Ursa Major
2015 — UT/US
Copper Hills High School is excited to host our first ever regular season tournament this year called Ursa Major! The tournament will be held on December 11th and 12th with registration opening at 2:30 on Friday and pairings on Saturday released at 7:30 AM.
There have already been a number of awesome schools that have committed to come but we have a big building and would love to host a big tournament.
We are having all of the standard events: CX, PF, LD, Congress, NX, FX, Impromptu, Oratory, Spar, HI, DI, DUO
We will also have Poetry and Declamation
ALL events will occur on BOTH DAYS.
We will have two panels of speech to allow for HYPER Multiple entry:
Panel A
NX
Impromptu
HI
DI
Poetry
Panel B
FX
Oratory
Spar
DUO
Declamation
The schedule will look like this:
For Speech:
Friday Dec 11
3PM-5PM - Panel A Speech round 1 (a little flex in the schedule for rd 1)
5-6:30PM - Panel B Round 1
6:30PM-8PM - Panel A Round 2
Sat Dec 12
8AM-9:30 - Panel B rd2
9:30-11AM - Panel A rd3
11AM-12:30 - Panel B rd4
12:30-2PM - Panel A rd4
2PM - 3:30PM - Panel B rd4
For Debate:
Friday Dec 11
3-5:30 - Round 1
5:30-8PM - Round 2
Saturday Dec 12
8AM-10 - Round 3
10-Noon - Round 4
12-2 - Round 5
2-4 - Round 6
Congress Schedule:
Friday
Session 1: 3:30-5:45
Session 2: 6:00-8:00
Saturday
Session 3: 8:00-10:30
Session 4: 11:30-1:30
Session 5: 2:00-4:00
Our tournament will abide by these principles:
No elims (6 rounds in debate, two days of congress, and 4 rounds in each panel of speech) this allows all of your members to get A LOT rounds in
We will value speech AND Debate
Sweepstakes for small teams and big ones (at least one "quantity" trophy and one "quality" trophy)
Lots of awards
Great hospitality (we have clearance to use the school kitchen and “restaurant”)
Awesome judging- The tournament will be hiring “experts” in LD and Policy
A friendly, respectful, and fair environment
A sweet awards ceremony in our auditorium with some pomp and circumstance
Because we don't have elims it will feel like an early ending on saturday