2024 Summer Royale

Dear Forensics Community,

 Phew! What a season! As our attention turns to summer, National Online Forensics is proud to offer you and your program a summer forensics experience - the 2024 Summer Royale.  This will be a synchronous video conference tournament held Saturday, August 17, 2024. It’s a great opportunity to dust off those public speaking and debating skills to get ready for a great 2024-2025 season! 

 The tournament will offer competition at all levels, from kindergarten to college,  in a wide range of events. We have the very best tournament staff assembled to ensure a smooth day of fun competition.  Our schedule will include three prelims and a final using Bronze/Silver/Gold award system. 

 Key Points:

• Registration is due by Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 6pm Pacific time on ForensicsTournament.net
• Super low entry fees ($5/event) are payable by credit card.
• There will be a single division for all events offered.
• Gold medalists will receive online gift cards while silver and bronze will receive recognition during the awards ceremony.
• Each school is required to provide one judge for every 5 IE entries per pattern/2 debate teams. At the discretion of the Tournament Director, uncovered entries may be allowed but penalty fees will apply.

 We hope you and your team can join us for a day of summer forensics fun.  If you have any questions please feel free to email us at info@nationalonlineforensics.org 

Sincerely,

Robert Cannon and Danny Cantrell

National Online Forensics

***Schedule*** 

(all times Pacific)

Round 1: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Round 2: 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Round 3: 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Elimination Round 1: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Elimination Round 2: 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM (if necessary)

Events offered:

Awards Ceremony: 6:30 PM (earlier if possible)

Individual Events

• Three prelims will be held; one final round will be held.
• Students may enter a maximum of three IE events
• 1 Judge is required for every 5 entries per pattern
• Prelim Ranking: Ranks/Decimal/Drop High Rank  
• Elim Ranking: Total Rank/Decimal in Elim/Ranks in Elim
• Speaker Points will not be used.
• Students will be recognized with Gold, Silver, and Bronze (see NOF Bylaws for a breakdown of awards)
• Gold medalists in each individual event will be recognized as the Summer Champion and awarded a $10 only Amazon gift card. 
• See the NOF Bylaws for more information about NOF individual events.

Debate

• Standard pairing will be used with 3 random rounds followed by 1 HL rounds. In Elims, brackets will be broken to facilitate debating. 
• Final rounds will be held Phi Rho Pi Style.   
• Students may only enter one format of debate.
• 1 Judge is required for every 2 debate entries.
• Speaker Point Scale will be 100-70. 
• Prelim Ranking: Wins/Total Points/HL Points/Opp Wins/Z Score. 
• Speakers Ranking: Total Points/HL Points/Ranks/Wins/Z Score.
• A 5 minute forfeit rule will be put in place for all debate rounds.
• Gold medalists in debate will be recognized as the Summer Champions and awarded a $10 amazon gift card.
• See the NOF Bylaws for more information about NOF debate events.

Sweepstakes

• Top schools will be recognized during the awards ceremony, but no physcial awards will be shipped.

Fees

• School Fee: $30
• Single person Event Entries: $5/entry
• Changes after the entry deadline: $25 per change (subject to tournament director approval) 
• Judges: First Missed Ballot - $25 / Subsequent Missed Ballots - $50
• Judge drops within 24 hours of the tournament will be charged a $150 judge no-show fee.  
• Uncovered IE Slot (with Tournament Director Approval): $30/slot
• Uncovered Debate Team (with Tournament Director Approval): $125/team
• Judges who submit incomplete eBallots (with little to no substantive feedback) may be charged a judge missed-ballot fee for failing to complete their judge assignment which includes both ranking the speakers along with giving sufficient comments.
• Delay of tournament fees may be assessed from $20-$100 based on the severity of the delay.
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