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Discovery Canyon Hollywood Invitational
General information This is a High School tournament in Colorado. View manager contact information
The members of Discovery Canyon’s Speech & Debate team would like to invite you and your team to the Discovery Canyon Hollywood Invitational Tournament on January 31st (XDB) AND February 1st (All other events), 2025. Our team and our coaches are excited to host you and hope that your team will attend! Please register on Speechwire.com
Go to tinyurl.com/dccdebate25 to see the invite in a google doc :) (for formatting issues) Our theme this year will be HOLLYWOOD. Each team is encouraged, but not required, to pick a movie or TV show and dress as the cast of that show (The more recognizable the better!!:) ) We HIGHLY encourage you to dress the theme😊. On Friday, January 31st, we will host an evening of Extemporaneous Debate (XDB) with three rounds, third round will be power matched. (Minimum of 20 entries to run). On Saturday, February 1st, we will be running a wave style tournament, including powered PF/LD debates, doubling (No doubling in PF and LD.) and finals in all Saturday events (minimum 7 competitors for finals). NOTE WE USE THE FEBRUARY NSDA PF TOPIC: Resolved: The United States should accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Saturday Waves:
ONLINE: We will host Storytelling as an ASYNCHRONOUS event. (For those new to our tournament, your judge pool for this is elementary students in K-12 in our district, best feedback you will ever get!!!) All competitors will be held to CHSAA rules for their event(s). If you have any questions please call Tiia Shea (DCC) at 719-463-7746 (tiia.shea@asd20.org) or Marnie Lawrence-Rosen at (marnie.lawrence@asd20.org) Location: 1810 North Gate Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80921. Please use the 9-12 High School entrance. Your bus may park in the front of the school. Registration: Please register on Speechwire.com Registration will open on January 6th, 2025. The space for our tournament is limited (a maximum of 50 entries each in LD/PF and a maximum of 100 entries in all other Saturday events) so please register as soon as you can. Each school may have up to 6 entries per Saturday event and competitors may register for 1 event in each Saturday wave plus storytelling and/or extemporaneous debate. (However, no doubling in LD and PF). Additional entries may be waitlisted. Charges:
Registration will open on Monday January 6th, 2025. Registration will be handled through Speechwire.com. Your tournament entry fees will be based on your pre-registration numbers. Pre-Registration will be closed on Wednesday January 29th at 10PM. Your fees will be locked and all adds must be emailed to tiia.shea@asd20.org. No same day adds at this tournament. Please make checks payable to Discovery Canyon Debate ATTN Tiia Shea. Any drops made after the January 29th 10PM deadline will be subject to the forfeiture of the entry fee. Your final invoice will be emailed to the head coach on Speechwire’s email address on Monday Feb 3rd 2025 (we will credit any judge donation to your invoice). If you are running late the morning of the tournament, please call Tiia’s cell phone (719-463-7746) to let one of us know when you will be arriving. Also, please text same day drops as soon as you know to 719-463-7746 so we can get round one out ASAP. If you arrive after 7:30 AM, you may be dropped from round one. Doubling: Students may enter in one Wave A and one Wave B event plus Extemporaneous Debate (FRIDAY) and/or Storytelling (Asynchronous). Students may not double in Public Forum and Lincoln Douglas. Extempers who double are not guaranteed full prep time. Extemp Draw: This will take place 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start of all rounds, with the exception of round one. For this round draw will start promptly at 7:45 AM, and speaking will begin at 8:15 AM. Extemp draw is in room 508. Extemp topics will be emailed out to all teams that have pre-registered on Speechwire on Sunday 1/26/2025. Debate: PF debaters will use the February 2025 NSDA Varsity Topic (Resolved: The United States should accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.) LD debaters will use the January/February 2025 NSDA Varsity Topic (Resolved: The United States ought to become party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and/or the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court). XDB debaters will receive their topics and sides a minimum of 30 minutes before the start of each round. Wifi: our D-20 Guest Wifi network will be available for your students’ use. We encourage students to bring personal devices, as some district devices will not work on D20 wifi. Judges: Please help us out by bringing judges. The more judges you bring, the more smoothly the tournament will run. We are running electronic ballots so please have your judges bring a laptop to submit ballots on. All judges will need to check in via our raptor system. They will need to bring a valid ID. Judges will be paid $10 per round. If you are currently an employee of Academy School District 20, you may only judge as a volunteer. For Saturday, each school must provide judges based on their Saturday competitors: 1 trained judge for every 5 event entries (or portion thereof) and 1 trained judge for every 2 debate entries (or portion thereof). Any school not meeting their quota of judges will be fined a $50 fee. This is unpleasant for everyone, so please spare us all.. Judges must be available for the three preliminary rounds and the final round–if you are dividing a judging requirement across multiple judges, please ensure there is judge coverage for the duration of the tournament. Please remind your judges to turn in ballots within 10 minutes of a round’s completion. For Friday, schools unable to provide 1 trained judge for every 4 (or portion thereof) XDB entries that is available on Friday Evening will be fined a $50 fee. If we do not have enough judges for Friday, we may have to triple-flight rounds, which is unpleasant for everyone, so please do your best to bring judges. Awards: 1st-3rd Place will be given an award straight from Hollywood, an Oscar😊 Other finalists will be given a ribbon. Team Sweepstakes will be given a Large Oscar award as well. Food: We pride ourselves on our great food for judges. Breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided for judges and coaches. Competitors will need to bring their own food or purchase food available at our concessions stand. Fast food places are not readily available to competitors and Doordash etc usually just drop off wherever they find a door. If your kids choose to use a delivery service, they need to make sure of a delivery spot. DCC staff will not be at the front to meet them. For lunch, we will sell Domino’s large, single topping pizzas for $12 each for lunch. Order them in the cafeteria between 7-8AM on day of. Pizza can be added your teams invoice if the coach orders them. The tournament will be governed under the rules set forth by CHSAA and Academy School District 20. ASD20 schools are tobacco-free, marijuana-free, and alcohol-free campuses. Please respect the teachers who allow us to use their rooms by leaving the room in the same condition in which you find it. A responsible coach must be available on site and available via cell phone at all times during the tournament. Anyone caught violating school or district rules while at the tournament will be disqualified. Anyone caught defacing school property will be disqualified. Looking forward to seeing you soon!
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