Willamette High School Wolverine Invitational
Willamette
High School welcomes you back to the annual Wolverine Invitational on Friday
and Saturday, December 7-8 2001. As you can tell, we have expanded our
tournament this year to two days, with three of the guaranteed five preliminary
debate rounds occurring on Friday. Additionally, Cross-Examination Debate will
be offered this year as a regular tournament event. Some of you might remember
last year’s “separate tournament” for policy debaters. Not so this time. Policy
folks may enter IE’s. For those students entered only in IE’s, however, not
much has changed. There will still be a guaranteed three preliminary rounds
with a final round predicted for most events.
This
is a pretty straight-forward tournament, but we run some things a little
differently at Willamette. Please read the following packet carefully for all
the important tournament information and deadlines. If you have any questions
or concerns, please call or email. Email is best, however, as I am a compulsive
email checker, and am notorious for forgetting to check phone messages....
rbingham@bethel.k12.or.us
Please
Mail entries to:
Willamette
High School Forensics
1801
Echo Hollow Road
Eugene,
OR. 97403
Or
Fax to:
Attn:
Rob Bingham
(541) 689 - 7119
Or
Email entries to:
rbingham@bethel.k12.or.us
Please
have initial entry in by Monday, December 2.
DEBATE PAIRINGS WILL BE CHISELED IN STONE AT 5:00PM ON THURSDAY. NO ADDS
WILL BE ALLOWED AFTER THAT TIME. Some substitutions may be allowed, but adds on
the day of the tournament will not be allowed in debate or IEs.
Willamette High School
Invitational: Tournament Information.
Fees are as follows:
School Fee $30.00
Individual Events Entry $5.00
Debate Entry $5.00 per LD, $10.00 per debate team
Judging fees:
Coaches
will be expected to judge rounds. Each coach covers ten individual events and
two debate teams (or four LD debaters). Teams will be assessed a fee of $5.00
per uncovered I.E. and $5.00 per uncovered debater.
Events:
OSAA
rules will be used for Cross-Ex Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, and all I.E’s.
For Lincoln Douglas Debate, the November/December topic will be used (Resolved:
A lesser developed nation’s right to develop ought to take priority over its
obligation to protect the environment). For Public Debate, the following
structure will be used.
****Prep: 15
minutes
Proposition Leader 5
minutes
Leader of the Opposition 6 minutes
Member of the Proposition 6 minutes
Member of the Opposition 6 minutes
Leader of Opposition rebuttal 3 minutes
Proposition Leader rebuttal 4 minutes
Resolutions
for Public Debate will be value, policy, or fact resolutions limited to the
following areas:
Homeland
Defense
The
Middle East
Sports/
Popular entertainment/ Culture
Entry Limitations:
We
ask that each school try to limit
their entries to three competitors per division per event. If you need to ask
for a reasonable exception, please call or email.
Conflicts:
Students
may enter only one event per pattern. Also, extempers should not enter a
pattern A event, as extemp prep is run during this time. Please don’t overlook
this....
Directions to Willamette
High School:
Take
I-5 to Beltline (exit 195 B). Take Beltline to Barger (exit #5). Left on Barger
(back under the overpass) to Echo Hollow Road (Albertson’s supermarket will be
on the right). Take Echo Hollow Road one block to the High School. Go past Dove
Lane and take the first entrance on the left. Also, see the handy dandy maps!
Food and Drink:
Willamette
High School is directly across the street from a grocery store and several
eateries.
A Word to Competitors About
Judges:
Those
who have never organized a speech tournament are sometimes very glib in their
criticism of the ones they attend. This is especially true when it comes to
judges. While we will do what we can to see that judges are appropriately
placed, students should prepare themselves to compete in front of a variety of
volunteers with a broad range of experience. Please understand that judges,
experienced and inexperienced, are what make a tournament happen. No judges, no
tournament, no high school forensics.
The
judges at Willamette will be made up largely of parents and teachers, college
students, former competitors, interested and energetic community volunteers.
Occasionally, in a novice round, a senior-division competitor might even fill
in in a pinch. Whatever the case, please show our judges, without whom
forensics could not exist, the respect and gratitude they deserve.
Motel Information:
There
are few decent motels near Willamette High School. The best place to stay is
approximately five miles from the tournament site at one of the motels near the
junction of Beltline and I-5. Coaches should avoid motels along Hwy 99 (also
West 6th St.). They are closer to the school, but are in a questionable area.
Generally, motels along Gateway Street (technically in Springfield) are a good
bet for lodging, and are a short freeway drive to Willamette. Here are a few phone
numbers:
Beltline/
I-5/ Gateway Area (5-10 minutes away):
Holiday
Inn Express: (541) 746-8471 or 1-800-363-8471
Comfort
Suites: (541) 746-5359 or 1-877-746-5339
Pacific
9 Motor Inn: (541) 726-9266 or 1-800-722-9462
Gateway
Inn: (541) 726-1212 or 1-800-392-3035
Best
Inn &Suites: (541) 746-1314 or 1-800-626-1900
Courtyard
by Marriot: (541) 726-2121 or 1-800-321-2211
Shilo
Inn: (541) 747-0332 or 1-800-222-2244
Near U of O (20 minutes
away):
Best
Western Greentree: (541) 485-2727
Best
Western New Oregon Motel: (541) 683-3669
Quality
Inn: (541) 342-1243 or 1-800-228-5151
Travelodge:
(541) 342-6383 or 1-800-578-7878
Phoenix Inn: (541) 344-0001 or 1-800-344-0131
It
will be important to book rooms somewhat early. Although we’ve managed to miss
conflicting with the Civil War football game, rooms in Eugene get booked
notoriously fast. Additionally, if rooms in the Eugene area are scarce, it
might help to try Junction City, which is only ten or twelve miles away....
Tournament
Dec. 7-8, 2001
Debate: CX, Public LDV
A: Impromptu, Expos, Duo, Radio, Extemp prep
B: Oratory, HI, ADS, Extemp, DI
3:30pm
Registration and Debate Round 1 (NO ADDS)
5:30pm
Debate Round 2
7:00pm
Short Dinner Break
8:00pm
Debate Round 3
7:30am-- Registration (in Media Center)
8:00am-- Debate, Round 4
9:30am-- Pattern A, Round 1
10:30am--
Pattern B, Round 1
11:30am--
Debate, Round 5
1:00pm-- Pattern A, Round 2
2:00pm-- Pattern B, Round 2
3:00pm-- Debate Semis (if necessary)
3:30pm-- Pattern A, Round 3
4:30pm-- Pattern B, Round 3
6:00pm-- IE Finals
7:00pm-- Debate Finals (if necessary)
7:30pm-- (or ASAP) Awards Ceremony
Fee Schedule
___ 1 School
Fee @ $30.00 =$30.00
Individual
events @ $5.00 ea. = $
Lincoln
Douglas @ $5.00 ea. = $
Team
Debate @ $10.00 ea = $
Subtotal =
Uncovered IEs @ $5.00 ea
Uncovered Debaters @ $5.00 ea
TOTAL