<p> &nbsp;</p> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> <span style=\"background-color:#ffd700;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Checks MUST be made out to &ldquo;Mt. SAC Speakers&rdquo; for Saturday&rsquo;s tournament. &nbsp;For&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> <span style=\"background-color:#ffd700;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Sunday please make checks out to &ldquo;Orange Coast College - Speech &amp; Debate&rdquo; for&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> <span style=\"background-color:#ffd700;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Sunday&rsquo;s tournament. </strong></span></span></div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> <span style=\"background-color:#ffd700;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><br /> Students must select EITHER individual events or debate events for each day of</strong></span><br /> </span></div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> <span style=\"background-color:#ffd700;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">the swing tournament. Students may not be registered in both debate and</strong></span></div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> <span style=\"background-color:#ffd700;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">individual events on the same day.&nbsp;</strong></span></div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> &nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> Dear Friends and Colleagues:</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> &nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> Orange Coast College and Mt. San Antonio College are pleased to invite you to Southern&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> California for our 1st annual &ldquo;Close to the Coast&rdquo; swing on January 19-20, 2013. &nbsp;This year&rsquo;s&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> tournament will be held in Costa Mesa, CA on the beautiful campus of Orange Coast College.</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> We have partnered up this year to host this tournament in Southern California to give your teams&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> extra practice because both Phi Rho Pi and CCCFA will be in the Los Angeles area.</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> &nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> The two tournaments will offer similar schedules and fees and both will have sweeps awards for&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> the top three teams and top community college team. Saturday competition also includes a&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> novice division and/or top novice awards while Sunday is an open division free-for-all. We will&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> award a top speaker of the swing tournament as well.</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> &nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> In addition to the individual events we will host a one-day parliamentary debate tournament on&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> Saturday and a one-day NFA-LD debate tournament on Sunday. &nbsp;For both days the Open&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> division will be a standard 4/2 format but in novice we will have a six prelim tournament with&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> Gold/Silver/Bronze awards given to the top teams. &nbsp;NOTE: Students may not enter both debate&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> and IE events on the same day. &nbsp;Students are more than welcome to mix and match on different&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> days. &nbsp;Mt. SAC will be the official host on Saturday and OCC will be the host on Sunday.</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> &nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> So c&rsquo;mon Close to the Coast for some great competition and even better memories. &nbsp;Our tab staff&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> will be top notch so you can expect a well run tournament. Let us know how we can help with&nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> your travel plans or anything else that will make this a special weekend for your team.</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> &nbsp;</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> Hope to see you there!</div> <div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;\"> <em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The Coaching Staff at Orange Coast College and Mt. San Antonio College</em></div>