Welcome to the home page for the 2013 Griffin Invitational tournament hosted by Grossmont College on Nov 9-10, 2013 for College students.
Status: Tournament Completed
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<b><span comic=\"\" sans=\"\" style=\"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\">THE GRIFFIN INVITATIONAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">Grossmont Community College Forensics Squad cordially invites you to attend the 21st Annual Griffin Invitational Speech & Debate Tournament to be held <b>Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 9<sup>th</sup>&10<sup>th</sup>,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<b><span style=\"font-family:\">2013 at Grossmont Community College.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">Grossmont College is located, approximately 15 miles east of San Diego, in El Cajon, California.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">Our college will also host the Ray Dahlin Individual Events Tournament, and <b>NFA-LD</b>, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style=\"font-family:\">on Friday, Nov. 8th.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">Our tournament offers your students: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style=\"font-family:\">A One-Day Individual Events Tournament</span></b><span style=\"font-family:\">, <b>on Saturday, Nov.9<sup>th</sup>with</b> <b>3 rounds and finals</b> in Open and Novice Divisions (if entries warrant). This allows your students to complete all their individual events in one day, including finals and awards. A separate Individual Events Awards ceremony will be held, and sweepstakes for the top three colleges will be awarded. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">Our "Picket Fence" Award: A special trophy for the student with a "picket fence" in individual events. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b><span style=\"font-family:\">A One-Day Parliamentary Debate Tournament</span></b><span style=\"font-family:\">, <b>on Sunday, Nov.10th with Open, Junior and Novice Divisions (if entries warrant). We will be using the 4 preliminary rounds and 2 out rounds, model.</b> There will be two out rounds, with first out round winners receiving bronze awards and second out round winners designated either silver or gold awards. (Open Division final round is negotiable) A separate Parliamentary Debate Awards ceremony will be held, and sweepstakes for the top three colleges in Debate will be awarded. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">An Overall Sweepstakes Award for the top three colleges in both Individual Events and Debate will be awarded during the final ceremony on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">An experienced, conscientious, Tab room. </span><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\">The following tab room staff have worked together, some for many of the 21 years: Skip Rutledge: Point Loma U., Neil Moura: Mira Costa College, Eddie Tiongson: Irvine Valley, Liana Koeppel: Cypress, Danny Cantrell: Mt. SAC, Linda Farnam: Mesa College. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">Great food for the judges, so they won’t be too hungry to judge! <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">We will be selling food for the students at a reasonable cost, so you won’t have to go off campus. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">A pleasant location: Grossmont is approximately 15 minutes from downtown San Diego, on the freeway, so you may even have time to visit some of San Diego's beautiful sights. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">We look forward to seeing you at the Griffin Invitational Tournament, at Grossmont College. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style=\"font-family:\">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;
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<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;
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<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;
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Individual Events Divisions: Novice and Open</h2>
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color:windowtext;mso-font-kerning:14.0pt\">“THE PICKET FENCE AWARD":</span></b><span style=\"font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-font-kerning:14.0pt\">The purpose of this award is to recognize a student who ranks first in all their preliminary and final rounds of competition in an individual event (6 first places). Traditionally, a student is recognized for this achievement by an announcement at the awards ceremony or by the individual's coach. The Griffin Speech Tournament awards this student with that recognition, as well as with a special "award". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:windowtext;mso-font-kerning:14.0pt\">4 rounds of parliamentary debate will be offered with 2 out rounds. Bronze, Silver, and Gold will be awarded. Open,Junior & Novice divisions will be offered, if entries warrant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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