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THE GLENBROOKS
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS/DEBATE TOURNAMENT
NOVEMBER 19-21, 2011
Dear Colleague:
The debate communities of Glenbrook North and Glenbrook South cordially invite you to the 32nd edition of The Glenbrooks. Three levels of policy debate, two levels of Lincoln- Douglas, six speech events, Congressional Debate, and Public Forum will be held at Glenbrook South, Glenbrook North, and the Northfield Campus of New Trier. We hope you can join us.
There are two changes to our event this year that are important to note:
The venues for the various debate events on Saturday and Sunday will be different from 2010. On Saturday and Sunday, Glenbrook North will host Varsity LD, Glenview State Bank JV LD, JV Policy, and Novice Policy. Glenbrook South will host Varsity Policy, Congressional Debate and Public Forum. All speech events will again be at the Northfield Campus of New Trier. All Monday elimination rounds in debate will be at the Hyatt-Deerfield. We encourage all competitors to stay at either the Hyatt-Deerfield or one of our other four hotel venues. Utilizing our hotel and transportation venues allows us to continue to have the lowest entry fees of any national circuit tournament.
We are utilizing a Mutual Preference Judging system this year in our Varsity CX and Varsity LD divisions. We will be steadfast and diligent in making sure judging philosophies are posted and schools have their judge’s names entered online by the deadline in order to make this MPJ system possible – Friday, November 11th by 5 pm (CST). Schools will be charged a $100 penalty for not meeting this deadline. If you are interested in hiring out for rounds past your commitment in VCX or VLD ($30 to $40 a round), please contact Tara at ttate@glenbrook225.org. We hope to have our MPJ system available for you on Monday, November 14th.
We cannot stress the importance of registering for The Glenbrooks as soon as possible. Once our rooms are full, we cannot accept any additional entries. Please pay careful attention to all of the policies in the invitation before sending in your entry. It is especially important to highlight that your registration on Joy of Tournaments is only to put you on the waitlist. Entries are official once we receive your entry fee check and send you a confirmation email. Being the first to submit your registration online in Duo Interp does not guarantee your slot – mailing us your check promptly does.
Please especially note that no school should make any plane or hotel reservations until its coach receives confirmation from a Glenbrooks Director (see the “Completing the Initial Entry” portion of the invitation).
Also, if you are hiring judges from the tournament, note that every school must have at least one representative in each of the judging pools of the events in which it is entered (see the “Hired Judging Policy” for further details). If you are unclear about the implications of this hired judging rule, please email Tara at ttate@glenbrook225.org before sending in your registration form(s) and fees. We will not confirm any school’s entry if it incorrectly requests too many hired judges on the registration form(s).
******Please note the following new payment policy******
We will only accept one check per school and one check can only cover one school. If this is a problem please email Michael Greenstein at mgreenstein@glenbrook225.org
DEBATE EVENTS POLICY
Varsity,junior varsity, and novice policy debate divisions will be switch-side, cross-examination style, with an 8-3-5 format. Varsity debaters should only include your finest competitors. Only debaters in their first or second year of competition may enter the JV division. Only debaters in their first year of competition may enter the novice division.
A school may enter a maximum of three (3) teams in varsity and two (2) teams in the junior varsity division. A school may enter only one (1) team in the novice division. We have space for approximately 320 teams. Policy debaters may not enter any other tournament event.
The policy topic for the 2011 Glenbrooks is as follows:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth's mesosphere.
There will be seven preliminary rounds in varsity policy. Varsity policy will break to double-octafinals. All Saturday and Sunday competition in this event will occur at the Glenbrook South High School campus. Octafinals and subsequent elimination rounds will take place on Monday at the Hyatt-Deerfield.
There will be six preliminary rounds in the junior varsity division and novice division of policy. JV and ScNovice policy competition on Saturday and Sunday will be at Glenbrook North High School. Semifinals and finals in the JV division will take place on Monday at the Hyatt-Deerfield. Finals in the novice division will take place on Monday at the Hyatt-Deerfield.
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS
Lincoln-Douglas will include varsity and the Glenview State Bank junior varsity divisions, with NFL rules and time limits. Varsity LD debaters should include only your finest competitors. Only debaters in their first or second year of competition may enter the Glenview State Bank JV division.
A school may enter a maximum of two (2) debaters in each of the varsity and junior varsity divisions. You may email Michael Greenstein if you would like the possibility of entering a 3rd Varsity Lincoln-Douglas debater. We will allow 3rd entries in the varsity division if the space allows. Approximately 200 varsity and 100 JV debaters will be accepted for LD competition. LD debaters may not enter into any other tournament event.
The November/December NFL Lincoln-Douglas topic will be used; check the October Rostrum.
There will be seven preliminary rounds in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas. Varsity LD will break to double-octafinals. Varsity LD competition on Saturday and Sunday will take place at Glenbrook North High School. Octafinals and subsequent elimination rounds will occur on Monday at the Hyatt Deerfield.
There will be six preliminary rounds in the Glenview State Bank JV division of LD. Glenview State Bank JV LD competition on Saturday and Sunday will take place at the Glenbrook North High School campus. This division will break to double-octafinals, assuming the numbers continue to remain consistent with previous year. Semifinals and finals of this division will take place on Monday at the Hyatt-Deerfield.
PUBLIC FORUM
Public Forum will be an open division, using NFL rules and time limits.
A school may enter a maximum of three (3) public forum teams. There is space for approximately 90 teams. Public Forum debaters may not enter any other tournament event.
The November NFL public forum topic will be used; check the October Rostrum.
There will be six preliminary rounds in the Public Forum division. The division will break to octafinals. All public forum competition will occur at the Glenbrook South High School campus and conclude on Sunday night.
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE
There will be multiple chambers of approximately 22 students in each, with semifinal and final sessions. NFL rules and time limits will apply; see the NFL website www.nflonline.org for further details.
Each school may enter a maximum of eighteen (18) Congressional debaters. The Glenbrooks tabroom staff will apportion the chambers and assign committees. Congressional debaters may not enter any other event.
Each school may submit a maximum of three (3) pieces of legislation, but no more than one (1) per committee (economics, public welfare, foreign policy). Legislation must be in the proper NFL format and emailed as an ATTACHED MICROSOFT WORD document to sgrosland@glenbrook225.org by October 10th.
Please see the template for Congress legislation on the NFL website at: http://www.nflonline.org/CoachingResources. Legislation is expected to be of sound quality and the tournament personnel reserve the right to exclude legislation that does not meet that standard. Legislative packets will be posted on the website for each participating school to download by October 24th. Since the packets may be large, they cannot be faxed.
Congressional Debate competition will conclude on Sunday and will be held at the Glenbrook South High School campus.
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
We urge you to submit your IE entry as soon as possible since these are always the first to fill.
Six events are offered this year: Original Oratory, Dramatic Interpretation,
Humorous Interpretation, Prose/Poetry Reading, Mixed Extemporaneous Speaking, and Duo Interpretation. NFL rules and time limits will apply to all events except prose/poetry; NCFL rules will apply in this event. For more information on NFL rules, please refer to your Chapter Manuals or the NFL website (www.nflonline.org). For more information on NCFL rules, please refer to the NCFL website (www.ncfl.org).
Each school may enter a maximum of four (4) entrants in each category. Students may single or double enter, but each one counts as a separate entry for the purpose of assessing fees. For 2011, it is a firm policy that students are not allowed to triple enter and schools will not be allowed a fifth entry.
Sweepstakes awards will be given in Individual Events. All students who clear to elimination rounds for a school will be figured in to the sweepstakes calculations.
There will be four preliminary rounds breaking to quarterfinals. The IE portion of the tournament will be held at the Northfield campus of New Trier High School and conclude on Sunday evening.
JUDGING REQUIREMENTS - ALL DIVISIONS
QUALIFICATIONS
Because the Glenbrooks prides itself on the quality of the competitors and adjudicators, judges provided by the individual schools must be qualified to judge a national circuit forensics competition. Only persons who have graduated high school may be judges in varsity and JV policy, varsity LD, IE, public forum, and congress divisions. High school varsity debaters may be used in novice policy and Glenview State Bank JV LD. Judges must be designated for each division since the tournament will be held in multiple buildings.
All policy and LD debate judges are required to submit a philosophy to the judge philosophy wiki at http://judgephilosophies.wikispaces.com/ by 5pm Central Time November 11th. Schools that have judges who have not submitted their philosophies will not be allowed to submit a strike sheet. This is a self-reporting system – it is your responsibility to make sure the philosophy is published.
ALLOCATIONS
All schools MUST be represented in each and every judging pool for which they have entries. For example, if a school only enters varsity policy debate, it must provide a judge to fill at least a half-time commitment in that division. If you enter varsity policy debate, Glenview State Bank JV LD, Congress, and IEs, you must have a representative in each of these pools.
If you feel that you have judges that are suited better for other pools than what you are obligated to fill, please contact Tara Tate at ttate@glenbrook225.org for possible arrangements to have judges in one pool covering your obligations in another.
Judging quotas are as follows:
Policy Debate – one (1) full-time judge for every two (2) teams
LD Debate – one (1) full-time judge for every three (3) debaters* ^
Congress – one (1) full-time judge for every seven (7) debaters or fraction thereof
Public Forum – one (1) full-time judge for every two (2) teams
Individual Events – one (1) judge for every five (5) entries or fraction thereof
* LD judges must check both the junior varsity and varsity LD pairings for each round.
A school is responsible for paying the hired judge fee or may not be asked to return if
any of its judges miss a round for any reason, including failing to check both the varsity
and the Glenview State Bank JV LD schematics.
^ In LD, having one LDer constitutes a half-time judging commitment of four (4)
rounds as well as an elimination round commitment as specified in the next paragraph.
Two or three LD debaters will constitute a full-time judge commitment.
A half-time commitment in varsity policy and LD is four preliminary rounds and elimination round commitments. All debate judges are required to judge the first elimination round OR judge one round past the last elimination round in which their school participated (whichever comes last).
There is no half-time judging commitment in IE’s. For example, having six IE competitors requires two full-time committed judges.
Placing judges in elimination rounds becomes more difficult each year because judges leave once their school’s competitors are eliminated from the tournament without fulfilling their commitment to adjudicate one round beyond their school’s last outround. Directors are responsible to make sure that their school’s judges are available to fulfill their ENTIRE judging commitment, including making appropriately timed airplane reservations. We always try to release individuals as quickly as possible, but the tournament requires the highest quality judging pool possible even after any particular school is finished competing. Schools who have judges that do not meet their elimination round obligation may not be invited to return.
PRE-TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION
Before completing the registration forms, please review the specific entry limits in each division as well as the judging requirements and the hired judge policy to ensure that the forms are accurately filled in. Your entries will not be officially confirmed if there are any discrepancies with the rules and guidelines established in this invitation. ENTRY FEES AND PENALTIES
Please make all checks or money orders payable to “The Glenbrooks.” We will not accept purchase orders in lieu of a check or a money order for fees. Send Checks to: GBN Debate Attn: Michael Greenstein 2300 Shermer Rd. Northbrook, IL 60062
FEES & PENALITIES The 2011 Glenbrooks fees are as follows: Varsity Policy Debate - $100 per two-person team Varsity LD Debate - $50 per debater JV Policy Debate - $90 per two-person team Novice Policy Debate - $80 per two-person team Public Forum Debate - $50 per two-person team GSB JV LD Debate - $45 per debater Congressional Debate - $40 per entry Individual Events - $30 per entry Duo Interpretation - $60 per entry
Hired Judge Fee - $200 per half-time committed Policy or Public Forum team OR per each uncovered Lincoln-Douglas debater. Full judge fee of $400 to hire a judge for uncovered IE entries or Congress entries.
Drop Penalty (after 5 pm CT on Oct 31st) - Loss of original entry fee plus $10 per single event entry, i.e., LD, congress, or any IE except for Duo, or $20 for a double event entry, i.e., policy debate, public forum, and duo. Please note that this is earlier than previous years. In 2009, we saw a massive amount of schools dropping entire entries on the last day. It was impossible for schools on the waitlist to arrange reasonable transportation.
Late Name Penalty (after 5pm CT on Nov. 11th) - $100 per school
Judge Constraint Fee -- If you do not provide the correct information of which teams and/or specific contestants your judges cannot judge and we need to replace your judge as a result, we will charge you $40 per change. Please direct any questions to Michael Greenstein at mgreenstein@glenbrook225.org or Tara Tate at ttate@glenbrook225.org | ||||
