Banquet + Important Summer Dates

The Edina Friends of Forensics presents the 2015 Banquet on Monday, April 20th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at The Mahon Center (St. Patrick's Church) 6820 St Patrick's Lane, Edina, MN 55439. If you have questions about the banquet, contact Rashi Mittal at mittal.rashi@ymail.com

Debate information and recruiting meeting will be Wednesday, May 20th 6:30 PM at EHS Fick Auditorium.  We will need volunteers from current team to help recruiting both prior to the meeting and then at the meeting itself.

Mini-camp for Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum debaters, plus Extemp Speakers* will be July 27-30 8-Noon at the ECC room 351.  Debate from 8 to 9:45 AM, followed by extemp from 10-noon.  We expect all LD and PF debaters not away at camp elsewhere to attend the Edina mini-camp.
* We are also working on a summer book club for extemp speaking as well, but don't have those details fully arranged yet. 

Team leadership workshop will be Friday, July 31st from 9 AM to 3 PM at 120 South Sixth Street Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55402.  Application to attend the workshop will be posted soon.

Practice for the 2015-16 season begins on Monday, August 17th for all debaters.

All-team parent meeting will be Wednesday, September 9th 6:30 PM at EHS Fick Auditorium.

Pre-TOC Policy Practices

Policy debaters still prepping for TOC and/or next topic, here is the upcoming set of practice dates:

Practice space is reserved for room 317.

Tuesday March 10
Thursday March 12
Tuesday March17
Thursday March 19
Tuesday March 24
Thursday March 26
Tuesday March 31

Thursday April 2
Tuesday April 7
Thursday April 9
Tuesday April 14
Thursday April 16
Tuesday April 21 - last day

Feb 14-16 @ UC-Berkeley

Cal Invitational
University of California at Berkeley [tournament website]
14-16 February

BART map from SFO to hotel

Debating
Shanelle and Drew
Anne and Sukriti

Coaches
Brett Lind
Bob Ciborowski

BART 
We will use the BART to  get around - it runs from airport to the hotel and from hotel to campus, so no need for rental card or shuttle.  You'll need to buy a pass when you get to airport. [BART system map]

Flight Info *
Fri, 13FEB DEPART - MPLS-ST PAUL 2:25pm
ARRIVE SAN FRANCISCO 4:30pm
DELTA 1593

* Meet at basement level (same level as trains to the parking lots) benches across from Delta Group check-in area, no later than 1:15PM.  You'll be released from school at 12:30PM on Friday the 13th.

Tue, 17FEB DEPART  - SAN FRANCISCO 7:45am  
ARRIVE MPLS-ST PAUL 1:22pm
DELTA 1106

Hotel
Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway, Oakland CA  94607
510-451-4000

Campus 
Everything runs out of Dwinelle Hall.  [campus map]

FRIDAY, 13th
7:00 – 9:00 PM offline or online Registration MANDATORY
Offline registration: If you have purchased parking passes, or need to purchase parking passes, then come to the Treasure Island room at the Marriott Courtyard Emeryville (5555 Shellmound Street, Emeryville, CA)

Online Registration: If you do not need parking passes then you may complete online registration at tabroom.com.  You will need to confirm that there are no changes to your competitors and judges, or let us know if there are changes.

SATURDAY, 14th
7:00 AM LD AND PF PAIRINGS RELEASED
7:45 AM-9:30 AM LD AND PF ROUND 1
9:30 AM-11:00 AM INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
9:30 AM – 12:30 AM CONGRESS ROUND 1
11:00 AM-1:00 PM POLICY ROUND 1
1:00 PM – 2:45 PM LD AND PF ROUND 2
2:45 PM – 4:45 PM POLICY ROUND 2
4:45 PM – 6:30 PM INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
4:45 PM – 7:45 PM CONGRESS ROUND 2
6:30 PM-8:15 PM POLICY ROUND 3
8:15 PM-10:00 PM LD AND PF ROUND 3

SUNDAY, 15th
7:00 AM POLICY PAIRINGS RELEASED
7:45 AM-9:30 AM POLICY ROUND 4
9:30 AM-11:30 AM LD AND PF ROUND 4
11:30 AM-1:15 PM POLICY ROUND 5
1:15 PM – 3:15 PM LD AND PF ROUND 5
3:15 PM-4:45 PM INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
3:15 PM – 6:15 PM CONGRESS ROUND 3
4:45 PM-6:45 PM POLICY ROUND 6
6:45 PM-8:15 PM LD AND PF ROUND 6
8:15 PM-10:00 PM POLICY ELIMS BEGIN
8:30 PM-10:00 PM IE EVENTS OCTAFINALS

MONDAY, 16TH
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
IE EVENTS QUARTERFINALS
POLICY DEBATE DOUBLE OCTAFINALS
CONGRESS SEMI-FINALS
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
LD AND PUBLIC FORUM BEGIN ELIMS ALL DIVISIONS
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
POLICY DEBATE OCTAFINALS
LD, PUBLIC FORUM, CONGRESS ELIMS CONTINUE IN ALL DIVISIONS
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS SEMIFINALS
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS FINALS
POLICY DEBATE QUARTERFINALS
LD AND PUBLIC FORUM ELIMS CONTINUE
2:00 PM –4:00 PM
POLICY DEBATE SEMI-FINALS
LD AND PUBLIC FORUM ELIMS CONTINUE
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
POLICY DEBATE FINALS
LD AND PUBLIC FORUM ELIMS (Runs through awards)
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
AWARDS CEREMONY IN DWINELLE 155
   

Practice Plan for National Qualifiers Week

National qualifiers are this weekend at Eagan, so too is our first speech tournament of the season at Chanhassen.

Tuesday 1/20 *
317 - Andy - extemp (all) from 5:00 to 5:40ish or so; then PF and LD + a few practice speeches from a novice extemp reader too
318 - Tim - works magic with novice extempers when he arrives from work about 5:40
319 - Joe - hears the 3 experienced extempers - check email for details on what you're doing - Joe should arrive about 6PM
320 - Policy group
321 - extra for policy
*Pizza Tuesday night for all at 6:30

Thursday 1/22
317 - Andy - Experienced extempers at 5PM practice speech; PF and LD 6PM
318 - Tim - Novice extempers + other extempers as desired
319 - open
320 - Policy group 6PM
321 - extra for policy



 

State Champion

"This thing is heavy."

State 2015

The 114th MSHSL State Debate Tournament [MSHSL info page]
University of Minnesota - Blegen Hall
269 19th Avenue S Minneapolis, MN 55455 [map+photo]
16-17 January 2015

Policy debate - Anne, Drew, Shanelle, Sukriti

Lincoln-Douglas debate - Arvind

Public Forum debate - Natalie and Ashab

Bus
Friday - depart EHS 8AM door 8, return 9PM (estimate)
Saturday - depart EHS 7AM door 7, return 6:30PM (estimate)
** Friday morning we're stopping at a coffee place near the U (Hard Times Cafe) where you can get a coffee or something for breakfast.  We want to use this hour to review our plans for the day.  You'll need to bring cash - they take ONLY cash.

Policy Debate
Drew Sposeep and Shanelle Roman
Sukriti Rawal and Anne Lepow

Lincoln-Douglas
Arvind Veluvali

Public Forum
Natalie Curtin and Ashab Alamgir

Scouting
Claire Carlson
Megan Shannahan
James Kuznecoff
Maggie Wells

Policy Schedule - Friday
9:15 a.m. Registration begins for Judges, Participants & Coaches
9:45 a.m. Judges’ Meeting
10:00 a.m. Coaches’ & Participants’ Meeting
10:30 a.m. ROUND 1
12:30 p.m. ROUND 2
Dinner
3:00 p.m. ROUND 3
6:00 p.m. ROUND 4
Saturday
7:15 a.m. Registration begins for Judges, Participants & Coaches
8:15 a.m. ROUND 5
10:15 a.m. Announce Qtr. Finalists
10:30 a.m. QUARTERFINALS
12:00 p.m. Lunch:  Judges, Participants & Coaches
1:30 p.m. Announce Semifinalists
1:45 p.m. SEMIFINALS
4:00 p.m. Announce Finalists
4:15 p.m. FINALS
6:00 p.m. Awards

Lincoln-Douglas/Public Forum - Friday
10:15 a.m. Registration begins for Judges, Participants & Coaches
10:45 a.m. Judges’ Meeting
11:00 a.m. Coaches’ & Participants’ Meeting
11:30 a.m. ROUND 1
12:45 p.m. ROUND 2
Dinner
2:45 p.m. ROUND 3
5:00 p.m. ROUND 4
Saturday
7:15 a.m. Registration begins for Judges, Participants & Coaches
8:00 a.m. ROUND 5
9:15 a.m. ROUND 6
10:15 a.m. Announce Qtr. Finalists
10:45 a.m. QUARTERFINALS
11:15 a.m. Lunch:  Participants & Coaches
12:00 p.m. Lunch:  Judges
1:30 p.m. Announce Semifinalists
2:00 p.m. SEMIFINALS
3:00 p.m. Announce Finalists
3:15 p.m. FINALS
4:00 p.m. Awards

State Week Practice Schedule

Here is our plan for practice next week, assuming we have qualifiers in Policy, LD, and PF.    We won't know who is going to State until Saturday afternoon, this is the contingency so that people can plan ahead.

We're including extemp on this sheet because some of the same coaches are involved as well.

Monday - January 12th
Public Forum 6-8 (Tim in room 317)
Lincoln-Douglas 6-8 (Andy in room 324)
Policy 6-8 (Bobby, Brett, Chris in 318)
Novice and Varsity Extemp from 4-6PM (Andy room 324)

Thursday - January 15th
Policy 6-8 (Bobby, Brett, Chris in 318)
Public Forum 4-6 (Andy in room 324)
Lincoln-Douglas 6-8 (Andy in room 324)
Varsity Extemp from 6-8PM (Tim in 317)
Novice Extemp 6-8 (Joe in 319)

Friday and Saturday - January 16th and 17th
State tournament at U of MN