FTN - 2018 L.A. County Orator's Cup 5 (3rd-12th Grade)

Welcome to the home page for the 2018 L.A. County Orator's Cup 5 (3rd-12th Grade) tournament hosted by Pacoima Charter Elem. (11016 Norris Ave, 91331) on Jun 3, 2018 for Various students.

Status: Tournament Completed

UPDATE 6/8: Thanks to the Vassantachart family putting all of the ballots in order and our friends from PSA kindly lending us use of their great Samsung double-sided scanner (something that was either poetic or ironic, since it was a failing Samsung laser writer that knocked us off the timeliness we had enjoyed all day on Sunday), I was able to scan all of the ballots and upload them today. Truth be told, both PSA and our friends from Nova 42 offered to do all of the scanning and uploading for me, but I wanted to leverage the sorting foundation the Vassantacharts had already done and do the scanning myself, so that the resulting PDFs would be more easily browsable than in previous years (the are ordered by event, in order of section and rounds, from Elementary Division through High School). Here is the Google Drive folder link, which will eventually contain not only the ballots but also the rules, trophy pics and menu truck pics/menus. Thank you all also for having treated the rooms at Pacoima well. Only one chair was reported damaged, and that means we might be invited back for P5 (Principios V) on November 4th. Congratulations on your classy self-regulation as guests. If any of you were able to make some performance recordings, I'd appreciate it if you please share them with me, as I didn't have time to record any rounds and new urban students at both the elementary and middle school level have a lot explained to them through such recorded insights. And now, without further ado, here are your long-awaited... <big>Scanned Ballots:   <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tLbMSO8wnv__geL4iUp2WVR45rKCp-v2\">https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tLbMSO8wnv__geL4iUp2WVR45rKCp-v2</a></big> UPDATE 6/5:  Thank you for helping us all pull off the largest ES-MS-HS combo contest in the history of the United States. It was such a blast to see so many young people learn, have fun, eat amazing food truck food and yet also evince their tremendous oratorical brilliance. Results are up! Please click on the results tab to see who received what in which rounds. ES Storytelling, Impromptu, SpAr and Informative show different placements than were announced at the awards assembly due to a printer failure (which caused us to lose the timeliness we had enjoyed all day and read hurriedly off laptop screens while switching between two PDF files) and a time issue because the custodial crew had to go home (all made worse by a pleading parent who for 20 minutes could not accept that her child had been left out of the Finals in an event she had "never failed to final in," even through the tabulation engine was demonstrably applying standard tie-breaking procedures, and that to accept her request, we'd have to accept a 10 speaker Final, leading to being later than we already were), leading me to accidentally read the placements from prelims sans the scores from Finals. Our correction to the mis-awardings: All students who were awarded better trophies than they were supposed to get will get to keep them. All students from those four Final Rounds who received a lesser trophy than they were supposed to get will exchange that one for their rightfully better one. My sincerest apologies for the mixup. However, our brilliant tab master made no mistakes, as usual. The 100% correct results were taken into account when announcing all of the other winners and for figuring out the winners of the coveted Orator's Cups. Ballots will soon be scanned and uploaded to a Google Drive with a shared link to be posted below in a few days. In the meantime, applause is merited for the amazing Top Five of each Orator's Cup division. These speakers are easily in the top one percent of the country. Congrats!! As to the problems which gave rise to the awards delay and mixup, here are our takeaway lessons: 1) We will have a second printer handy at our contests. This will ensure that we read from the printed summary sheets, which include the Final Round ballot ranks.  2) We will announce increasingly harsh punishments for instances where a team's  administration does not make a complaining parent cease and desist. Don't forget to join us next year during the first Sunday in November for Principios 5 and the first Sunday in June for Orator's Cup 6! 2018 High School Top 6 <ol> <li>17.5 iLEAD Schools - Grd 9-12 O. Cup Candidate - AJ Moore</li> <li>17.5 Nova 42 Academy - Grd 9-12 O. Cup Candidate - Daniel Kyle</li> <li>13.0 iLEAD Schools - Grd 9-12 O. Cup Candidate - Sienna Horvath</li> <li>10.0 iLEAD Schools - Grd 9-12 O. Cup Candidate - Gabe Grodan</li> <li>8.+ iLEAD Schools - Grd 9-12 O. Cup Candidate - Daniel Timor</li> <li>9.0 Nova 42 Academy - Grd 9-12 O. Cup Candidate - Dexter Winn</li> </ol> 2018 Middle School Top 10 <ol> <li>18.5 Perfect Score Academy - Grd 6-8 O. Cup Candidate - Kana Park</li> <li>17.5 Nova 42 Academy - Grd 6-8 O. Cup Candidate - Andrew Li</li> <li>17.5+ Rosemont Speech and Debate - Grd 6-8 O. Cup Candidate - Richard Li</li> <li>16.5 Wilshire Academy - Grd 6-8 O. Cup Candidate - Christine Lee</li> <li>16.0 iLEAD Schools - Grd 6-8 O. Cup Candidate - River Simard</li> <li>15.0  iLEAD Schools - Grd 6-8 O. Cup Candidate - Dev Wernik</li> <li>13.0 ModernBrain - Grd 6-8 O. Cup Candidate - Stephanie Hu</li> <li>12.5 iLEAD Schools - Grd 6-8 O. Cup Candidate - Bella Jahrmarkt</li> <li>08.0 Walter Reed Middle School - Grd 6-8 O. Cup Candidate - Alex Lee</li> <li>08.0 Perfect Score Academy - Grd 6-8 O. Cup Candidate - Oscar Lam</li> </ol> 2018 Elementary School Top 10 <ol> <li>19.5 - Nova 42 Academy - Grd 3-5 O. Cup Candidate - Max Ma</li> <li>17.5 - Wilshire Academy - Grd 3-5 O. Cup Candidate - Andrew Lee</li> <li>14.5 - Perfect Score Academy - Grd 3-5 O. Cup Candidate - Ellie Sohn</li> <li>13.5 - Perfect Score Academy - Grd 3-5 O. Cup Candidate - Elizabeth Ahn</li> <li>12.5 - ModernBrain - Grd 3-5 O. Cup Candidate - Anish Chowdhury</li> <li>11.0 - Wilshire Academy - Grd 3-5 O. Cup Candidate - Howard Choi</li> <li>12.0 - QD Learning - Grd 3-5 O. Cup Candidate - Helen Liao</li> <li>09.0 - QD Learning - Grd 3-5 O. Cup Candidate - Eleanor Murphy</li> <li>08.0 - Rosemont Speech and Debate - Grd 3-5 O. Cup Candidate - Edmunda Li</li> <li>08.0 - Nova 42 Academy - Grd 3-5 O. Cup Candidate - Nicholas Lee</li> </ol>     [We will be uploading files on an ongoing basis & updating specific paragraphs with time stamps. A special thanks goes out to Principal Sylvia Fajardo and the amazing team she has assembled with exacting judgement at our outstanding host Pacoima Charter School!]   ***Breaking News 5/31: due to the room shortage (66 rooms needed but only 43 available), we moved the SpAr & Impromptu rounds to their own time slot in between Pattern A & B, except during the Finals. Please check the new times for each round in the revised schedule below and note that there will no longer be planned breaks for eating. Instead, students must simply eat whenever they are not competing. Speaking of eating, there will be 2 food trucks at the contest. The first commitment we received was from Pacoima's Citrico Ceviche to sell food from 11am-6pm (see his menu in the links below) but the second was from the venerable, multifaceted and outstanding "Primetime Cuisine on Wheels" (their usual place on weekends is to sell food at LACMA) to serve breakfast from 8AM -10:30AM and then return for lunch and dinner from 1pm-7pm. We're extremely happy about that, and their menu link will be posted below as soon as we recieve it. Besides their fabulous and fiiling Shrimp Enchilada (which I can definitely vouch for), they have also promised to craft a few smaller, lower priced, cash only food options for the urban kids who will be hungry, so please reward them for adjusting their schedule to support us without requiring the typical $800 assurance. Speaking of food, NO food nor drinks are to be taken inside the classrooms!! NO students should ever be in a classroom without the JUDGE present and room furniture must be restored to the way it was found at the end of each round. Any evidence of student vandalism or abuse of the rooms will result in disqualification. For those teams whose students did not reach a Final Round, we STILL expect your judges to stay for Finals! We reserve the right to withhold awards from teams whose judges are not around for Finals or miss more than one judging assignment. Finally, due to having nearly 800 entries, we have moved up the threshold for events to have a Final Round to only those events with 22 entries or more. If judges start dwindiling, we will adjust that to events with 25 or more, in order to ensure three judges per Final. Over $4,000 in awards have been purchased, and food/snacks/water will be provided througout the day for the judges. Everyone is reminded that filming in rounds was a condition of registration and that parent opposition to this (which has happened on one or two occasions every single year) may negatively affect their child's score in that round or future rounds. Note that entrance to the campus on Sunday will NOT be via the front on Norris but rather through the Reunion Gate entrance on Herrick. School WiFi will NOT be made available to students nor the general public, but some areas on campus seem to receive WiFi via Spectrum Time Warner Cable accounts. When using bathrooms on campus be sure to look for and respect which are for children and which are for adults. Judging ballots will be scanned, uploaded and made available several days after the contest, via a link to be posted on this web site. Awards not picked up will NOT be mailed out, but can be arranged to be picked up within two weeks of June 3rd. We thank you and look forward to the biggest and most competitive Orator's Cup to date. Breaking News June 2nd: assurances of more judges being avaiable for Finals have led us to add ES Congress & HS Impromptu as the 12th & 13th events which will go to Finals.   <h1><a href=\"http://www.velasquezacademy.com/results\">Velasquez Academy</a> hosts OC5 at Pacoima Charter</h1> [UPDATED 5/9/18 8AM] Welcome to the 5th Annual Orator's Cup 3rd-12th Grade Fundraising Tournament, hereinafter referred to as OC5. We will again be offering divisions for elementary, middle & high school competitors, though we may have some divisions compete together if entries are too few. There are no school fees, and the costs for each event is $15 (including Duo), not including the $15 fine per "uncovered " event slot when a team does not maintain a ratio of one judge for every 4 events registered (judges must be juniors in high school or older). Fees are due at 8pm on Thursday May 24th (via Zelle online payment to velasquezacademy@gmail.com), so as to allow the purchase of the costly & pretty trophies which we have come to be known for. Failure to pay by the 24th  will result either in dropping of all students or the assignment of a fee for every late entry. WE WILL NOT BE REGISTERING NOR ACCEPTING PAYMENTS ON THE DAY OF THE CONTEST, so teams new to our contest need to understand that our payment timeline is dffierent than at other contests. Please also keep in mind that video and audio recording is PERMITTED for (educational and non-commercial uses only, we reserve the right to require that an abusive upload of a recording from OC be taken down) for all rounds, so your team's entry by your desginee constitutes group acceptance and acknowledgement of your permission to be filmed (do NOT register a student if filming is opposed). We will close events (and reimburse fees if already paid) if entries are below three or four, so please register early if you have interest in keeping afloat an event which might not survive the "three entry minimum." Students may triple-enter in any pattern, but they alone are responsible for alerting judges of being late. The tournaent will not be responsible for complications arising from having entered in too many events in a single pattern, leading to tardiness or the inability to fully participate. If you enter SpAr, do that event first, then go on to your other events. If entering Congress, do your other event FIRST, then go on to do Congress. Triple-entering with Congress is NOT recommended, as even those who merely double-entered last time indicated regret over that decision. [UPDATED 5/23/18 8AM] Please indicate in the notes for your judges if they are juniors or seniors in high school. It would also be helpful if you indicate level of exeperince for each judge. [UPDATED 6/2/18 6PM] Schedule error for Round 3 was tweaked (thanks to Nova 42), but this motivates us to move the times up if we possibly can, so DON'T LEAVE CAMPUS. The schedule is NOT set in stone. If we move a round up, and you miss it because you left campus, we will NOT be obligated to hold the round up for you. You've been warned. [UPDATED 5/9/18 8AM] Rules: High School events will generally follow NSDA rules (with the exception of Congress, which cannot be allowed to run three hours per prelim), unless they only exist in CA, at which point we turn to CHSSA rules. Middle School events will follow NSDA rules (with the exception of Congress length again). Elementary School events rules will be generally lax, due to so many leagues/organizations imposing different time limits. We will generally allow a 5-10 minute time limit, except for certain events: ES Storytelling will be 5 minutes maximum, with a grace period of 30 seconds. ES & MS Impromptu will use a running time of 7 minutes (student may choose to start speaking at any time during the 7 minutes) with a single, blank index card allowed and no referencing to pre-written notes during the prep period. HS Impromptu is the same but loses access to the index card when speaking. SpAr will be 1 min prep, 1 min 1st Aff, 1 min 1st Neg, 3 min mutual Q&A, 1 min Neg Summary, 1 min Aff Summary. Congress will have four resolutions, one for each prelim and a Final, if necessary. These single sentence resolutions will be released no later than two weeks before the contest date, attached in a PDF below. The event Original Comic Commentary is analogous to the college event Speech To Entertain or After Dinner Speaking, albeit with a shorter time limit and no props. Files with maps, rule and event updates will be uploaded with links below, shortly. Orator's Cup Top Spealer Award: each division will feature one winner of the prestigious (and heavy) Orator's Cup (see examples in picture links below). In order to vie for the award, one must enter at least three events plus enter "Cup Candidate" in "Pattern C". We will calculate the points from your top three events only, even if you compete in five events. Since OC Finalists will also win trophies, it is theoretically conceivable to take home seven trophies if excelling in 6 events and placing highly for the Orators' Cup. Points for determining OC Top Speakers will follow this formula (in the best three events of each candidate): 1st Place: 5 points, 2nd Place: 4 points, 3rd Place: 3 points, 4th Place: 2 points, 5th or 6th Place: 1 point. Students will earn 50% more points if their event had a Final Round (e.g. 7.5 points for 1st Place, 6 points for 2nd, 4.5 points for 3rd etc...). The 50% bonus will additionally be earned from students from a younger division placing against students from an older division. For example, an MS or ES student placing in a mixed event with older students which also was large enough to require a Finals Round could conceivably earn 10 points for 1st Place, 8 points for 2nd and 6 points for 3rd etc... The winners of the Best Overall Speaker's Cup to this point have been: Elementary School Division (Year, Name, Team): 2017 Elizabeth Vassantachart (Velasquez Academy) 2016 Kana Park (Perfect Score Academy) 2015 Priya Agarwal (Nova 42 Academy) 2014 Aidan Chavez (Nova 42 Academy) Middle School Division (Year, Name, Team): 2017 River Simard (iLEAD) 2016 Cara Wilson (Nova 42 Academy) 2015 Rachel Kho (Velasquez Academy) 2014 Aidan Shev (New West Charter) High School Division (Year, Name, Team): 2017 A.J. Moore (iLEAD ) 2016 Kate Farwell (iLEAD North Hollywood) 2015 Chad Gasman (V.I.P. North Hollywood) 2014 Jane Irons (Marlborough High School) These were last year's Best Overall Speaker results: Elementary School Division (Rank, Name, Team, Points): 1. Elizabeth Vassantachart (Velasquez Academy) - 24 2. Alex Lee (Wilshire Academy) - 19 3. Eleanor Murphy (ACLA) - 14 4. Giuseppe Dimessa (Nova 42) - 13.5 5. Richard Li (Rosemont) - 13.5 6. Jackie Lee (Wilshire Academy) - 11 7. Marilyn Amaya (Velasquez Academy) - 11 Middle School Division (Rank, Name, Team, Points): 1. River Simard (iLEAD) - 19.5 2. Christine Lee (Wilshire Academy), 18.5 3. Amanda Li (Rosemont) - 15 4. Ishan Saxena (Velasquez Academy) - 14.5 5. Melissa Qin (ModernBrain)- 14.5 6. Carly Granda (Velasquez Academy) - 12 7. Judah Feig (iLEAD) - 12 8. Callie LaVanway (iLEAD) - 12 High School Division (Rank, Name, Team, Points): 1. AJ Moore (iLEAD ) - 16 2. Sienna Horvath (iLEAD) - 14.5 3. Jackson Paluck (iLEAD) - 10.5 4. Dorothy Vassantachart (Velasquez Academy) - 8.5 5. Daniel Timor (iLEAD) - 7.5   OC5  Schedule - Sunday, June 3rd, 2018 [updated 6/2, if we can move times up, we will, don't leave campus!] 07:30 - 07:45   Judge Orientation 07:45 - 07:55   Round 1 Judging Assignments 08:00 - 09:00   Round 1 - Pattern A events (except Impromptu) 09:05 – 10:05  Round 1 - Impromptu & SpAr 10:10 - 11:10   Round 1 - Pattern B events (except SpAr) 11:15 - 11:25    Round 2 Judging Assignments 11:30 - 12:30   Round 2 - Pattern A (except Impromptu) 12:35 – 01:35  Round 2 - Impromptu & SpAr 01:40 - 02:40   Round 2 - Pattern B (except SpAr) 02:45 - 02:55    Round 3 Judging Assignments 03:00 - 04:00   Round 3 - Pattern A (except Impromptu) 04:05 - 05:05   Round 3 - Impromptu & SpAr 05:10 - 06:10   Round 3 - Pattern B (except SpAr) 06:30 - 06:40  Final Round Judging Assignments 06:45 - 07:45   Finals - all events with 22+ entries (Pattern A & B) 08:00 - 09:00   Awards in Auditorium (elementary first, middle school second, etc...) [UPDATED 6/2/18 6PM]  The events with TWENTY-TWO or more entries which are slated to break to a Final Round are: HS SpAr & Impromptu, MS Congress & Impromptu & Declamation & Informative & Original Oratory & SpAr, ES Impromptu & Informative & SpAr & Storytelling & Congress   2018 Congress Docket (all divisions): [UPDATED 5/21/18 6:25 AM] Round 1) The United States will invest ten billion dollars in CRISPR research, starting 2019. Round 2) States shall no longer be allowed to spend more than twice as much money annually per prisoner than per K-12 student, starting fiscal year 2021. Round 3) Terminally ill patients must be helped to afford & immediately access potentially life-saving experimental medicines & procedures, with legal liability waived for all parties involved. FINALS) So as to combat recidivism, promote public safety & stimulate the economy, released felons who agree to live together shall be guaranteed wages collectively sufficient to cover their room & board, starting 2020.   About Orator's Cup: for five years, the core duo of Ricardo Velasquez & Iain Lampert, in conjuction with visionary staff & administrators at host schools, has proudly brought to the SoCal speech community an imaginative & historic contest, the first to offer: on time rounds & award ceremonies, knowledge of your rooms & room competitors the day before the tournament, multiple judges (even in prelims when numbers allow), the local commute and free participation of students from underserved elementary schools in the Northeast San Fernando Valley, the mass permission for parents and siblings to film any and all rounds for the purposes of memory-keeping and future trainings, the prettiest & costliest trophies for a non-nationals/state level contest (including the black marble Orator's Cup for each division, whereon the name of each year's winner is affixed and the award is announced in his/her own name the following year) and the historic first of hosting all three grade divisions (ES, MS & HS) at one site on one day. We thank you for your interest and the honor of your talent & funding to help us find and promote speech & debate prodigies in the severely underserved communities of the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Only through such affirmative outreach and funding can the world of competitive speech lurch towards the key inclusion of minority students from public schools in non-affluent areas.

Documents

PCS Campus Map

National HS Manual

US Congress Rules

National MS Manual

Judge Instructions

State IE Rules

OC5 Awards

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