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GMV District Tournament

Hosted by our distinguished friends at Dayton-Oakwood High School

February 1st, 2025

Doors Open: 7:00 am

Wifi Check/Judge Instructions: 7:45 am

Extemp Prep: Strictly 8:15 am

PARKING INSTRUCTIONS FOR 2025 GMV DISTRICT TOURNAMENT AT OAKWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

Oakwood Junior & Senior High School (OHS) is located at

1200 Far Hills Ave, Oakwood, OH 45419

(Far Hills is also State Route 48)

OHS faces Far Hills Avenue but must be accessed from East Schantz Avenue on the EAST side of the building. OHS has very little off-street parking available but there are many side streets with free parking.

BUSES

Bus drivers should turn east off Far Hills onto Spirea Drive just north of OHS, drive one block, and, then, turn right onto East Schantz. Competitors should be dropped off near the southeast corner of the building (between OHS and Mack Hummon Stadium), where Oakwood students will guide competitors into the building through the Junior High entrance. After drop off, bus drivers should turn left onto Dellwood Avenue, drive one block, and, then, turn left onto Shafor Boulevard and park on Shafor.

JUDGES

Parent/community judges should turn off Far Hills and find on-street parking on side streets within walking distance of OHS. The best plan for most people is probably to turn east off Far Hills onto Greenmount Boulevard a block and a half south of OHS, drive one block, and, then, turn left onto East Schantz. There will be slanted, nose-in parking spaces on East Schantz in front of Mack Hummon Stadium across the street from OHS. If those spaces are full, judges should find the closest available on-street parking and walk to the southeast corner of the building to enter through the Junior High entrance where Oakwood students will guide them to the primary Judges Lounge.

Neither buses nor judges will be able to park immediately adjacent to OHS on the west side of East Schantz. Parking there is restricted and bus parking is reserved for the visiting team for girls basketball games scheduled to begin at noon on Saturday.

The junior high entrance referenced above for all buses, judges, competitors is an accessible entrance "at grade" and there are no stairs between that entrance and the students commons area at the tournament.

Maps are being uploaded as they are being designed under "Files for Upload"

Tournament Details

There are no observers in any round.

Qualifying ratios are listed in the Tournament Operations Manual on the OSDA website

Debate will run 4 rounds with 1 judge, all winning records will qualify to the OSDA State Tournament

Speech will run 3 rounds with 2 judges each round. Ties for the final qualifying slots will be broken by a single run-off round. Rounds after Round 1 may be seeded in accordance with OSDA Speech "Plan - B, Modifided California Plan" if judges are available. The seeding plan or not will be confirmed by 1/14.

Entry Details

Each team may register up to 4 entries per category. This includes your students who have BID qualified to states. Bid vs Competing at Littles can be noted by the Divsion dropdown next to your entries in registration. Where you would sometimes note Novice/Varsity, for this tournament you can select Bid vs Varsity to accurately register your entries.

Coversheet Requirements

POI, INF and OO scripts need to be submitted with cover sheets. Each head coach needs to submit those correctly formatted scripts during registration on Saturday or the student will be dropped from the tournament.

Cover sheets can be found on the OSDA website which is also linked on the download page.

Additionally, during the tournament, Speech students need to be able to produce

* Their original script source(s)

* A copy of the original script source(s), with the spoken words highlighted in the order spoken.

* A typed copy of the performed script.

Extemp Topics

The following Extemp Topics will be used:

USX

TBD

Payment

Registration $8 per competitor. In the GMV, new programs whose registration fees were waived by the OSDA this year may attend for free.

If you have a blanket PO for the OSDA for registration/states/districts, the check can be made out to OHSSL, I will deposit into the GMV account either way. A note on the memo line at least makes things easier.

1) Pay fees before the tournament by mailing a check to 511 Haskell Drive Akron, 44333

2) Pay fees at the tournament with a check written to the OSDA-GMV or OHSSL-GMV

3) Show proof of approved Purchase Order before the tournament

Registration $8 per competitor.

Programs whose registration fees were waived by the OSDA this year may attend for free.