Welcome to the home page for the 2015 SDIVSL LD/Policy Quals tournament hosted by Helix Charter High School on Mar 6-7, 2015 for High School students.

Status: Tournament Completed

<h1><strong>***BREAKS ARE POSTED! SEE THE &quot;BLOG&quot; TAB***</strong></h1> <p>Separate registration pages are set up for Congress/Parli/PF Quals (Feb. 20 and 21) and IE Quals (February 27 and 28)</p> <p><strong>This tournament is open only to SDIVSL member schools. All teams must be paid members of CHSSA (paid no later than Feb. 6 2015).</strong></p> <p><strong>Tournament Director:&nbsp;</strong>Rachel Krause, League President (<a href=\"mailto:rachel.krause@sduhsd.net\">email</a>)</p> <p><strong>School Address:&nbsp;</strong>7323 University Ave, La Mesa</p> <p><strong>Parking: </strong>Student Parking lot - 4200 Lowell St.</p> <p><strong>Tab Location: </strong>Library</p> <p><strong>Judges&#39; Room</strong>: Library</p> <p><strong>Awards: </strong>Performing Arts Center</p> <p><strong>Sign off meeting:</strong> Performing Arts Center</p> <p><strong>Qualifying Spots/Entry Limitations:&nbsp;</strong>Students who cannot attend the CHSSA State Tournament on April 17, 18, and 19 at Vista Murrieta High School in Murrieta&nbsp;are not eligible to compete at this tournament. Additionally, students who are not available to compete in all scheduled rounds of this tournament are not eligible to compete.</p> <p>Our league will qualify six (6) LD debaters and six (6) policy debate teams. A school may enter up to ten (10) students/teams in either of the debate events. Additional entries count against the ten (10) floating entries each school is allotted for the three weekends of the qualifying tournaments. Floating entries can not be entered here and must be emailed to Rachel Krause at rachel.krause@sduhsd.net.</p> <p>Each student may enter only one (1) event for this weekend.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Be sure not to exceed any individual or school entry limits: No student may enter</strong>&nbsp;<strong>more than four (4) events total throughout the three weekends.</strong></p> <p><strong>Fees:&nbsp;</strong>$6.00 for&nbsp;each LD entry, $12.00 for each Policy entry.&nbsp;Make&nbsp;checks payable to SDIVSL. Fees are final as of 11:00 am, Saturday, February 21. All fees must be paid at that time (at Congress/Parli/PF Quals at Carlsbad). One check for all three tournaments is preferred.</p> <p><strong>Entry/Drop Deadlines:&nbsp;</strong>Entries for the debate tournament must be posted to&nbsp;www.forensicstournament.net no later than 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 21, 2015. Entries in all events are final and payable at that time. Please email any debate drops prior to the tournament to lily.bolig@sduhsd.net&nbsp;or call/text them in to 760-807-4482 and drop from entry site.</p> <p><strong>Judges:&nbsp;</strong>Each school is required to bring one judge for every four L.D. debaters, and one judge for every two Policy Teams. IMPORTANT: All judges are committed to remain one round PAST the elimination of their team&#39;s last competitor. Click&nbsp;<a href=\"http://forensicstournament.net/SDIVSLIECONGRESS3/12/blog/\">here</a>&nbsp;for instructions regarding entering judges.</p> <p><strong>Tournament Details</strong>:</p> <p><strong>LD Topic:&nbsp;Resolved:</strong>&nbsp;Just governments ought to ensure food security for their citizens.</p> <p><strong>Policy Topic:&nbsp;</strong>Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its non-military exploration and/or development of the Earth&#39;s oceans.</p> <p>The first five rounds will operate on a double-elimination format. After a debater/team receives two losses, they will be eliminated from the tournament. After any preliminary round, if eight or fewer debaters/teams remain, the next round will be a quarterfinal round.&nbsp;If after five rounds there are more than eight debaters/teams remaining, the top eight debaters/teams will advance to quarterfinals. A sixth&nbsp;preliminary round may be run if there&nbsp;are excessive ties after five rounds.&nbsp;The winners of each quarterfinals debate will advance to semifinals. The winners of the semifinals round will advance to finals.</p> <p><strong>LD/POLICY QUALS TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE</strong></p> <p><strong>(This schedule anticipates that the number of Policy entries will dictate that&nbsp;break rounds occur&nbsp;after 4 prelim rounds. Should there be more entries than anticipated, the schedule will be adjusted.)</strong></p> <p><strong>Friday March 6</strong></p> <p><strong>3:30 &ndash; 3:45&nbsp;</strong>Registration (All schools must check in by 3:45)</p> <p><strong>4:00&nbsp;</strong>Round I</p> <p><strong>6:00&nbsp;</strong>Round II</p> <p><s><strong>8:00&nbsp;</strong>Round III</s></p> <p><strong>Saturday March 7</strong>&nbsp;(tentative - break rounds may happen sooner)</p> <p><strong>PLEASE NOTE: SCHEDULE HAS CHANGED SINCE ORIGINAL POST</strong></p> <p><strong>Last update - 4:30 pm Saturday</strong></p> <p><strong>9:00&nbsp;</strong>Round III</p> <p><strong>11:00&nbsp;</strong>Round IV</p> <p><strong>1:00 &nbsp;</strong>Round V (Quarterfinals for Policy)</p> <p><strong>3:00</strong>&nbsp; Round VI -&nbsp;LD/Semifinals for Policy</p> <p><strong>4:00</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;LD Quarterfinals/<strong>Policy Finals</strong></p> <p><strong>5:00 </strong>LD Semifinals</p> <p><strong>6:00 LD Finals</strong></p> <p><strong>7:30 AWARDS FOR ALL THREE QUALIFIER TOURNAMENTS</strong></p> <p><strong>ASAP following awards -&nbsp;Sign-Off Meeting (8:30 pm estimated start time):&nbsp;</strong>After the awards ceremony following this tournament, all coaches must sign off any students who have qualified for the State Tournament. All coaches need to attend this meeting even if you don&rsquo;t have a student that is qualified outright. Each year, students who haven&rsquo;t qualified outright shift up into a qualifying position because of other students&rsquo; shifting out of the event, since a student may only enter one individual event at the State Tournament. If the coach is not at the meeting to confirm a student&rsquo;s attendance at the State Tournament, the students may be bypassed and excluded from State qualification.</p> <p><strong>Note:&nbsp;</strong>If you sign a &ldquo;No&rdquo; on a student, that student MAY NOT later be added into that event if some problem arises with his or her participation in another event, such as Team Debate or Duo. If a student does not qualify outright in any event you still may only sign yes in one event.</p> <p><strong>You must come to this meeting!</strong></p>