Creighton University Double Up Tournament
August 7, 2009
Dear Colleague,
It is our pleasure to invite you to the 2009 Nebraska Double-Up hosted by Creighton University and Creighton Forensics Alumni on October 23-25. We will host two individual events tournaments, a Lincoln-Douglas debate tournament and a parliamentary debate tournament. The parliamentary debate and Lincoln-Douglas tournaments will offer both open and novice divisions and all teams with a winning record (4-2) will advance to elimination rounds. The novice divisions are limited to students in their first year of intercollegiate debate. The individual events tournaments will include the 10 standard NFA events and the AFA event, program oral interpretation. The tournaments will occur in Omaha, NE at the Creighton Campus.
Last year's tournament offered great competition from more than 25 schools. This year's tournament promises to be even better. We have significantly changed our schedule this year, LD will take place on Saturday and Sunday, Parli will occur on Friday and Saturday, and two separate Individual Events tournaments will take place on Saturday and Sunday. To help ensure that the tournament stay on schedule, we are implementing a 15 minute forfeiture rule for LD debate. If a team does not come to the room prepared to debate within the scheduled start time, the judge is instructed to forfeit the non-appearing team. In parliamentary debate we provide 20 minutes of prep. Judges are instructed to strictly enforce the prep period.
We have an early entry deadline to accommodate catering for the tournament. Entries are due on Thursday, October 15 at 5:00 P.M.
In order to ensure that the tournament runs on schedule and that all of our participants are well nourished throughout the span of the tournament, we will provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner for participants on Friday. We will also provide breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday.
Creighton is fully committed to making this tournament experience a great one for you and your squad. We hope that you will attend!
Sincerely,
Marty Birkholt Laura Keimig
Director of Forensics Assistant Director of Forensics
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Friday, October 23
8:30-9:30 Debate Registration, Harper Center
9:30-10:45 Round 1 Parliamentary Debate
10:45-12:00 Round 2 Parliamentary Debate
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:45 Round 3 Parliamentary Debate
2:30-3:45 Round 4 Parliamentary Debate
4:30-5:45 Round 5 Parliamentary Debate
6:00-6:30 Dinner
6:30-7:45 Round 6 Parliamentary Debate
ASAP Elim #1 Parliamentary Debate
Saturday, October 24
7:30-8:30 Individual Events Registration: Skutt Student Center; LD Registration: Harper Center; Continental Breakfast
8:00 Extemp Draw
8:30 Round I, Flight A, Round 1 LD Debate
9:45 Round I, Flight B, Round 2 LD Debate
12:00-1:00 Lunch
11:00 Extemp Draw, Elim #2 Parliamentary Debate
11:30 Round II, Flight A
1:00 Round 3 LD Debate
1:30 Round II, Flight B
2:15 Elim #3 Parliamentary Debate
2:45 Extemp Draw for Semifinals
3:30 Round 4 LD Debate
3:45 All Semifinals and Finals for A Events
5:00 Extemp Draw for Finals
5:30 All Finals for B and A Semifinal Events
6:00 Round 5 LD Debate
7:00 Elim #5 Parliamentary Debate
7:30 Individual Events Awards
8:15 Round 6 LD Debate
Sunday, October 25
8:00-8:30 Individual Events Registration, Skutt Student Center; Continental Breakfast
8:30 Extemp Draw, LD Elim #1
9:00 Round I, Flight A
10:00 LD Elim #2
10:15 Round I, Flight B
11:30 LD Elim #3, Lunch for IE’s
12:00 Extemp Draw
12:30 Round II, Flight A, Lunch for LD
1:00 LD Elim #4
1:45 Round II, Flight B
2:30 LD Elim #5
3:00 Extemp Draw
3:30 All Semifinals and Finals for A Events
5:00 All Finals for B and A Semifinal Events
7:00 OR ASAP Individual Events Awards
LODGING
The tournament hotel will be the Best Western Seville Plaza Hotel (located right across the street from campus.) The hotel is located at 3001 Chicago Street; Omaha, NE; 68131. The phone number is 402.345.2222.
This is a different location then we have used in the past but we thought that given its recent remodel and its convenient location to campus, schools may appreciate this location better then past choices. We have a block of 35 double bed rooms and 15 kings (with sofa sleepers in each room) reserved at the rate of $72.00 per night. The block will expire on October 14, 2009 or until filled, so please book as soon as possible.
The hotel includes a free continental breakfast, free wireless internet throughout the entire hotel, a 24-hour business center with two computers and printers, and a free shuttle to and from the airport and campus. When booking rooms, please ask for the Creighton Speech and Debate block.
Other Possibilities for Lodging:
Holiday Inn Central, 3321 South 72nd Street, 1-800-Holiday.
Super 8 Motel, 7111 Spring Street, 402.390.0700.
Rodeway Inn, 7101 Grover, 402.391.5757.
PARKING
You may park in any lot labeled faculty/staff or visitor. The visitor parking lot will allow easy access to the tournament. If you receive a citation in any faculty/staff lot, please see Marty or Laura and they will take care of it, however, you will be responsible for any citations you receive for parking in loading zones, disabled parking, etc.
DEBATE
Due to room and time constraints, there will not be a warm room.
There will be six preliminary rounds of parliamentary debate for both junior and senior divisions. A junior will be any student with less than 4 semesters of debate experience. The number of elimination rounds will be determined by the number of participants. Debaters may enter both forms of debate, however, LD’ers may NOT enter Individual Events AT ALL. Debaters entered only in Parli may enter Individual Events ONLY on Sunday.
Parliamentary Debate will follow the traditional NPDA format with twenty minutes preparation time, PM 7, LO 8, MG 8, MO 8, LOR 4, PMR 5. Topics will be announced centrally in a location TBA. The number of elimination rounds will be determined by the number of participants and announced at the event.
Lincoln-Douglas Debate will follow the NFA guidelines. LD debaters will be evaluated on their analysis, use of evidence, and ability to effectively and persuasively organize and refute arguments. Rapid-fire delivery, commonly called spread delivery, is antithetical to the purpose and intent of the event. Debaters will use the 2009-10 NFA LD debate topic.
L-D TIME LIMITS
Aff Constructive: 6 min Aff Rebuttal: 6 min
Cross Examination: 3 min Neg Rebuttal: 6 min
Neg Constructive: 7 min Aff Rebuttal: 3 min
Cross Examination: 3 min Prep Time: 4 min/debater
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
Competition will take place in all of the standard NFA and NIET events on Open Division. Students may not enter more than three individual events in any one pattern. Students entered in LD may not compete in IE’s Saturday or Sunday. Those entered in Parli may not enter IE’s on Saturday, however they may enter IE’s on Sunday. Students who are double or triple entered bear the responsibility to signing into and getting to their rounds on time as well as alerting their judges that they will be late. Material in competition should not have been used by the student in interscholastic competition prior to September 1, 2009. Students should not use the same cutting for more than one prepared event. Awards will be given to the top six students in each event at each leg of the tournament.
Pattern A: Extemp, Inform, Prose, Dramatic Interp, Program Oral Interp, Persuasion
Pattern B: Impromptu, Poetry, Duo, After Dinner Speaking, Rhetorical Criticism
QUADRATHON
Students who are entered in four individual events will be eligible for the quadrathon award for each tournament and the swing overall. Awards will be given to the top three contestants. Please be sure to note all quadrathon participants on your registration. Debate events are not included in quadrathon.
TEAM AWARDS
Individual Events Sweepstakes awards will be presented at each leg of the swing to the top three schools. A debate team award will be given for the swing to the top three debate schools. An overall swing award for combined debate and IE sweeps points will be given to the top three schools.
HOST SCHOOL PARTICIPATION
Some Creighton students will assist with the tournament. Creighton Students who are not assisting with the tournament, are eligible to participate fully in the tournament.
TOURNAMENT FEES
Meal Fees..................................................$5/student, coach, judge/day of attendance
Parliamentary Debate Teams....................$50
I.E. Per Slot...............................................$8
LD Per Entry..............................................$25
JUDGING FEES
Uncovered Parliamentary Team.................$75
Uncovered I.E. Per Slot..............................$10
Uncovered LD Per Entry.............................$40
Each qualified parliamentary judge will cover two debate teams in parliamentary debate. Each qualified IE and LD judge will cover six IE slots OR two LD entries. Judges will be obligated to judge one round beyond the level at which their team is eliminated. We will make every effort to release those judges without advancing competitors, but this is not always possible.
Undergraduate competitors are not qualified to judge. Judges who are qualified to judge LD (and without LD students) and are unable to be slotted for IE’s due to large IE entries may be asked to judge LD, particularly in elimination rounds. Please indicate on your registration if a judge is unfit to judge LD. Please cover your entries to the best or your ability.
ENTRY DEADLINE
Entries should be received by 5:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 15, 2009. Fees will be assessed at 5:00 P.M. on Tuesday, October 20, 2009.
Any changes received after that time will be subject to full fees and a nuisance fee of $20. Students who need to drop the tournament completely, due to illness, can be exempt from nuisance fees. There will be a $50 nuisance fee per slot for changes made at registration. This $50 nuisance fee also applies to changes made to entries for the Alumni half of the tournament on Sunday.
Please only send entries to Laura Keimig using one of the following methods:
Email entries are preferred: laurakeimig@creighton.edu
Fax entries to: 402.280.3512.
Mail entries to:Laura Keimig, Assistant Director of Forensics Department of Communication Studies; Creighton University; 2500 California Plaza; Omaha, NE; 68178
If you need to make a change to your entry please either email the change to Laura or call her and leave a voicemail at 402.280.2631. All entries by fax or email will be confirmed. If they are not, call to confirm that we have received your entry.
You will find the tournament registration form here.