Welcome to the home page for the 2013 Close to the Coast SAT tournament hosted by Mt. SAC at Orange Coast College on Jan 19, 2013 for College students.
Status: Tournament Completed
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<span style=\"background-color:#ffff00;\"><strong>Checks MUST be made out to “Mt. SAC Speakers” for Saturday’s tournament. For </strong></span></div>
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<span style=\"background-color:#ffff00;\"><strong>Sunday please make checks out to “Orange Coast College - Speech & Debate” for </strong></span></div>
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<span style=\"background-color:#ffff00;\"><strong>Sunday’s tournament. </strong></span></div>
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<span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 215, 0);\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Students must select EITHER individual events or debate events for each day of</strong></span><br />
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<span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 215, 0);\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">the swing tournament. Students may not be registered in both debate and</strong></span></div>
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<span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 215, 0);\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">individual events on the same day. </strong></span></div>
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Dear Friends and Colleagues:</div>
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Orange Coast College and Mt. San Antonio College are pleased to invite you to Southern </div>
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California for our 1st annual “Close to the Coast” swing on January 19-20, 2013. This year’s </div>
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tournament will be held in Costa Mesa, CA on the beautiful campus of Orange Coast College.</div>
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We have partnered up this year to host this tournament in Southern California to give your teams </div>
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extra practice because both Phi Rho Pi and CCCFA will be in the Los Angeles area.</div>
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The two tournaments will offer similar schedules and fees and both will have sweeps awards for </div>
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the top three teams and top community college team. Saturday competition also includes a </div>
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novice division and/or top novice awards while Sunday is an open division free-for-all. We will </div>
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award a top speaker of the swing tournament as well.</div>
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In addition to the individual events we will host a one-day parliamentary debate tournament on </div>
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Saturday and a one-day NFA-LD debate tournament on Sunday. For both days the Open </div>
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division will be a standard 4/2 format but in novice we will have a six prelim tournament with </div>
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Gold/Silver/Bronze awards given to the top teams. NOTE: Students may not enter both debate </div>
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and IE events on the same day. Students are more than welcome to mix and match on different </div>
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days. Mt. SAC will be the official host on Saturday and OCC will be the host on Sunday.</div>
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So c’mon Close to the Coast for some great competition and even better memories. Our tab staff </div>
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will be top notch so you can expect a well run tournament. Let us know how we can help with </div>
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your travel plans or anything else that will make this a special weekend for your team.</div>
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Hope to see you there!</div>
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<em>The Coaching Staff at Orange Coast College and Mt. San Antonio College</em></div>