P2P warmly welcomes you to the inaugural Puma Pounce Novice Tournament!

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Peak to Peak Charter School, 800 Merlin Drive, Lafayette CO 80026

Registration opens at 8:00/ends at 8:30 am.

Events:

Registration: All registration will be through Tabroom; teams and competitors must register no later than Tuesday, October 8, 10 pm. Congress Docket submissions are due Friday, October 4th, 3 pm. Please notify us of all drops as soon as possible, as well as changing your registration in Tabroom. Drop fees will be added for any drops after Oct. 9, Someone will call or email you if we have questions, if additional slots open up, or if we are full.

Please register via this link to Tabroom: http://pumapouncenovice.tabroom.com.

Limits on Entries: Each school is limited to a maximum of 4 entries in each event, but we encourage adding waitlist competitors, as we may be able to accommodate more competitors in certain events, depending on which events fill to capacity and which, if any, don’t. We will close the tournament when we fill the rooms we have available; we will inform you when that occurs.

Schedule: All events, including debates, will have 3 rounds, with the plan to single-wave LD & PF.

• 8:00-8:30 – Registration

• 9:00 – Round I

• 10:30 – Round II

• 12:00 – Round III

• 2:00 – Awards

Awards: We will award Superior and Excellent ribbons to top performers. The aim is to recognize as many novice speakers and debaters as possible!

Fees: Entries are $6.00 per student/$12 per team (PF).

Please make checks payable to:

Peak to Peak Charter High School / Subject Line: Puma Pounce Novice Tournament

Mail checks to: Peak to Peak Charter High School, Attn: Seonjoon Young, 800 Merlin Drive, Lafayette, CO 80026

Judging: Schools are expected to provide experienced forensic and debate students to judge. Please bring one event judge for every six event entries and one debate judge for every two debate entries. With enough judges, we will single wave LD and PF, so bring a lot. Please inform your judges and competitors of appropriate behavior. (If you are a new program and don’t have any advanced students who can judge, just let us know.) We will be using electronic ballots with paper ballots as backups. Please let your student judges know that they will need a laptop, tablet, Chromebook, etc. for judging. We strongly discourage relying on phones for electronic ballot submission.

Rules: Each school (administration, teachers, and/or coaches) is responsible for ensuring they have proper parental permission for students to participate in the tournament and to use the designated competition platforms.

A responsible coach must be available ONSITE and VIA CELL at all times.

Competition is open to 9-12 grade students representing the school in which they are officially enrolled and doing so with the permission of their school administration and/or coaches.

We will be using current CHSAA rules, including the uses of electronic information retrieval.

Food: Will be available for competitors and judges to purchase. Free food will not be provided to judges. Lunch and snacks will be provided for coaches. There will be a concession stand for breakfast and lunch.

Concerns or Questions: If you have any questions or need clarification please contact SJ Young, Peak to Peak Head Coach, at any time: seonjoon.young@bvsd.org.