAM

TOURNAMENT NAME: Whitman HS 2007

TOURNAMENT LOCATION: Whitman College, Washington

TOURNAMENT DATES: Nov. 1-3, 2007

NUMBER OF PRELIMS: 6

NUMBER OF DIVISIONS: 4 FOR POLICY AND LD, 2 FOR PARLI AND PUBLIC FORUM

WHEN IT ASKS YOU TO NAME THE DIVISIONS

POLICY AND LD ---CALL DIVISION 1 CHAMP, DIVISION 2 SENIOR, DIVISION 3 JUNIOR, DIVISION 4 NOVICE

PARLI AND PUBLIC FORUM—CALL DIVISION 1 CHAMP, DIVISION 2 JUNIOR

DO NOT CHECK “RECORD SPEAKER RANKS”

SPEAKER POINT MIN IS 24; MAX IS 30

LETTERS PER LAST NAME: 10—SET IT FOR 10.

SORTING CRITERIA

10. TEAMS: WINS, DROP H/L, TOTAL POINTS, OPP RECORD, Z SCORE

11. SPEAKS: DROP H/L, TOTAL POINTS, Z SCORE, DROP 2 H/L

HIT TEAMS FROM OWN REGION? SAY “DON’T ALLOW”

BUT NOTE NOTE NOTE!!! YOU MUST TURN THIS TO “ALLOW” AFTER ROUND 2.

CREATE 2 REGIONS (1 AND 2) of about equal size.

For example:

·       Idaho

·       All other places

ENTER THESE REGION NUMBERS ON THE SCHOOLS SPREADSHEET PAGE (PUT THE NUMBER IN THE SCHOOLS REGION COLUMN)

 

REMEMBER-ROUND 2 LD happens on its own. Round 3 LD and 2 Policy happen at same time. Policy 3 happens on its own.

THIS MEANS THAT JUDGE AND ROOM NEEDS ARE AT DIFFERENT TIMES.

Also, Round 2 OF LD is single flighted AND IT USES POLICY JUDGES!

 

POWERMATCHING

Rd 1 and 2 Pairing to avoid hitting teams from the same region

BEFORE PAIRING ROUND 3—TURN OFF REGIONAL CONSTRAINTS IN THE TOURNAMENT SETTINGS!

Rd 3, High-High (off of Rd. 1-2 for policy and parli; off of round 1 if possible for LD—if not, just let it be random; after this third round, parli goes to quarters)

Rd 4, High-Low (off of Rd. 1-2; rds 1-3 for LD, note PUBLIC FORUM ROUND 4 IS POWERED OFF ROUND 2—THAT IS HOW IT ROLLS)

Rd 5, High-Low (off of Rd. 1-3)

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

 

JUDGES

REMEMBER THAT ONLY CERTAIN JUDGES MAY JUDGE SENIOR AND CHAMP DIVISIONS

REMEMBER THAT EACH CHAMP LD AND POLICY TEAM CAN PREFERENCE JUDGES per Jim’s instructions

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

 

MONDAY, BEGIN AT 7:30PM—SORRY, YOU CANNOT START BEFORE 7:30PM DUE TO THE ENTRY DEADLINE

1.    ADD IN THE WHITMAN JUDGES JIM GIVES YOU

2.    NOTE THAT WHITMAN STUDENTS JUDGE PARLI, THEY DO NOT JUDGE IE’S.

3.    WORK TO GET RID OF ANY DUPLICATE JUDGES BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT TAB PROGRAMS

NOTICE FOR JUDGES—Put them into LD, Policy, OR Public Forum. THEY CANNOT DO MORE THAN ONE OF THESE.
Don’t switch them back and forth except for Round 2; that causes errors.

4.    POLICY JUDGES judge Round 2 of LD. ALL WHITMAN STUDENTS JUDGE ROUND 2 OF LD. PUT THEM INTO NOVICE AND JV DIVISION—NO SR OR CHAMP LD FOR POLICY JUDGES.

 

TUESDAY, MAKE ALL CHANGES THAT JIM EMAILS YOU.

BY 8PM, PRINT OUT COPIES OF THE LIST OF TEAMS AND THE LIST OF JUDGES IN EACH DIVISION (SORTED BY DIVISION)

PRINT THE NUMBER OF COPIES THAT JIM TELLS YOU TO (TYPICALLY 15).

 

1.     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!

2.     INPUT 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

--Policy typically gets Olin, Maxey and Science, and Cordiner Foyer
--LD typically gets Mem, Res. Halls, Hunter, Reid, Sherwood Small Gym, Cordiner auditorium, Maxey auditorium
--LD can use the policy rooms during round 2 ONLY
--Parli gets rooms from IE A Tab (Rounds 1-3, quarters, semis)

--Public Forum gets rooms not being used by other tab rooms

DO A TEST RUN.

Save the Spreadsheet. Save the Spreadsheet with a different name.

1.     DOUBLECHECK IT! PRINT OUT YOUR ROOM LIST AND
POLICY AND LD: COMPARE YOUR ROOMS—Stop Duplicates for EACH and EVERY round
IE AND PARLI: COMPARE YOUR ROOMS—Stop Duplicates for IE A Rounds!!!

2.     DOUBLECHECK IT! PAIR AND PRINT A TEST PAIRING OF ROUND 1. LD AND POLICY SHOULD MAKE SURE THERE AREN’T DUPLICATE JUDGES AND ROOMS. SAME FOR PARLI-IE.

3.     DOUBLECHECK IT!  Make sure that policy judges aren't set to judge ie b or student congress

THURSDAY BEGIN BY 1PM

1.    BY 1PM, PRINT OUT A LIST OF JUDGES BY SCHOOLS FOR THE TOURNAMENT ASSISTANT FOR REGISTRATION

2.    BY 1:30PM, PAIR AND PRINT ROUND 1 OF DEBATE—BEGIN AT 1PM AS YOU NEED TO DO DOUBLECHECKS—HS TOURN. OBSERVE REGIONAL CONSTRAINTS
DO NOT WAIT FOR LAST MINUTE DROPS. START AT 1PM.

NOTES FOR THE BALLOTS/PAIRINGS:

POLICY: 1AC SPEAKS BY 5:15PM (15 MINUTES AFTER THE ROUND STARTS); BALLOT IS DUE BY 7:15PM

LD: 1AC SPEAKS 10 MINUTES AFTER THE ROUND BEGINS; BALLOTS ARE DUE BY 7:15PM

---FOR ALL FUTURE ROUNDS—POLICY GETS 15 MINUTES TO START; LD GETS 10 MINUTES; BALLOTS ARE DUE BY THE TIME NOTED ON THE SCHEDULE.

---YOU MUST MUST STATE THESE TIMES ON THE BALLOTS AND POSTINGS. FINES AND ALL KINDS OF CONTROLS RELY ON THIS.

3.    PARLI: Whitman students judge Parli, NOT IEs. Coordinate with the IE Tab.

4.    DOUBLECHECK THE POSTINGS ROUND 1 AND 2 BETWEEN POLICY AND LD!
NO STRUCK JUDGES in Champ LD and Policy
NO DUPLICATE JUDGES –Compare LD and Policy posting
NO DUPLICATE USE OF ROOMS—Compare LD and Policy posting 
I know these doublechecks are a pain but they will avoid the major problems we had at the 2004 HS tournament. Duplicate judge and rooms means the round starts 40 minutes late and massive numbers of ballots get pushed.

5.     ATTACH ITEMS TO THE BALLOTS ROUNDS 1 AND 2
The How to Judge Policy/LD/Parli Sheet. Attach this for rounds 1 and 2.
Any other sheets Jim wants attached.

6.     BY 2PM GET BALLOTS AND ENOUGH POSTINGS FOR ONE FOR EACH TEAM PLUS 3 FOR JIM for Round 1 to JIM/the doublechecker.
TAPE ONE COPY OF THE POSTING TO THE CARDBOARD HOLDER. RUBBERBAND THE ALL OF REMAINING POSTINGS TO THE CARDBOARD HOLDER.
NOTICE ONLY JIM POSTS PAIRINGS AND BALLOTS unless it is posting time and Jim is not there.

7.   EMAIL JIM THE SPREADSHEET AFTER YOU PAIR AND PRINT ROUND 1.

WHEN BALLOTS AND POSTINGS SHOULD GO OUT

·       At least 30 minutes before the rounds begin. NOTE: Parli ballots/postings go out with IE A postings.

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

·       BE SURE TO ATTACH THE BALLOT COVER SHEETS TO EACH AND EVERY BALLOT!!!!

·       Make corrections for adds and drops when they come in—NOTICE DROP A TEAM ONLY IF THEY FORFEIT TWICE!!!!

 

ENTERING RESULTS? Remember only scores of 24-30 are permitted unless the tournament director gave permission for a lower score.

 

REMINDER: TURN OFF REGIONAL CONSTRAINTS IN TOURNAMENT SETTINGS BEFORE ROUND 3!!!

 

8.   POST THE WARM ROOM (ROUND BY ROUND) RESULTS TO CROSS-X.COM AFTER YOU COMPLETE EACH ROUND.

 

FRIDAY MORNING

10:30AM ON FRIDAY, ROUND 3 OF POLICY PAIRINGS MUST BE CHECKED WITH IE B 1 AND 2 TO AVOID DUPLICATE ROOMS AND JUDGES. SEE THE IE TAB AT 10:30AM FOR THIS!
This doublecheck is really needed—at the 2004 HS tournament, duplicate ie b/policy judge and rooms caused major problems—the round went off 40 minutes late; it caused a round to go late and interfere with a professor’s test and that’s trouble; etc.

 

 

FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY: SETTING UP FOR ELIM ROUNDS

 

1. PRINT AND DOUBLECHECK THE CUMES!!!

Look for any team given a forfeit, bye, zero points. YOU SHOULD ASSUME NO TEAM SHOULD EVER RECEIVE ZERO POINTS.
   Do a doublecheck to document that a team really did deserve 0 points for a round. If not—adjust their points.

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

3. We break to a maximum of full octafinals in LD and Policy; maximum of quarterfinals in Parli.

Debaters must go a minimum of 4-2 in LD or Policy or 2-1 in Parli  or 3-1 in Public Forum to be able to break.

If there aren’t 16 (or 8 for parli) teams, then you have a partial elims round.

4. 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.

5. 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.

NOTE—WE DO NOT BREAK BRACKETS IN CHAMP DIVISION OF LD AND POLICY FOR SEMIS.

NOTE: DOUBLECHECK—NO TEAM SHOULD BE FORCED TO DEBATE IN A PARTIAL ELIM THAT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BECAUSE BRACKETS WERE BROKEN.

6. SETUP FOR POLICY AND LD AND PROBABLY PUBLIC FORUM ELIMS

Talk with Jim but this is the general setup:

MAKE SURE EACH AND EVERY ELIM BALLOT STATES:

“YOU CAN JUDGE A TEAM IN ELIMS THAT YOU JUDGED IN PRELIMS.”

 “THERE ARE THREE JUDGES IN POLICY & LD ELIMS. WAIT FOR ALL THREE TO ARRIVE BEFORE STARTING.”

“ANNOUNCE THE WINNER OF THE ROUND TO THE TWO TEAMS.”

MAKE SURE EACH AND EVERY ELIM POSTING STATES:

“THE 1AC STARTS AT X TIME”

“THERE ARE THREE JUDGES IN POLICY & LD ELIMS. WAIT FOR ALL THREE TO ARRIVE BEFORE STARTING.”

“THE JUDGE SHOULD ANNOUNCE THE WINNER OF THE ROUND TO THE TWO TEAMS.”

FOR POLICY OCTAS

FOR CHAMP, USE SECOND FLOOR OF OLIN

FOR SENIOR, USE THIRD FLOOR OF OLIN

FOR JUNIOR, USE FIRST FLOOR OF OLIN AND FIRST FLOOR OF MAXEY

FOR NOVICE, USE SECOND FLOOR OF MAXEY AND 1 OR 2 ROOMS OF THIRD FLOOR OF MAXEY

TELL LD TAB WHICH MAXEY ROOMS THEY CAN HAVE FOR LD OCTAS.

FOR POLICY QUARTERS

FOR CHAMP AND SENIOR, USE SECOND FLOOR OF OLIN

FOR JUNIOR AND NOVICE, USE THIRD FLOOR OF OLIN

FOR POLICY SEMIS AND FINALS—USE OLIN 2ND FLOOR ONLY. DO NOT USE SAME ROOMS AS LD. DO NOT USE FIRST FLOOR ROOMS.

FOR LD OCTAS:

Use Maxey for Champ and Sr BUT ONLY THIRD FLOOR AND ONLY ROOMS NOT USED BY POLICY—DOUBLECHECK

Use Hunter 105, 106, 107, 205 for Jr; Use Reid Rooms for Novice.

FOR LD QUARTERS, USE MAXEY only (remember that it is single flighted).

FOR LD SEMIS AND FINALS, USE OLIN 3RD FLOOR ONLY. DO NOT USE THE SAME ROOMS AS POLICY. DO NOT USE FIRST FLOOR ROOMS.

 

7. SETUP FOR PARLI QUARTERS, SEMIS, AND FINALS

After checking with the IE Tab Head Person, SETUP PARLI QUARTERS USING ROOMS IN OLIN THAT THE IE TAB ISN’T USING. DOUBLECHECK WITH IE TAB—DON’T DOUBLE USE ROOMS.

FOR PARLI QUARTERS, DO THE FOLLOWING:

Assign 1 judge to each parli quarters round. DO NOT USE 3 JUDGES. We don’t have enough people to do that.

THE ROUND SHOULD BE PAIRED WITH 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5

Yes, we break brackets (if two debaters from the same school are set to hit each other in elims). The program does this for you by checking the option.

Yes, judges can and will judge debaters multiple times during elim rounds.

Distribute quarters ballots in Cordiner at the regular ballot table.

ON THE PARLI QUARTERS BALLOTS state:

“1AC STARTS AT 10:45AM”
“THERE IS ONLY ONE JUDGE IN PARLI QUARTERS AND SEMIS.”
“ANNOUNCE THE WINNER. TELL THE WINNER THAT THE SEMIS ROUND OCCURS AT NOON.”
“TURN IN THE PARLI QUARTERS BALLOT TO THE OLIN FOYER BALLOT TABLE. WAIT THERE FOR YOUR SEMIS BALLOT.”

PARLI POSTINGS SHOULD SAY:
“1AC STARTS AT 10:45AM”
“THERE IS ONLY ONE JUDGE IN PARLI QUARTERS AND SEMIS.”
“JUDGES ANNOUNCE THE WINNER.”
“THE SEMIS ROUND OCCURS AT NOON AND IS POSTED IN OLIN FOYER. IF YOU WIN QUARTERS, BE THERE FOR SEMIS ON TIME.”

FOR PARLI SEMIS, SETUP A BALLOT TABLE AND TAB IN OLIN FOYER—BE THERE YOURSELF

Collect the quarters ballots and setup semis.

Semis also has only one judge and continue to use the same Olin rooms that you used for quarters (avoiding conflicts with IE room use).

Post the Parli Semis pairings in the Olin Foyer, distribute ballots there, and periodically tell kids ORALLY that it is posted.

ON THE PARLI SEMIS BALLOTS state
“1AC STARTS AT 12:05PM”
“THERE IS ONLY ONE JUDGE IN PARLI SEMIS.”
“ANNOUNCE THE WINNER. TELL THE WINNER THAT THE FINALS ROUND OCCURS AT 3:20PM”
“TURN IN THE BALLOT TO THE REGULAR CORDINER BALLOT TABLE.”

PARLI POSTINGS SHOULD SAY:
“1AC STARTS AT 12:05PM”
“THERE IS ONLY ONE JUDGE IN PARLI QUARTERS AND SEMIS.”
“JUDGES ANNOUNCE THE WINNER.”
“THE FINALS ROUND OCCURS AT 3:20PM AND IS POSTED AT CORDINER. IF YOU WIN SEMIS, BE THERE FOR FINALS ON TIME.”

Make sure the semis round is occurring, POST A SIGN WHERE YOU WERE IN OLIN FOYER SAYING “TURN IN YOUR PARLI SEMIS BALLOT TO CORDINER—NOT HERE” and then return to the IE/Parli tab room in Hunter.

FOR PARLI FINALS, USE THREE JUDGES. USE ROOMS THAT ARE NOT BEING USED BY POLICY OR STUDENT CONGRESS.

ON THE PARLI FINALS BALLOTS state:
“1AC STARTS AT 3:25PM”
“THERE ARE THREE JUDGES IN PARLI FINALS—BE SURE TO WAIT FOR ALL 3.”
“ANNOUNCE THE WINNER.”
“TURN IN THE BALLOT TO THE REGULAR CORDINER BALLOT TABLE.”

7. NOTES ON THE BALLOTS FOR ELIMS

Include this note on the ballot “ANNOUNCE THE DECISION AND WHEN YOU DO—PLEASE STATE THE FULL NAME OF THE DEBATER/TEAM.”

(why? To avoid them voting for the wrong debater—especially in doubleflighted rounds. In 2007—a judge voted for the wrong mercer island debater in 2 doubleflighted rounds and caused two 2-1 decisions to go the wrong way!!!!)

 

SATURDAY

 

SATURDAY MORNING—FINISH BY NOON

1.     Print out the cums sheets—GET TO PHOTOCOPIERS/PRINT ENOUGH FOR ONE COPY FOR EACH SCHOOL

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

 

FOR POLICY SEMIS AND FINALS, USE OLIN SECOND FLOOR

FOR LD SEMIS AND FINALS, USE OLIN THIRD FLOOR

DO NOT USE OLIN 155, 161, 157, OR 130 FOR SEMIS/FINALS.

 

BY 4PM 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).
NOTICE: PARLI DEBATE DOES NOT HAVE SPEAKER AWARDS; DON’T ANNOUNCE THOSE.

2.     Be ready to announce the elim losers in each event who will receive an award (octafinalists and quarterfinalists)

3.     THE PERSON ANNOUNCING MUST BE APPROVED BY JIM.

4.     Pair the semifinals round and print out ballots.

NOTE: AWARDS STARTS AT 3:50PM but we begin with IE awards.

 

BY 4:05PM, ANNOUNCE AWARDS DURING THE ASSEMBLY

The procedure for announcing is as follows:

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

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

·       State, "Receiving quarterfinalist 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 semi-finals rounds and judges in the awards assembly

·       Pairings and Ballots should be available outside in Cordiner foyer (high school tournament)

 

AFTER AWARDS, SETUP FOR SEMIS AND FINALS IN OLIN

We move to Olin 155 after the main awards assembly; Olin 155 is the new tab room

Bring computers, printers, all needed files and supplies, etc. to Olin 155

Pizza will be available there in Olin

The ballot table is in Olin Foyer

The semis and finals awards assemblies occur in Olin 130

FOR JUDGES FOR SEMIS AND FINALS, TALK WITH JIM. FOR 2007 AND THEREAFTER, NO MORE THAN 5 JUDGES MAY JUDGE ANY ELIM ROUND.

NOTE, WE BREAK BRACKETS EXCEPT IN CHAMP DIVISION SEMIS.

 

AFTER THE LAST DEBATE IS OVER

We move back to Hunter including all supplies etc.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU EMAIL JIM THE SPREADSHEET.