The Golden Gate Speech Association (GGSA) is proud to host our third Parliamentary Debate tournament of the school year online using Tabroom and NSDA Campus on Saturday, January 8, 2021!
DEADLINES
Entries are due by 5:00 PM on Friday, Dec. 31. Please enter all competitors and judges in tabroom.com
Drops made by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 5 will pay half of the entry fee. After that point they will pay the full entry fee.
COMPETITORS
All competitors must have Tabroom accounts that are linked to their email. Coaches, please see this video for the procedure.
Registration and fees: Coaches and judges must sign in at 8:00am. Entry fees are $10.00 per student. Checks to be made payable to GGSA and mailed to:
GGSA
c/o Lowell Alumni Association
PO Box 320009
San Francisco, CA 94132
JUDGES
Thank you for joining our all-volunteer organization in donating your time and energy to empower youth through speaking and listening!
All judges must be entered on Tabroom.com by 5 pm on Jan. 5, 2022.
All judges must have Tabroom.com accounts with cell phone numbersand email addresses. Make sure that all judges know the email address and password for their tabroom account. This is sometimes a problem when coaches or students create a tabroom account for a parent judge. Judge tabroom accounts must be linked to the school they are judging for.
Judge Instructions: All judging instructions will be posted on the GGSA website and sent to coaches to distribute to their judges.
Please address these matters in advance of the tournament. Dealing with them on Saturday morning delays the start of the tournament, and causes everyone to go home later.
Coaches, please make sure your judges and their technology are ready to judge. In the event of a judge being unable to judge an assigned round, tab staff reserves the right to substitute the coach from the school as the judge for that round, so please make sure that both your judges and you are prepared.
VOLUNTEERS
Per our league rules, each school is responsible for providing a coach volunteer in addition to your judge quota. Please email us by 5 p.m. on December 31st with the name, email address, and phone number of your coach.
CONTACTS
Nate Berls - Parli Director: nate.berls@gmail.com
PARLI SPECIFICS
New novice rules: For this school year, GGSA has voted to give novice teams 30 minutes of prep time, with 5 minute constructive speeches and 3 minute rebuttals (555533)
Judging requirements: please provide one judge for every four teams, or fraction thereof (e.g. 5 teams = two judges).