Welcome to the home page for the 2014 SDIVSL Cong/Parli/Public Forum Quals tournament hosted by La Costa Canyon on Feb 28-1, 2014 for High School students.
Status: Tournament Completed
<p>Separate registration pages are set up for IE Quals (March 7 and 8) and Lincoln-Douglas/Policy Quals (March 14 and 15)</p>
<p> <strong>This tournament is open only to SDIVSL member schools. All teams must be paid members of CHSSA (paid no later than Feb. 14 2014).</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Tournament Director: </strong>Gregg Osborn, League President (<a href=\"mailto:gosborn@helixcharter.net\">email</a>)</p>
<p><strong>School Address:</strong> 1 Maverick Way, Carlsbad, 92009.</p>
<p><strong>Parking:</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Tab Location: </strong></p>
<p><strong>Judges' Room</strong>: </p>
<p><strong>Qualifying Spots / Entry Limitations: </strong>Students who cannot attend the CHSSA State Tournament on April 25, 26, and 27 at James Enochs High School in Modesto are not eligible to compete at this tournament. Additionally, students who are not available to compete in all scheduled rounds of this tournament are not eligible to compete.</p>
<p>Our league will qualify nine (9) students in Congress and one (1) P.O. A school may have up to ten (10) entries in Congress. Additional entries will count against the ten (10) floating entries that each school is allotted for the three weekends.</p>
<p>Our league will qualify five (5) Parli teams and five (5) Public Forum teams. A school may have up to ten (10) entries in Parli and up to ten (10) entries in Public Forum. Additional entries will count against the ten (10) floating entries that each school is allotted for the three weekends. </p>
<p>Students may enter two (2) events for this weekend. Students may not enter both Parli and Public Forum. Students may not enter both PO and Congress.</p>
<p><strong>Be sure not to exceed any individual or school entry limits: No student may enter more than four (4) events total throughout the three tournaments.</strong> </p>
<p><strong>Fees:</strong> $7.00 for each Congress entry, $14.00 for each Parli and Public Forum entry. Make checks payable to SDIVSL. (One check for all three tournaments is preferred.)</p>
<p><strong>Entry/Drop Deadlines:</strong> Entries for this tournament must be posted to www.forensicstournament.net no later than <strong>5:00 pm. on Monday, February 24</strong>. All fees will be final at that time. Please email any debate drops prior to the tournament to rachel.krause@sduhsd.net or call/text them in to 858-610-7089. Please email any Congress drops prior to the tournament to detherid@vusd.k12.ca.us or call/text them in to 619-200-7439. Bring payment for all three weekends to this tournament on Saturday, March 1.</p>
<p><strong>Judges: </strong>Please bring one judge for every 8 entries in Congress and one judge for every 2 debate teams. IMPORTANT: All judges are committed to remain one round PAST the elimination of their team's last competitor. Click <a href=\"http://forensicstournament.net/SDIVSLIECONGRESS3/12/blog/\">here</a> for instructions regarding entering judges. </p>
<p><strong>Tournament Details:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Congress Topics:</strong> Please submit Congress bills for consideration to Don Etheridge (<a href=\"mailto:donaldetheridge@vistausd.org\">email</a>) Congress topics will be posted on the entry website (www.forensicstournament.net).</p>
<p>Congress will run two preliminary rounds for all competitors. Following Round 2, the top 28 students will break to Semifinals, then the top 14 students will break to finals. (More may advance in cases of unbreakable ties, etc.)</p>
<p><strong>Parli Topics</strong>: All teams competing in Parli must submit one value topic, one fact topic, and one policy topic to Rachel Krause (<a href=\"mailto:rachel.krause@sduhsd.net\">rachel.krause@sduhsd.net</a>)</p>
<p><strong>February Public Forum Topic: </strong>Resolved: The Supreme Court rightly decided that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act violated the Constitution.</p>
<p>For Parli and PF, the first five rounds will operate on a double-elimination format. After a team receives two losses, they will be eliminated from the tournament. After any preliminary round, if eight or fewer teams remain, the next round will be a quarterfinal round. If after five rounds there are more than eight teams remaining, the top eight teams will advance to quarterfinals. The winners of each debate will advance to semifinals. The winners of the semifinals round will advance to finals. </p>
<p><strong>Manuscript Reading</strong>: Beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 1, we will read I.E. manuscripts for compliance with CHSSA guidelines. If there are enough people present earlier than 11 a.m., we’ll actually start the reading sooner. All league coaches need to attend and help in the reading of manuscripts until all manuscripts have been reviewed. See the I.E. entry page for more info.</p>
<p><strong>TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE</strong></p>
<p><strong>Friday, February 28</strong></p>
<p><strong>3:30-3:45</strong> Registration (All schools <strong>must</strong> check in by 3:45, but do not arrive before 3:30!)</p>
<p><strong>4:00</strong> Round 1 PF, Parli Draw</p>
<p><strong>5:30 </strong>Round 1 Congress</p>
<p><strong>7:00 </strong>Round 2 PF, Parli Draw</p>
<p><strong>8:30 </strong>Round 2 Congress</p>
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<p><strong>Saturday, March 1 </strong>(tentative - break rounds may happen sooner)</p>
<p><strong>9:00 </strong>Round 3 PF, Parli Draw </p>
<p><strong>10:30 </strong>Congress Semis</p>
<p><strong>12:00 </strong>Round 4 PF, Parli Draw</p>
<p><strong>1:30 </strong>Congress Finals</p>
<p><strong>3:00 </strong>Round 5 PF, Parli Draw</p>
<p><strong>4:15 </strong> Parli (draw) and PF Quarterfinals (8 teams per event)</p>
<p><strong>5:30 </strong> Parli (draw) and PF Semis (4 teams per event)</p>
<p><strong>6:45 </strong> Parli (draw) and PF Finals (2 teams per event)</p>
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<p><strong>Sign-Off Meeting: </strong>After the awards ceremony following LD/Policy Quals (Saturday, March 15), all coaches must return to the tab room to sign off any students who have qualified for the State Tournament. <strong>All coaches need to attend this meeting</strong> even if you don’t have a student that is qualified outright. Each year, students who haven’t qualified outright shift up into a qualifying position because of other students’ shifting out of the event, since a student may only enter one individual event at the State Tournament. If the coach is not at the meeting to confirm a student’s attendance at the State Tournament, the students may be bypassed and excluded from State qualification.</p>
<p><strong>Note: </strong>If you sign a “No” on a student, that student MAY NOT later be added into that event if some problem arises with his or her participation in another event, such as Team Debate or Duo. If a student does not qualify outright in any event you still may only sign yes in <strong>one</strong> event.</p>
<p><strong>You must come to this meeting!</strong></p>