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Pre-registration
will be at Tabroom Online, due by 9:00 pm on the Thursday prior to the
tournament. No additions are allowed after this point. (The chief reasons for
this are that we need to assign and sort out rooms and organize the amount of
food necessary).
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Note that no
students will be allowed to enter the tournament without adult supervision.
College students are NOT considered adults for this purpose unless they are employees
of the school they are representing, i.e., official assistant coaches. The
NYCFL will not take responsibility for unaccompanied minors.
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Because kids get
sick, and things come up, tabroom will remain open
for changes and drops (but not additions) until 9:00 a.m. on the morning of the
tournament. No changes of any sort will be taken at the registration table. All
changes must be entered directly into tabroom. (If
there is no wireless available in a school, this can be done via smartphone or
3GS device.)
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If you are coming
from some distance on a bus, you can make your changes en route. If you are
meeting at the school at a city event, plan on doing so well in advance of the
9:00 deadline. Students "on their way (maybe)" do not count as
entries. The idea that round one is the taking of attendance penalizes the
students who are there on time and wish to debate and learn.
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At some point before
9:00, a coach or responsible adult will come to the registration desk and
report that their registration is final. At 9:00, any schools that haven't come
to the desk will be assumed absent, and their entire entry will be erased from
the tournament. If in fact some of these missing folk are around, they can be
added for round two with forfeits for round one. This will penalize the
students of the school not registered on time rather than the students at the
schools that did register on time. Schools en route by bus can text by 9:00
that their entry is set; it is not unreasonable to assume that they could miss
the deadline by a few minutes because of traffic, but since they've had all
that time on the bus they've had ample opportunity to set things aright on tabroom.com. If you are coming by bus, be sure to
find out who is running registration so that you have their cell number for
texting!
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All reported changes
after 9 are $25 each. All unreported changes (e.g. teams that are registered
that don't show up, missing judges) are $50. No teams will be allowed to
participate in future events unless the fines are paid to the NYCFL
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Opening assembly
should start at 9:30, with rounds immediately following. There will be three
rounds at each tournament.
Dear Moderator,
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Before I get to the invitation, I need to make you aware of an upcoming
deadline. Our last chance to send in
NCFL membership cards is January 1st. I need to submit 26 membership cards from our
league or we will not be allowed to enter all of our students into the NCFL
tournament in May.
If you have not done so yet, please send in your NCFL membership cards.
Either
1) Mail them to:
Charlie Sloat - Iona Prep - 255 Wilmot Rd - New Rochelle, NY 10804
2) Fax them to:
Charlie Sloat - (914) 632-9760
3) Bring them to Stuy on the 17th.
A copy of the membership card is available here.
Most importantly, if YOUR team does not
submit a membership card, YOUR school will not be allowed to compete at the
Grand Tournament or at NCFL nationals.
This is not a minor bookkeeping issue.
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This serves as your invitation to the
December 15, 2018 NYCFL Debate and Congress Tournament at Regis High School.
CATEGORIES:
Student
Congress – House [Unlimited Entry]
Varsity
L-D
Intermediate
L-D
Novice
L-D
Novice
PF
Intermediate PF
Varsity PF
Our goal is to run 3 rounds of debate at all levels,
although some divisions may be combined or eliminated based on registration
We will use NFL rules for PF at the tournament.
LAPTOPS WILL BE ALLOWED IN ALL EVENTS
Connectivity is STRICTLY Prohibited
TOPICS:
L-D will use the November/
December topic:
Resolved: In a democracy, the public’s right to know ought to
be valued above
the right to privacy of candidates
for public office.
Public Forum will use the
December topic:
Resolved: The United States federal government should impose
price controls on the
pharmaceutical industry.
PRE-REGISTRATION PRE-REGISTRATION:
DEBATE:
You must pre-register all Debate through TABROOM.com:
Registration for this tournament will be handled through http://www.tabroom.com/.
The pre-registration deadline is Thursday, December 13 at 3:00 PM.
However, decisions on divisions offered will
be made on Wednesday.
Please get the bulk of your registration in
as quickly as possible.
Only use Thursday to make adjustments and
provide all judges
CONGRESS:
Student Congress must also register through tabroom
REGISTRATION: 8:30 to 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning at
Regis
JUDGING
REQUIREMENTS: Each
school MUST provide its own judges or student entries may be jeopardized.
There are no hired judges available.
In
Congress: 1
judge if you are entering contestants in Congress (House).
1 judge if you are
entering contestants in Congress (Senate).
In
Team Debate: 1 qualified adult
for every two VARSITY teams or fraction thereof
1
qualified adult, or varsity debater for every two novice or intermediate teams
or fraction thereof.
High School Students acting as judges must
be Varsity Level Debators in at least their Junior Year
In
L-D: 1 qualified adult for every four L-D
debaters or fraction thereof on the Varsity level
1
qualified adult or Varsity L-D debater for every four Intermediate and Novice
L-D debaters or fraction thereof.
High School Students acting as judges must
be Varsity Level Debators in at least their Junior Year
In
Public Forum: One adult for every
3 teams (or fraction of 3). Student
judges can be used for JV.
JUDGE TRAINING: PF judge training will be available, but all
coaches are still responsible for meeting their judging quota with qualified
judges.
DROPS/ADDS:
DEBATE DROPS should be entered directly into
TABROOM right through Saturday Morning (See Above)
Remember:
Drops after the registration deadline of
Registration fees for drops on the morning of
the contest must still be paid.
There are NO ADDS after the
pre-registration deadline has passed.
CONTACT INFORMATION: Please use the
following Numbers Sparingly
Cell Phone – (914)
649-8246 – Use if you have
trouble getting to the tournament
or last minute drops
FEES: $6 per student from a member school. (Team debate teams count as 2 registrants)
($1
per student goes to the Rev. Gerald R. Rippon, S.J. Memorial Scholarship Fund.)
Please
Make the Check Payable to NYCFL.
SWEEPSTAKES: There are no team sweepstakes at this
tournament.
YOUR CONGRESS BILLS MUST BE SENT BY WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 4th AT 8:00AM.
CONGRESS BILLS for the 12/15 contest MUST BE
SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS@NYCFL.ORG.
They will be posted that on Tuesday afternoon and
finalized by Friday December 8th at 9:00am
If you do not submit a bill, your school may not
compete.
**** PLEASE NOTE ****
IF YOU HAVE NOT SENT YOUR DATA CARD
FOR MEMBERSHIP TO ME
PLEASE DO SO ASAP
FAILURE TO SUBMIT THIS DATA CARD
WILL
ALTER YOUR STATUS IN THE LEAGUE
Sincerely,
Charles J Sloat
NYCFL President