Fees

$95 per team

$75 fee for teams which drop out after 03/14 (teams which drop out after 03/14 still have to pay the entry fee and the judge fee)

Please make checks payable to "Lynbrook Speech and Debate Boosters".

Checks should be mailed to “1280 Johnson Ave, San Jose CA, 95129 attn: Lynbrook Speech and Debate” after the final field is announced on March 15.

Judging

A qualified judge must be provided for each entry. A qualified judge is a Head Coach, an assistant parliamentary debate coach, a former high school debater who previously qualified to California Cup or the State Tournament in parli, or a current or former college debater. Exceptions can be made by the tournament director.

The fee for not providing a judge is $110

Judges must submit their judging philosophies by 04/04. The fee for not submitting a philosophy by the deadline is $40.

Deadlines

03/01/2011, 8PM, Pacific Time – teams that apply before this deadline will, on average, be given priority over teams which apply after 03/01.

03/14/2011, 8PM, Pacific Time – final deadline to enter or drop teams. Teams that apply earlier in the 03/01 - 03/14 time period will, on average, be given priority over teams that apply later in that time period.

04/01/2011 - checks should be received by this deadline.

Qualification

A team that earns 17 points in POI Rankings (http://www.pointofinformation.org/results/poi-rankings/ ) is fully qualified to the Cup. The current rankings on the POI are final.

Any team that is listed in POI Rankings but does not have 17 points can apply for an at-large bid to the Cup. Out-of-state teams are welcome to apply for an at-large too. See the application form for further instructions.

Teams are invited to indicate that they are interested in serving as an alternate. Two teams will be selected to serve as alternates to fill in in case a qualified team drops out after the entry deadline. Alternate teams which get in by 04/03 but do not attend will be charged a $30 drop fee.

Because the tournament will utilize a round robin format, entries will be capped at 2 per school.

The final field will be announced on March 15. No team is 100% guaranteed entry until that day.

Schedule

-rounds will be pushed up if possible

- we ask non-advancing debaters to stay for finals to participate in the floor vote

Saturday, April 9

8-8:30 Registration

8:30-10 Round 1

10-11:30 Round 2

11:30-1 Round 3

1-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3 Round 4

3-4:30 Round 5

4:30-6 Round 6

Sunday, April 10

9-10:30 Round 7

10:30-11 Brunch

11-12:30 Finals/Runoff

12:30-1 Awards

Assistance

We will try to help attending school if there are any financial or logistical difficulties. In particular, we will provide free housing to out-of-area teams on a first come first serve basis.

Rules

CHSSA rules (http://www.pointofinformation.org/resources/chssa-parli-rules/) will be used as a guideline with the following exceptions:

- Points of Information are allowed in all speeches at all time. There is no protected time.

- Points of Order are allowed in rebuttals. Points of Order can be made if the opposing side brings up a new argument in the rebuttal with the exceptions of examples illustrating previous arguments and PMR responses to new arguments made in the MOC. Points of Order are not included in speech times.

- During preparation time, debaters are not allowed to consult with anyone except their respective partners. They are, however, allowed to access any printed material that was prepared before the start of preparation time, as long as this material is not used in round. Laptops are allowed; connecting to the Internet is not.

- Judges are encouraged, but not required, to disclose and explain their decisions after the round, as long as this does not jeopardize the time efficiency of the tournament.

- A 0-10 speaker point scale will be used. A speaker point score in a regular 0-30 scale is converted into this by subtracting 20. Judges are asked to average at around 6.5 and reserve scores of 8.5 or higher for debaters who, given their performance in the particular round, deserve to clear.