MaineEastHigh School
Fine Arts Department
2601 W. Dempster St.
Park Ridge, IL 60068
Phone 847-692-8500
Fax 847-692-8499
Maine East Fine Arts Department
January5, 2015
Dear Colleague:
On behalf of the Maine East H.S. Debate Team and Maine East High School, we would like to invite you to the SixteenthAnnual Maine East Debate Tournament (Regatta). It will take place on February 6-7, 2015. Please note our tournament has five preliminary rounds in both divisions. We hope that you and your squad will be able to attend a snow, scandal and misdemeanor free tournament.
Dates:Friday through Sunday, February 6-7, 2015
Place:MaineEastHigh School
2601 W. Dempster
Park Ridge, IL60068
Events:POLICY DEBATE: We will be offering a Novice Division (first year debaters) and an Open Division in cross examination style switch-side debate. The format will be 8-3-5 with 8 minutes prep time. There will be five preliminary rounds with three powered rounds. Elimination rounds will begin with quarter-finals regardless of entry numbers.
Tab Room:Sara Sanchez of Glenbrook South, David Weston of New Trier, Robb Berrgy of Northside College Prep and others I will dragoon will be supervising our tab staff.
Topic:The U.S. federal government should substantially increase its non-military development and/or exploration of the Earth’s oceans
Awards:Top ten speakers in each division and all elimination round participants in novice and open policy.
Chaperones:Each school must be supervised by an official coach or assistant coach
Judging:Each school will be required to provide one judge for every two teams entered in the tournament. High school students must have at least 3 years debate experience to judge the novice division. Judges are obligated one round beyond the furthest advancing team from their school. A limited number of hired judges will be available at a rate of $120.00 per team. One judge is needed to cover each team, thus if you have two teams and hire a judge, you will owe $240.00. We understand that these fees are high, but these fees are designed to give schools incentives to hire their own judges.
Fees:$50.00 per policy team. Please make checks payable to Maine East High School.
Meals:Inexpensive meals and snacks will be available throughout the day on Friday and Saturday.
Registration:Please email me if you plan to attend and I will authorize you for entries on tabroom.com. Entries must be confirmed between 10:00 AM and noon, Friday, February 6, 2015.
Tentative Tournament Schedule
Friday, February 6, 2015
Confirm entries between 10:00AM and noon by calling (847) 692-8500
Registration: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Round One Open (the Ho-Metaj Debate)4:30 PM
Round One Novice (the Kloser-Ku Debate)
Round Two Open (the Peter-Sharif Debate):6:30 PM
Round Two Novice (the Abbas-Houlihan Debate):
Dinner:8:00 to 8:30 PM
Round Three Open(the Ahmed-Volpert Debate):8:30 PM
Round Three Novice(the Fergus-Hayden Debate):
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Round Four Open(the Patel-Yalovetskaya Debate):8:30 AM
Round Four Novice (the Barnstein-Patel Debate):
Round Five Open(the Muench-Patel Debate):10:30 AM
Round Five Novice(the Ghoshal-Konieczny Debate):
Lunch:1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Open Quarters (the Chris Mair Tutorial):2:00 PM
Novice Quarters (the Chris Robins Tutorial)
Awards4:00 PM
Open Semifinals (the Caitlin Bruce Tutorial):4:30 PM
Novice Semifinals (the Lauren Kaplan Tutorial)
Open Finals(the Nancy Wallace Tutorial):6:30 PM
Novice Finals(the Lenny Gale debate)
Directions:Maine East H.S. is located at the corner of Dempster and Potter Roads in Park Ridge. There is a Dempster Road exit on I-294 north which is just west of the school. Coming south on I-294, exit on Golf Road East, take a right on Potter and go down to Dempster. Please call for more specific directions.
If you have any questions contact Wayne Tang by cell (312) 351-3209 at work (312) 425-8641 or home (773) 871-5349 or by E-mail . Thank you and we hope to see you in February.
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Edward J. Eubank, Brandon Lov,
Fine Arts Dept. ChairCaptain Maine East Debate Team
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Wayne L. Tang, Shireen Abesteh,
Debate CoachCaptain Maine East Debate Team