Good Luck to those who are going to the league this weekend!


Grades

 

Eligibility:

These apply to Varsity and Novice-

To be a team member in good standing and to be eligible to attend tournaments, the following are mandatory:

 

1.       Parents must attend one of the parent meetings which will be held on September 7, 8 and 13.

2.      You must attend the workshops on delivery and organization. Students entered in HI, DI, OPP, TI, Duo, or OI must attend the Interp workshop as well.

3.      Team debate has its own eligibility rules.

 

 

Students must:

  1. Participate in at least two events.  This can be a combination of debate and speech or two speech events.  Debaters must compete in a speech event.  Students participating in Congress, Parli, and Impromptu must also compete in LD, Team, or a prepared event.

  2. Attend three tournaments or the equivalent each semester.

  3. Attend weekly event meetings.

  4. Coach at least once a week.  (Fill out appropriate forms.)

  5. Practice at least once a week – more on weeks before tournaments.  (Fill out appropriate forms.)

  6. Attend special workshops as scheduled for your event(s).

  7. Turn in tournament critique forms within 5 school days of the competition.  Forms must be legible and complete!

  8. At league tournaments, observe the round(s) following the one from which you have been eliminated.  Turn in appropriate forms within 5 school days.  Finalists are to turn in the same form for their final rounds.  (This does not apply to Congress and debate tournaments without elimination rounds.)

  9. Turn in assignments related to your events on time:

·         Debate/Congress – research assignments

·         Impromptu – current events reports

·         Extemp – articles (must be filed)

·         OO/OA/Expos/OPP – outlines, rough drafts, speeches, revisions

·         Interps –typed copies of cuttings and introduction, revisions, back stories, character analyses

 

NFL Points   

 

Speech. 

Every time you compete in a speech round, you are given a rank anywhere from 1 to 5 (1 meaning the best speaker in that round and 5 the farthest away from the best speaker).  These ranks are translated into the following number of points:

 

 

OO, OA, OPP, Expos, Extemp

HI, DI, TI, OI, Duo

Impromptu

1st place

6 points

5 points

4 points

2nd place

5 points

4 points

3 points

3rd place

4 points

3 points

2 points

4th place

3 points

2 points

1 point

5th place

2 points

1 point

1 point

 

 

Debate.

Debate rounds work a little differently from speech rounds.  Instead of being ranked from 1 to 5 like in speech rounds, you either win or lose in debate. 

 

For every round you win, you earn................  6 points

For every round you lose, you earn..............   3 points

 

 

Congress.

Student Congress is very different from either speech or debate.  In Congress, each tournament has its own set of rules regarding NFL points.  You don’t need to memorize a point system because the people in charge of tournaments assign the points and tell the coaches how many points each student earned.  All you need to do is ask Mrs. Brasher after the tournament how many points you earned in order to record them on your NFL sheets.  One VERY important thing, though – you absolutely must remember how many schools competed in Congress at the tournament!

 

 

 

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