Dear Coach,
You and your squad are cordially invited to attend Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School’s Crusader Classic debate tournament on Friday and Saturday, November 10th and 11th. There will be Open and Novice divisions for our tournament, and entries will be accepted on a first come first serve basis with a minimum total of 40 entries being guaranteed to the Open division. Each school will be limited to eight total entries between the two divisions, and waitlisted entries will begin being accepted on Tuesday November 7th, or if you allow us extra entries at your tournament.
We ask that each team entering have one judge available to judge for every four team entered. Individual medals will be awarded through 8th place. KSHSAA rules will be followed, however mavericks will be allowed to compete in an emergency situation (but will not be allowed to break). Cost per team will be $6.
The Novice division will adhere to the Kansas Debate Coaches Novice Case List. All novice teams entered must run an affirmative that addresses a topic area chosen by coaches. A list of the allowed affirmative topic areas follows:
1. Increasing STEM funding
2. Increasing funding for vouchers
3. Increasing CTE funding
4. Increasing Title I funding
5. Desegregation
6. Establishing a federal right to education
In the event that teams do not read one of these affirmatives, judges will be instructed to continue watching the round, but award a win to the negative, regardless of outcome.
The first two rounds will be pre-set, followed by three direct power-matched rounds. The schedule will proceed as follows:
FRIDAY,NOVEMBER 10 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Registration 3:00 pm Round 4 (Novice 1) 8:00 am
Round 1 3:30 pm Round 5 (Novice 2) 10:00 am
Round 2 5:00 pm Quarterfinals (V) (Novice 3) 1:00 pm
Round 3 7:00pm Semis (V) (Novice 4) 3:00 pm
Finals (V) (Novice 5) 5:00 pm
Novice Awards ASAP
We will not offer lunch options at the tournament, but we will have concessions with snacks. There are plenty of quick lunch options within a minute drive from the school. The schedule has been adjusted to add an extra 30 minutes for lunch.
Registration for this year’s tournament is required to be submitted online through the NSDA’s Tabroom.com. You may register your school by following link:
http://kmcdebateclassic.tabroom.com
Registration for the tournament and all changes must be completed by November 7th at 5:00 pm. Changes made before this time made be made by accessing your registration through the tournament page of Tabroom. Fees will be frozen at this time. We will be having a coaches round during round four, and require that every school have someone available to judge this round. Please enter your judge information through the Tabroom site as well. If you have any assistants who would like to judge additional rounds, please enter information and availability as well. If you have any questions about using Tabroom, please let me know.
We will use electronic check-in on Friday afternoon, through Tabroom, starting at 12:00 pm. There will be a tab for "Online check in" or something similar. The directions should be easy to follow essentially confirming no changes to your entry or judges. All fees should be paid and no judge changes are allowed except for emergency circumstances. 99% of you should be able to check in this way.
Please e-mail any question to . You will receive a confirmation e-mail when your entry is received, but if you have any questions you may call me at 620-200-3987. We look forward to seeing you in November and good luck this season!
Sincerely,
Ryan McFarland
Director of Debate
Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic High School
Rules and Regulations
1. Prep time will be 5 minutes for all divisions.
2. Entry fees will be $6.00 per team (or whatever you charge). All entry fees will be final after 10/25.
3. The registration deadline is October 25th at 5:00 pm.
4. Be prepared to provide a judge for round four on Saturday morning. Any school that does not/ will not fulfill a judging request will have the judge removed from a room in which one of its teams is debating and will forfeit that round with a 3-4 loss.
5. Any team more than 10 minutes late to a round through no fault of the tournament will forfeit the round.
6. Waitlisted teams will be distributed fairly the starting with the close of registration on 10/25.
7. Judges may re-judge teams in elimination rounds without respect to sides or opponents.
8. Brackets will be broken in elimination rounds to accommodate schools that do or have done the same for us. Those who do not break brackets will not be afforded the same consideration.
9. Power matching will be high-low within brackets after round two and will be prioritized above side constraints.
10. All teams reaching quarterfinals will receive medals and trophies. The top 10 speakers will be recognized with medals as well. Team sweepstakes trophies will be awarded to the top three schools based on best four entries. The traveling sweepstakes trophy will be awarded to the school with the best four-team record.
11. We will observe KSHSAA rules except as listed above regarding mavericks. Tournament Director reserves the right to make rulings as they feel appropriate.
12. Tournament management reserves the right to handle difficulties in a way that seems fair to us.
Kapaun Mt. Carmel Debate Tournament, Friday and Saturday, October 28th and 29th 2015.
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Entry fees of $6 dollars per team will be mailed or paid at registration (please circle)
School Information:
Coach______
School______
School Phone______
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Kapaun Contact Information:
8506 E. Central
Wichita, Kansas 67212
Phone: (316) 634-0315 ext.128
Fax: (316) 636-2437
Coach: Ryan McFarland