2012 Robert D. Clark Invitational (University of Oregon) hosted at ForensicsTournament.net

Tournament Status: Tournament Completed

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Welcome to the home page for the 2012 Robert D. Clark Invitational (University of Oregon) tournament hosted by University of Oregon (OR) on Feb 24-25, 2012 for High School students.

The Robert D. Clark Invitational

Speech & Debate Tournament

Hosted by the University of Oregon

Friday, February 24 – Saturday February 25, 2012

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to the 2012 Robert D. Clark Invitational, to be held the weekend of February 24^th and 25^th,, 2012. This tournament will feature six preliminary rounds of debate in four different formats, as well as three preliminary rounds of individual events. This year the tournament has an NIETOC bid in all qualifying IEs. Continuing the practices from last year, the tournament offers:

All OSAA events offered, following all OSAA rules
Two-day schedule instead of three
Fully catered coaches’ meeting
Zero entry fees

The tab staff is quite experienced and promises a well run, on-time tournament with excellent competition and professionalism.

Sincerely,

Owen Zahorcak Thomas Schally

Tab Director Tournament Director

Debate Coach Debate Coach

South Eugene High School University of Oregon

(503) 709-3513 (651) 253-8291

Events

Students may enter one debate event and any two individual events, with a single exception: students entered in CX debate may only enter pattern A events, not pattern B.

– Debate

CX will use the 2011-2012 topic. As per longstanding tradition for the Bower Aly tournament, Public Forum will use the March topic, and LD will use the March/April topic. Public topics will be written by the tournament.

We will be offering two divisions (junior and senior) in each of the formats, as long as we have sufficient entries.

Debate will follow OSAA rules. All conflicts and interpretations of the rules will be settled by the tournament director and will be considered final.

– Individual Events

Pattern A: Pattern B: (CX Debaters may not enter pattern B)

ADS ELL-Interp

Expository Memorized-Humorous

Impromptu Oratory

Memorized-Serious Dual Interpretation

Prose Extemporaneous

Poetry

Radio

Radio and Poetry have moved to B.

We will be offering Junior and Senior divisions in all events that have sufficient entries. If an event is collapsed, we will still recognize the top 3 finishers in the junior division.

The tournament reserves the right to collapse similar events if entries are below the OSAA Alternate Qualification threshold.

All individual events will follow OSAA rules and will use OSAA ballots.

Please visit http://www.osaa.org/publications/handbook/1112SPEECHHandbook.pdf for a detailed description of the events.

With the addition of the NIETOC bid we are very excited to see an incresed entry turnout for the 2012 Clark tournament. Here is more inforamtion about the NIETOC. http://www.nietoc.com/faq.asp

Fees

School Fee – FREE

Debate entry – FREE ($10/team for late entry)

Individual Events – FREE ($5/entry for late additions)

Uncovered public forum and Lincoln-Douglas penalty $15 per entry

Uncovered policy and public debate penalty: $30 per entry

Uncovered IE penalty $10 per entry

Judging

One judge can cover 2 CX entries, 2 Public debate entries or 4 LD/PF debate entries; and the same judge can cover up to 6 IE entries (double-entries count as two entries). We are going to try to give coaches a break and use them as sparingly as possible until elimination rounds. However, with a tournament of this size, it is imperative that you either cover your judging obligations, or let us know in advance that you cannot so that we know how many judges to hire. Judges are obligated to stay one round past their last competitor.

Registration

Entries will be done via www.forensicstournament.net, entry procedures detailed there.

Even if your late drops take your entries to the point where you have met your judging obligations, if your entries as of the Thursday deadline are over your judging commitment, you will still be assessed uncovered entry fees in full. We welcome unexpected judges. However, due to the difficulties in using them immediately, an unexpected judge will only reduce by half the uncovered penalty that he or she would have resolved had he or she been entered properly.