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The Hawken School Speech & Debate team cordially invites you and your team to attend the 7th Annual Larry H. Banks Memorial Invitational named in honor of our team's founder, Larry H. Banks.  This year's tournament will be held on Saturday, November 11th, but we have added a PDQ with three extra rounds of ON-LINE competition for Policy Debate on Friday, November 10th!
 
As tournament hosts, Hawken School commits to the following statements:
 
  • The OSDA “welcomes everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or political affiliation, to participate with equal opportunity in the Speech and Debate community within our participation guidelines.” We stand by this promise during these challenging times, and we pledge to work harder to increase the diversity of our community and break down existing barriers for underrepresented and underserved groups.
  • IN THE INTEREST OF EQUITY, WE ASK ALL JUDGES TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:  We are all influenced by implicit bias, or the stereotypes that unconsciously affect our decisions. When judging, our implicit biases negatively impact traditionally marginalized and disenfranchised students. Before writing comments or making a decision, please take a moment to reflect on any biases that may impact your decision making.  
TOURNAMENT DETAILS:
 
This is an in-person tournament in the Cleveland District except policy rounds on Friday will be virtual.  All other events for this tournament, and policy rounds 4+, will be live and in-person on Saturday at Hawken School.
 
****PLEASE NOTE THAT BECAUSE BALLOTS FOR THIS TOURNAMENT WILL BE COMPLETED ON-LINE, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT COACHES ENTER A VALID EMAIL FOR EVERY JUDGE AND COMPETITOR.****.
 
Tournament Location:   All Events on Saturday will compete at our Gates Mills Campus, 12465 County Line Road, Chesterland, OH 44026
                                       
Tournament Events
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debate: We will offer four (4) rounds of competition. We will be using the November/December NSDA Topic, Resolved: The United States ought to prohibit the extraction of fossil fuels from federal public lands and waters.
  • Policy Debate: We will offer five (5) rounds of preliminary competition including 3 VIRTUAL prelim rounds on Friday afternoon/evening and 2 in person prelim rounds on Saturday plus elimination rounds as needed. We will be using the 2023-2024 NSDA Topic, Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase fiscal redistribution in the United States by adopting a federal jobs guarantee, expanding Social Security, and/or providing a basic income.
  • Public Forum Debate: We will offer four (4) rounds of competition. We will be using the November/December NSDA Topic, Resolved: The United States federal government should forgive all federal student loan debt.
Student Congress: We will be utilizing the November docket assigned from the OSDA for preliminary round legislation.  That docket is available to all the schools on Speechwire. We will have 2 preliminary sessions of Congress and one finals session with room for eliminated congressional debaters to observe.  Each session will be approximately 2 hours.   We will be scoring based on judge preference. We will also be using direct questioning. 
  
Schedule
REGISTRATION FOR POLICY WILL TAKE PLACE VIRTUALLY FROM 3:30-3:45 ON FRIDAY.
REGISTRATION FOR ALL OTHER EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE FROM 7:45-8:15 ON SATURDAY.
 
Hawken will provide a singular Google doc to all coaches and judges in our Friday email so that only one link is needed to get to everything at the tournament.    Throughout the tournament, we will post announcements there as well share information with coaches, judges, and competitors.  
 
We have posted the schedule for rounds, but these times are approximations.  Judges and competitors are responsible for following notifications of actual times as they are sent out.
 
Awards - 4:00 pm or asap thereafter for everyone in the Kennedy Auditorium at the Gates Mills Campus
 
Deadlines:
We ask for your registration to be as accurate as possible by noon on Friday, Nov. 2nd. This is important because our kitchen needs a reasonably accurate count so that they can order food.
 
Deadline to add/drop entries: Tuesday, November 7th @ 12:00pm. 
Deadline to add/edit judges: Thursday, November 9th @ 8:00 p.m.
*ENTRY FEES LOCK AT 12:00pm on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7th – ANY DROPS AFTER THAT POINT WILL INCUR THE ENTRY FEE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT ENTRY.
 
Registration Fees:
$22.00 per team in Policy, PF, and Duo and $11.00 per entry in all other events.  This fee includes the $5.00 per person entry fee plus a $6.00 per person charge for the hot lunch that will be served by our dining staff. The lunch will include vegetarian and gluten free options. You may pay for lunch by check or by cash at registration. Because our dining facility is open and doesn't have a method for collecting money or selling individual itens, this lunch fee is not optional. Coaches may contact Susan McGraw at susan.mcgraw@hawken.edu with any questions or special circumstances. We want every team to have access to our tournament, so please let us know if cost is a barrier for your team.
 
Judge Requirements:
IE:  One (1) judge for every five (5) IE entries (a Duo team counts as one entry)
PF/LD/CX: One (1) judge for every 2 debaters/teams.
Congress: One (1) scorer or parliamentarian for each school that has Congress entries.
All judges will be served lunch IN THE JUDGES LOUNGE at no charge.
 
HIRED JUDGING INFORMATION:
We will have some judges available for hire if you are unable to cover your judging commitment. ALL HIRED JUDGING REQUESTS MUST BE MADE BY TUESDAY, 11/7 AND APPROVED BY THE TOURNAMET ON A FIRST COME BASIS – Please Use the link here to request a judge. 
 
 
Fees are assessed by each uncovered entry:
$10 per uncovered CON entry
$10 per uncovered IE entry
$30 per uncovered LD/PF entry
$35 PER DAY per uncoved Policy entry
 
TWO OPTIONS FOR PAYMENT:
Cash or check payable to Hawken School at registration.
 
Or, MAIL CHECK PAYABLE TO HAWKEN SCHOOL TO:
Attention: Susan McGraw
Hawken School
PO Box 8002
Gates Mills, OH 44040
 
Awards:
Our tournament trophies are being created in the Hawken Fab Lab by Hawken students! 
  • Trophies will be awarded to the top six placements in all events.
  • School sweepstakes will be presented based on the top competitor in each event for each school. There will be a team sweepstakes trophy for the top 6 teams.
 
 
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Susan McGraw at susan.mcgraw@hawken.edu.
 
We look forward to hosting you in person on Saturday, November 11th! (and virtually on Friday Nov 10th as well for the first three rounds of policy)
 
See you soon,
Bob Shurtz, Susan McGraw, David Childree, Eva Lamberson, Lynn Beason, Kate Mozynski, Melinda Dus and the Entire Hawken School Speech & Debate Team
 

Manager contact information

Susan McGraw
Email address: susan.mcgraw@hawken.edu
Phone number: 954-802-6142

Mailing address

PO Box 8002
Gates Mills, OH 44040

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