GWU November 12-13 2010
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GW TOURNAMENT ONE INVITE
The All Your Case Are Belong to Us Opp Choice Invitational
Friday November 12-13
Tournament: GW, where Opp-Choice is not simply a matter of good case reciprocity but where everyone’s doing it! If you haven’t guessed already all resolutions will be run opp choice (explained below). We’re running the standard 5 prelim rounds and will break to Quarters. In addition, because of the boundless love we have for Novices and NOTY, we anticipate breaking to Novice Semi’s.
OPP-CHOICE: To elaborate on what this means the Government team must frame case construct into a question that presents two or more options for the Opposition. Time will stop after the question has been asked, Opp will ask any points of clarification (Gov’t retains right to stop taking questions at any point) and choose which side they would like to defend. Any government team that does not run an opp-choice case will immediately lose the round and be given 0/null/nada speaker points.
Late Policy: We want to run a tournament as close to time as possible. As such we will drop ANY TEAM (example, we dropped Harvard last year and if we can drop them you know we will have no hesitation dropping anyone else) that has not signed in by 3:45. (Seriously y’all, if you’re not into DC and parked by 4 your pretty much screwed anyway).
Tab: Our Tab Director, taking time off from higher education, will be Bryan Han. He will be assisted by Rohan Sunder. They will be using TRPC to Tab and will be constantly backed up by a human being in case of legitimate threats to electronics such as an EMP, terrorist attack, zombies, sentience of computers, etc. For anyone uncomfortable being paired into rounds using TRPC they can request this be done by MeetManager 2.3 which has six thousand tie breakers, dolphin telepathy and of course runs a damn good APDA tournament.
Judging: Our requirement is n-3 with a $35 fee for each missing judge. Candice Lanius will be sweating bullets looking at the judging pool trying to make it work. She’ll be the one to send our novices (aka zerglings) to break arms and legs to ensure you comply. We’re serious, you guys won’t have enough time to get to siege tanks before we rush you, so please, bring a judge or two. But despite Candice’s fake majors, she can’t escape GW’s obsession with International Relations and thus has been exploring soft power diplomatic efforts to coerce/compel/seduce(?) dinos from the surrounding area to judge. We also reserve the right to break up (hopefully physically and mentally) your teams to use as judges from schools that epically fail to simultaneously bring a judge and pay the judge fee in cash.
Housing: Yeah, there’s a GW Db Haus. It will be open for all those who didn’t force Bear, Candice, and myself to sleep on linoleum floors with no heat. Conveniently enough, it will also be the location of the party! For the rest, Scott “Falcore” Chambers is busy looking into: Janitorial closets, Housekeeping supply rooms, freshmen dorms, demilitarized zones in Anacostia, and warm vents directly above the metro (don’t worry, according to the homeless guy who sits outside the dorms its only considered cold when the “flag freezes solid”) to ensure that there’s some place you can sleep with only a mild threat of death.
Food: We are proud to open the doors of our capital to APDA and let them partake in all of the wonderful, rich, and diverse restaurants that DC has to offer for dinner. Seriously, it would simply be a moral harm to keep debaters locked up in GA and fed a subpar dinner by us (and GW always strives to act in accordance with our moral conscience).
For breakfast, the team once again consulted the sagelike organic nutritionists (Eastern and Nayan) and found out that donuts are like, WAY BETTER than bagels. So we’re going to buck the oppressive bagel trend and offer a spread of donuts for breakfast. To drink, our novices have been slaving away in South America (don’t worry, it’s all free trade certified so you know they worked extra hard so that it’s extra good) for a rich and fresh crop of coffee beans that were hand ground to fix your morning caffeine addiction (there is absolutely no need to thank them). We’ll also have some sort of juice.
For lunch, Michael “Eastern” Ambinder will once again use his formidable haggling skills (learned when he was trying to bribe his freedom back in the Xinjiang province of China….Sadly, this one is actually true) and despite the significant rise in the price of rice and green beans in China, to get you a large and tasty banquet.
Entertainment: The first rule of GW figh….. The party will be awesome. We have Wii Smashbrothers with a monstrously large TV, Twister, Axis and Allies (if you want to stay till Sunday), tons of music, a ladder in the back yard, Bear-baiting, and a South Korean Embassy as neighbours.
Equity: The last known Dodo in existence Kate Doyle will be our Equity Officer. Our equity policy will be announced at a later date.
Registration: GW Reg is $90/team cash and $110/team billed. Email gwpds1@gmail.com if you have a problem or want a debt swap or something let us know. Money = better Alcohol free party, more games of twister.
Pre-reg is due on Tuesday, November 9th, at 11:59 pm.
Please e-mail gwpds1@gmail.com:
-Team names, full names of speakers
-Full names of judges
-Indications of seeds and novices
-Number of people who need housing and special dietary requirements
-Contact name / e-mail / number
- if you send a list of email addresses of members on your team who have smarrtphones or laptops, we will email out pairings to those individuals when we announce to make it easier to consult the list.
We are considering a program where we will email pairings and announcements to people directly as they are being announced. If you are interested in this please provide us with emails for all the people interested in participating.
A Tab policy and Observer, Equity policies, schedule, directions, and other such words to be announced later.
Questions, Complaints (it’s because we care):
E-mail gwpds1@gmail.com or:
Michael “Eastern” Ambinder: Tournament Director (443 326 2824)
Richard “Bear” Ingebretsen: Tournament Director (540 846 6297)
Schedule
Registration: 3-3:45pm (done at GA which will be in Funger)
*WE ARE HARD DROPPING AFTER 3:45
Round 1: 4:30-5:45
Round 2: 6:15-7:30
Dinner on the Town: 7:30-8:30pm
Round 3: 8:45-10:00pm
10 pm on – Housing and Mobile Party
Breakfast 10:00-10:30am
Round 4: 10:30-11:45am
Lunch
Round 5: 12:30-1:45pm
Breaks: 2:15pm
Varisty Quarters: 2:30-3:30
Varisty Semis/Novice Semis: 4-5:00pm
Finals: whenever
Equity Policy
1)An 'equity box' will be set up in a public but low-trafficked area of the tournament (top of the Washington Monument), to be announced before first round is read, in which anonymous complaints can be made. The box will be checked as often as possible, at least once between every round. If you do not require anonymity, complaints can be made to myself or any EOF. Kate will identify herself and the EOFs present in GA before round 1.
2) Kate reserves the right not to respond to a complaint if it is considered trivial and/or irrelevant to section 2 of the Code of Conduct, or frivolous, and/or clearly not made in good faith (violators will be water boarded by former Marine Intelligence Officers).
3) All complaints will be investigated, along with the other EOFs and members of the tournament staff if necessary.
4) If the claim is found to have merit, the accused will be informed and have adequate time to prepare a written statement in their defence.
5) Depending on the outcome of the previous two steps, any or several of the following repercussions may be applied:
a. a verbal warning
b. requiring the object of a complaint to issue an apology to the complainant
c. banning the object of a complaint from social events
d. banning the object of a complaint from GA
Kate reserves the right to impose more serious punishments than those listed above (extraordinary rendition to Saudi Arabia) if it is agreed upon by both the tournament staff and the equity officer that the complaint deserves more attention. Obviously, every attempt will be made to suit the severity of punishment to the gravity of the offense.
6) At the resolution of every complaint, all affected parties will be informed of the decision reached.
Directions:
Friday's GA will be on the first floor of Funger Hall on the corner of 22nd & G St NW.
From the Metro to GA: The Foggy Bottom Stop is on the Orange and Blue Lines. Once you arrive to the metro stop you will be at 23rd and I. The streets are easy to navigate. (hint, they are in alphabetical order and numerical order)
Directions from the North: Take I-95 South to 495 South exit 22b, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Merge onto 295 SOUTH. Then take NY Ave (50 west). Follow NY Ave for about 5 Miles (you have to pass north capitol street, DON'T TURN LEFT ONTO 6th STREET BEFORE YOU PASS NORTH CAPITOL STREET.) After you pass north Capitol Street turn left onto 6th St NW. Turn right onto Massachusetts. Massachusetts becomes K Street. K Street then becomes NY Ave again. Make a Slight Right onto "I" or "EYE" Street NW. When you get to 19th street, turn left. Then turn right onto I, and continue to 22nd St.
Directions from the South: Take 95 north to 395. Take exit 8b (Washington Blvd) Towards Pentagon/Arlington Cemetery/Memorial Bridge. Take the GW parkway north towards US-50 west. Then take the ramp towards Memorial Bridge. Take the Memorial Bridge. At the end of the bridge you can go left or right, turn left onto Lincoln circle, and then almost immediately go left onto 23rd street. Drive up to I Street and continue to 22nd.
Warning: ASK YOUR PARKING GARAGE WHEN THEY CLOSE. WE HAD PEOPLE STRANDED THAT ONE TIME UNTIL MONDAY MORNING.
The best place to park is at the University Parking Garage (always open), which is at 22nd & I ("Eye") St NW.
The All Your Case Are Belong to Us Opp Choice Invitational
Friday November 12-13
Tournament: GW, where Opp-Choice is not simply a matter of good case reciprocity but where everyone’s doing it! If you haven’t guessed already all resolutions will be run opp choice (explained below). We’re running the standard 5 prelim rounds and will break to Quarters. In addition, because of the boundless love we have for Novices and NOTY, we anticipate breaking to Novice Semi’s.
OPP-CHOICE: To elaborate on what this means the Government team must frame case construct into a question that presents two or more options for the Opposition. Time will stop after the question has been asked, Opp will ask any points of clarification (Gov’t retains right to stop taking questions at any point) and choose which side they would like to defend. Any government team that does not run an opp-choice case will immediately lose the round and be given 0/null/nada speaker points.
Late Policy: We want to run a tournament as close to time as possible. As such we will drop ANY TEAM (example, we dropped Harvard last year and if we can drop them you know we will have no hesitation dropping anyone else) that has not signed in by 3:45. (Seriously y’all, if you’re not into DC and parked by 4 your pretty much screwed anyway).
Tab: Our Tab Director, taking time off from higher education, will be Bryan Han. He will be assisted by Rohan Sunder. They will be using TRPC to Tab and will be constantly backed up by a human being in case of legitimate threats to electronics such as an EMP, terrorist attack, zombies, sentience of computers, etc. For anyone uncomfortable being paired into rounds using TRPC they can request this be done by MeetManager 2.3 which has six thousand tie breakers, dolphin telepathy and of course runs a damn good APDA tournament.
Judging: Our requirement is n-3 with a $35 fee for each missing judge. Candice Lanius will be sweating bullets looking at the judging pool trying to make it work. She’ll be the one to send our novices (aka zerglings) to break arms and legs to ensure you comply. We’re serious, you guys won’t have enough time to get to siege tanks before we rush you, so please, bring a judge or two. But despite Candice’s fake majors, she can’t escape GW’s obsession with International Relations and thus has been exploring soft power diplomatic efforts to coerce/compel/seduce(?) dinos from the surrounding area to judge. We also reserve the right to break up (hopefully physically and mentally) your teams to use as judges from schools that epically fail to simultaneously bring a judge and pay the judge fee in cash.
Housing: Yeah, there’s a GW Db Haus. It will be open for all those who didn’t force Bear, Candice, and myself to sleep on linoleum floors with no heat. Conveniently enough, it will also be the location of the party! For the rest, Scott “Falcore” Chambers is busy looking into: Janitorial closets, Housekeeping supply rooms, freshmen dorms, demilitarized zones in Anacostia, and warm vents directly above the metro (don’t worry, according to the homeless guy who sits outside the dorms its only considered cold when the “flag freezes solid”) to ensure that there’s some place you can sleep with only a mild threat of death.
Food: We are proud to open the doors of our capital to APDA and let them partake in all of the wonderful, rich, and diverse restaurants that DC has to offer for dinner. Seriously, it would simply be a moral harm to keep debaters locked up in GA and fed a subpar dinner by us (and GW always strives to act in accordance with our moral conscience).
For breakfast, the team once again consulted the sagelike organic nutritionists (Eastern and Nayan) and found out that donuts are like, WAY BETTER than bagels. So we’re going to buck the oppressive bagel trend and offer a spread of donuts for breakfast. To drink, our novices have been slaving away in South America (don’t worry, it’s all free trade certified so you know they worked extra hard so that it’s extra good) for a rich and fresh crop of coffee beans that were hand ground to fix your morning caffeine addiction (there is absolutely no need to thank them). We’ll also have some sort of juice.
For lunch, Michael “Eastern” Ambinder will once again use his formidable haggling skills (learned when he was trying to bribe his freedom back in the Xinjiang province of China….Sadly, this one is actually true) and despite the significant rise in the price of rice and green beans in China, to get you a large and tasty banquet.
Entertainment: The first rule of GW figh….. The party will be awesome. We have Wii Smashbrothers with a monstrously large TV, Twister, Axis and Allies (if you want to stay till Sunday), tons of music, a ladder in the back yard, Bear-baiting, and a South Korean Embassy as neighbours.
Equity: The last known Dodo in existence Kate Doyle will be our Equity Officer. Our equity policy will be announced at a later date.
Registration: GW Reg is $90/team cash and $110/team billed. Email gwpds1@gmail.com if you have a problem or want a debt swap or something let us know. Money = better Alcohol free party, more games of twister.
Pre-reg is due on Tuesday, November 9th, at 11:59 pm.
Please e-mail gwpds1@gmail.com:
-Team names, full names of speakers
-Full names of judges
-Indications of seeds and novices
-Number of people who need housing and special dietary requirements
-Contact name / e-mail / number
- if you send a list of email addresses of members on your team who have smarrtphones or laptops, we will email out pairings to those individuals when we announce to make it easier to consult the list.
We are considering a program where we will email pairings and announcements to people directly as they are being announced. If you are interested in this please provide us with emails for all the people interested in participating.
A Tab policy and Observer, Equity policies, schedule, directions, and other such words to be announced later.
Questions, Complaints (it’s because we care):
E-mail gwpds1@gmail.com or:
Michael “Eastern” Ambinder: Tournament Director (443 326 2824)
Richard “Bear” Ingebretsen: Tournament Director (540 846 6297)
Schedule
Registration: 3-3:45pm (done at GA which will be in Funger)
*WE ARE HARD DROPPING AFTER 3:45
Round 1: 4:30-5:45
Round 2: 6:15-7:30
Dinner on the Town: 7:30-8:30pm
Round 3: 8:45-10:00pm
10 pm on – Housing and Mobile Party
Breakfast 10:00-10:30am
Round 4: 10:30-11:45am
Lunch
Round 5: 12:30-1:45pm
Breaks: 2:15pm
Varisty Quarters: 2:30-3:30
Varisty Semis/Novice Semis: 4-5:00pm
Finals: whenever
Equity Policy
1)An 'equity box' will be set up in a public but low-trafficked area of the tournament (top of the Washington Monument), to be announced before first round is read, in which anonymous complaints can be made. The box will be checked as often as possible, at least once between every round. If you do not require anonymity, complaints can be made to myself or any EOF. Kate will identify herself and the EOFs present in GA before round 1.
2) Kate reserves the right not to respond to a complaint if it is considered trivial and/or irrelevant to section 2 of the Code of Conduct, or frivolous, and/or clearly not made in good faith (violators will be water boarded by former Marine Intelligence Officers).
3) All complaints will be investigated, along with the other EOFs and members of the tournament staff if necessary.
4) If the claim is found to have merit, the accused will be informed and have adequate time to prepare a written statement in their defence.
5) Depending on the outcome of the previous two steps, any or several of the following repercussions may be applied:
a. a verbal warning
b. requiring the object of a complaint to issue an apology to the complainant
c. banning the object of a complaint from social events
d. banning the object of a complaint from GA
Kate reserves the right to impose more serious punishments than those listed above (extraordinary rendition to Saudi Arabia) if it is agreed upon by both the tournament staff and the equity officer that the complaint deserves more attention. Obviously, every attempt will be made to suit the severity of punishment to the gravity of the offense.
6) At the resolution of every complaint, all affected parties will be informed of the decision reached.
Directions:
Friday's GA will be on the first floor of Funger Hall on the corner of 22nd & G St NW.
From the Metro to GA: The Foggy Bottom Stop is on the Orange and Blue Lines. Once you arrive to the metro stop you will be at 23rd and I. The streets are easy to navigate. (hint, they are in alphabetical order and numerical order)
Directions from the North: Take I-95 South to 495 South exit 22b, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Merge onto 295 SOUTH. Then take NY Ave (50 west). Follow NY Ave for about 5 Miles (you have to pass north capitol street, DON'T TURN LEFT ONTO 6th STREET BEFORE YOU PASS NORTH CAPITOL STREET.) After you pass north Capitol Street turn left onto 6th St NW. Turn right onto Massachusetts. Massachusetts becomes K Street. K Street then becomes NY Ave again. Make a Slight Right onto "I" or "EYE" Street NW. When you get to 19th street, turn left. Then turn right onto I, and continue to 22nd St.
Directions from the South: Take 95 north to 395. Take exit 8b (Washington Blvd) Towards Pentagon/Arlington Cemetery/Memorial Bridge. Take the GW parkway north towards US-50 west. Then take the ramp towards Memorial Bridge. Take the Memorial Bridge. At the end of the bridge you can go left or right, turn left onto Lincoln circle, and then almost immediately go left onto 23rd street. Drive up to I Street and continue to 22nd.
Warning: ASK YOUR PARKING GARAGE WHEN THEY CLOSE. WE HAD PEOPLE STRANDED THAT ONE TIME UNTIL MONDAY MORNING.
The best place to park is at the University Parking Garage (always open), which is at 22nd & I ("Eye") St NW.
