<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Dear Colleagues:</p> <p><br /> The Point Loma Nazarene University forensics squad is pleased to invite you to<br /> our annual SUNSET CLIFFS CLASSIC Invitational forensics tournament. The<br /> tournament will be held February 7-8, 2015. We hope you can come enjoy our<br /> beautiful seaside campus and the typically sunny weather.</p> <p><br /> We will offer open and novice division competition in all eleven AFA individual<br /> events (possibly collapsing some events should numbers so dictate) and six rounds of<br /> Junior and Senior divisions of Parliamentary Debate, and junior and senior divisions of<br /> NFA LD debate, plus one round of British Parliamentary Debate.</p> <p><br /> This year we will again offer a division of British Parliamentary Debate as it went so well last year..<br /> We hope that it will attract not only some of the well-established BP programs, but also other schools that<br /> have been wanting to experiment with this newer format to our region. This event might open a world of<br /> travel and debate opportunity for your programs. Due to longer scheduled number of and time of rounds<br /> though, students and judges in BP debate cannot be involved in other forms of debate or individual<br /> events at the Sunset Cliffs.</p> <p><br /> On Friday, February 6th, 2015, Pt Loma will also host a one day Round Robin Tournament of<br /> Excellence for NPDA style parliamentary Debate. We expect to limit the field to a dozen or so of the top<br /> teams in the nation. The following 9 teams are automatically invited based on performances at certain<br /> key tournaments last year: Cedarville University, Concordia University Irvine, Lewis &amp; Clark College,<br /> Point Loma Nazarene University, Southern Illinois University, University of Texas at Tyler, Washburn<br /> University, William Jewell University, University of Nevada at Reno. We realize that budgetary<br /> restraints and schedule conflicts will not allow all these teams to accept their bids this year, though many<br /> already have. We expect to have a half dozen or so remaining slots to fill by competitive bid from other<br /> top programs around the county. We are inviting directors of forensics interested in being considered for<br /> this tournament to submit to me an electronic bid for one team by December 19th, including the names<br /> of the proposed debaters and critic, and the debaters&rsquo; record and significant accomplishments. We also<br /> traditionally include at least one outstanding community college team.&nbsp;Please also send me a note by&nbsp;Friday,</p> <p>December 19th&nbsp;if you are receiving an automatic bid, as to whether you will be joining us.</p> <p>San Diego State University will also be hosting an Individual Event Swing this year on Friday,<br /> February 6th, 2015. This event has traditionally been hosted by Southwestern College in Chula Vista.<br /> The Sunset Cliffs Classic IEs will not start until around noon, to allow swing IEers to catch up on sleep.<br /> Assuming the President&rsquo;s State of the Address speech is again offered prior to the tournament we will<br /> continue to draw Parliamentary debate topics from the address for both the Sunset Cliffs and the Round<br /> Robin. Coaches and students are invited to submit recommended topics for our consideration.</p> <p>Some noteworthy attractions of the Sunset Cliffs Classic include:<br /> &bull; Strong competition with diverse regional representation and quality judging.<br /> &bull; A picturesque ocean front campus.<br /> &bull; Two $3,000.00 scholarships for the top community college competitors (one each for debate<br /> &amp; IE&rsquo;s) for tuition at PLNU.<br /> &bull; A Sunday morning chapel for all interested coaches, judges, and/or students.</p> <p>Dr. Skip Rutledge, Director of Forensics Prof. Melissa Lazaro, ADOF<br /> skiprutledge@pointloma.edu melissalazaro@pointloma.edu<br /> (619) 849-2391 (619) 849.2585</p>