BEST GREETINGS FROM NUEVA DEBATE!

We hope your school will attend the eighth annual Nueva Parli Invitational, to be held live and in person at the Nueva Upper School on Friday, January 10 (Varsity only) and Saturday, January 11 (both JV and Varsity) 2024.

ELIGIBILITY– We will accept middle school teams and/or high school teams. A high school debater may debate with a middle school debater from their affiliated middle school, and vice versa. We will accept hybrid teams if we receive written authorization from both school administrators. Otherwise, students must attend the same school and must compete as authorized representatives of the school they attend. Coaches may place teams in either the JV or Varsity division using their reasonable discretion. All teams must be accompanied by verifiably official adult chaperones. We do not accept club teams or teams from for-profit organizations.

REGISTRATION is through tabroom.com. It will open at 8 pm on Monday, November 11. All entries will be waitlisted pending tournament approval. We are setting an initial limit of five teams per school per division.

JUDGES– Schools owe one judge per two entries. Very experienced high school parli debaters may judge in the junior division, with prior approval. All judges must have linked tabroom.com accounts, and we hope that open division judges will have posted paradigms. A limited number of hired judges may be procured (through our Procurement Office) for $190 in the novice division and $250 in the varsity division. We expect to have some excellent guest judges. If you know of people we should hire, please let us know.

RULES -- We will use CHSSA rules with the following exceptions:

1. Preparing with teammates is allowed.

2. We won’t consider protests on the basis of competitors asking judges to look up evidence to verify it (and judges doing so).

VENUE -- The Nueva Upper School is at 131 East 28th Avenue, San Mateo CA. 94403. It is a block from the Hillsdale Caltrain station. Nueva also has a K-8 campus in Hillsborough. Don't go there; that would be wrong.

FEES -

• $65 per JV team
• $80 per Varsity team
• judge hires for $190 in the novice division
• judge hires for $250 in the varsity division

Fees are frozen on January 4. Checks should be payable to The Nueva School, sent to Les Phillips c/o The Nueva School, 131 E. 28th Avenue. They are due not later than registration time.

LOGISTICS -- The school will be accessible for entry at 3:40 pm on Friday and 7:30 pm on Saturday. We will also serve a tasty lunch to all contestants and judges in our cafe, free of charge, on Saturday.

ETC.-- The parli topic committee will be Nueva parli staff plus whoever else we can trick into service. We will announce a topic area for two of our rounds not later than December 31.

Schools should reach out if they want to enter (not more than) one three-person team in the novice division or (not more than one) maverick.

Feel free to contact us with questions. We very much look forward to hosting you!

Julie and Les