General Information

General Information

Cypress Falls High School 9811 Huffmeister Rd. Houston, TX 77095

Contestants must be accompanied by a coach who is a full-time employee of the school or school district. If a coach is not present, the entire team will be disqualified from the tournament (drop fees will apply).

No smoking is permitted on campus.

Any problems should be directed to Miles Nye by the coach or school employee sponsor. Parents of students have no standing to challenge results.

Contestants may not enter a room until a judge is present. Failure to comply with this rule will result in immediate disqualification. Please inform all students that video surveillance cameras are installed throughout the campus.

Students cross-enter in IEs at their own risk.

No food or drink is permitted outside the cafeteria.

Rounds 1 and 2 will be preset. Rounds 3/4 will be powered High/Low within brackets. We will NOT break brackets in debate.

Novice is defined as a HIGH SCHOOL competitor in their first year of competition or having less than 25 NFL points prior to our tournament. Middle school students may not enter, even in novice divisions.

Judges: We will panel when we can. Judges at our tournament consist of contract judges, college students, teachers, parents, community volunteers, and junior/senior Cy Falls students (who will be judging novice rounds).

Cypress Falls High School cannot be held responsible for lost or damaged laptops. (Should a student decide to use a laptop in the prep area, students must leave their computers in draw or in a closed bag while they are in the competition room. Students will not be allowed back into the draw room until extemp draw has been completed. Furthermore, Cypress Falls will not provide power sources for laptop use.

We will be using the NSDA Jan/Feb topic for LD and the NSDA Jan/Feb topic for PF.