I will remove Lauren now. Can we make a hybrid with your third debater? WR On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Meany, John <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Hi Will, > > Will not arrive until prior to BP Rd 1 but can register any time after > that. > > Have changes – lost a student to illness today. So I will combine debaters > to create a 3-person team (Luke Radice, Pastor Arroyo, and Meteor Li will > debate together) – the other 2 teams are intact (Jackson Smith/Matthew > Abrahamsen and Antonio de la Barra Rocha/Shreyas Kadaba). I need 2 judges > and will remove Lauren Phillips from the judging pool. > > Thanks, Will. Look forward to seeing you. > > Best, > > John > > From: USU debate <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Will Reilly-Silberm > <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: USU debate <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 7:25 AM > To: USU debate <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Aztec Invitational Addendum: Parking, Registration, and Schedule > > Good day, > On-site registration for the Aztec will begin on Thursday, 10/1 at 4:00pm > in the School of Communication, Comm 225 & 226. We will remain open until > 8:00pm. If you are unable to make this time frame, not to worry! We will > continue accepting registration on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday and Sunday > morning we will be available to register your teams from 7:00am-7:45am, and > by appointment. > The School of Communication is located in the center of campus, connected > to Hepner Hall. A Google Maps link is available here (with turn by turn > navigation!!): *https://goo.gl/2m0lek <https://goo.gl/2m0lek>* > If you have Google Maps installed on your smartphone, simply tap that > link, and it will show you the walking distance from the official parking > structure to us, with turn by turn navigation! Otherwise, it will pull up a > list of directions that should prove to be helpful. > Speaking of parking... > *The official parking structure for the tournament is PS6, as opposed to > the previously stated structure. You will not be ticketed if you park in > this structure (PS6) on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If you park in a > different structure on the days of the tournament, your vehicle(s) will be > subject to university citation. If you come to register on Thursday, you > will be required to purchase a temporary parking pass on-site if you park > in any university lot in which a pass is required.* > > Our Director of Forensics, Danny Iberri-Shea, sent out this additional > addendum below to other debate listservs. If you are registering in > multiple formats, this could apply to you. > > I just wanted to post a few important notes that may help teams navigate > their final entry decisions. First of all, to clarify, we are offering 2 > tournaments, with part one (debate only) starting on Friday, which is > officially part of the Aztec Tournament, and part 2 starting on Sat., > which is an IE only tournament, hosted by Palomar College (this was the > only available day they could host). The IE portion of "part 1" (the > Aztec) is occurring on Sunday. The schedule in the invite also reflects > this information, due to the overlapping nature of our tournaments, > necessary to achieve our multi-format tournament objective. > All debate activities are associated, and to be entered under the Aztec > Invitational Part 1. > LD conflicts: Any competitors doing NFA-LD may not enter any other events > in pattern B, but may do up to the allowed 3 events in pattern A (unless > also doing any version of 2x2 team debate). > As far as IE conflicts with debate activities on Sunday, here is the > deal: teams wishing to enter students into pattern A events (which do > conflict with the ongoing parli debate), may opt to place their NPDA > debaters into pattern A AND B (which is already not conflicting) events, > with the full knowledge and assumption of risk, that if those NPDA teams > qualify for elimination rounds, that they must chose between dropping their > pattern A events, or continuing on in debate. Since we hiring judges based > on need, such drops during the tournament would not be refundable. > Advice: If you think your team debaters have a chance at doing well, > consider sticking to the "avoid pattern A events" mantra, to prevent wasted > entries. Exceptions to this policy may be made by the tournament director > and/or tabulation staff, if the situation is reasonable and the tournament > is otherwise running on time. > The Paul Gaske Award has been fully backed again this year, with a $500.00 > cash prize for the top single competitor, who competes in BOTH team debate > (2x2) and individual events. This will be based on points accumulated > throughout the Aztec portion (part 1) of the tournament. > Judges: Please be aware that unless already arranged, judges for LD, need > to be in the LD pool (under debate), if they are covering LD entries. We > need to make sure that we have sufficient LD judges, and tend to keep that > pool consistent. > Awards: Just for fun, I thought I would throw out the fact that when added > up, we have 580 awards to give away! Each partner in partnering events > (e.g., debate and duo) will receive separate hardware, and we want to give > as much away as possible. :) > > We can't wait to have you this weekend! See you soon! > Go Aztecs! > Will Reilley Silberman > -- Will Silberman (626) 262-3646