Dear Coaches,

Highland Park High School is pleased to invite your team to ICDA 5, an ICDA invitational tournament and Tournament of Champions qualifier, on Saturday, January 18, 2025.

ENTRIES & FEES

Please register all students as varsity debaters on Tabroom.com by Friday, January 10, at 5:00 p.m. The Oversight Committee will automatically move eligible competitors into TOC chambers. The entry fee is $10 per debater. Please make checks payable to Highland Park High School. If mailing payment, please use the following address:

Highland Park High School
c/o Shawn Tanner
433 Vine Avenue
Highland Park, IL 60035

DROP-OFF & PARKING

The main entrance on Vine Avenue is closed on weekends, so buses should drive to the back of campus and use the parking circle off Saint Johns Avenue for drop-off. Teams should enter the building through the H-Entrance. Buses can park in either of the adjacent parking lots.

SCHEDULE

Registration: 7:15 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. (at the H-Entrance)
Judges meeting: 8:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. (in the library)
Session 1: 8:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Session 2: 11:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch: 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Session 3: 2:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. (TOC chambers might run late due to reseeding)
Awards: ASAP in Auditorium

JUDGING

In addition to the usual requirement of one judge for every nine invitational debaters, each school will need to provide a coach or very experienced judge if any of their students qualify for TOC chambers.For example:

• if a school enters eleven students and one qualifies for TOC, that school will be required to
provide two judges for the invitational tournament and one coach/experienced judge for TOC.
• if a school enters ten students and one qualifies for TOC, the school will need to provide one
judge for the invitational tournament and one coach/experienced judge for TOC.

Judges should expect to serve all three sessions. Your school’s judging obligation will be frozen on Friday, January 12, at 5:00 p.m. based on the number of competitors registered in Tabroom. Subsequent drops will not be considered when making assignments.

Please have judges entered in Tabroom by Wednesday, January 15 at 5:00 p.m. Final judging assignments will be released the day of the tournament.

LOCATIONS

TOC chambers: C-Wing
Varsity chambers: 3rd floor of A-Wing and C-Wing
Judges lounge: Library
Tab Room: Library
Awards Ceremony: Auditorium

FOOD

Debaters will eat lunch in the student cafeteria. Cheese, pepperoni, and sausage pizza is available for purchase through Tabroom. The cost is $18 per cheese pizza and $19 per pepperoni and sausage pizza.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided for judges and coaches.

QUESTIONS

For questions about rules, please email Tim Waters (tim.waters@d214.org). For questions about tournament logistics, registration, or technology, please email Randy Smith (rsmith@naperville203.org).For questions about ICDA 5 or Highland Park High School, please email Shawn Tanner (stanner@dist113.org).

Sincerely,
Coaches Shawn Tanner, Elizabeth Perlman and Paul Lusson