Tournament Status: Tournament Completed

Welcome to the home page for the 2012 Sunset Cliffs Classic tournament hosted by Point Loma Nazarene Univ (CA) on Feb 4-5, 2012 for College students.

The deadline to enter has been extended to Monday, January 30 at 5:00PST.

STUDENTS MAY ENTER INDIVIDUAL EVENTS OR NFA-LD - NOT BOTH.

Dear Colleagues:
The Point Loma Nazarene University forensics squad is pleased to invite you to our annual SUNSET CLIFFS CLASSIC Invitational forensics tournament.  The tournament will be held February 4-5, 2012.  We hope you can come enjoy our beautiful seaside campus and the typically sunny weather.  

We will offer open and novice division competition in all eleven AFA individual events (possibly collapsing some events should numbers so dictate) and six rounds of Junior and Senior divisions of Parliamentary Debate, and junior and senior divisions of NFA LD debate. The large number of colleges and universities that typically attend also provide an excellent draw for both Individual Events and debate competitors interested in warming up for Nationals.

It is expected that Southwestern College will again offer their popular one-day swing tournament for Individual Events on Friday, February 3, 2012. Southwestern College is roughly 30-40 minutes from Point Loma’s campus. Swing Sweepstakes awards will also be offered.  We encourage you to compete in IEs at Southwestern unless you are competing in or watching rounds at the Round Robin Tournament of Excellence on Point Loma’s campus on that same day.

Assuming the President’s State of the Address speech is again offered prior to the tournament we will continue to draw Parliamentary debate topics from the address for both the Sunset Cliffs and the Round Robin.  Coaches and students are invited to submit recommended topics for our consideration.

Some noteworthy attractions of the Sunset Cliffs Classic include:
• Strong competition with diverse regional representation and quality judging.
• A picturesque ocean front campus.
• A terrific new high quality tournament hotel with great rates, and our traditional tournament hotel now sold to new owners at very affordable rates for such a nice hotel.
• Web registration for the tournament!  
• Two $3,000.00 scholarships for the top community college competitors (one each for  debate & IE’s) for tuition at PLNU for students that gain admission to and who will compete in forensics for PLNU for the subsequent academic year.
• A Sunday morning chapel for all interested coaches, judges, and/or students.

Saturday’s schedule is set up to allow those who do debate only to enjoy a break after round three for lunch and those who do IEs only do not need to be there until the early afternoon so they can eat prior to arriving on campus.  On Sunday we will likely be co-hosting a Superbowl party in the recreation room with Pizza for our competitors and for the school’s students. 

We hope you will join us on our beautiful campus for an exciting weekend of sand, surf, and speeches. 

Do make sure to register early and secure lodging early as we have had to turn teams away from past tournaments, and the hotel rooms have run out as well in past years do to the size of the entry.  Please plan ahead.

Sincerely,


Dr. Skip Rutledge, Director of Forensics           Prof. Melissa Lazaro, ADOF        
skiprutledge@pointloma.edu                                 melissalazaro@pointloma.edu 
(619) 849-2391                                                             (619) 849.2585

Tournament Links:

  1. Invitation

Blog Posts

  1. Schedule
  1. Abilene Christian University (Abilene, TX)
  2. Azusa Pacific University
  3. Biola Univeristy (La Mirada, CA)
  4. California Baptist University (Riverside, CA)
  5. California State University, Fullerton (Fullerton, CA)
  6. California State University, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
  7. California State University-Long Beach (Long Beach, CA)
  8. Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant, MI)
  9. Concordia University Irvine (Irvine, CA)
  10. Copper Mountain College (Joshua Tree, CA)
  11. El Camino College (Torrance, CA)
  12. El Paso Community College (El Paso, TX)
  13. Glendale Community College at AZ (Glendale, AZ)
  14. Grossmont (El Cajon, CA)
  15. Irvine Valley College (Irvine, CA)
  16. Moorpark College (Moorpark, CA)
  17. Mt. San Antonio College (Walnut, CA)
  18. Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff , AZ)
  19. Palomar College (San Marcos, CA)
  20. Pepperdine University (CA)
  21. Point Loma Nazarene University (San Diego, CA)
  22. Reed College (Portland, OR)
  23. Rio Hondo College (Whittier, CA)
  24. San Diego Christian College (San Diego , CA)
  25. San Diego Mesa College (San Diego, CA)
  26. San Diego State University (San Diego, CA)
  27. Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)
  28. Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL)
  29. The University of Texas at Tyler (Tyler, TX)
  30. UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)
  31. United States Air Force Academy (CO)
  32. University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
  33. University of Nebraska Kearney (Kearney, NE)
  34. University of Nerbaska-UNL (Lincoln, NE)
  35. University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
  36. University of Texas at El Paso (El Paso, TX)
  37. University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA)
  38. University of Utah
  39. Vanguard University (Costa Mesa, CA)
  40. Washington University in St. Louis (St Louis, MO)
  41. Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA)
  42. Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)
  43. William Jewell College (Liberty, MO)
  44. X Hired Judges Tech (San Diego, CA)
  1. C - Junior Parli (47)
  2. C - Senior Parli (71)
  3. D - Junior NFA-LD (15)
  4. D - Senior NFA-LD (51)

Total Debate Entries: 184

Pattern - Event - (entries)

  1. A - Novice ADS (5)
  2. A - Senior ADS (12)
  3. A - Novice Extemporaneous (11)
  4. A - Senior Extemporaneous (35)
  5. A - Novice Informative (4)
  6. A - Senior Informative (11)
  7. A - Novice Poetry (4)
  8. A - Senior Poetry (12)
  9. A - Novice Prose (3)
  10. A - Senior Prose (18)
  11. B - Novice Comm-Analysis (2)
  12. B - Senior Comm-Analysis (13)
  13. B - Novice Dramatic-Interp (4)
  14. B - Senior Dramatic-Interp (15)
  15. B - Novice DUO (0)
  16. B - Senior DUO (5)
  17. B - Novice Impromptu (16)
  18. B - Senior Impromptu (45)
  19. B - Novice Persuasive (2)
  20. B - Senior Persuasive (16)
  21. B - Novice Prog-Oral-Interp (3)
  22. B - Senior Prog-Oral-Interp (11)

Total IE Entries: 247

Pattern - Event - (entries)