Harvard-Westlake will be hosting a tournament on Saturday, January 3 - Monday January 5, 2015. We will also host the Debate.LA Challenge on Friday, January 2. 

In Varsity LD, we are an Octafinals qualifier to the Tournament of Champions.

All rounds are open for observers and considered public.

CAMPUS MAP: http://tabroom-files.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/tourns/2819/postings/5393/USMap.pdf

Schools with NDCA member coaches will have their school fee reduced by 50%. (become an NDCA member, and it’s already paid for by this reduction). 

Payment information:

Please make checks to: Harvard-Westlake School

Send to:

Mike Bietz, Debate Team

Harvard-Westlake School

700 N Faring Road

Los Angeles, CA 90077

Note: This mailing address is for our MS campus. The tournament will be held on the UPPER SCHOOL CAMPUS (Maps/Directions here: http://www.hw.com/abouthw/Directions-Maps)

Regarding the World Schools Division

To support the efforts of Team USA, a portion of the tournament proceeds will support the travel costs of coaches and members of the team.

In addition to providing this support, we will offer ANY SCHOOL who brings a team to compete in the World Schools division (which has no entry fee), 50% off of the entry fees for the LD divisions.

Some of you may be concerned because you do not have debaters who are experienced in World Schools Debate. We will be offering TRAINING on the Friday prior to the beginning of the tournament (during the Debate.LA Challenge).

Other Special Notes

* Debaters must compete under the name of their school.  

* A school-approved chaperone must be on or near campus at all-times during the tournament. 

* In Varsity LD, judges should be experienced LD or Policy judges. If you are bringing someone who *is* not experienced, or wouldn't be comfortable in a high-level LD round, you will be asked to hire judges. We will potentially hire-back your judge to judge in other events.

* We will be using Ordinal Rankings for judge placement in Varsity LD.

* Elimination rounds will use side-equalization.

* Judges will be asked to sign a list of instructions/guidelines. 

Events

World Schools Debate

The World Schools Debate Tournament will take place on Saturday & Sunday during the regular tournament. If your team is interested in participating in this event, please email mbietz@hw.com.

The Debate.LA Challenge

The Debate.LA Challenge will take place on the Friday prior to the beginning of the tournament. Any school may enter up to 2 debaters in the Debate.LA Challenge. We will be using a "challenge format" for this small tournament.

Novice & Varsity Lincoln Douglas

Our regular tournament will take place on Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Varsity) and on Saturday and Sunday (Novice). 

 Speech Times

We will use normal 6-3-7-3-4-6-3 times in all rounds. So-called "flex prep" is not allowed, but debaters may ask questions during prep. This means you cannot transfer unused CX time to your prep time.

Judge Requirements

WSD

Schools must provide 1 judge for every entry in WSD.

The Debate.LA Challenge

The judging requirement is 1 judge for every debater.

Lincoln-Douglas

Schools must provide 1 judge for every 3 entries. Judges may not cover across divisions. There are no "Part-Time" judges. Every school must have their judges available for every prelim round. Judges are also obligated through Octafinals and then one round beyond the elimination of the team's last debater. 

 *Entourage rule* Every adult in attendance must make themselves available to judge. Experienced judges designated as an entourage judge will only be placed in rounds in which they are mutually preferred and where it is a round of significance. Non-experienced judges may be placed in any division. 

Hotel Information

Teams should stay at our tournament hotel - the Courtyard Los Angeles Sherman Oaks. It is located at 15433 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.

We have secured a special rate of at $104/night. You can book your rooms using this link:

http://bit.ly/1qC0oFx

Tentative Schedules

World Schools Division

Friday January 2

10:30am: Training Session 1

12:00pm: Lunch (Provided)

1:00pm: Training Session 2

6:00pm: Dinner (Provided)

Saturday January 3

9:00am: Round 1

11:00am: Round 2

2:00pm: Round 3

4:00pm: Round 4

Sunday January 4

9:00am: Round 5

11:00am: Round 6

1:00pm: Semifinals

2:00pm: Finals

Lincoln-Douglas Debate Divisions (Debate.LA Challenge/HW Tournament)

Friday January 2

Debate.LA Challenge

8:00am: Challenge Introduction

8:30am: R1 Challenges Begin

9:00am: Round 1

10:15am: R2 Challenge Begins

10:45am: Round 2

11:45pm: Lunch (Provided)

12:15pm: R3 Challenge Begins

12:45pm: Round 3

1:45pm: R4 Challenge Begins

2:15pm: Round 4

3:30pm: R5 Challenge Begins

4:00pm: Round 5

5:00pm: R6 Challenge Begins

5:30pm: Round 6

6:30pm: Dinner (Provided)

7:00pm: Semifinal Challenge Begins

7:15pm: Semifinal

8:15pm: Finals

Saturday January 3

8:00am: Check-in

8:30am: VLD/NLD Round 1

11:00am: VLD/NLD Round 2

Lunch (Provided)

2:00pm: VLD/NLD Round 3

5:00pm: VLD/NLD Round 4

Sunday January 4

8:00am: Check-in

8:30am: VLD/NLD Round 5

11:30am: VLD/NLD Round 6

Lunch (Provided)

Announcement of Speaker Awards

2:30pm: VLD Triples (4-2s will clear up to a full Triple-octafinal round - All judges obligated regardless of teams perfomance)

2:30pm: NLD Octas (4-2s will clear up to a full octafinal round)

4:00pm: NLD Quarters

5:30pm: NLD Semis

6:00pm: VLD Doubles (All judges obligated - regardless of team performance)

6:30pm: NLD Finals

** ALL JUDGES ARE OBLIGATED FOR THE MORNING OCTAFINAL ROUND IF THEY HAD A COMPETITOR IN THE VLD DOUBLES **

Monday January 5

8:00am: Check-in

9:00am: VLD Octas

12:00pm: VLD Quarters

1:00pm: VLD Semis

2:00pm: VLD Finals