Cerritos College

CERRITOS COLLEGE FALCON FORENSICS

January 7, 2020

Dear Colleagues:

The Cerritos College Falcon Forensics squad is pleased to invite you to attend the annual
Tabor-Venitsky Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament to be held on Friday and Saturday,
February 14 and 15, 2020. Once again, this year we will be working in conjunction with an
outstanding tab room staff to provide you with an exciting tournament. The Tabor-Venitsky
traditionally provides a competitive preview of the PSCFA Spring Championships, CCCFA State
Championship, as well as Phi Rho Pi. Of special note are the following changes and additions:

 Tournament registration will now be through tabroom.com

 In novice LD, competitors are limited to evidence from the PSCFA novice LD evidence
packet (note: this rule will not apply if novice is collapsed into open)
 We will again offer interviewing as a non-sweepstakes Pi Kappa Delta event

For the Tabor-Venitsky, we will offer four rounds of NPDA parliamentary debate breaking to a
bronze/gold elimination round format on Friday and three rounds of Individual Events breaking
to finals on Saturday. Each day will feature its own awards ceremony. Students may enter a
maximum of two IE events per pattern. We will offer two divisions in parliamentary debate and
individual events. The open division in both debate and individual events will be limited to
students with remaining CCCFA and/or Phi Rho Pi eligibility ONLY. There will be no
coaching or group prep allowed during preparation time in parliamentary debate.

Please submit your entries on tabroom.com. All entries must be submitted by Tuesday,
February 11, 2020 at 6:00pm PST. Fees will be assessed on Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at
6:00pm. Any adds after that date will be at the tournament director’s discretion. However,
please email with drops through Friday to assist in paneling.

We would also like to invite you to the Southern California LD Championships - a one day NFA-
LD and IPDA swing tournament to be held on Sunday, February 16, 2020 at Cerritos College.
The Championships will offer four rounds of LD competition for your competitors in novice and
open. We will follow NFA rules in the event and break to appropriate elimination rounds. IPDA
will follow Phi Rho Pi rules. IPDA students will strike topics in a centralized topic room before
going to their competition rooms. The Championships has no restrictions on eligibility; all
undergraduate students, include those who have exhausted their CCCFA and/or PRP
eligibility, are invited to compete.

Sincerely,

Nick Matthews April Griffin

Tournament Director Cerritos College
Cerritos College agriffin@cerritos.edu
nmatthews@cerritos.edu 562-860-2451 x2849
562-860-2451 x3227

Cerritos Community College District

11110 Alondra Boulevard, Norwalk, CA 90650 • 562.860.2451 • www.cerritos.edu
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TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Friday
8:45 am – Registration
9:30 am – Parli Round 1
11:00 am – Parli Round 2
12:45 pm – Parli Round 3
2:30 pm – Parli Round 4
4:30 pm – Bronze Round
6:00 pm – Gold Round
ASAP – Awards

Saturday
8:00 am – Round 1 – Pattern A
9:15 am – Extemp Draw
9:30 am – Round 1 – Pattern B
11:15 am – Round 2 – Pattern A
12:45 pm – Round 3 – Pattern A
2:00 pm – Extemp Draw
2:15 pm – Round 2 - Pattern B
3:30 pm – Extemp Draw
3:45 pm – Round 3 - Pattern B
5:00 pm – Finals – Pattern A
6:15 pm – Extemp Draw
6:30 pm – Finals - Pattern B
ASAP Awards

Pattern A: Persuasive, Impromptu, POI, DI, CA, Duo

Pattern B: Informative, Extemporaneous, Prose, Poetry, STE, Interviewing

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sunday
8:15-8:50am – Registration
9:00 am – IPDA judge training in SS-207 (required for new or lay IPDA judges)
9:00 am – Round 1 (8:55 am roll call for IPDA in Science lecture hall)
10:30 am – Round 2 (10:25 am roll call for IPDA)
12:00 pm – Round 3 (11:55 am roll call for IPDA)
1:45 pm – Round 4 (1:40 pm roll call for IPDA)
3:45 pm – Elim 1 (3:40 pm roll call for IPDA)
5:15 pm – Elim 2 (5:10 pm roll call for IPDA)
ASAP AWARDS

Please note the schedule is tentative and subject to change.

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LOCATION
Cerritos College is located between the 91 and 5 freeways, just east of the 605 freeway.
From the north or south take the 605 to the Alondra Boulevard exit and go east to
Studebaker Road. Turn right on Studebaker and left into parking lots C5 or C6. Parking is
free Friday through Sunday. A campus map is available online.

TOURNAMENT HEADQUARTERS
The tournament will be run out of the Social Science Building (SS on the map) located on
the northwest corner of campus. Registration & Judges Lounge: SS 207. Tab Room: SS
240. Extemp prep and IPDA topic strikes will be in the main Science building lecture hall.

PATTERNS
Friday: Parliamentary Debate (4 prelims/2 elims)
Open division is limited to community college students with CCCFA or Phi Rho Pi eligibility.
Novice division is open to any undergraduate student meeting the novice definition below.
Please note there is no group prep or coaching allowed. Topics will be Phi Rho Pi style (2
policy, 2 value, 1 metaphor per round) and will be struck in competition rooms.

Saturday: Individual Events

Open division is limited to community college students with CCCFA or Phi Rho Pi eligibility,
with the exception of Interviewing. Novice division is open to any undergraduate student
meeting the novice definition below. Students may compete in a maximum of two events
per pattern.
Pattern A: Persuasive, Impromptu, POI, DI, Duo, CA
Pattern B: Informative, Extemporaneous, Prose, Poetry, STE, Interviewing

Sunday: Individual Debate

International Public Debate Association (4 prelims/2 elims)
This event is open to both two-year and four-year competitors regardless of PRP eligibility.
We will use central topic distribution for IPDA. Debaters are required to report to the
Science building lecture hall five minutes prior to the beginning of each round for roll call. If
a debater is absent at the time topics are distributed, their opponent may select a topic of
their choice and begin preparation for the debate on that topic.

NFA LD (4 prelims/3 elims)

This event is open to both two-year and four-year competitors regardless of PRP eligibility.
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DIVISION ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

Coaches are responsible for entering their students in the appropriate division. The
tournament director shall have the discretion to remove competitors in violation of these
requirements from the tournament.

Novice:
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS: a novice is a student who:
 Has not won two trophies (1st, 2nd, or 3rd Place) in an event in which a final round
occurred.
 Possesses novice eligibility in all other related events within the categories of
platform, interp, and limited prep events. For example, a student who has won two
trophies in Prose must compete in Open Poetry, even if they have never competed
in Poetry before.
 For the purposes of determining novice eligibility, Interviewing is categorized as a
limited prep event.

DEBATE: a novice debate student is a student who:

 Is competing in their first or second semester of debate (including any high school
experience).
 Has not advanced to debate elimination rounds twice.
 In team debate, eligibility is determined by the more experienced partner. If either
team member has debated for more than two semesters or competed in elimination
rounds at two tournaments, they must debate in open.

Open:

The open division in both parliamentary debate and individual events will be limited to
students with remaining CCCFA and/or Phi Rho Pi eligibility only. However, Interviewing
and the Southern California LD Championships have no restrictions on open eligibility – all
students are welcome. PSCFA guidelines for eligibility will be followed in these events.

JUDGING

We’d rather have your judges than your money. Uncovered entries are contingent on a
sufficient supply of available hired judges and must be requested from the tournament
director well in advance of the tournament. In the event uncovered entries are permitted,
please note that uncovered judging fees are quite substantial.

Debate:

 One judge is required for every two teams or portion thereof entered for
parliamentary debate.
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 One judge is required for every two debaters or portion thereof entered in NFA-LD or
IPDA.
 Judges are required to judge one round beyond the elimination of their last team and
all judges are committed through the first elimination round.

There will be a charge of $150 per uncovered entry for parliamentary debate, IPDA and
NFA-LD. Please note that Phi Rho Pi rules prohibit disclosure. To help keep the tournament
running on time, judges should return their completed ballots to the ballot table before
providing any oral feedback.

Individual Events:

 One judge is required for every five entries per pattern.

 ALL judges are committed through the final rounds.
 There will be a charge of $45 per uncovered IE slot.

Qualifications:

 Open division judges should be 2 semesters removed from all competition and/or
possess a bachelor’s degree.
 Novice division judges should be at least two semesters removed from novice
competition.
 In IPDA, lay judges are encouraged and may be used in any division. Lay/first time
judges are expected to attend a short training session immediately prior to round 1.

The tournament staff reserves the right to make determinations regarding judging
qualifications. Novice judges may not be used to cover open division entries.

Hired Judges:

If you have extra judges available for hire, please let us know, as we would like to hire them.
We will pay $15 per round judged. Please have potential hired judges contact Nick
Matthews at nmatthews@cerritos.edu by Wednesday, February 12, 2020.

AWARDS

For the Tabor, we will break to a bronze round in parliamentary debate and award the top
ten speakers in each division. All IE finalists will receive awards. For the LD
Championships, we will break to a bronze round in IPDA and NFA-LD.

Two categories of sweepstakes awards will be given out. The Large Entry category will be
determined by counting the number of students entered by each school in the tournament
as of Wednesday night. The largest fifty percent (plus ties) of the schools entered in the
tournament will count as Large Entry. The remaining schools will count as Limited Entry.

Sweepstakes will be calculated in the following manner:

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Parliamentary Debate:

 1 point for each prelim win in debate for the four best teams per school.
 10 points for Gold, 5 points for Silver, 3 points for Bronze across all divisions.

Individual Events:

 10 points for 1st, 5 points for 2nd, 3 points for 3rd, and 1 point for finalist.
 Interviewing will not count towards sweepstakes.

HOTEL INFORMATION

There is no official tournament hotel; however, there are numerous hotels in the area for
you to choose from. If you need additional information, please feel free to contact us at
nmatthews@cerritos.edu or agriffin@cerritos.edu.

A few hotels nearby:

Holiday Inn La Mirada

14299 Firestone Blvd, La Mirada Ca 90638, 1-877-859-5095
Room Rates average around $120.00 plus tax – but please inquire

Hotel Saddleback Norwalk

12500 Firestone Blvd, Norwalk, CA 90650-4329, 1-844-331-6818
Room Rates average around $98.00 plus tax – but please inquire

MEAL INFORMATION

There are numerous fast food restaurants located across the street from campus, such as
In-N-Out Burger, Starbucks, and Chipotle. Meals and snacks will be provided for judges.

NO SMOKING

Smoking and vaping are not permitted indoors or within 20 feet of any building, including the
patio of the SS building. Please help keep our campus clean by disposing of cigarette butts
in the appropriate receptacles.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
Accommodations and accessibility:
The tournament director will strive to make the tournament accessible for participants with
disabilities. Requests for accommodations, such as assigned classrooms, sign language
interpreters, etc., should be noted in your entry on tabroom.com AND emailed to
nmatthews@cerritos.edu. Please email requests as far in advance as possible. It may not
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be possible to accommodate specialized requests made at the last minute. In particular, the
college requires a minimum of five business days’ notice for interpreter services.

All-Gender Restrooms:
All-gender restrooms are located on the second floor of the Liberal Arts building, in the rear
of the faculty office area. Please do not enter the faculty office area unless you are using
one of these restrooms.

Classrooms:
 Please do not move any smart podiums or touch any electronics.
 NO FOOD OR BEVERAGES ARE ALLOWED IN THE LIBERAL ARTS
BUILDING. Please keep all food and beverages sealed and put away.
 Please put back any furniture you may have moved during your round.
 If you encounter a classroom issue, please call April at 949-378-3910

Title IX:
All students, employees, and guests on the Cerritos College campus are protected under
Title IX against discrimination on the basis of sex, including sexual harassment and sexual
assault. Cerritos College’s Title IX coordinator, Dr. Valyncia C. Raphael, can be contacted
during school business hours at 562-860-2451 x2276 or vraphael@cerritos.edu

ENTRIES & FEES

All entries must be submitted by Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 6:00 pm PST to Forensics
Tournament. If you have trouble with the entry website, please email Nick
(nmatthews@cerritos.edu) for assistance.

Fees will be assessed as of Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 6:00pm PST.

Mandatory Entry Fees

 School Fee: $25

 Parliamentary Debate: $30 per team
 NFA-LD: $15 per entry
 IPDA: $15 per entry
 Individual Events: $8 per slot
o Duo: $15 per team

Judge Fees

 Uncovered IE slots: $45 per slot

 Uncovered Debate Judges: $150 per team
 Uncovered Individual Debate Judges: $150 per entry
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Nuisance Fees

 No Show Fee IEs: $20 per slot

 No Show Fee Debate: $40 per entry
 Nuisance Debate Fee: $10
 Judge Nuisance Fee: $50
 Late Add Fee School Fee: $50 (after the Tuesday deadline at the tournament director’s
discretion)
 Late Add Fee IE Entry: $10 per event (after the Wednesday deadline at tournament
director’s discretion)
 Late Add Fee Debate Entry: $20 per entry (after the Wednesday deadline at tournament
director’s discretion)
 Drop Fee: $5 per event (after the Wednesday deadline up until 30 minutes before the
start of the event)

Please make checks payable to: Cerritos College Foundation-Forensics

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2020 Tabor Venitsky/LD Champs Fee Sheet

Tournament Director Nick Matthews

February 14-16, 2020

MANDATORY FEES: NUMBER FEES

School Fee $25

Parliamentary Debate $30/per team
IPDA Debate $15/entry
NFA LD $15/entry
PATTERN "A" --$8/SLOT
PATTERN "B" -- $8/SLOT
DUO INTERP -- $15/SLOT
JUDGING FEES:
DEBATE --$150/TEAM
Individual Debate $150/entry
I.E. -- $45/SLOT
PATTERN A
PATTERN B
SUB-TOTAL(entry fees)
NUISANCE AND MISCELLANEOUS FEES
NO-SHOW I.E. FEE -- $20/SLOT
PATTERN A
PATTERN B
NO-SHOW DEBATE FEE -- $40/SLOT
NUISANCE FEE: - $5
NUISANCE FEE, DEBATE -- $10
JUDGE NUISANCE FEE -- $50/ROUND
LATE ADD FEE SCHOOL FEE -- $50
LATE ADD FEE IE ENTRY-$10 each
LATE ADD FEE DEBATE ENTRY-$20 each
Drop Fee (after Wednesday Deadline) - $5
SUB-TOTAL(other fees)

TOTAL FEES
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DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS
Pi Kappa Delta event:

Interviewing: this event is designed to give students the opportunity to sharpen their job
interviewing and resume writing skills. Students will assume they are applying for an
appropriate position (e.g., an internship, entry-level job, etc.) in a field they want to work in.
Prior to the tournament, students should prepare a resume they would use in applying for
their desired position, and they should print sufficient copies to provide to their judges each
round (three copies for prelims and three copies for finals). Students should omit references
to the school they compete for from their resume. During each round, the judge will ask
students 5 questions provided by the tournament. Because all competitors in each section
will be asked the same questions, other competitors should wait outside the room until it is
their turn to interview. Each interview will last for no more than 10 minutes, with time
beginning as the judge starts to read the first question. Interviews may not exceed 10
minutes even if the student has not responded to all the questions. Judges will score and
rank students based on a rubric provided by the tournament.

Prior to beginning each interview, the judge will request the competitor’s resume and quickly
review and score it. Judges should score students based on the quality of the resume, not
their actual qualifications for the job. Students should present a truthful resume that reflects
their actual life experience, and they should be prepared to elaborate on portions of their
resume during the interview. Although we encourage students to be creative and use
resume-writing techniques that will catch attention, they should refrain from brightly-colored
inks, excessively-ornate fonts, the inclusion of pictures or headshots, or anything else that
would draw excessive attention to style rather than content.

Parliamentary Debate

 Five topics will be provided in both preliminary and elimination rounds. These topics
will include 2 policy, 2 value and 1 metaphor per round.
 The judge should give the resolution slip to the opposition first who will then have 1
minute to read and strike 1 of the 5 topics. Immediately following, the judge will give
the topic slip to the government who will also have 1 minute to read and strike 1 of
the 2 remaining topics. The process continues until one topic remains, which will be
debated.
 Prep time will be 20 minutes. Prep time will start after the judge reads the motion that
will be debated.
 There is no coaching allowed during prep time. Debaters may not consult any other
person besides their partner. Debaters may use paper, dictionaries, almanacs,
and/or electronic research material. Except for notes that the debaters themselves
have prepared during preparation time, no published materials, prepared arguments,
or resources may be used during the debate.
 We will use flex time in parliamentary debate.

Prime Minister (Government) 7 minute Constructive

Flex time 2 minutes
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Leader of the Opposition 8 minute Constructive

Flex time 2 minutes
Member of the Government 8 minute Constructive
Flex time 1 minute
Member of the Opposition 8 minute Constructive
Leader of the Opposition 4 minute Rebuttal
Flex time 1 minute
Prime Minister 5 minute Rebuttal

International Public Debate Association (IPDA)

IPDA primarily utilizes a one-on-one debate format in which one debater takes the side of
the affirmative and the other debater takes the side of the negative. For each round, the two
debaters are given five possible resolutions and 30 minutes of preparation. Preparation time
begins when the negative begins the topic selection by striking one resolution and proceeds
in a back-and-forth fashion until one resolution is left. After the topic has been selected,
both debaters prepare their cases with the remaining preparation time. IPDA debate often
utilizes lay judges to adjudicate the round and emphasizes conversational rhetoric. Visit
IPDA debate to learn more.

Speech times are:

1st Affirmative 5 minutes
Cross Examination 2 minutes
1st Negative 6 minutes
Cross Examination 2 minutes
Affirmative Rebuttal 3 minutes
Negative Rebuttal 5 minutes
Affirmative Summary 3 minutes

NFA-LD Debate

We will follow standard NFA rules for NFA-LD with time limits of 6-3-7-3-6-6-3 with 4
minutes of preparation time for each debater. In the novice division, competitors are limited
to using evidence from the PSCFA novice evidence set.

Individual Events
PATTERN A
Persuasive: An original, serious speech intended to convince an audience to accept an
idea or adopt a policy of action. No more that 10% should be quoted. Maximum time limit is
10 minutes.
Impromptu: An impromptu speech, serious in nature, with topic selection varied round by
round, section-by-section. Speakers will have a total of 7 minutes and may use the time at
their discretion.
Duo: Two persons from the same college performing a selection from any type of literature.
Maximum time limit is 10 minutes. One person may not be in more than one Duo.
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Programmed Oral Interpretation: A lecture-recital format composed of two or more

selections from one or more authors, utilizing at least two different genres. Program should
cohere in some manner but need not be thematic, i.e. "love", "war," "hate," etc. Maximum
time limit is 10 minutes.
Dramatic Interpretation: This event shall consist of a cutting or cuttings from a play,
teleplay or screenplay, featuring monologue or dialogue. If more than one selection is used,
these selections should be linked by a thematic transition. All programs must include an
introduction. Maximum time limit is 10 minutes.
Communication Analysis: Analysis using rhetorical-communication principles. The
analysis can be of a speech, speaker, movement, poster or other graphics, song,
advertisement, play, poem, painting, etc. Maximum time is 10 minutes.

PATTERN B
Informative: An informative speech (with or without visual aids) is intended to instruct an
audience rather than reinforce or change an attitude. Maximum time limit is 10 minutes.
Extemporaneous: Topics taken from the areas of national and international politics,
economics, and international relations. Topics will be drawn from articles published in
newsmagazines within the 90 days prior to the tournament. Maximum time limit is 7
minutes. Self-contained laptops may be used in the prep-room but a power source might
not be available.
Prose: Prose shall consist of single or multiple selections of literature printed mainly in
paragraph form, excluding drama. If more than one selection is used, these selections
should be linked by a thematic transition. Use of manuscript is required. Maximum time limit
is 10 minutes.
Poetry: A selection or selections of poetry of literary merit, which may be drawn from more
than one source. Play cuttings are prohibited. Use of manuscript is required. Maximum time
limit is 10 minutes, including introduction and transitions.
Speech to Entertain/ADS: A humorous treatment of issues or events, avoiding material of
questionable taste. The speech should be original rather than an imitation or impersonation
of a comedian or monologue. Maximum time limit is 10 minutes.
Interviewing: see page 9.