BELLARMINE NOVICE INTRASQUAD CONGRESS TOURNAMENT

Hosted IN-PERSON at:

Bellarmine College Preparatory

960 W. Hedding St., San Jose, CA, 95126

Saturday, October 22nd, 2022

Tournament Directors/Tabroom Staff: Xavier Liu, Sherwin Lai, Varun Vemulapalli, Rohan Lingam, Neal Dwivedula, Surya Krishnapillai

Executive Director: Mr. Langerman

Equity Officer: Xavier Liu, Rohan Lingam

Equity Form: https://forms.gle/JgirVDX1gWY9vHAJ8 

Tournament Helpdesk Number: +1 (408) 964-0688; Please TEXT before calling

Events Offered: Congressional Debate

Tournament website: http://bcprhetoricintrasquadcong.tabroom.com/ 

Registration: Only Bellarmine College Prep students who are taking Rhetoric their freshman year OR are in Novice Debate will be allowed to enter this Intrasquad tournament. All other schools will be dropped from the tournament without notice or warning.

Congress Legislation: Found in the #novicedebate22 Slack channel

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Announcements and Notifications

2. Notes for Students

3. Judging Instructions

4. Students' Instructions for Tabroom Accounts

The tournament schedule can be accessed by clicking on the "Schedule" page on the sidebar to the right. A tentative schedule is now posted.

1. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NOTIFICATIONS

Both students and judges: Please be attentive about emails and Slack notifications. Sign up for “Live Updates” using the tab above - this will alert you with text or email notifications about new pairings/postings.

Announcements will take place in the General Channel in the Novice Tournaments Team. Please pay attention to the General Channel for important updates, including pushing up or back rounds!

2. NOTES FOR STUDENTS AND JUDGES

- Be in tournament attire (think dress-up day) on the days you are competing.

- Pairings for all rounds will be posted on Tabroom. The tournament schedule will be listed on a separate custom page on the side bar. Please make sure that you know which room you will be speaking or debating in. 

- ALL competition will take place in classrooms within O'Donnell Hall. Please note that the current COVID-19 mask requirements will be followed while students are in rooms. 

- Students and judges should be in their rooms 10 minutes prior to the start of the round to ensure that the round starts on time.

- We will be enforcing a strict thirty-minute forfeit time after the first speaker starts speaking in each round. You are expected to attend ALL your rounds. Failure to do so will result in being ranked last in round.

- If you feel sick or unwell, please stay home and tell Mr. Langerman ASAP so we can mark you absent.

- For safety and legal purposes, judges may not record the round. 

- To access comments, ballots, and results, you will need to use your Tabroom.com account. If you do not have a Tabroom account or do not know how to link your account to a competitor, please look under "Students' Instructions for Tabroom Accounts" below.

3. JUDGING INSTRUCTIONS

If this is your first time judging, please be sure to link your Tabroom account to a judge. Click on "Link your person to a judge" and search for yourself. There will be a page that pops up that lists all judges registered on Tabroom with your name. Please look for your name and "judges for: Bellarmine College Prep" and click to link yourself to that judge!

- It’s super important that you attend the round on the day that you are assigned to judge.

- Slack one of the Tournament Directors and Mr. Langerman at least an hour prior to the start of the round to let us know that you are still able to judge.

- When you log in to your Tabroom account, you should be taken to a page where you will see the round that you need to judge along with the words "START ROUND" in a green box.

- Before the round: Judges, you MUST PRESS “START ROUND” once you receive your ballot. Doing this alerts Tab that you have officially “picked up” your ballot and that the round has officially started. 

- You must submit your ranking, no later than 20 minutes after the round ends. Parlis, please submit your ranks AFTER the 2nd session. Please do not delay the tournament by waiting to submit your rankings and comments at the same time. You can edit RFD/comments later even after you've submitted your rankings. 

- No show/forfeit procedure:

1. Take attendance at the start of the round. 

2. Note any missing individuals and alert/Slack Tab and Mr. Langerman. We will attempt to contact missing individuals and compel them to show up to the round.

- If something doesn't work or if the student still has not shown up by the listed start time, please start the round anyways! We can deal with the issue later.

- If the student has not shown up 30 minutes after the start of the session, mark the student as a "No Show" on the ballot and Slack Tab and Mr. Langerman. 

4. STUDENTS' INSTRUCTIONS FOR TABROOM ACCOUNTS

You will need to use your Tabroom account to access judge RFDs and comments. If you already have a Tabroom account and have already linked your account to yourself, awesome! There's no need for you to read the rest of this. 

STEP 1: HOW TO CREATE A TABROOM ACCOUNT

1. On the main page of Tabroom.com, find the "Sign Up" button on the upper right corner of your screen. Click on that. (Ignore the first question which asks you whether you're an NSDA Coach or PKD Member. You are a student and are neither.) Keep scrolling down, which leads you to a page where you type in your email, first name, last name, phone number, password, etc... While you are only required to input information regarding your email, first and last name, and password, we also highly recommend that you provide your cellphone number and service provider because you can get live text updates of postings and tournament updates!

2. After you input all your information, click "Create login." This will lead you to a blank page that serves as your Tabroom account. If you see the words "Judging," "Competing," and "Your Account" on the right hand side of the web page, you are in the right place!

STEP 2: LINK YOUR ACCOUNT WITH A COMPETITOR

1. After you log in, click on your email in the top right corner. On the right hand side, scroll down to "Your Account" and click on "Link your person to a student."

2. That will bring you to a page that prompts you to search for yourself. Type your first and last name in the empty boxes and click "Search."

3. Please pick the correct person and link yourself to that student. Look for your name and "competes for: Bellarmine College Prep" and click to link yourself to that person!

4. Tab may also ask you to confirm that you want to link. Please make sure all information is correct and confirm the link. Please DO NOT link your account to anyone OTHER THAN YOURSELF.