Welcome to the home page for the 2016 L.A. County Orator's Cup III (3rd-12th Grade) tournament hosted by Cal State Fullerton (Humanities Bldg) on May 28, 2016 for Various students.

Status: Tournament Completed

<p>[PARAGRAPH 1 UPDATED 5/18/16 9:15PM PST]&nbsp;Welcome to the 3rd Annual Orator&#39;s Cup 3rd-12th Grade&nbsp;Fundraising Tournament, hereinafter referred to as OC3. We will again be offering divisions for elementary, middle and high school competitors, though we may have some divisions compete together if the numbers are too small for a particular division. There are no school fees, and the costs for each event is $15 (including Duo), not including the $15 fine per &quot;uncovered &quot; event when a team does not maintain a ratio of one judge for every 4 events registered. Fees are due on May 19th (via Paypal to ravelasquez@yahoo.com, Citibank/Chase electronic/personal deposit or cash/money order delivered to Haddon Elementary School before 3:45 p.m.), so as to allow the purchase of the costly &amp; pretty trophies which we have come to be known for. Failure to pay by the 19th will result either in dropping of all students or the assignment of a fee for every late event.&nbsp;Please also keep in mind that video and audio recording is PERMITTED for (educational and non-commercial&nbsp;uses) for all rounds, so each school&#39;s entry constitutes group acceptance and acknowledgement of this permission to be filmed (do not register a student&nbsp;if filming is opposed). We reserve the right to close some events if the interest level is low, so please register early if you have interest in a &quot;less standard&quot; event which may have difficulty surviving the &quot;interest cut.&quot; Students may double-enter in Pattern A&nbsp;and triple-enter in Pattern B.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> [PARAGRAPH 2&nbsp;UPDATED 5/20/16 10:21PM PST]&nbsp;This year, we will not be able to hold the contest at Haddon Elementary as usual, &nbsp;INSTEAD, OUR NEW SITE&nbsp;BE THE HUMANITIES BUILDING AT CAL STATE FULLERTON, WHERE PROFESSORS WILLIE WASHINGTON &amp; JOEL SALCEDO HAVE PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS TO GIVE OC3 A SOFT LANDING SPOT THERE. More maps &amp; info is forthcoming. Parking is ample &amp; free on weekends, with lots of restaurants nearby, though the oncampus Carl&#39;s Jr will be closed. Look below for campus and parking maps.<br /> <br /> [PARAGRAPH 3&nbsp;UPDATED 5/26/16 4:21PM PST]&nbsp;Rules: High School events will generally follow NSDA rules (with the exception of Congress, which cannot be allowed to run three hours per prelim), unless they only exist in CA, at which point we turn to CHSSA rules. Middle School events will follow NSDA rules (with the exception of Congress length again). Elementary School events rules will be generally lax, due to&nbsp;so many leagues/organizations imposing different time limits. We will generally allow a 5-10 minute time limit, except for certain events: ES Storytelling will be 5 minutes maximum, with a grace period of 30 seconds. ES Impromptu will be a running time of 10 minutes (student may choose to start speaking at any time the 10 minutes) with a single, blank index card allowed and no referencing to pre-written notes during the prep period. MS Impromptu uses same rules but only 7&nbsp;minutes running time. HS Impromptu is the same but loses access to the index card during the speech.&nbsp;SpAr will be 1 min prep, 1 min 1st Aff, 1 min 1st Neg, 3 min mutual Q&amp;A, 1 min Neg Summary, 1 min Aff Summary. Congress will have three resolutions, one for each prelim and a&nbsp;Final, if necessary.</p> <p>More postings and files to follow with maps, rule and event updates.. All new&nbsp;schools should note that payment is required ahead of time at this contest.</p> <p>Orator&#39;s Cup candidates: each division will feature one winner of the prestigious (and heavy) Orator&#39;s Cup (see examples in picture links below). In order to vie for the award, one must enter at least three events plus enter &quot;Cup Candidate&quot; under the fictitious &quot;Pattern C&quot;. We will calculate the points from your top three events only, even if your are in five events. Since the 1st and 2nd Runner-ups will also win trophies, it is theoretically conceivable to take home six trophies if excelling in 5 events and placing top 3 for the Orators&#39; Cup.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>OC3&nbsp;(TENTATIVE schedule) - Saturday, May 28th, 2015 (a more precise &amp; printable schedule will be posted later)</strong></p> <p>07:30 - 07:45&nbsp; &nbsp;Judge Orientation<br /> 07:45&nbsp;- 07:55&nbsp; &nbsp;Round 1 Judging Assignments<br /> <strong>08:00 - 09:15 &nbsp; Round 1 - Pattern A&nbsp;events<br /> 09:30 - 10:45 &nbsp; Round 1 - Pattern B&nbsp;events</strong><br /> 11:00 - 11:30 &nbsp; &nbsp;Brunch Break<br /> 11:30 - 11:40 &nbsp; &nbsp;Round 2 Judging Assignments<br /> <strong>11:45 - 01:00 &nbsp;&nbsp;Round 2 - Pattern A<br /> 01:15 - 02:30 &nbsp;&nbsp;Round 2 - Pattern B</strong><br /> 02:40 - 02:55 &nbsp; Round 3 Judging Assignments<br /> 0<strong>3:00 - 04:10 &nbsp; Round 3&nbsp;-&nbsp;Pattern A<br /> 04:20 - 05:30 &nbsp; Round 3&nbsp;- Pattern B</strong><br /> 05:40 - 05::50 &nbsp;Final Round Judging Assignments<br /> <strong>06:00 - 07:15 &nbsp; Finals - all events over 14&nbsp;entries (Pattern A &amp; B)</strong><br /> <strong>07:45&nbsp;- 08:30&nbsp; &nbsp;Awards Assembly (elementary first, so that they may leave earlier)</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>2016 Congress Docket (all divisions, updated 5/16/16):</strong></p> <p>Round 1) Public Schools (K-12)&nbsp;will no longer be authorized to play football starting Fall 2017</p> <p>Round 2) Violent video games rated T for &quot;teen&quot; will be banned, starting January 2017.</p> <p>Round 3) Police officers killing or severely injuring clearly unarmed individuals shall be held responsible, effective immediately.</p> <p>Finals) Non-criminal, undocumented parents--whose adult, citizen children have graduated from high school or the equivalent--shall be allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship, effective immediately.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>About The LA Orator&#39;s Cup: for three years, the tag team&nbsp;of Ricardo Velasquez &amp; Iain Lampert, in conjuction with enlightened staff &amp;&nbsp;administrators at host schools, has proudly brought to the SoCal speech community an imaginative &amp; historic contest, the first to offer: on time rounds &amp; award ceremonies, knowledge of your rooms &amp; room competitors the day before the tournament, multiple judges (even in prelims&nbsp;when&nbsp;numbers allow), the local commute&nbsp;and free participation of students from underserved elementary schools in the Northeast San Fernando Valley, the mass permission&nbsp;for parents and siblings to film any and all rounds&nbsp;for the purposes of memory-keeping and future trainings, the prettiest &amp; costliest trophies for a non-nationals/state level contest (including the black marble Orator&#39;s Cup for each division, whereon the name of each year&#39;s winner is affixed and the award is announced&nbsp;in his/her own name the following year) and the historic first of hosting all three grade divisions (ES, MS &amp; HS) at one site on one day. We thank you for your interest and&nbsp;the honor of your talent &amp; funding to help us find and promote speech &amp; debate prodigies in the severely underserved communities of the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Only through such affirmative outreach and funding can the world of Competitive Speech&nbsp;lurch towards the key inclusion of minority students from public schools in less affluent areas.&nbsp;</p>