The Griffin Invitational 2011 (PDF)

 

THE GRIFFIN INVITATIONAL
Dear Colleagues,

Grossmont Community College Forensics Squad cordially invites you to attend the 19th Annual Griffin Invitational Speech & Debate Tournament to be held Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 12th & 13th, 2011 at Grossmont Community College.

Grossmont College is located, approximately 15 miles east of San Diego, in El Cajon, California.
Our college will also host the Ray Dahlin Individual Events Tournament, and NFA-LD, on Friday, Nov. 11th.
Our tournament offers your students:

• A One-Day Individual Events Tournament, on Saturday, Nov.12th with 3 rounds and finals in Open and Novice Divisions (if entries warrant). This allows your students to complete all their individual events in one day, including finals and awards. A separate Individual Events Awards ceremony will be held, and sweepstakes for the top three colleges will be awarded.

•  Our “Picket Fence” Award: A special trophy for the student with a “picket fence” in individual events.

• A One-Day Parliamentary Debate Tournament, on Sunday, Nov.13th with Open, Junior and Novice Divisions (if entries warrant). We will be using the 4 preliminary rounds and 2 out rounds, model. There will be two out rounds, with first out round winners receiving bronze awards and second out round winners designated either silver or gold awards. (Open Division final round is negotiable) A separate Parliamentary Debate Awards ceremony will be held, and sweepstakes for the top three colleges in Debate will be awarded.

• An Overall Sweepstakes Award for the top three colleges in both Individual Events and Debate will be awarded during the final ceremony on Sunday.

• An experienced, conscientious, Tab room. The following tab room staff have worked together, some for many of the 19 years: Skip Rutledge: Point Loma U., Neil Moura: Mira Costa College, Eddie Tiongson: Irvine Valley, Liana Koeppel: Cypress, Danny Cantrell: Mt. SAC, Linda Farnam: Mesa College, Reyna Velarde: Copper Mountain.

• Great food for the judges, so they won’t be too hungry to judge!

• We will be selling food for the students at a reasonable cost, so you won’t have to go off campus.

• A pleasant location: Grossmont is approximately 15 minutes from downtown San Diego, on the freeway, so you may even have time to visit some of San Diego’s beautiful sights.

We look forward to seeing you at the Griffin Invitational Tournament, at Grossmont College.

Sincerely,
Roxanne Tuscany
Director of Forensics at Grossmont
619 644-7276(office), or 619 204-8792(cell)

THE GRIFFIN INVITATIONAL
Dear Colleagues,
Grossmont Community College Forensics Squad cordially invites you to attend the 19th Annual Griffin Invitational Speech & Debate Tournament to be held Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 12th & 13th, 2011 at Grossmont Community College.
Grossmont College is located, approximately 15 miles east of San Diego, in El Cajon, California.
Our college will also host the Ray Dahlin Individual Events Tournament, and NFA-LD, on Friday, Nov. 11th.
Our tournament offers your students:
? A One-Day Individual Events Tournament, on Saturday, Nov.12th with 3 rounds and finals in Open and Novice Divisions (if entries warrant). This allows your students to complete all their individual events in one day, including finals and awards. A separate Individual Events Awards ceremony will be held, and sweepstakes for the top three colleges will be awarded.
? Our “Picket Fence” Award: A special trophy for the student with a “picket fence” in individual events.
? A One-Day Parliamentary Debate Tournament, on Sunday, Nov.13th with Open, Junior and Novice Divisions (if entries warrant). We will be using the 4 preliminary rounds and 2 out rounds, model. There will be two out rounds, with first out round winners receiving bronze awards and second out round winners designated either silver or gold awards. (Open Division final round is negotiable) A separate Parliamentary Debate Awards ceremony will be held, and sweepstakes for the top three colleges in Debate will be awarded.
? An Overall Sweepstakes Award for the top three colleges in both Individual Events and Debate will be awarded during the final ceremony on Sunday.
? An experienced, conscientious, Tab room. The following tab room staff have worked together, some for many of the 19 years: Skip Rutledge: Point Loma U., Neil Moura: Mira Costa College, Eddie Tiongson: Irvine Valley, Liana Koeppel: Cypress, Danny Cantrell: Mt. SAC, Linda Farnam: Mesa College, Reyna Velarde: Copper Mountain.
? Great food for the judges, so they won’t be too hungry to judge!
? We will be selling food for the students at a reasonable cost, so you won’t have to go off campus.
? A pleasant location: Grossmont is approximately 15 minutes from downtown San Diego, on the freeway, so you may even have time to visit some of San Diego’s beautiful sights.
We look forward to seeing you at the Griffin Invitational Tournament, at Grossmont College.
Sincerely,
Roxanne Tuscany
Director of Forensics at Grossmont
619 644-7276(office), or 619 204-8792(cell)

Invite (PDF)

THE RAY DAHLIN INVITATIONAL

 

September 29, 2011

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

The Palomar College Speech and Debate Team is proud to announce the Ray Dahlin Invitational.  This Individual Events and Lincoln-Douglas debate open-division tournament will be held Friday, November 11, at Grossmont College.

 

The Ray Dahlin Invitational will offer:

 

• Two preliminary rounds of competition breaking to final rounds in the early evening.

 

 

• For the first time in the history of our tournament we will be offering an open division of NFA LD debate.

 

 

• A swing tournament opportunity in conjunction with the Griffin Invitational to be held Saturday and Sunday.

 

 

• An assortment of food for the judges and lunch provided for the students.

 

 

• Sweepstakes trophies for the top three 4-year and 2-year schools.  All finalists will receive awards. We will not be offering a novice division but “Top-Novices” will be awarded in all events, including NFA LD.

 

 

We look forward to seeing you at the Ray Dahlin Invitational.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

Chris Lowry

Dewi Hokett

Brandan Whearty

Palomar College Forensics

760-744-1150 x3270 (office)

clowry@palomar.edu

2011 CSUN Invitation (Updated) (doc)

2011 California State University at Northridge

Robert Barbara Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament

 

Dear Forensics Colleagues:

 

On behalf of the CSUN Forensics Society, the Department of Communication Studies, and the Mike Curb College of Arts Media and Communication at CSU-Northridge, we would like to invite you to participate in our 2011 tournament.  Competition will be held from November 11-November 13 on our campus.

California State University at Northridge is located in the heart of the beautiful San Fernando Valley, just outside of Los Angeles.  It is easily (and inexpensively) served by both Los Angeles International Airport and Bob Hope International Airport (Burbank).  Travel times from either airport to our campus are usually under 30 minutes.

Highlights include:

1) Parliamentary Debate will be 2 days, not 3:  We have arranged the schedule to have NPDA on only Friday and Saturday.  This will save you money and time that you would have spent to be here all three days as in the past.  It will also allow your parliamentary debaters to participate in the second half of the IE swing.

2) Hospitality:  Besides the smiling faces of the Matador Speech and Debate team, we provide lunch on Saturday and breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, in addition to snacks throughout the tournament.

3) IEs are now a two-day swing:  Folks just doing IEs have double the chances to get legs, or those on a tight budget can bring their IE folks to compete on Saturday with the Parli debaters.

4) Five tournaments, one weekend: we will be offering NFA LD this year, so you have a wide range of forensics activities to participate in.  This will be a full service tournament offering two preliminary rounds in all 11 AFA individual events (both novice and open when possible) on Saturday and Sunday, two divisions of NPDA parliamentary debate (Friday and Saturday), and three divisions of policy debate (Fri-Sun).

Those participating in Parli will not be able to compete in the first half of the swing as they are going to run concurrently, as will the NFA LD tournament and the Sunday Swing.  In the past, we have had strong regional and national representation in all three events.

We are committed to and will uphold the ethical standards outlined in the CEDA Statement on Discrimination and Sexual Harassment and the AFA Code of Ethics.

November is a fantastic time to visit Los Angeles and we will make every effort to host an excellent competition.  Besides excellent hospitality, we have always run on time and we do our best to make the tournament fun and healthy for competitors, judges, and coaches.  Please contact me with any questions you may have.   On behalf of CSUN forensics, we hope you can join us in November!

 

Sincerely,

 

John M. Kephart III, Ph.D.

Director of Forensics

John Espiritu, Erik Holland, Milorad Korac, & Andrew West,

Assistant Coaches