Conway Classic
Tournament Information and Guidelines
Important Notes: In accordance with WIAA regulations a certified employee of the school must be present at all sanctioned tournaments when traveling with students. Our tournament adheres to all regulations and guidelines outlined by the WSFA and the WIAA.
The tab room and ballot table is the only entity that is allowed to assign ballots. Any coach or judge pushing a ballot (i.e. giving away their ballot to someone else) without going through the tab room/ballot table subjects their top team in the top division to a forfeit. This doesn't mean you can give your ballot away and then come and tell the ballot table/tabroom. If a change needs to be made come and talk to us and we'll make any appropriate changes. We are very serious about this so please adhere to this new rule.
NOTE: YOU MUST ENTER VIA EMAIL. PLEASE EMAIL ENTRIES TO
| Tournament Fee Structure | Tab Room Staff and Procedure | Judging | Sweepstakes Tabulation |
| Hotel Information | Deadlines | Debate Rules | Individual Events Rules |
| Student Congress Rules |
School Entry Fee: $30.00
Debate: $30 per cross-x team
$20 per LD Entry (note, this is per individual LD entry)
Invidual Events $ 10 per slot
Student Congress $ 10 per slot
Judging: $ 100 additional per cross-x team not covered
$60 additional per LD entry not covered
$15 additional per IE slot not covered
Note: You will be charged for any drops made at registration. The latest you may make drops without a charge is 5pm on January 4th. There will be absolutely no adds made at registration. This is a nightmare for the tabroom so we ask that you make all your final adds before that time. Just to clarify: Drops made before January 4th at 5pm will not be charged. Drops made after January 4th at 5pm WILL be charged. THERE WILL BE NO ADDS AFTER JANUARY 4TH AT 5PM
In the past 3 years every pairing and ballots were available at least 30 minutes before the scheduled start time for that round. Our intention is to continue this tradition of efficiency. The following personal will run the tab room at the 2007 Conway Classic:
Tournament and Tab Room Director: Glen Frappier (Gonzaga University)
Debate: Steve Pointer (Gonzaga)
Individual Events: Kara Smith (Lake City HS) and Mike Stovern (Mead HS)
Student Congress: Martha Rough (Mt. Spokane HS)
Ballot Table and Judges: Grace Saez (Gonzaga University)
In accordance with state rules, state high school coaches are working in an advisory capacity.
Each judge you bring covers two cross-examination teams or four Lincoln Douglas entries, and six individual event slots. Gonzaga is not in session during our tournament and thus we have a very limited judging pool to hire from, so we strongly encourage (beg) you to bring qualified judges. We’d rather have the judge than your money.
Judges that you list will be expected to fulfill their commitment. Please indicate any and all restrictions (such as schools that the critic cannot see.) Please also indicate the times that the judge will be available, and match it to the schedule to make sure they know when rounds will begin. Debate judges are committed one round past the round their team was eliminated in. For example, if you clear no teams in debate, you are still obligated for the first elimination rounds. If your team loses in the quarters, your judges are still obligated for the semis, etc.
All high school coaches are expected to be available to judge unless they provide enough judges to cover their entire entry. Judges who only have students entered in cross-examination may be asked to judge LD and vice versa. LD will be run in two flights per round. Judges will judge both flights during that round.
The quality of the judges that you bring to our tournament will in large degree determine how good a tournament we can run. Please consider this when choosing your judges.
We will be awarding trophies to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place schools in the overall sweepstakes. These sweepstakes are for debate and individual events only. Please see Student Congress section for explanation of SC sweepstakes awards.
Points for Sweepstakes will be awarded as follows:
Place I.E.’s LD CX
First 15 25 35
Second 10 15 25
Semis/IE 3rd 5 10 15
Quarters/IE Finalist 2 5 5
We have arranged with Red Lion River Inn to extend special rates for people attending our tournament. Individual reservations can be made by calling 1-800-RED-LION (1-800-733-5466) and requesting the rate for "Gonzaga Debate."
BE SURE AND TELL THEM YOU ARE REQUESTING THE GONZAGA DEBATE SPECIAL RATE.
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Hotel |
Rate |
Location |
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Red Lion River Inn |
$79.95 for Single, Double, Triple or Quad |
Right Next to GU campus |
Spokane's Red Lion River Inn provides complimentary shuttle service to/from the Spokane International Airport. There is a courtesy phone near baggage claim that rings directly to the hotel.
Other hotels in the area, close to campus, include:
Courtyard by Marriott 509-456-7000
Holiday Inn Express 509-328-8505
Registration must be received by January 1st, 2007. PLEASE EMAIL YOUR ENTRY TO ME. Our squad will be traveling to tournaments between December 27-Jan4. The only way we will receive your entry is if you email it. Do not fax or mail entries. I will confirm via email when I receive your entry.
Just to be clear: There will be no adds allowed at registration. None, zero, nil. Drops made at registration WILL be charged. Drops made prior to registration (i.e. the day before) WILL NOT be charged. Please don't get angry with us when you try to add someone at registration and we say no. Please don't be angry when we charge you for drops made at registration. You have been forewarned.
Our tournament adheres to all regulations and guidelines outlined by the WSFA and the WIAA.
Policy/CX divisions will use the 2006-2007 NFL Topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should establish a policy substantially increasing the number of persons serving in one or more of the following national service programs: AmeriCorps, Citizen Corps, Senior Corps, Peace Corps, Learn and Serve America, Armed Forces.
Novice eligibility for debate divisions will be determined as follows: To be eligible for the novice division each debater on the team must be in their first year of debate.
Rounds one and two will be pre-matched. Rounds three through round six will be power matched accordingly. Time limits for CX debate are 8-3-5-8
Novice division will adhere to the WSFA novice case and areas. Disputes regarding violations of the novice case areas will be resolved by the High School Coaches involved in the tabulation of the tournament.
1) Novice case areas: novices may run these affirmatives:
2) Negative off-case arguments: novices may run any topicality or disadvantage argument. Kritiks and Counterplans are not allowed in novice division.
Lincoln Douglas will use the NFL January/February topic. Resolved:
WE DO NOT BREAK BRACKETS IN THE ELIMINATION ROUNDS. If two teams from the same school are seeded in such a way that they meet in the elimination rounds no debate will occur. One team will advance to the next out round based on their coaches decisions. There are many reasons, both pedagogical and logistical, for this rule. I would be happy to have a debate with you over this decision, but not during the tournament.
We will clear to no larger than an Octa Finals in each division of debate.
Individual event offerings will include junior and senior divisions of humorous interpretation, extemporaneous speaking, oratory, interpretive reading, expository, impromptu, duo, and dramatic interpretations. Please note we have eliminated the separate patterns of IEs. All IEs will occur simultaneously during the same round. Junior division entries are limited to freshman, sophomores, or other students participating in their first year of competition. Speeches may not have been used in competition prior to the 2006-2007 academic year. Time limits are 8 minutes for all events except extemp (7 minutes) and impromptu (6 minutes total, divided how the student wishes.) Students have a 30 second grace period. All other questions regarding individual event procedure or rules should be sent to Kara Smith.
We will offer 2 divisions of Congress, JV & Varsity. The same experience restrictions as exist for IE’s will apply. Divisions may be collapsed as necessary. If you have any questions concerning Congress please contact Martha Rough, Director of Forensics at Mt. Spokane High School at
All legislation must be emailed to Mrs. Rough prior to the tournament. The deadline for submitting legislation is January 1st, 2007. All legislation must be reasonably well written or it will be rejected. Please ensure each student brings 30 copies of their legislation to the tournament.
Presiding Officer: Any student may be nominated to be presiding officer. Please indicate on the registration form which students want to be PO in their preliminary round chambers. This will allow us to balance the PO candidates between the chambers.
Scoring:
We will use a base system for Sessions I & II. Speaker precedence will not be reset between the sessions. PO's and their points for presiding do not figure into the computation of base.
During the preliminary rounds, each speech will be awarded up to 6 points by the judge in the round. At the end of the preliminary sessions, each Congressperson's speech scores will be totaled. If the Congressperson has given fewer speeches than base, or a number of speeches equal to base, that Congressperson will have a total score from the judges equal to the sum of all his/her speeches. If, however, the Congressperson has given a greater number of speeches than base, the sum of his/her speech point will be divided by the number of speeches that person actually gave, and the resulting average will be multiplied by the base number. The product of this computation will be the Congressperson's total score from the judges.
To every Congressperson's total score from the judges will be added a score awarded by the Parliamentarian of the chamber. The Parliamentarian will award from 1to 4 points to each Congressperson at the end of Session II. The sum of the judge’s total score and the Parliamentarian's score will be the student's total preliminary score. The 7 to 10 students in each chamber who earn the highest total preliminary scores will advance to the Final Session.
During the Final Session, speeches will be scored as in the preliminary sessions to determine the Judges’ Choice for Outstanding Member of Congress and for the purpose of awarding NFL points. Otherwise, the top Presiding Officer and the Students’ Choice for Outstanding Member of Congress will be selected by a vote of the Final Session members.