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| Date | Event | Where Held |
| April 12 - 14 | Speech & Debate | University HS & Normal West HS |
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CONNIE LINK (School: 309-473-2322/Home 309-452-5020/email Clink64@aol.com)
ELLIE MARVIN (School 309-888-6060/Home 309-838-5481/email MARVINE@unit5.org)
FRED VOGT (School 309-347-4101x6259/Home 309-346-1572/fvogt@pekinhigh.net)
ADAM JENKINS ((School 618-222-7610/Home 618-236-2612/Cell 618-977-8469/email ajenkins@bths201.org)
ERIC EWAN (School 309-347-4101x6270/Home 309-672-2838/eewan@pekinhigh.net)
The Greater Illinois District Tournament will be held April 12, 13, and 14 in Normal, Illinois. The tournament will be held at University High School on Thursday evening. We will use Normal Community West High School on Friday afternoon and evening and Saturday all day; however, we will run the Friday morning debate rounds Fell Hall at ISU. All information, including registration sheets, is included in this mailing. If you have any questions, or if I have forgotten anything, please call me at 309-347-4101 ext 6259. You can also email me at fvogt@pekinhigh.net.
Many of the chapters and affiliates have not paid district dues; however, you may do so now or as part of your registration fees for district tournament. The fee of $50.00 should be sent to Eric Ewan, Pekin H. S. 320 Stadium Drive, Pekin, IL 61554 . These dues must be paid in order to compete in the District Tournament. You may include these dues in your tournament registration monies.
You will receive the schedule of apportionment from Ripon in order to determine the total number of entries allowed per chapter size. Please pay careful attention to that material. Remember only students who are on record as of March 30 will be able to compete in the district tournament.
'''The entry form is included in this mailing. All green sheets (they are white because I don’t have green paper) and double entry sheets must be submitted to Ripon. I have also included the entry form for any schools that may compete in all categories. Please fill out the forms in full and return them with verification of membership for each entry. Please return your entries to: Fred Vogt Pekin Community High School 1903 Court St. Pekin, Il 61554 Please send an e-mail to me, ASAP, estimating the number of entries you will have in each of the events, IE, Debate, and Student Congress. We need a preliminary count for hiring judges. My e-mail address is fvogt@pekinhigh.net.'''
Forms of verification include:
1. A photocopy of the school’s membership list showing student name.
2. A photocopy of an NFL recorded point sheet.
3. A photocopy of a degree card or membership certificate.
Basic entry fee: 50.00 (this covers 6 Congress entries)
Individual Events/LD entries: 7.50
Policy Entries: 20.00
Additional Congress entries: 3.00 per delegate beyond the first 6
ALL CHECKS SHOULD BE MADE OUT TO GREATER ILLINOIS NFL DISTRICT.
This entry is due on March 30, 2007 to Fred Vogt at Pekin Community High School 1903 Court St. Pekin, IL 61554 (Fax number is 309-477-4377). We will not accept entries postmarked after that date. Also, after March 30, there will be no decrease in fees or judge requirements due to drops.
All entered schools are expected to make a confirmation call to Fred Vogt (309-347-4101 ext 6259 by 12:00 Noon on April 10, 2007. I have purchased a software package that will completely run the NFL District Tournament. I need to have all of the IE, Debate and Congress entries finalized by that April 10 date so that all of the information can be entered into the computer. All scheduling and judge assigning is done by the computer so that we are making every attempt to eliminate any kind of bias. I truly hope that each of you will make an effort to meet these deadlines. Everyone has done a super job the last few years and that effort has made the jobs of the committee much easier in both scheduling and running the tournament.'''
All orators must have a copy of their oration submitted at registration. That entry must be signed by both the coach and the student verifying that the speech is the work of the student. Please note that NFL rules include a rule that the student must have the original source of all interpretation materials.
Individual students are once again allowed to double enter duo interp and interp. Duo/DI/HI cuttings must be from one novel, one short story, one play or one poem. Double entering is now allowed in Duo and interp.
Students are now allowed to double entry in all events including US Extemp and Foreign Extemp. Students will have to submit a form indicating which event they plan to take to nationals if they qualify in both events. This must be done before they compete. These forms must be submitted with the final results to Ripon. Please check the new rules on entries in terms of team entries.
Since none of the rounds will be scheduled at any of the hotels you may make reservations at the hotel of your choice. Some of the closer hotels are listed below.
Normal ... Best Western University Inn
- 6 Traders Circle Normal, IL 61761
phone number:309-454-4070
Normal Motel 6 Normal
1600 North Main Street phone number:309-452-0422
Comfort Inn Bloomington 500 Brock Dr. , Bloomington, IL phone number: 309-828-6000
Bloomington Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, 923 Maple Hill Road Bloomington, Illinois 61704 ... phone number:309-828-7177'''
There is no Senior Banquet this year.
There are no Senior Plaques this year.
The NFL topic will be the same as the one used for the State Debate Tournament, the March/April topic for NFL.
The Public Forum topic will be the March topic.
Prep time is 3 minutes for LD and 5 minutes for Policy.
We would like to see all entered schools enter at least four students in Student Congress. Six entries are covered by the basic school fee for the tournament. Each school may submit four bills (one in each category) to Fred at his fax number 309-477-4377 by March 30. The length of a speech in congress is three minutes with an additional minute for cross-examination. The cross-examination is expected to factor in the scoring of the student’s speech.
The district committee decided upon the following judge requirements for the district tournament:
1 judge for each 1-5 I. E. entries (2 judges for 6-10; 4 for 11 or more)*
1 judge per 2 man debate team
1 judge per LD entry (1 additional judge for the 3rd and 4th entry)
1 judge for Student Congress
*If you have a full entry, it would be best to hire open judges who do not know your students or to hire judges from the tournament judge list. This will help defray costs for the district. This should also help you save costs on housing, etc.
Judge Notes: If qualified, I.E. judges may double as debate judges. Student Congress judges may be from your Debate judges.
All judges must meet the following requirements:
1. Be two years removed from high school. (at least a junior in college)
2. In debate, be familiar with debate theory, and, if possible, have some experience judging this year’s topic.
3. In I.E., can judge all 6 NFL events.
Please make sure that you fill your judging requirements so that we do not have judging problems. If you are having problems, please call me as soon as possible. Also, we will have some judges for hire at the tournament rates:
I.E. rounds $10.00
Single LD $10.00
Double LD $20.00
Policy $20.00
Public Forum $10.00
Congress $25.00
PLEASE FILL OUT JUDGE INFORMATION SHEETS SENT IN THE LAST MAILING TO HELP US PROCURE JUDGES FOR THE TOURNEY. FAX THOSE TO ME ASAP.
Individual Events: Fred Vogt/Connie Link/Tom Wells/Eric Ewan/Ellie Marvin
Debate: Gene Burnett/Adam Jenkins/Mark Adams/Bob Neuleib
Congress: Bob Neuleib/Gene Burnett/Mark Adams/Adam Jenkins
**If you are on a committee, it would be helpful to the district if you could cover your judging assignments in the event that you are working.
*Verification of student memberships
*Student signatures
*Copies of all oratories signed by the coach and the student
*Completed billing sheet
*Completed judge sheets for your judges
*Recommended judge list for procuring judges for the tournament
*March 30 Memberships on file in Ripon
*March 30 Tournament entry
*March 30 Drops without penalty
*April 10 Confirmation call (by 12 noon--309-347-4101 ext 6259)
ALL ENTRIES WILL RECEIVE FAX OR WRITTEN CONFIRMATION!!
PLEASE FILL OUT BILLING INFORMATION CAREFULLY ON YOUR ENTRY SHEETS.
THURSDAY, APRIL 12
3:30 REGISTRATION U High Cafeteria 4:15 POLICY ROUND I LINCOLN-DOUGLAS RD I U High 5:00 Public forum RD I 6:00 POLICY ROUND II 6:00 Public Forum RD II 8:00 LINCOLN-DOUGLAS RD III 7:00 Public forum RD III 8:00 POLICY ROUND III 9:30 LINCOLN-DOUGLAS RD IV
FRIDAY, APRIL 13
8:30 POLICY RD IV/LD-RD V Fell Hall
10:00 LD-- ROUND VI
10:30 POLICY RD V Fell Hall
4:00 IE REGISTRATION NCWHS
4:15 COMMITTEE MEETINGS
4:15 HI/OO RD I
4:15 PREP US
4:45 US EX RD I
5:30 PREP FOR
5:30 HI, OO RD II
6:00 FOR EX RD I
6:30 PREP US
7:00 US EX RD II
7:30 DUO, DI RD I
7:30 PREP FOR
8:00 FOR EX RD II
8:00 - 10:00 CONGRESS SESSION 1
8:45 DUO, DI RD II
SATURDAY, APRIL 14
8:30 US EXTEMP PREP NCWHS
9:00 US EX/OO RD III
9:45 FOR EXTEMP PREP
10:15 FOR EXTEMP RD III
10:15 DI/HI/DUO RD III
10:30 - 12:30 CONGRESS SESSION II
12:30 EXTEMP PREP (FOR OR US AS NEEDED)
12:30 OO RD IV
1:00 US OR FOR OR BOTH RD IV
1:30 DI/HI/DUO RD IV
1:30 - 3:30 CONGRESS SESSION III
2:30 DI/HI/DUO/OO RD V
3:30 CONGRESS ELECTIONS
4:00 ALL IE EVENTS RD VI
AWARDS-ALL AWARDS WILL BE HELD ONE HALF HOUR AFTER ALL EVENTS END OR ASAP
BASIC ENTRY FEE:
$50.00 (INCLUDES 6 CONGRESS) __________
DISTRICT DUES: $50.00 (IF NOT PAID) __________
____IE ENTRIES X 7.50 _________
____LD ENTRIES X 7.50 _________
____POLICY ENTRIES X 20.00 _________
____PUBLIC FORUM X 20.00 _________
_____CONGRESS ENTRIES
(BEYOND 6) X 3.00 __________
TOTAL __________
IF YOU ARE HIRING JUDGES, WE WILL PREPARE A BILL FOR THOSE COSTS AT THE TOURNAMENT.
TOTAL DUE ________________
RECEIVED ________________
BALANCE DUE ________________
PAID ________________
SIGNATURE ________________ DATE: ____________________
PEKIN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL 309-347-4101 EXT 6259
FAX: 309-477-4377
VOGT HOME: 309-346-1572
VOGT EMAIL: fvogt@pekinhigh.net
We need to have as big a tournament as possible. We received an extension this year but next year we will be on RED status if we do not meet quotas. Those quotas are 16 Charter Chapter schools in the district or a three year total of 700 entries which includes congress entries. If we do not meet these conditions we will only be allowed one qualifier no matter how many entries we have in an event. The following are the number of entries we need to get a certain number of qualifiers.
For the District Committee,
'''Fred Vogt for Connie J. Link'''
Greater Illinois District Chairperson
Anthony Duran----University High School
Anthony Melchiorri and Daniel E. Kaufman----University High School
Andrew Scott and Casey Logsdon----Pekin Community High School
Cody Follis and Kaylyn Engelhardt----Lincoln Community High School
Jessica Petrie----Belleville West High School
Kara Johnson----Pekin Community High School
Lacey Gonzales----Belleville West High SChool
Paige L. Prohoda----Heyworth High School
Victoria Thompson----Belleville West High School
Ryan Niepagen----Normal Community West High School
Derrick Cooper----Belleville West High School
Hannah Griffin----Belleville West High School
Amber Schlink----Normal Community West High SChool
Joey White----Pekin Community High School
Shannon Vannier----Granite City Senior High School
