Head CoachPeter Quinn

Assistant CoachKristin Poff

Assistant CoachVictoria Anllo

Tournament DirectorAmy Pu

Assistant DirectorBryn Bennett

Assistant DirectorAshley Huang

Dear Speech and Debate Coach:

The Randolph High School Speech & Debate Team is pleased to invite you to the 27th Annual Randolph Fall Classic Speech & Debate Tournament to be held on Saturday, November 19, 2016. We will be offering competition in varsity, junior varsity and novice Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum debate, as well as Congressional Debate. There will be eleven individual event (IE) categories including Dramatic Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Oral Interpretation, Original Oratory, Extemporaneous Speaking, Impromptu Speaking, Improvisational Acting, Declamation, Program Oral Interpretation,and for the first time, Informative Speaking.

There will be four double-flighted preliminary rounds in Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum debate with breaks to finals only if time permits. LD & PF will have three divisions: novice, JV, and varsity. Please register your students for the appropriate division based on NJSDL rules. There will be three preliminary rounds in all individual event categories with breaks to finals; in categories with sufficient numbers, we may break to semifinals, time permitting. Finally, there will be two sessions of Congressional Debate, with the possibility of a final round depending on the number of entries. The usual complement of awards will be given to the top 6 competitors in all categories. Sweepstakes trophies will be awarded to the top 5 teams competing.

Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. and first round will begin promptly at 9:15 a.m. A complete tournament schedule will be available on speechwire.com. Please refer to the following page for administrative details.

We will, as usual, conduct a brief overview session for judges at approximately 8:45am. While we strive to alleviate confusion and answer all questions, we cannot spend the time to fully train judges. If you have untrained judges, please consider attending our evening judge training session at RHS, 7pm on November 7. We offer this training annually and free of charge to benefit the speech and debate community at large.

All registration must be completed via speechwire.com. If you have never used this site before or would like assistance, please contact our team email () (subject heading: “RHS Tournament Registration 2016”). Registration must be completed by 3:00pm on Friday, November 18. Nuisance fees will begin after 8:00pm on Wednesday, November 16.

SOME IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • Only students who are sponsored by a degree-granting institution that they attend are permitted to compete. No individual or “lone wolf” entries are permitted.
  • Please mark all speech novices as such in your registration. If there are enough novices in each category, we may be able to hold novice honors rounds concurrent with the final rounds, judged by experienced Randolph team members. At the very least, we will give an award to the top non-advancing novice in each category that does not proceed to a novice honors round.
  • All Congress bills must be emailed to Peter Quinn () by Monday, November 14. A legislation packet will be made available shortly thereafter.
  • We will be using the NSDA November PF topic and the November/December LD topic.
  • Speechwire will accept up to six (6) entries per school per category. We reserve the right to place any further entries on a waitlist, subject to room and judge availability. Coaches will receive notifications if we are able to clear the waitlist.

We look forward to seeing you in November! Until then, we wish you the very best start to the 2016-17 season.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

  • Rules
  • All NSDA and NJSDL rules for registration, source integrity, ethics, and timing are in effect. If you have questions, please consult the official NSDA and/or NJSDL rules.
  • Registration Fees
  • School registration fee
  • $10 per school
  • Lincoln Douglas and Public Forum entries
  • $15 per entry
  • IE categories and Congress
  • $10 per entry
  • IE entrants ONLY may double-enter
  • Administrative Fees
  • Late entry fee
  • $10 per entry after 8pm on 11/16
  • Drop fee
  • $10 per dropped entry after 8pm on 11/16
  • Late withdrawal fee
  • 50% of full invoice after 8pm on 11/16; 100% day-of or no-show
  • Judge fee
  • $90 per missing judge, per requirements below
  • $90 per dropped & non-replaced judge after 8pm on 11/18
  • $20 per missed judge call
  • Judging requirements
  • Lincoln Douglas and Public Forum
  • Teams must provide one (1) judge for every three (3) entries or fraction thereof.
  • Student debaters with at least two full years of experience may be used as judges for Novice LD or Novice PF, so long as they are marked as such in registration notes. Failure to do so may result in a judge fee being assessed to your team.
  • IE categories and Congress
  • Teams must provide one (1) judge for every five (5) entries or fraction thereof.
  • If you have a judge who is able to judge your own team without conflict, please mark him or her as “clean” in registration. If a “dirty” judge is marked clean, a judge fee may be assessed to your team.
  • We may be forced to assign judges based on need, regardless of category. We will do our best to avoid this possibility.
  • All teams competing must provide at least one judge, regardless of their obligations. We ask this for scheduling purposes, and to ensure the diversity of the judging pool.
  • Payment
  • Payable to: Randolph High School
  • Mailed to: Peter Quinn, Head Speech & Debate Coach, 511 Millbrook Ave, Randolph, NJ 07869